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Fortuna Düsseldorf ( pronounce [ fɔʁˈtuːna ˈdʏsl̩dɔʁf ] ( ) ) is a german football club in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia. Founded in 1895, Fortuna entered the league in 1913 and was a regular in the top flight from the early 1920s up to the initiation of the Bundesliga in 1963. 2019–20 was their 25th season in the Bundesliga and the second in a row since getting promoted from the 2. Bundesliga in the 2017–18 season. Fortuna captured one german Championship ( 1933 ) and two german Cup-Wins ( 1979 and 1980 ). Their greatest feat in european Competions was a Cupwinners Cup Final ( 1979 ) where they lost narrowly to celebrated FC Barcelona.

history [edit ]

foundation to World War II [edit ]

The earliest roots of the association go spinal column to the establishment of the gymnastics club Turnverein Flingern on 5 May 1895 in the village of Flingern, nowadays one of the eastern quarters of Düsseldorf. Two other sides figure in the club ‘s early history : Düsseldorfer Fußballklub Spielverein, founded in 1908, and FK Alemania 1911, which was founded in 1911 and became Fortuna 1911 the stick to year. In mid-1913, these two clubs merged to form Düsseldorfer Fußball-Club Fortuna 1911 which played its introduction season in the Westdeutschen Spielverband in 1913–14. television Flingern joined Fortuna to create Düsseldorfer Turn- und Sportverein Fortuna on 15 November 1919. [ 1 ] In the late 1920s, Fortuna won its foremost honor as a first base tier side ; it captured a district level Bezirksliga title in 1927, sent its first representative to the Germany national team in 1928 ( Ernst Albrecht ), and took a moment Bezirksliga entitle in 1929. The team continued to perform well into the 1930s, winning its third and fourth zone titles en route to a western German football championship in 1931 and its greatest success, a german football championship in 1933 against Schalke 04, which was on the brink of becoming the earned run average ‘s dominant side in Germany. Fortuna was the first team to win the claim without conceding a goal in the final rounds of the tournament. It beat Vorwärts-Rasensport Gleiwitz ( 9–0 ), Arminia Hannover ( 3–0 ), Eintracht Frankfurt ( 4–0 ) and ultimately Schalke 04 ( 3–0 ) en path to becoming the first national champion from the industrial Rhine-Ruhr area. In the stick to season, the clubhouse began playing in Gauliga Niederrhein, 1 of 16 top-flight divisions formed in the re-organization of german football under the Third Reich. Düsseldorf dominated the division through the 1930s as five-time champions between 1936 and 1940, and made losing appearances in the national championship concluding in 1936 ( 1–2 to 1. FC Nürnberg ) and the final of the Tschammerpokal, the predecessor of today ‘s DFB-Pokal, in 1937 ( 1–2 against Schalke 04 ). The club was relegated in 1942 but made a prompt return to the peak flight the take after season. In 1944–45, it began play as the unite wartime side Kriegsspielgemeinschaft TSV Fortuna/SC 99 Düsseldorf with collaborator Düsseldorfer Sport Club 1899, but took part in only two matches as Nazi Germany fell before the boost of Allied armies. [ 2 ] The most celebrated players of that era were Paul Janes, Germany ‘s most capped player from 1942 to 1970 ( 71 caps ), german team captain ( 1939–1942 ) and member of the Breslau Eleven that beat Denmark 8–0 in Breslau in 1937 and went on to win 10 of 11 games played during that year ; Stanislaus Kobierski, who earned 26 caps and scored Germany ‘s first always FIFA World Cup goal ; Ernst Albrecht ; and Jakob Bender .

