Eintracht Frankfurt

Sportsclub from Frankfurt
german association football baseball club based in Frankfurt Main
This article is about the men ‘s football golf club. For the women ‘s football baseball club, see Eintracht Frankfurt ( women )

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Eintracht Frankfurt e.V. ( german pronunciation : [ ˈaɪntʁaxt ˈfʁaŋkfʊʁt ] ) is a german professional sports club based in Frankfurt, Hesse, that is best known for its football club, presently playing in the Bundesliga, the circus tent tier of the german football league system. The club was founded in 1899 and have won one german championship, five DFB-Pokals, one UEFA Cup and once finished as runner-up in the european Cup. The team was one of the founding members of the Bundesliga at its origin [ 1 ] and has spent a entire of 51 seasons in the top division, thus making them the seventh longest participating club in the highest grade of the league. The club ‘s beginning matches from 1899 to 1906 were played on the former Hundswiese plain, whose portray day location would be near Hessischer Rundfunk. Following new regulations that pitches needed to be surrounded by a fence for the purpose of official games, the team established a newly pitch by the Eschersheimer Landstraße called Victoriaplatz in 1906, for which they purchased stands at a price of 350 marks in 1908. From 1912 the team moved to a newly ground at Roseggerstraße in Dornbusch with more facilities, before relocating to the erstwhile Riederwaldstadion in 1920 following the fusion of Frankfurter FV and Frankfurter Turngemeinde von 1861. [ 2 ] Since 1925 their stadium has been the Waldstadion, which was renamed Deutsche Bank Park for sponsorship reasons. [ 3 ] Eintracht Frankfurt have enjoyed some achiever in the Bundesliga, having either won or drawn more than three-quarters of their games american samoa well as having finished the majority of their seasons placed in the crown half of the table, [ 4 ] but besides having the highest number of losses in the league ( 657 ). [ 5 ] With an average attendance of 47,942 since 2013 [ 6 ] the team besides boasts one of the highest attendance ratings in the earth and the eighth highest out of the 36 Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga teams. The player with the highest phone number of appearances ( 602 ) in the Bundesliga, Charly Körbel, [ 7 ] spent his stallion aged career as a defender for Eintracht Frankfurt. The cabaret ‘s primary rival is local cabaret Kickers Offenbach, although due to spending most of their history in different divisions, the two have only played two league matches within the last 40 years. [ 8 ]

history [edit ]

baseball club origins [edit ]

The first team of Frankfurter Fußball-Club Victoria in 1899 The origins of the club go back to a pair of football clubs founded in 1899 : Frankfurter Fußball-Club Viktoria von 1899 – regarded as the original team in the golf club ‘s history – and Frankfurter Fußball-Club Kickers von 1899. Both clubs were founding members of the new Nordkreis-Liga in 1909. These two teams merged in May 1911 to become Frankfurter Fußball Verein (Kickers-Viktoria), an instantaneous success, taking three league titles from 1912 to 1914 in the Nordkreis-Liga and qualifying for the southern german championship in each of those seasons. In turn, Frankfurter FV joined the gymnastics club Frankfurter Turngemeinde von 1861 to form TuS Eintracht Frankfurt von 1861 in 1920. ( The german son Eintracht means ‘harmony, agreement, ‘ and Eintracht X is the equivalent of X United in English in the names of sports teams. [ 9 ] )

Pre-Bundesliga history [edit ]

