SC Fortuna Köln

The Sports Club Fortuna Köln eV is a football and handball club. He is after 1 FC Cologne 's most successful football club in the Rhine metropolis.

  • 2.1 Title
  • 7.1 Known players
  • 8.1 The second team

History

Creation and promotion to the Bundesliga (1948-1974)

The SC Fortuna Köln was founded on February 21, 1948 by the merger of the clubs Bayenthaler SV, Savings Club Cologne 1927 SV Victoria and Cologne. All three clubs were before the Second World War not too successful. Only the SV Victoria 1911 came 1943 to the second round of the German Cup. 1976, nor the inclusion of FC Alter Markt Cologne.

The establishment of the SC Fortuna Köln eight days after the 1st FC Cologne was another attempt to form several neighborhood teams a successful full - Cologne team. In the 1950s and 1960s, however, failed the club as opposed to the 1 FC Cologne to play top notch. This changed in 1967 by the especially financial commitment of then President Jean Löring. 1973 finally succeeded in rising to the 1st Bundesliga. At the end of the 1973/74 season it was but was relegated again, in the newly formed 2nd Bundesliga.

26 years 2nd Bundesliga ( 1974-2000 )

In the 2nd Bundesliga SC Fortuna Köln should stick formally in the following decades. Several times, the rise has been awarded out of a rather promising position. In early summer 1986, the club had almost reached the promotion back to the 1st Bundesliga. In the relegation However, Borussia Dortmund sat in the playoff by 8-0. The game had become necessary after the planned two games from the perspective of Fortuna 2:0 and 1:3 in Cologne in Dortmund had expected. There, the SC Fortuna Köln the 1:3 suffered until the last minute, which led to Torgleichstand. The well-known from European matches rule by which that team wins that has scored more goals on the opponent's court ( " away goals " ), did not apply for play-offs at the time.

On the other hand, could the SC Fortuna Köln still hold out some hopeless situation the class. Thus, the club was indeed descended sporty at the end of the season the German reunification in 1991/92, but could after the license revocation of Blue-White 90 Berlin still move into the play-offs and decide that they are clearly for itself.

The SC Fortuna Köln found in all the years as South City club over the city limits only moderate response from few but extremely loyal viewers. The dominant position in the city of the 1st FC Cologne could never be seriously threatened. Some of the greatest moments in the club's history resulted but just from the few local derbies with the big rival. In a total of only ten competitive matches over fifty years ago there were only four matches in cup matches and six in the 1st or 2nd Bundesliga. 1983 was subject to a playful and combative best team the SC Fortuna Köln in the DFB Cup final in Muengersdorf against a weak 1st FC Cologne 0-1, but the audience celebrated the unfortunate loser. In the season 1998/ 99, again offered the chance of a change in circumstances when the 1st FC Cologne relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga. In two local derbies this season, the Billy Goats were defeated clear in each case sold Mungerdorferstadion 4-2 and 3-0. In the final account of the changing of the guard did not succeed: The Fortuna was after the first round last matchday of the 1998/99 season still three places ahead of the big city rivals, but in the end four places behind him. The only game that the SC Fortuna Köln winning in this second round, was that against 1 FC Cologne. This rose in the 1999/2000 season back in the 1st Bundesliga and the Südstadt residents had to dismount again despite victory ( 4-1 ) against the Billy Goats from the 2nd Bundesliga.

Crash and impending insolvency (2000-2005)

After the descent showed more than ever that the club financially depended almost exclusively by its chairman and patron Jean Löring. In addition to that the Südstadt residents in the single Erstligasaison in 1973/74 financial unlucky: The Mungerdorferstadion was newly built and therefore the home matches of SC Fortuna Köln and the 1st FC Cologne had in the much smaller velodrome take place, which is on the revenue side both teams made ​​very clear.

For 26 years it was Jean Löring managed to keep the little club in the Bundesliga 2. However, in 2001 he was forced to declare bankruptcy. He fell ill soon afterwards difficult to cancer and died in March 2005. Without his patron went with the club steeply downhill.