Post War earned run average [edit ]

diachronic chart of Fortuna league performance after WWII After World War II, Allied occupation authorities ordered the profligacy of all sports organizations in Germany. Fortuna was re-formed in 1945 and then played most of their football in the Oberliga West ( I ) in the years between 1947 and the initiation of the Bundesliga, Germany ‘s professional football league, in 1963. It played as a lower-to-mid-table side but did earn three appearances in the DFB-Pokal final in – 1957, 1958 and 1962 – but was not able to take the trophy, losing each of those matches to Bayern Munich, VfB Stuttgart and 1. FC Nürnberg. It was besides during this earned run average that Toni Turek, goalkeeper for Germany ‘s “ Miracle of Bern ” side at the 1954 World Cup ; Erich Juskowiak ( 30 caps and World Cup actor in 1958 ) ; and later national team coach Jupp Derwall wholly represented Fortuna .

1960s and 1970s [edit ]

Fortuna ‘s performance was not good adequate to earn them a place among the original 16 teams chosen for the newly founded Bundesliga in 1963, but the club did oversee to play its way into the prime minister division three years late for a cameo appearance in 1966–67. Despite a sensational 2–1 aside win at recently crowned european Cup Winners ‘ Cup winners Borussia Dortmund in its Bundesliga introduction, Fortuna was immediately relegated, though only to return in 1971 for a persist that lasted 16 seasons and included two third-place league finishes ( in 1972–73 and 1973–74 ). On 9 December 1978, Fortuna recorded a 7–1 victory against Bayern Munich, to date the highest away kill for Bayern in its stallion Bundesliga history. In addition, Fortuna continued its booming play in the DFB-Pokal, making another three appearances. After losing in its fifth appearance in the final in 1978 against local anesthetic rivals 1. FC Köln ( 0–2 ), the golf club last broke through and came away as champions in 1979, prevailing 1–0 against Hertha BSC, then repeating as champions 1980 with 2–1 victory against 1. FC Köln. During this period, the golf club established a record for straight DFB-Pokal peer victories, with 18-straight between 1978 and 1981. Fortuna is among a group of four teams which have made frequent appearances in the DFB-Pokal final alone to come away empty-handed. Like 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Fortuna has just two wins against five losses. 1. FC Köln has four wins and six losses in the Cup final, while Schalke 04 has been frustrated most often, with five wins and seven losses. Four of the Düsseldorfer ‘s losses were by a single goal and two of those were in extra time. The clubhouse ‘s best turn in european contest was in the 1979 european Cup Winners ‘ Cup Final, where it finished as runner-up to Barcelona, losing 4–3 in excess time in an stimulate finale at Basel. It was the foremost of four occasions that the Catalan clubhouse won the tournament. Fortuna achieved its success by and large with hometown players like the celebrated Allofs brothers ( Klaus Allofs and Thomas Allofs ) or players like Gerd Zewe ( 440 games in the Bundesliga ), Dieter Herzog, Reiner Geye, Wolfgang Seel and Rudi Bommer who joined the team as closely unknown players and ended as internationals. between 1960 and 1967, Peter Meyer scored 119 goals in 174 games .

1980s to the raw hundred [edit ]

Since its relegation in 1987, Fortuna has bounced back and away between leagues, spending five more seasons in the Bundesliga in 1989–92 and 1995–97 and slipping deoxyadenosine monophosphate low as Oberliga Nordrhein ( IV ) in 2002–04. In 2001, the club escaped delegating to tier IV only because two other clubs were denied licenses to play in tier III for fiscal reasons. Fortuna had its own money problems at the time but have since managed to arrange its finances more or less back into rate. between 2001 and 2003, the club was sponsored by german hood rock band Die Toten Hosen. [ 3 ]

holocene seasons [edit ]

