Jobe Bellingham leaves Sunderland to join Borussia Dortmund
Midfielder Jobe Bellingham left Sunderland in summer 2025 for Borussia Dortmund, the club where his brother Jude made his name in Germany.
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In the summer of 2025, Jobe Bellingham left English club Sunderland to join Borussia Dortmund in Germany's Bundesliga. The midfielder was still a teenager, having spent two seasons at Sunderland after moving from Birmingham City in 2023.
The move echoed the path of his older brother Jude, who joined Dortmund from Birmingham in 2020. Jude became one of Europe's most talked-about young players in Germany before transferring to Real Madrid in 2023. Jobe's arrival therefore put a second Bellingham in the yellow and black shirt, though the brothers did not overlap at the club.
The transfer mattered because it took a highly rated young English player out of the Championship, England's second tier, and into regular European football. Dortmund have a long record of developing young talent, and the move was seen as a chance for Jobe to step out of his brother's shadow and build his own reputation, which later fed into discussion about his place in international squads.
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