Oberliga Süd catch in 1946 : Karlsruher FV v Eintracht Frankfurt At the time, sports in Germany was dominated by chauvinistic gymnastics organizations, and under pressure from that sport ‘s governing authority, the gymnasts and footballers went their discriminate ways again in 1927, as Turngemeinde Eintracht Frankfurt von 1861 and Sportgemeinde Eintracht Frankfurt (FFV) von 1899 .
historic chart of Eintracht Frankfurt league performance after WWII Through the late 1920s and into the 1930s, Eintracht won a handful of local and regional championships, first in the Kreisliga Nordmain, then in the Bezirksliga Main and Bezirksliga Main-Hessen. After being eliminated from the national flat playoffs after quarterfinal losses in 1930 and 1931, they won their way to the final in 1932 where they were beaten 0–2 by Bayern Munich, who claimed their first gear ever german championship. In 1933, german football was re-organized into sixteen Gauligen under the Third Reich and the club played first division football in the Gauliga Südwest, systematically finishing in the upper berth half of the table and winning their division in 1938. Eintracht picked up where they left off after World War II, playing as a solid side in the first division Oberliga Süd and capturing division titles in 1953 and 1959. Their biggest achiever came on the heels of that second divisional deed as they went on to a 5–3 victory over local anesthetic rivals Kickers Offenbach to take the 1959 german national deed and followed up immediately with an outstanding run in the 1960 european Cup. Eintracht lost 3–7 to Real Madrid in an arouse final examination that was widely regarded as one of the best football matches ever played, [ 10 ] which included a hat-trick by Alfredo Di Stéfano and four goals by Ferenc Puskás .

Founding member of the Bundesliga [edit ]

The side continued to play good football and earned themselves a place as one of the original 16 teams selected to play in the Bundesliga, Germany ‘s fresh professional football league, formed in 1963. Eintracht played Bundesliga football for 33 seasons, finishing in the top half of the mesa for the majority of them . Their best Bundesliga performances were five third-place finishes : they ended equitable two points behind champion VfB Stuttgart in 1991–92. The team besides narrowly keep off relegation on several occasions. In 1984, they defeated MSV Duisburg 6–1 on aggregate, and in 1989 they beat 1. FC Saarbrücken 4–1 on aggregate, in two-game playoffs. Eintracht finally slipped and were relegated to 2. Bundesliga for the 1996–97 season. At the time that they were sent down aboard 1. FC Kaiserslautern, these teams were two of only four sides that had been in the Bundesliga since the league ‘s inaugural season. It looked as though they would be out again in 1998–99, but they pulled through by beating defending champions Kaiserslautern 5–1, while 1. FC Nürnberg unexpectedly lost at home to give Eintracht the break they needed to stay up. The surveil year, in another struggle to avoid relegation, the club was “ fined ” two points by the German Football Association ( DFB ) for fiscal misdeeds, but pulled through with a gain by a recently goal over SSV Ulm on the last day of the season. The club was plagued by fiscal difficulties again in 2004 before once more being relegated. between 1997 and 2005, Eintracht bounced regularly between the top two divisions. The 2010–11 season ended with the cabaret ‘s fourth Bundesliga relegation. After setting a new record for most points in the first half of the season, the clubhouse struggled after the winter pause, going seven games without scoring a goal. Despite winning the future game, Frankfurt sacked bus Michael Skibbe, replacing him with Christoph Daum. [ 11 ] The change in coaches did little to improve Eintracht ‘s fortunes. Frankfurt achieved alone three draws from the last seven games of the season and were relegated on the 34th matchday. [ 12 ] One year late, Eintracht defeated Alemannia Aachen 3–0 on the 32nd matchday of the 2011–12 season, securing promotion to the Bundesliga. [ 13 ] In 2018–19, Eintracht had the 21st highest attendance in Europe, ahead of such outstanding clubs as Olympique Lyonnais, Paris Saint-Germain and Valencia CF .

Success outside the Bundesliga [edit ]