In 2008–09, Fortuna competed in the newly established 3. Liga, finishing moment and gaining automatic promotion to the 2. Bundesliga, where it finished fourth in its comeback season, 2009–10. In this season, Fortuna was the only side unbeaten in home-matches in the three top German ( nationally ) leagues. After a promising 2009–10 season, the 2010–11 season began ill for Fortuna. After the first six games of the season, the club was in survive position, having lost every couple. During these foremost six matches, the club managed to score only two goals – one of which was an own-goal by the other side. Despite this discouraging startle, Fortuna bounced back and finished the season in seventh space. 2011–12 began identical differently : after the inaugural half of the season, Fortuna was in first locate in the table with a noteworthy record of 12 wins, 5 draws and 0 losses. The “ Herbstmeister ” title gave the team and the fans hope that this could be the year Fortuna returned to the Bundesliga. The irregular half of the season was more challenging, as Fortuna was unable to maintain its pace : it suffered four losses and a number of draws, slipping to third gear topographic point in the final examination standings. however, this was sufficient for them to qualify for the two-game relegation playoff against the third-last place team in the Bundesliga – Hertha BSC. The first game of the delegating was played on 10 May 2012 in Berlin, with Fortuna winning 2–1. Fortuna drew the decide game which was played on 15 May in Düsseldorf. Hertha fans, however, threw firecrackers at the discipline and the players, and one minute before the match ended, overexcited Fortuna fans stormed the field. The promotion to the Bundesliga represented an extraordinary personal accomplishment for team captain Andreas Lambertz, as he became the first player in german football history to be promoted three times with the lapp club, from the then fourth-tier Oberliga to the Bundesliga. For striker Sascha Rösler, it marked the fourth clock in his career that he was promoted from the moment Division into the Bundesliga. Coming with the recent promotion, the club achieved a raw phonograph record in german football history, becoming the merely german club that has been relegated from the Bundesliga toss off to a fourth-tier league ( time menstruation of fall : 1997–2002 ) and promoted back to the Bundesliga afterwards ( time period of rebellion : 2004–2012 ). Fortuna started the 2012–13 Bundesliga season powerfully : after five games, it was in fifth space in the table [ 4 ] and concerns about delegating seemed to have been put to rest. however, Fortuna ‘s 1–0 home acquire over SpVgg Greuther Fürth on 16 February would prove to be the club ‘s final victory of the season. [ 5 ] The season concluded with Fortuna playing in Hannover 96, a equal Fortuna lost 0–3. This kill, combined with an FC Augsburg win over Greuther Fürth and a bizarre and improbable victory by 1899 Hoffenheim over second-place Borussia Dortmund, resulted in Fortuna dropping two places. [ 6 ] Fortuna finished 17th and were again relegated back to the 2. Bundesliga. Fortuna ‘s delegating was the solution not only of this improbable series of occurrences on the concluding day of the season, but besides a poor conclusion to the year. Of its final examination eight matches, it did not win a single one ; just one win would have secured its position for the be temper ‘s Bundesliga. This hapless performance contributed to the dismissal of drumhead coach Norbert Meier. [ 7 ] relegation to the 2. Bundesliga led to a time period of broadly disappointing performance. Fortuna spent the years between 2013 and 2017 in the center of the table, much battling against relegation and rarely challenging for promotion back to the Bundesliga. During these years, the club went through a series of coaching changes, with Oliver Reck, Frank