FV Fortuna Magdeburg

Full name

Magdeburg football club Fortuna 1911 eV

place

Magdeburg

Founded

1911

Dissolved

1945

Club colors

Blue White

Stadion

Top league

Gauliga Middle Elbe , Gauliga Middle

successes

6 × Gaumeister Middle Elbe

home

Away

FV Fortuna Magdeburg , officially Magdeburg football club Fortuna 1911 or MTV Fortuna for short , is a former sports club from Magdeburg . It was founded in 1911 and dissolved in 1945 after the Second World War .

history

On August 1, 1911, the club was founded under the name Magdeburg Football Association Fortuna 1911 . The club had several departments, including football, athletics, handball and volleyball.

The club's football department became known nationwide. In the 1923/24 season she secured the championship in the Gauliga Mittelelbe for the first time and thus qualified for the Central German football championship . After beating SV Cöthen 02 and FC Viktoria Stendal 2-1 after extra time, they qualified for the semi-finals with a 4-3 win against Chemnitzer BC . There they were defeated by the later Central German champions SpVgg 1899 Leipzig-Lindenau with 2: 5.

In the 1925/26 season they won again the Gauliga Mittelelbe and qualified for the Central German football championship. There they were eliminated by a 2-4 defeat against FC Viktoria Zerbst . Again the FV Fortuna Magdeburg celebrated the championship in the Gauliga Mittelelbe in the 1929/30 season. In the Central German football championship he reached the quarter-finals after high victories against VfB 07 Klötze and Riesaer SV . There they were eliminated by a 6-0 defeat against the later Central German champions Dresdner SC .

In the following season, FV Fortuna defended the championship in the Gauliga Mittelelbe and again reached the quarter-finals in the Central German soccer championship by winning against Stendaler BC and PSV Chemnitz . There he was eliminated by a 1: 5 defeat against FC Preußen Langensalza . For the third time in a row, the Magdeburg team secured the championship title in the Gauliga Mittelelbe in the 1931/32 season and were eliminated from the competition in the first round of the Central German football championship with a 2: 4 defeat against FC Germania Halberstadt . For the sixth and last time the Magdeburg team secured the championship title of the Gauliga Middle Elbe in the 1932/33 season and qualified for the new Gauliga Mitte together with Prussia Magdeburg and Magdeburg FC Viktoria 1896 . In the Central German Football Championship 1932/33 , the team qualified by winning against FC Germania Halberstadt and FC Wacker Halle for the semifinals, in which they were eliminated by a 6-0 defeat against Dresdner SC .

In the new league, the FV could not establish itself and rose together with Prussia Magdeburg in the 1933/34 season from the Gauliga middle. In the 1937/38 season, the team qualified for the promotion round to Gauliga Mitte and rose together with SV 08 Steinach . After one season, the team rose again from bottom of the table. Between 1939 and 1942, the team qualified for the promotion round, but always missed promotion to the top division. After the Second World War , the FV Fortuna Magdeburg, like all clubs in the Soviet occupation zone , was dissolved.

successes

Championships Gauliga Middle Elbe : 1923/24, 1925/26, 1929/30, 1930/31, 1931/32, 1932/33 (6)
Qualification for the Gauliga middle : 1932/33
Promotion to the Gauliga Mitte : 1937/38

Succession

BSG turbine Magdeburg

After all associations were dissolved at the behest of the Soviet occupying forces, the BSG Turbine Magdeburg was founded on November 14, 1950 with the participation of former Fortuna association members. Since the Schöppensteg sports field was also assigned to the BSG, it is regarded as the successor to the FV. The sports of the pre-war period continued, later the sections swimming / water polo, cycling, table tennis, chess, billiards and weight training were added. At times the BSG had over 1000 members. The most successful division were again the footballers, who played in the Second GDR League in 1961/62 and in the second-rate GDR League between 1962 and 1965 .

SV Fortuna Magdeburg

The economic reorganization after the fall of 1989 brought on the one hand the loss of the financial basis of the company sports associations, but opened up the establishment of self-financing clubs. On this basis, the BSG turbine was transferred to the Fortuna sports club on June 15, 1990. With financial help from the city, the Schöppensteg stadium was renovated by 2005 and, in addition to the grass pitch, also received an artificial turf pitch. In addition to the departments of badminton, boxing, gymnastics and volleyball, the footballers continued to dominate, whose men's team made it into the fourth-class NOFV league between 1996 and 2000 . The women's soccer team was also successful, and until 1997, when it founded its own club as the Magdeburg FFC , was represented in the midfield of the third-class Regionalliga Nordost. Financial difficulties in the club forced those responsible to let the first men's soccer team play only in the seventh-class state class of Saxony-Anhalt from the 2000/01 season. In the 2006/07 season he was promoted to the national league. In 2008 the Magdeburg City Cup was won. In contrast, the 2008/09 season ended with relegation to the national class. A year later, he returned to the regional league and won the city cup again. In the 2010/11 season, the march through to the Association League Saxony-Anhalt , from which the club was relegated in 2013. In 2016 she returned to the association league.

The women's handball department of SV Fortuna merged in 2000 with that of SC Magdeburg to form HSC 2000 Magdeburg .