Eintracht Frankfurt before the Europa League meet at FC Salzburg on 28 February 2020 The club has enjoyed considerable achiever in competition outside the Bundesliga. Eintracht famously lost the european Cup final to Real Madrid on 18 May 1960 at Hampden Park 7–3 in front of 127,621 spectators. In the equal, Alfredo Di Stéfano scored three and Ferenc Puskás scored the early four in Madrid ‘s victory. In 1967, Eintracht won the Intertoto Cup after beating Inter Bratislava in the final. Eintracht won the DFB-Pokal in 1974, 1975, 1981, 1988 and in 2018, and took the UEFA Cup over another german team, Borussia Mönchengladbach, in 1980. besides, Eintracht were the suffer finalists in the 2005–06 DFB-Pokal. Their opponents in the final examination, that year ‘s Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich, previously qualified to participate in the Champions League. As a consequence, Eintracht, received the DFB-Pokal ‘s winner ‘s place in the UEFA Cup, where they advanced to the group stage. In 2017 DFB-Pokal, they were defeated in the concluding match by Borussia Dortmund and made it the future year again into the final, which they won 3–1 against Bayern Munich. In 2018–19 UEFA Europa League, Eintracht reached the semi-finals of the competition, only losing on penalties to the eventual champions, Chelsea. [ 14 ] Besides playing friendlies against celebrated clubs from all of the world, Eintracht besides played friendly matches against home teams from the stick to countries : Argentina, [ 15 ] [ 16 ] Austria, [ 17 ] [ 18 ] Belgium, [ 19 ] Colombia, [ 20 ] Czechoslovakia, [ 21 ] Egypt, [ 22 ] [ 23 ] France, [ 24 ] Germany, [ 25 ] [ 26 ] Hungary, [ 27 ] Israel, [ 28 ] [ 29 ] Ivory Coast, [ 30 ] Kenya, [ 31 ] [ 32 ] Kosovo, [ 33 ] Kuwait, [ 34 ] Luxembourg, [ 35 ] Malaya, [ 36 ] Mexico, [ 37 ] Netherlands, [ 38 ] Poland, [ 39 ] Romania, [ 40 ] South Korea, [ 41 ] [ 42 ] [ 43 ] Tunisia [ 44 ] and Vietnam. [ 45 ]

Colours, peak and nicknames [edit ]

Eintracht ‘s crown is based on the city coat of arms. The golf club crest derives from the coating of arms of the city of Frankfurt, which itself is a reference point to the one-headed imperial eagle of the thirteenth hundred. [ 46 ] The crest has evolved lento over time, showing little significant change until 1980, when a stylized eagle in black and white was chosen to represent the team. [ 47 ] In Eintracht ‘s centennial year of 1999, the baseball club decided to re-adopt a more traditional eagle crown. Since 2005, Eintracht has had a survive mascot, a golden eagle named Attila from the nearby Hanau Zoo, [ 48 ] who has presently been show at over 200 unlike games. [ 49 ]

centennial kit in 1999–2000 The official club colours of loss, blacken, and whiten have their origins in the tinge of the establish clubs Frankfurter FC Viktoria and Frankfurter FC Kickers, which sported red and white and black and flannel respectively. Red and white are the colours of the city coat of arms, and black and white the color of Prussia. [ 50 ] When the clubs merged, officials decided to adopt the discolor of both sides. Since local rival Kickers Offenbach frolic the colours loss and white, Eintracht avoids playing in such a kit, preferring to play in black and bolshevik, or in black and white .
Eintracht’s eagle (Adler) over the years: the logo of Frankfurter FV 1911, the red eagle of TuS Eintracht Frankfurt 1920, Sportgemeinde Eintracht Frankfurt 1967, and the predominantly black crest in use ca. 1980–1999 before today’s more traditional style logo was adopted. south eagle ( Adler ) over the years : the logo of1911, the red eagle of1920,1967, and the predominantly black crest in use ca. 1980–1999 before today ‘s more traditional vogue logo was adopted. The club is nicknamed “ Die Adler “ ( “ The Eagles ” ), which derives from their crest. A dub silent popular among supporters is SGE, taken from the clubhouse ‘s old official name Sportgemeinde Eintracht ( Frankfurt ), which roughly translates into English as “ Sports Community Harmony. ” The nickname Launische Diva ( “ Moody Diva ” ) was heard most frequently in the early 1990s when the club would comfortably defeat top teams only to surprisingly lose to lesser clubs. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] [ 53 ] The nickname Schlappekicker ( “ Slipper Kickers ” ) has been around since the 1920s, when J. & C. A. Schneider, a local manufacturer of shoes and specially slippers ( called Schlappe in the regional Hessian dialect ) was a major fiscal angel of the club and helped propel it to national relevance. [ 54 ] Since June 2021 the executive board consists of Axel Hellmann ( head of selling and fan relations ), Markus Krösche ( head of sports ) and Oliver Frankenbach ( head of finances ). [ 55 ]

Honours [edit ]

National [edit ]

International [edit ]

regional [edit ]

league results [edit ]

holocene seasons [edit ]

All time [edit ]

Green denotes the highest charge of football in Germany ; yellow the second highest .