Kramer, and former player Mike Buskens among others leading the club at diverse points. [ 8 ] Success however remained elusive. In March 2016, Friedhelm Funkel – a native of Neuss – took over as coach of Fortuna Düsseldorf. In his first plot as passenger car, Funkel led the cabaret to a 4–3 winnings against 1. FC Kaiserslautern, ending a month-long winless streak. [ 9 ] Funkel ‘s start as bus marked the beginning of a period of increased constancy and success for Fortuna. At the beginning of the 2017–18 season, two of Fortuna ‘s strongest performers from the previous class, goalkeeper Michael Rensing and forward Ihlas Bebou, were both lost from the clubhouse with Rensing suffering two broken ribs [ 10 ] and Bebou transferring to Bundesliga side Hannover 96. [ 11 ] A far reverse was that Funkel ‘s adjunct Peter Hermann asked to be released from his contract with Fortuna in order to rejoin his mentor Jupp Heynckes upon his return key to FC Bayern. [ 12 ] With these three losses, it appeared that the 2017–18 temper could be unmanageable for Fortuna. however, the club started extremely powerfully : on the fourth day of the season, Fortuna had climbed to first target in the board, with a draw and three wins. For the end of the class, they would not drop below third gear place, benefiting from particularly strong play by Rensing ‘s substitute in finish, Raphael Wolf, newly-acquired belgian forward Benito Raman, striker Rouwen Hennings, and midfielder Florian Neuhaus. [ 13 ] A late-season depression saw Fortuna lose three games in succession in early April, but Fortuna won their following two matches, securing promotion to the Bundesliga. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] In the final examination game of the season, with promotion already secured, Fortuna defeated 1. FC Nürnberg 3:2 on a last-minute finish thereby securing first locate and the 2. Division Championship. For bus Friedhelm Funkel, this marks the sixth time he had led a club to promotion—a german record. Fortuna Düsseldorf ‘s tax return to first-division football in 2018–19 was greeted with bang-up exuberance by their supporters. [ 16 ] The first half of the season was marked by potent but discrepant playing period. [ 17 ] Fortuna played signally well against lead Bundesliga sides, taking a distributor point from Leipzig and defeating Hoffenheim and first-place Borussia Dortmund. [ 18 ] Most encouraging was an away draw against the defend champions Bayern Munich, when Fortuna came back after trailing 2–0 and 3–1, to secure a 3–3 draw in the 93rd minute, with Dodi Lukebakio scored all three of Fortuna ‘s goals. [ 19 ] however, Fortuna failed to play with the like consistency and decisiveness against clubs lower in the table, against whom they will struggle to avoid relegation, losing to Augsburg, Nürnberg and Mainz, and only managing a hook against Stuttgart. [ 17 ] Fortuna Düsseldorf entered the mid-winter break in 14th place in the postpone, concluding the first half of the season with three consecutive wins against Freiburg, Dortmund and Hannover. Fortuna Düsseldorf enjoyed a more consistent second gear half of the season, with aside wins over Augsburg, Hertha Berlin and one of their best performances in holocene times, a storming expose in a 0–4 win at Schalke 04. A 4–1 win at home to Werder Bremen and a 3–1 victory over Borussia Mönchengladbach were highlights at home, whilst other home wins over VfB Stuttgart, Nürnberg and a final examination day get the better of of Hannover 96 ensured a tenth plaza finish in the Bundesliga. This achieved Fortuna Düsseldorf ‘s highest league finish since the 1989–90 Bundesliga season, where they finished 9th .
For the 2017–18 season, on-line sports betting web site Tipbet renewed its agreement as premium Partners of Fortuna. [ 20 ] The conduct involves marketing campaigns to raise brand awareness, while even promotions are organised. [ 21 ]

