Borussia Dortmund ran out 11-0 (7-0) winners against SV Hohenlimburg on Matchday 10 of the Women’s Landesliga season. Danelle Tan was the top scorer and bagged a hat-trick in the convincing home victory.

It was the long-awaited first match of the season at Stadion Rote Erde for the BVB women. And the final scoreline of 11-0 was not the only indication of how much the Borussia ladies enjoyed it. “The setting was incredible. And playing on grass in the rain is even more awesome,” said Hannah Geldschläger, who was playing at the historic venue for the first time.

In line with the motto “all good things come in threes”, coach Thomas Sulewski made three changes to the starting line-up for the third match in a row. Marie Grothe, Mia Macarena Bedarf and Mandy Reinhardt started in place of Virginia Glänzer (injured), Kimberly Becker and Marjana Naceva (both among the substitutes).

Reinhardt’s inclusion paid dividends within the opening two minutes as the striker converted an assist from Merle Greulich to open the scoring early on. Bedarf, who was back in action for the first time since Matchday 6, justified the faith shown in her shortly afterwards with a wonderful pass into the penalty area, which Danelle Tan finished off to make it 2-0 (12).

Tan really turned on the heat on her debut at Stadion Rote Erde. She scored BVB’s third goal via a powerful head from a Gomulka corner (18), assisted Reinhardt’s goal for 4-0 (27) and then completed her own hat-trick to make it 6-0 (38). The goal that made it 5-0 in between came from a Geldschläger free-kick that Hohenlimburg goalkeeper Samia Wirth could not hold on to as the rain began to fall (34). Wirth also had a stroke of misfortune in the 44th minute when a powerful Grothe shot from distance bounced off the crossbar, onto her back and into the back the net. “The opposition was aggressive in the challenges so we had to move the ball about quickly. The interplay was great, almost every shot on goal went in and everything was right,” Geldschläger said in summary of the first half.

Borussia made five early changes in the second period and enjoyed numerical superiority from the 64th minute onwards following a professional foul from Janine Wiechel. Grothe initially fired the resultant free-kick into the wall but the second attempt nestled in the bottom-left corner for 8-0. The 09th BVB goal was the best of the day: Lisa Gomulka rounded off a short solo run by firing into the top-right corner from around 25 metres (70).

Substitute Naceva took the score into double figures following a lovely one-two with Grothe (79) and Gomulka then rounded off the scoring at 11-0 after being teed up by the North Macedonian (89). “The team implemented everything that we set out to do during the week: showing enthusiasm, not letting the opponent rest, creating a lot of chances and scoring goals,” said Sulewski in the aftermath of the convincing victory.

The league leaders’ next game will take place at Stadion Rote Erde too. SpVgg Hosthausen will be the visitors at 13:00 CET on 5 November.

BVB women: Schröer – Tayeh, Jung (Rechenbach, 65), Haslsteiner, Geldschläger (Klemann, 54) – Gomulka – Greulich, Grothe, Bedarf (Becker, 59), Tan (Lau, 65) – Reinhardt (Naceva, 59)