2003 was the SC Fortuna Köln from the threat of bankruptcy. Fans launched a telethon and asked as inspiration the artist Cornel Wachter added. Its first action along with the graphic artist Marc Tölle was the appointment of patrons. This was the philosopher and soccer fan Walter Jens, and the Olympic champion Dieter Baumann, who was fit fallen on the situation of the club even during his athletic career and stood up. There was Wachters press photo of the naked league team, including coach Ralf Aussem and assistant coach Dieter Epstein, which went around the world and was able to awaken the generosity of semi Cologne.

Wachter had follow unusual actions to make the ailing club with its time the largest youth department of the DFB attention: The fundraising campaign for the women of the brothel Pascha with actor Ralf Richter, Fan Andreas Palanci and South City Pastor Hans Moertter or - with the support of driver Michael Schumacher and his father Rolf - the Fortuna - Kart Cup on Schumacher's indoor kart track in Kerpen for staff the helpful Cologne press.

The SC Fortuna Köln crashed into the fourth-rate league and had there set the play mode for financial reasons during the 2004/05 season, after the team had brought in the entire first round only three points on their account. The time being last appearance in the league, before the club withdrew from the league in January 2005, was a 0-5 defeat at the U23 team Alemannia Aachen.

In a fax to the West German Football and Athletics Association of the Management Board of Südstadt residents announced the immediate withdrawal of the first team from playing the Oberliga Nordrhein. The game operation of other teams such as the Youth Department, the second and third team, the women's team and the handball section was not affected. The initial insolvency plan was no majority in the meeting of creditors. Only a great fundraiser and a benefit match against 1.FC Cologne ( 10:0 for the Billy Goats before 6,350 spectators ) brought the first sufficient sum of € 35,000 together. The schedule of the SC Fortuna Köln, his youth department - which is one of the largest youth football departments throughout Germany with 500 players, 25 teams and 90 coaches and supervisors - under the leadership of then- chairman Egbert Bischoff was initially saved.

Consolidation (since 2005)

From the 2005/06 season the first team played in the regional league middle Rhine and had an average of 400 tickets sold with more viewers than many league club. The free fall in recent years could be stopped with a seventh place at end of season 2005/ 06. On October 16, 2006, elected the General Assembly Klaus Ulonska the new Chairman of the SC Fortuna Köln after Egbert Bischoff had a few weeks earlier resigned.

On the final day of the season 2007/ 08, the SC Fortuna Köln missed against VfL Leverkusen by a draw (1:1) just the championship in the fifth division the Middle Rhine. The Südstadt residents had a win against Leverkusen, the one point led the table in front of this " final," needed. This game was wearing due to the expected heavy traffic not in Leverkusen, but - on the advice of the police - in the neutral Sportpark -altitude mountain venue of FC Viktoria Köln, resulting in a remarkable game for this class crowd of 7000 spectators attend an. But then was denied the climb to the licensing process by the sports court of the West German Football and Athletics Association on 10 July 2008 VfL Leverkusen because of late-filed documents. The SC Fortuna Köln played Therefore, from the 2008/09 season in the newly formed fünftklassigen NRW-Liga. For the club it was the first rise in 35 years.

In May 2009 it was announced that the SC Fortuna Köln had debt to cover the cost of the first round in 2008/ 09. The first season in the new NRW-Liga ended the team after a streaky second half with a goal difference of 60:55 on the ninth place in the table. Kevin Kruth was with 21 hits second in the scoring charts. The season 2009/10 for which had been spent as a target number six, joined the team from a disappointing 15th place in the table, only goal difference separating them from relegation. In the 2010/11 season promotion to the Regionalliga West was athletic while just barely missed the third place in the table, but then reached happy by the retreat of the actual riser Germania Windeck on June 6, 2011. On 15 June 2011, the German Football Association of Fortuna Köln game mbH finally granted the license for the Regional League season 2011/12. The first season ended the team surprisingly in seventh place in the table - with a squad that was conceived because of the long prevailing uncertainty about the rise mostly for the NRW-Liga.

