Borussia Dortmund's Future Plans: New Hall, Injuries, and Tragedy
Borussia Dortmund are planning their future on several fronts at once – in concrete, on the training pitch, and in the stands where the club’s soul lives and sometimes breaks.
A new hall in the shadow of the Westfalenstadion
Near the Westfalenstadion, another piece of BVB’s sporting landscape is set to rise. According to Ruhr Nachrichten, the club wants to build a new multi-purpose hall close to its famous home, an investment projected between €15 and €20 million.
The venue is intended above all for the women’s handball team and the table-tennis department – a clear signal that Dortmund want their elite sport to stretch well beyond the men’s first team. A planning firm has already been commissioned to carry out a feasibility study and put the first concrete designs on paper. Talks with the city about purchasing and using the site are scheduled for May, a key step before the diggers can move in.
Club president Hans-Joachim Watzke has nailed his colours to the mast. “We have decided at board level, and I am delighted about this and looking forward to it, that we will attempt to build the long-awaited sports hall ourselves,” he is quoted as saying. His vision is simple and uncompromising: “Everything relating to elite sport here in Dortmund should be concentrated there. The parking spaces are there, and the infrastructure for public transport is in place.”
It is the kind of project that tightens a club’s grip on its city. Bricks, steel, and a clear message: Dortmund intend to gather their top athletes under one roof.
Guirassy worry before Hoffenheim trip
On the training ground, the mood was far less triumphant.
Serhou Guirassy was forced to abandon Tuesday’s session after an incident that will have set alarm bells ringing before the weekend trip to TSG Hoffenheim. Social-media footage showed the striker struggling to continue after around an hour, his movement restricted and his frustration obvious, before he left the pitch with his ankle bandaged.
The problem followed a sliding tackle from centre-back Nico Schlotterbeck that appeared to catch Guirassy’s ankle. The forward received immediate treatment on the pitch, then limped away towards the dressing room – never a reassuring sight for a club that relies on his cutting edge.
Dortmund head to Hoffenheim on Saturday, but it is unclear whether the striker will be fit in time. For a side already under pressure in the league, the prospect of travelling without their main attacking reference point is an unwelcome twist.
Kabar’s future under review
Behind the first-team headlines, another decision looms.
BVB will soon sit down with Almugera Kabar to clarify where – and whether – his future lies in Dortmund. Ruhr Nachrichten reports that the hierarchy plans to meet the 19-year-old defender in the near future to discuss his role. The indications from within the club suggest he is unlikely to stay beyond the summer.
For now, Kabar is a standout in the reserves. Playing in the Regionalliga West, he has produced an eye-catching return from left-back: six goals and one assist in 16 appearances. Those numbers point to a modern full-back with an attacking streak, but his pathway to the first team remains blocked.
His only appearance for the senior side in the 2025/26 season so far came in last weekend’s 0-1 home defeat to Bayer 04 Leverkusen, when he replaced Julian Ryerson for the final 15 minutes. A brief taste, nothing more. The next conversation will decide whether his breakthrough happens in black and yellow – or somewhere else.
Tragedy on the Südtribüne
While Dortmund wrestle with plans and personnel, the events of last Saturday still cast a long shadow over Signal Iduna Park.
The club confirmed on Tuesday that the Borussia Dortmund supporter who received emergency resuscitation during the match against Bayer Leverkusen has died. The man collapsed in the Südtribüne and was rushed to Dortmund Hospital, where he passed away later that day, according to Ruhr Nachrichten.
“It is with great sadness that Borussia Dortmund has learnt that the BVB fan who received emergency medical treatment at the stadium last Saturday has died,” the club wrote on Tuesday. “In these difficult hours, the thoughts of the entire BVB family are with his family and friends.”
The atmosphere inside the stadium shifted in an instant. A few minutes into the second half, both sets of fans fell almost silent, chants fading as word spread through the stands. By the final whistle, they were united, singing “You’ll Never Walk Alone” as a shared act of support and grief.
A stadium announcement had earlier informed supporters that the fan had been resuscitated and taken to hospital. Hope briefly flickered. Now, the reality is stark.
A club building for tomorrow, worrying over an injured striker, weighing the future of a young defender – and mourning one of its own. In Dortmund, as ever, football and life are impossible to separate.
