In Black-and-Yellow and Blaugrana: the players to have featured for Borussia Dortmund and Barcelona
From Robert Lewandowski to İlkay Gündoğan and on to Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang: the list of legends to have plied their trade in the Black and Yellow of Borussia Dortmund and Barcelona's famous Blaugrana colours is a short but impressive one. Ahead of the teams' UEFA Champions League quarter-final return leg, bundesliga.com takes you through the players to have lined out for both footballing behemoths.
Dortmund: 2010 - 2014
Barcelona: 2022 - present
On the cusp of a possible treble in his third season in the Catalan capital, Lewy burst into the big time in the Bundesliga with BVB. Playing in one of the division's most celebrated teams coached by Jürgen Klopp, the Polish marksman registered 103 goals in 187 appearances in all competitions for Die Schwarzgelben as he twice won the top-flight title and picked up a league and DFB Cup double in 2011/12.
Going on to win the Bundesliga title a further eight times at Bayern Munich - where he was also crowned a European champion - Lewandowski, now 36, continues to rack up the goals for his current club. Indeed, the Warsaw native's next goal for the Blaugrana will be his 100th.
Watch: All Lewandowski's Bundesliga goals for BVB
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Dortmund: 2011 - 2016
Barcelona: 2023 - 2024
Currently in his second spell with Manchester City, Gündoğan was twice teammates with Lewandowski at BVB and Barça. The two were together for that famous, aforementioned Bundesliga and DFB Cup double in Black-and-Yellow in 2012. The former Germany captain amassed a combined total of 208 games for both teams, with his spell at Dortmund taking in five seasons to the one he played in Spain.
Ousmané Dembélé
Dortmund: 2016 - 2017
Barcelona: 2017 - 2023
The French wing wizard is lighting up this season's UEFA Champions League with Paris Saint-Germain - the favourite of many to get their hands on the famous trophy next month. Indeed, his current form mirrors that of a sole campaign in Dortmund, where he thrilled the Signal Iduna Park faithful with 19 goal involvements (6 goals, 13 assists) that earned him the Bundesliga's Rookie of the Season award and DFB Cup honours. Injuries and inconsistency meant that Dembélé never quite recreated that individual form at Barcelona, although he did leave the Nou Camp with as many as three La Liga winners' medals.
Watch: Assist-king Dembele in action for Dortmund
Dortmund: 2013 - 2018
Barcelona: 2022 - 2022
Another of those to have entered Dortmund folklore, Auba was a Bundesliga goal machine across five spectacular seasons with BVB. With Borussia coming up against the mighty Bayern time and again during the striker's stay in North Rhine-Westphalia, the Gabon international never managed to get his hands on the Meisterschale but he was the Bundesliga's top scorer with an incredible 31 goals in 2016/17 and won the DFB Cup in what was BVB's fourth successive final that same season. In all, Aubameyang netted 141 goals in 213 games across all competitions for BVB, a tally that far exceeded his 13 goals for Barcelona, where - despite being on the books for just seven months in 2022 - he was technically a La Liga winner.
Marc Bartra
Barcelona: 2010 - 2016
Dortmund: 2016 - 2018
One of football's good guys, Bartra's warmth was welcome on some cold winter footballing nights in Germany. The Catalan came to Dortmund as a serial title-winner with Barcelona, having come up through the club's famous La Masia youth academy. A central defender who was mostly used as back-up in his career in the Catalan capital, Bartra nonetheless had his part to play in five La Liga title wins, three Copa del Rey triumphs and a couple of Champions League title successes, among other titles. He immediately transferred that winning mentality over to Dortmund, where he was crowned a DFB Cup winner in his first season at the club. Dortmund fans' affections for Bartra increased ten-fold when the player suffered a fractured wrist in a bomb blast on the club's team bus in 2017.
Paco Alcácer
Barcelona: 2016 - 2018
Dortmund: 2018 - 2020
A star at youth level for Spain and later with boyhood team Valencia, Alcácer rocked up in Barcelona in 2016 to provide attacking support to the familiar front trio of Lionel Messi, Luis Suárez and Neymar. Getting a look-in where he could amid that kind of company, Alcácer still managed to score 15 goals in 50 games for Barça, winning a La Liga and Copa del Rey double before joining Dortmund on loan in 2018. The Spain international was a revelation on his arrival at Signal Iduna Park. He scored on his Bundesliga debut against Eintracht Frankfurt and by Matchday 8 had amassed seven goals in just four appearances, a run that included a hat-trick and last-gasp winner in a 4-3 triumph against Augsburg. An incredible first-season haul of 18 goals in 26 top-flight games wasn't matched when Alcácer's loan move to BVB was made permanent. But by then, a certain Erling Haaland had arrived.
Watch: Paco Alcácer's 2018/19 goals
Dortmund: 2009 - 2009
Barcelona: 2019 - 2019
If Boateng's stint at Dortmund was brief - the Berlin-born, ex-Ghana international was loaned to BVB from Tottenham Hotspur - his spell at Barça was even shorter. In a lengthy career, Boateng played 163 Bundesliga games for the likes of Hertha Berlin, Einracht Frankfurt and Dortmund's Revierderby rivals Schalke, but only 10 of those came in Black-and-Yellow in 2009. A decade later, the much-travelled attacker was on the move once more in a loan switch to Barça from Italian team Sassuolo. From January 2019 until the end of that campaign, Boateng featured in just four games for the European giants.
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