Caused a sensation in the SC Fortuna Köln, when he finished the first half of the 2012/13 season as a table first of the Regional League West and also in December 2012, the commitment of former professional footballers Matthias Scherz announced that already his active career in the summer of 2009 at the 1st FC Cologne actually had finished. The goal to ascend to the third league created in 2008, missed the Südstadt residents in the second half. The team finished the season with seven points behind the VfL ​​Sportfreunde Lotte on the second place.

Achievements

The SC Fortuna Köln played for 26 years in the 2nd Bundesliga. Highlights the club's history were the one season in the 1st Bundesliga (1973 /74) when you had to just go back because of the goal difference, and on the other the DFB Cup final in 1983 against 1 FC Köln, the Fortuna very unhappy lost with 0:1. Most important players of the Cup finalists were the striker Dieter Schneider treasure and Dieter Lemke, goalkeeper Bernd Helmschrot, the defender Florian Hinterberger and Jürgen Beier and the " midfield " Hannes Linssen. In the semifinals, they had the traditional club Borussia Dortmund defeated 5-0, in the quarterfinals, and in the second round already against the two first division club Borussia Mönchengladbach ( replay after a 2-2 aet ) and Eintracht Braunschweig each won 2-1.

On 29 May 2013, the crew of the SC Fortuna Köln Alemannia Aachen defeated in Bonn Sportpark Nord in the final of the Middle Rhine Cup 2-1 and qualified for the DFB - Cup 2013 / 14th As an opponent of the first round guest at Südstadion of FSV Mainz was 05 - and it was one of the biggest games in their history. The Fortuna, which went against the Bundesliga side in the lead, was defeated after an exciting game 1-2. The team was still widely celebrated by fans in Südstadion after the game.

Title

  • Middle Rhine Cup winners 2012/13

Placements

In the Eternal Table of the Football League the SC Fortuna Köln occupies the 47th place out of 52 teams. In the Eternal table the 2nd Bundesliga, the second Südstadt residents. As the only team besides the club Alemannia Aachen completed 26 seasons in the 2nd Bundesliga.

Stand eternal table: 1 League: 47th place ( of 51) - 1 game time 2 League: 2nd place (out of 119) - 26 seasons 3 League: 109th (of 153 ) - 2 seasons

Famous people

  • Jean Löring, longtime patron and president of the SC Fortuna Köln
  • Klaus Ulonska, former German track and field athlete, currently Chairman of the SC Fortuna Köln

Well-known former players and coaches

  • Charles Akonnor, player
  • Ralf Außem, players and coaches
  • Anthony Baffoe, player
  • Julio Baylon, player
  • Mikkel Beck, player
  • Tomasz Bobel, player
  • Thomas Brdarić, player
  • Hajrudin Catic, player
  • Hamadi Chiheb, player
  • Horst Franz Degen, Player
  • Wolfgang Fahrian, goalkeeper and player consultant
  • Uwe Fuchs, player
  • Hans -Jürgen Gede, player
  • Ivica Grlić player
  • Antoine Hey, player
  • Dirk Hupe, player
  • Jacek Jarecki, player
  • Hans Krankl, coaches
  • Rainer Krieg, player
  • Adam Ledwoń, player
  • John Linssen, players and coaches
  • Dirk Lottner player
  • Reinhard Majgl, player
  • Daniel Majstorovic, player
  • Adam Matysek player
  • Cedric Mimbala, player

Stadium

The SC Fortuna Köln plays its home games at the Cologne Südstadion in the district ruler.

From 1967 to 1978, the home games of the association in Mungerdorferstadion took place. The home matches of the common Bundesliga 1973/74 season had it out in neighboring Müngersdorfer velodrome 1st FC Cologne and SC Fortuna Köln.

Women's Soccer

The women's football department can record a steep rise since its founding in 2003. In the very first season on average 17 years old team was district champion with a goal difference of 192:7 gates. Right away she managed then the walkover in the fifth division. There, the team delivered a duel with the Regional relegated Red-White Merl. With a point behind it was only enough for runner-up. A year later, the rise in the Regional League West has been associated with a 16 points lead in the bag. There, but the team could not long hold and increased in 2009 /10, from the fifth division. In the season 2010/11, the threat of relegation from the fifth division was prevented. 2011/12 then managed to rise again in the Regionalliga West, the 2013 re descent followed in the Middle Rhine league.