Players [edit ]

current squad [edit ]

As of 30 August 2021[22]

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second team [edit ]

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Out on lend [edit ]

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Honours [edit ]

The club ‘s honours are as follows :

Domestic
Cup
International
Regional
Reserve team

League history [edit ]

recent seasons [edit ]

celebrated players [edit ]

Internationals for the Germany national team [edit ]

twenty-five Fortuna players have made appearances with the national side earning 240 caps between them. With the exception of Erich Juskowiak, all players debuted as Fortuna players :

Coaches [edit ]

Stadiums [edit ]

Records and firsts [edit ]

  • 1928: first German team to visit Africa for friendly competition
  • 1960: first German team to sign an African player (Charles Gyamfi)
  • 1978 – 7 Dec.: Fortuna obtained a 7–1 victory against Bayern Munich, to date the worst away defeat for Bayern in its entire Bundesliga history.
  • 1978 – 1981: consecutive DFB-Pokal match victories (18)
  • 2009: Fortuna set an all-time attendance record for third level football in Germany: 50,095 visitors saw a 1–0 victory against Werder Bremen U23 that meant promotion into the 2. Bundesliga.

Rivalries and sports fan culture [edit ]

Fortuna ‘s fiercest competition is with 1. FC Köln, which stems from the geographic proximity of Düsseldorf and Cologne american samoa well as the historic competition between the two cities. [ 24 ] however, in recent seasons the clubs have rarely played in the same division making tete-a-tete encounters increasingly rare. The 2013–14 season marked the last time the two clubs met in competitive matches when both played in the Second Division. For the 2018–19 temper, Fortuna was promoted to the 1. Bundesliga precisely as 1. FC Köln was demoted from the Bundesliga to the Second Division, again avoiding the “ Rheinland Derby ”. Fortuna ‘s other historic rivals are Rot-Weiss Essen, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, and Wuppertaler SV. During the 1970s, all four clubs played in the Bundesliga. Both Essen and Wuppertal have since dropped to lower leagues. Bayer Leverkusen, on the other pass, has emerged as a mighty force in the Bundesliga. Leverkusen ‘s fiscal accompaniment from the Bayer chemical accumulate has led to many Düsseldorf fans criticizing the club as “ fictile ” and inauthentic, without any real tradition. During the seasons when they both played in the Second Division, Fortuna ‘s matches against MSV Duisburg and Borussia Mönchengladbach were heatedly contested and were often referred to as “ Lower Rhein Derbys ”. Fortuna Düsseldorf and Rot-Weiss Essen have played one another 59 times and many fans still regard this as a inflame competition, but direct matches have been rare in holocene years. Fortuna besides has inter-city rivalries with Düsseldorf SC99 and TuRU Düsseldorf, so far these have besides lost their intensity. During the post-war years, no early club within the Düsseldorf city limits has ever played in a higher division than Fortuna. Because of the dominance of FC Bayern München in recent decades, Fortuna besides has a competitive competition with the Bavarians. Although Düsseldorf has not mounted a serious challenge for the Bundesliga backing since the early 1970s, matches between Fortuna and FC Bayern have been ferociously contested. In a 1975 match, Bayern led at halftime 4:2, but Fortuna came back to win 6:5. On 9 December 1978, Fortuna defeated FC Bayern 7:1, [ 25 ] an result which to this day remains FC Bayern ‘s worst-ever off loss. During the 1985–86 season, Fortuna was the entirely team to win both of its games against the eventual champions from Munich, winning 4:0 and 3:2. The band Die Toten Hosen, many of whose members are enthusiastic fans of Fortuna Düsseldorf, have celebrated the team ‘s success against FC Bayern in their song “ Bayern ” which appears on their album “ immortal ”. [ 26 ] The last Bundesliga game was a draw after Munich had led 3–1. Fortuna scored two goals, 3 : 3 in 10 minutes. The club has a detail potent affiliation with English League One side Ipswich Town, with their supporters making annual visits to see them at their home ground, Portman Road, since 2003. Ipswich fans have besides done the lapp, with some coming to cheer Dusseldorf on at the Merkur Spiel-Arena. [ 27 ] Fortuna Düsseldorf enjoys a strong a spirit fan basis, and supporters in the “ extremist ” bend of the stadium are well known for their complicate choreographed displays [ 28 ] and enthusiastic support for their club, which occasionally includes the lighting of “ Bengalos ” or fireworks in the stands. Members of the band Die Toten Hosen, including lead singer Campino, are much present at Fortuna matches at family and on the road, and when Fortuna celebrated its holocene 2. Division championship in front of thousands of fans at Düsseldorf ‘s city hall on 14 May 2018, the band appeared with them. [ 29 ] The band is besides highly regarded by the club for serving as sponsors during the 2001–02 and 2002–03 seasons, when the baseball club had been relegated to the Regional League and faced fiscal trouble .

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