The city has two main railway stations: Mönchengladbach Hauptbahnhof and Rheydt Hauptbahnhof, the result of the merger of the two cities, in which the deprecated name for Rheydt Hbf was never removed.

The city also has a commercial airport called Düsseldorf Mönchengladbach.

Borussia Mönchengladbach has over 50, 000 members as of February 2012 and is the sixth largest club in Germany.

There are many different sub-definitions of what belongs to the Rhine-Ruhr area, but the metropolitan area itself has officially defined borders with Hamm in the east, Mönchengladbach in the west and Bonn in the south and the small city Wesel as its northernmost point.

However, the Bundesliga has seen other champions with Borussia Dortmund, Hamburger SV, Werder Bremen, Borussia Mönchengladbach and VfB Stuttgart most prominent among them.

For the 2012 season, the Mönchengladbach Mavericks, runners-up in the northern division in 2011, were refused a licence, leaving an extra spot in the league which has been offered to the Lübeck Cougars.

He has played for Viking, Eik-Tønsberg, Borussia Mönchengladbach, IFK Göteborg and Tottenham Hotspur.

Sonck is as a striker and has previously played for Molenbeek, Germinal Ekeren, Germinal Beerschot, Genk, Ajax, Borussia Mönchengladbach and Club Brugge.

Newell's also won a friendly mini-tournament called the Little World Cup in 1988, against River Plate, Milan, Juventus, Real Madrid and Manchester United, and is, together with Boca Juniors, San Lorenzo and Racing one of the few Argentine clubs that made a long and successful tour over Europe ( in 1941 ), in which they defeated several important teams such as Valencia, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Real Madrid and the Spanish National " A " Team.

In the final, Simonsen scored a memorable powerful long range goal to level the game at 1 – 1, but Mönchengladbach eventually lost 3 – 1.

He left Gladbach at the end of the season, joining Club Brugge on a year long loan deal while Borussia Mönchengladbach began playing in the second tier of the Bundesliga.

Mönchengladbach is home of the football club Borussia Mönchengladbach, Formula One race car drivers Nick Heidfeld and Heinz-Harald Frentzen, author / cartoonist Walter Moers, cabaret artist Volker Pispers, and the philosopher Hans Jonas.

* 1944, 14 September, Günter Netzer, German football player for Borussia Mönchengladbach, Real Madrid and Grasshoppers Zürich

* 1985, 4 November, Marcell Jansen, German football player for Hamburger SV who formerly played for Borussia Mönchengladbach.

Borussia Mönchengladbach () is a German association football club based in Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia.

Founded in 1900, Borussia Mönchengladbach play in the Bundesliga, the top tier of the German football league system, making their first appearance in the league during the 1965 / 1966 season.

* Mönchengladbach Mavericks, an American football club from Mönchengladbach, Germany

Vogts joined the boys ' football team of local sports club VfR Büttgen in 1954 at the age of seven, staying with them until his 1965 transfer to Borussia Mönchengladbach.

Günter Theodor Netzer ( born 14 September 1944 in Mönchengladbach ) is a former German football player and team general manager currently working in the media business.

On 23 October 2010, Pizarro surpassed the 133 goals record previously reached by Giovane Élber, making him the top foreign scorer in German football history, when he scored with his team, Werder Bremen against Borussia Mönchengladbach.

He made his comeback to professional football in Germany with Borussia Mönchengladbach, whom he joined in January 2005.

* René Schnitzler ( born 1985, Mönchengladbach ), a German football player

At the same time as the club was enjoying a high standing Scottish football, McLean was gradually building the club ’ s reputation in Europe, with wins over sides like AS Monaco, Borussia Mönchengladbach, PSV Eindhoven, Anderlecht and Werder Bremen.

It serves main lines to Cologne, Mönchengladbach and Liège as well as branch lines to Heerlen, Alsdorf, Stolberg and Eschweiler.

Nakamura expressed interest in playing in Spain and media reports linked him to Atlético Madrid and Deportivo La Coruña of La Liga as well as Bundesliga teams Borussia Dortmund and Borussia Mönchengladbach in the summer of 2005 ,< ref >

He most prominently played for German team Borussia Mönchengladbach, winning the 1975 and 1979 UEFA Cups, as well as for Barcelona from Spain, winning the 1982 Cup Winners ' Cup.

KSC was Oberliga Süd champion in 1956, 1958 and 1960, as well as runner-up in the German Cup in 1960, when they lost the final match 2 – 3 to Borussia Mönchengladbach.

The live music from Gambler was only distributed at the performance site in Mönchengladbach, Germany.

Four RE lines and two RB lines connect Aachen with the Ruhrgebiet, Mönchengladbach, Liège, Düsseldorf and the Siegerland.

Newer IKEA stores, like the one in Mönchengladbach, Germany, make more use of glass, both for aesthetics and functionality.

Goebbels was born in Rheydt, an industrial town south of Mönchengladbach on the edge of the Ruhr district.

During the 1995 – 96 UEFA Cup Winners ' Cup, Everton and Borussia Mönchengladbach were beaten.

A total of 14, 000 Feyenoord fans travelled to Germany to support the team against Mönchengladbach.

Almost 15, 000 fans were cheering for their team in 1996 when Feyenoord played in Germany versus Borussia Mönchengladbach.

* An abbey is founded at the site of Mönchengladbach.

The Iron Rhine connects Antwerp with Mönchengladbach in Germany.

Furthermore, it provides regular international connections to Germany, via Kaldenkirchen ( the first stop in Germany ) and Viersen to Mönchengladbach.

Having returned to operational duties in 1944 after pestering Bomber Command, 25-year-old Gibson was killed along with his navigator, Sqn Ldr Jim Warwick, on a bombing raid on Rheydt ( nowadays a borough of Mönchengladbach ) operating as a Pathfinder Master Bomber based at RAF Coningsby, when his de Havilland Mosquito XX, KB267, crashed near Steenbergen on 19 September 1944.

* UEFA Cup – Borussia Mönchengladbach beat FC Twente 5-1 on aggregate, with a leg played at each team's home stadium.

In the 1970s this was Borussia Mönchengladbach, in the 1980s the category expanded to include Hamburger SV.

That run included victories over Bundesliga sides Borussia Dortmund, VfL Bochum, Karlsruher SC, Werder Bremen, and Borussia Mönchengladbach, as they became the first lower division side to win the competition.

However it looked to have been rectified with a 5 – 1 thrashing of Borussia Mönchengladbach, a shock 1 – 0 win over Bayern Munich at home, which hadn't occurred for 20 years, and a thrilling 3 – 0 victory over Hamburg SV.

Mönchengladbach (), formerly known as Münchengladbach, is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

This spelling could mislead people to think that Gladbach was a borough of Munich ( München in German ), and consequently the name was changed to Mönchen Gladbach in 1950 and Mönchengladbach in 1960.

The town of Rheydt is located nearby and is incorporated into Mönchengladbach today.

The first settlements in the area of Mönchengladbach are approximately 300, 000 – 400, 000 years old and show remains of Homo erectus and Neanderthal.

The history of Mönchengladbach began with the construction of the Gladbach Minster and the founding of an abbey in the year 974 by Gero, Archbishop of Cologne, and his companion, the monk Sandrad of Trier.

These people were born in Mönchengladbach, or in Rheydt or Wickrath, formerly independent communities united with Mönchengladbach in 1975.