The Fortunen have been able to win five times the circle Cup - most recently in 2011 the Middle Rhine Cup they won in 2007 and 2008 2008, the girls and women of SC Fortuna won the finals of the FVM - Cup of the C- juniors, the B- juniors and women.. . Since it is only the C- juniors managed to enroll in the winners' list ( 2009). In the season 2011/ 12, the Fortuna women came as a dressing -tier interior for a semi-final victory against the higher class VFL Kommern the final of the Middle Rhine Cup. There they were subject to the Mitkonkurrentinnen to the rise of SF Uevekoven with 1:2.

The B- juniors were up to the 2010/11 season in the Regionalliga West, the founding members they were in 2008/ 09. Before that, she won several championships and Association cup finals and were the hitherto most successful girls department of the Association of the Middle Rhine. Only when Bayer 04 Leverkusen and 1.FC Cologne active in this area, the success curve was flat mainly due to the disposal of many talents to the big clubs in the neighborhood.

Known players

  • Josipa Bokanović ( Croatian national team ), now Bayer 04 Leverkusen II
  • Sara Doorsoun - Khajeh (Bundesliga player and German junior national team ), now SGS Food
  • Laura Esser ( former Bundesliga player and German junior national team )
  • Arzu Karabulut ( Turkish national team ), now Bayer 04 Leverkusen II
  • Mandana button ( ehemaliga Bundesliga player ), today 1st FC Cologne
  • Isabelle Linden (Bundesliga player and German international ), now Bayer 04 Leverkusen

Youth football

The junior section of the club was for many years the largest youth program of Germany, which at times belonged to 27 teams. In the 2006/07 season played at the B- girl three internationals: Isabelle Linden, Sara Doorsoun - Khajec (both Germany U -17) and Arzu Karabulut (Turkey).

The male offspring was for many years represented respectively in the highest possible for him league. When, in youth football regional leagues (now the Junior League) were introduced, the teams were still playing after all, in the second highest class. To break it only came in the 2004/05 season, when the U19 from the Association League (now the Middle Rhine League ) descent; since the 2012/2013 season, she plays in the Bundesliga West. The U15 has been playing with for the championship in the district league and the U13 has repeatedly won the title of best in the football circle circle Cologne.

The second team

The second team is coached by former professional Günter Hutwelker and plays in the county league Cologne B2, Season 3

Deinfussballclub.de

From 3 April 2008, the club limited say admitted following the example of Ebbsfleet United, a football in his first men's team external people. The newly founded deinfussballclub.de DFC GmbH initially tried to acquire 30,000 members under the auspices of movie director Sönke Wortmann within a year. For an annual fee of 39.95 euros, these members had a say in transfers, degrees of friendly matches, jersey colors, merchandising and other internal association matters. Even with the team's formation, the opinion of the members should be heard, but the coach had the last word.

On 6 December 2008, the General Assembly of the SC Fortuna Köln, with few abstentions, before reaching the 30,000 members of deinfussballclub.de the beginning of 2009 to spin off the first football men's team from the main club and in the Fortuna Köln game mbH with the DFC GmbH decided contribute. The spin-off was completed on 1 February 2009. Until the end of October 2009, slightly more than 10,500 people had registered with deinfussballclub.de, in May 2011, some 7,300 paying members were according to the operators working on it. Consequently, flowed through the game operation company after deduction of administrative costs and VAT for DFC means more than 180,000 euros per year in the first team of SC Fortuna Köln.

The deinfussballclub.de project was canceled in January 2012. The shares took an investor, the DFC memberships were transferred with an unchanged contribution rate in a so-called " Premium Membership ". About the number of members are the operators have no more information.

Squad 2013/14 season

Goalkeeper

Defense

Midfield

Attack

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