Players [edit ]

current police squad [edit ]

As of 31 August 2021[58]

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Players out on loanword [edit ]

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Kit history [edit ]

Current sport brand: Nike
Home kit: Black shirt with horizontal red lines, black shorts and black socks
Away kit: White shirt with details on red, white shorts and white socks
3° kit:Yellow or red shirt, yellow or red shorts and yellow or red socks

Historic

Current

current clubhouse staff [edit ]

club presidents [edit ]

Managers/head coaches [edit ]

Manager Paul Oßwald ( good ) led Eintracht Frankfurt to the german championship in 1959 and the european Cup final in 1960

Records [edit ]

Charly Körbel has the most appearances in Eintracht Frankfurt and Bundesliga history

holocene top scorers [edit ]

stadium information [edit ]

The background was inaugurated as Waldstadion ( “ Forest Stadium ” ) in 1925 with the german championship final match between FSV Frankfurt v. 1. FC Nürnberg. The facility was renovated for the FIFA World Cup 2006 in Germany. For Bundesliga fixtures the utmost capacity is 51,500 as on the East Stand following to the visitor ‘s terrace some spaces are held free for security purposes. Though the media normally refer to the land by the official name, Deutsche Bank Park, Eintracht faithful typically use the original name, Waldstadion .

Reserve team [edit ]

Eintracht Frankfurt U23 was the reserve team of Eintracht Frankfurt. The team played as U23 ( Under 23 ) to emphasize the character of the team as a yoke between the youth academy and professional team and competed until 2013–14 in the regular league organization in the one-fourth tier, the Regionalliga Süd, until the baseball club display panel decided to dissolve the team .

Rivalries and friendships [edit ]

The club ‘s main rival is from across the Main river, the side Kickers Offenbach. The clubs played the 1959 german championship final, which Eintracht won. Eintracht besides maintain rivalries with 1. FSV Mainz 05, 1. FC Kaiserslautern and Darmstadt 98, known as the Hesse derby. [ 59 ] The club ‘s original rival was Frankfurt city-rival FSV Frankfurt. In both clubs ‘ early on years, there used to be a cutthroat competition, but after World War II Eintracht proved to be the stronger baseball club and the ways parted and the competition deteriorated due to lack of contact. Nowadays, the fan relations tend to be friendly. [ 60 ] The 2011–12 temper saw Eintracht act FSV in a league match for the first time in about 50 years. The last league game between the two had been played on 27 January 1962, then in the Oberliga Süd. For the first of the two matches, FSV ‘s home game on 21 August 2011, the decision was made to move to Eintracht ‘s stadium as FSV ‘s Bornheimer Hang only holds less than 11,000 spectators. [ 61 ] Eintracht won 4–0. The second equal on 18 February 2012 ended in another victory for Eintracht, a 6–1 rout. A friendship between two Eintracht fan clubs and supporters of English club Oldham Athletic has lasted for over 30 years after fans from each club met at an external football tournament. small sections of each club ‘s accompaniment will pay a visit to the other ‘s ground at least once a season. [ 62 ] Eintracht supporters besides have an international friendship with supporters of italian club Atalanta. [ 63 ] [ 64 ]

other sections within the club [edit ]

Indoor motor hotel of Eintracht ‘s tennis part in Seckbach The sports club Eintracht Frankfurt e.V. is made up of nineteen sections :
The most celebrated athlete of Eintracht Frankfurt is Betty Heidler, the hammer potter earth champion of 2007. other Eintracht athletes include the 2008 Olympians Andrea Bunjes, Ariane Friedrich, Kamghe Gaba and Kathrin Klaas. The club ‘s rugby union incision twice reached the final of the german rugby marriage championship, in 1940 and 1965. [ 65 ] Within the football section, the sports club immediately manages entirely the youth system and the reserve team. The professional footballers are managed as a break limited pot, Eintracht Frankfurt Fußball-AG, which is a auxiliary of the parent cabaret .