[1] Between 1975 and 1987, he played for Eintracht Frankfurt, Arminia Bielefeld and Waldhof Mannheim in the Bundesliga.

[2] With Eintracht, he won the UEFA Cup in 1979–80 and the DFB-Pokal in 1980–81.

[4] Following his playing career, Borchers became a coach for lower-league German teams.

Since September 2010, he was managing Wormatia Worms.

This biographical article related to association football in Germany, about a midfielder born in the 1950s, is a stub.