SC Fortuna Cologne

SC Fortuna Cologne
society
Surname	Sport-Club Fortuna Köln e. V.
Seat	Cologne , North Rhine-Westphalia
founding	February 21, 1948
Colours	Red White
Members	1,200 (July 1, 2017)
president	Hanns-Jörg Westendorf
Website	Verein.fortuna-koeln.de
Football company
Surname	SC Fortuna Spielbetriebs-GmbH
executive Director	Benjamin Bruns
Website	fortuna-koeln.de
First team
Head coach	Alexander end
Venue	Cologne South Stadium
Places	11,748
league	Regionalliga West
2019/20	10th place
home Away Alternatively

Development of Fortuna Cologne by 2018

The Sport-Club Fortuna Köln e. V. is a football and handball club . The soccer club is the most successful in the Rhine metropolis after 1. FC Köln . After a single season in the Bundesliga 1973/74 , he was second division for 26 years . After five years in the 3rd division , Fortuna was relegated in the 2018/19 season and is currently playing in the Regionalliga West .

history

Foundation and promotion to the Bundesliga (1948–1974)

SC Fortuna Köln was founded on February 21, 1948 through the merger of the Bayenthaler SV , Sparkassen-Verein 1927 Köln and SV Victoria Köln clubs . All three clubs were n't too successful before World War II . Only SV Victoria 1911 made it to the round of 16 of the German championship in 1943 . In 1976, FC Alter Markt Köln was incorporated .

The establishment of SC Fortuna Köln eight days after that of 1. FC Köln was another attempt to create a successful overall Cologne team from several district teams. In the 1950s and 1960s, however, unlike 1. FC Köln, the club did not manage to play first-class. This changed from 1967 due to the financial commitment of the then President Jean Löring . In 1973 he was finally promoted to the 1st Bundesliga . At the end of the 1973/74 season , however, they were relegated to the newly established 2nd Bundesliga .

Ticket for the 1997/98 season

26 years 2. Bundesliga (1974-2000)

In the 2nd Bundesliga, SC Fortuna Köln should literally stay stuck in the following decades. Several times the promotion was awarded from a very promising position. In the early summer of 1986, the club almost achieved promotion to the 1st Bundesliga. In the relegation , however, Borussia Dortmund prevailed 8-0 in the play-off. The game had become necessary after the intended two games had ended from the perspective of Fortuna 2: 0 in Cologne and 1: 3 in Dortmund. There, SC Fortuna Köln only had to accept the 1: 3 in the last minute, which led to a tie. The rule known from European Cup matches, according to which the team that has scored more goals on the opposing field (" away goals rule ") wins, did not apply to relegation games at that time.

On the other hand, SC Fortuna Köln was able to keep the class from a partially hopeless situation. At the end of the season of German reunification in 1991/92, the club was relegated in terms of sport, but was able to move into relegation after the license withdrawal of Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin and clearly win it.

In all these years as a southern city club, SC Fortuna only met with a response from a few, but extremely loyal viewers beyond the city limits. The dominant position of 1. FC Köln in the city could never be seriously endangered. Some of the greatest moments in the club's history resulted from the few local derbies with the big rival. In a total of only ten competitive games in over fifty years, there were only four matches in cup games and six in the 1st or 2nd Bundesliga. In 1983, a better team from SC Fortuna Köln in terms of play and fighting skills lost 1-0 in the DFB Cup final in Müngersdorf against a weak 1. FC Köln, but the audience celebrated the unfortunate losers. In the 1998/99 season there was another chance of a change in circumstances when 1. FC Cologne was relegated to the 2. Bundesliga. In both local derbies this season, the billy goats were clearly defeated in the sold-out Müngersdorfer stadium 4: 2 and 3: 0. In the final accounts, however, the change of guard did not succeed: Although Fortuna was three places ahead of their big city rivals after the last day of the first half of the season, they finished the season four places behind him; the success against 1. FC Köln was the only victory in the entire second half of the season. This rose again in the 1999/2000 season in the 1st Bundesliga, and the Südstädter had to relegate despite another win (4: 1) against the billy goats from the 2nd Bundesliga.

Crash and impending bankruptcy (2000-2005)

After relegation it became more apparent than ever that the club was financially dependent almost exclusively on its chairman and patron Jean Löring . In addition, the Südstädter had financial bad luck in the only first division season 1973/74. The Müngersdorfer Stadion was newly built, which is why the home games of SC Fortuna Köln and 1. FC Köln took place in the much smaller cycling track, which significantly reduced the income of both clubs.

Oberliga team 2003 - all players and coaches advertised with the slogan "You don't reach into your pocket - you can give a naked man a helping hand" for donations and the waiver of claims from creditors

For 26 years, Jean Löring had managed to keep the small club in the 2nd Bundesliga. However, in 2001 he had to file for bankruptcy. He fell ill soon after and died in March 2005. Without him, the club went steeply downhill.

In 2003 SC Fortuna Köln faced the threat of bankruptcy. Fans started a donation marathon and asked the artist Cornel Wachter to provide the idea. His first action together with the graphic artist Marc Tölle was to appoint patrons. These were the philosopher and football fan Walter Jens as well as the Olympic champion Dieter Baumann , who, due to the situation of the club, fell down and got up again during his sporting career. This was followed by Wachter's press photo with the naked league team including coach Ralf Aussem and assistant coach Dieter Epstein, which went around the world and was able to arouse the willingness to donate from half of Cologne.

Wachter followed up with unusual actions to draw attention to the ailing club with the largest youth department at the time in the DFB: The collection campaign among prostitutes in the Pascha brothel with the actor Ralf Richter , the fan Andreas Palanci and the south town pastor Hans Mörtter or - with the support of the racing driver Michael Schumacher and his father Rolf - the Fortuna Kart Cup on Schumacher's indoor kart track in Kerpen for the staff of the helpful Cologne press.

The SC Fortuna Köln crashed into the fourth-class league and had to stop there in the course of the 2004/05 season for financial reasons, after the team had only brought three points in the entire first half of the season. The last appearance in the league for the time being, before the club withdrew from the game in January 2005, was a 5-0 defeat at the U23 team of Alemannia Aachen .

In a fax to the West German Football Association , the board of the Südstädter announced the immediate withdrawal of the first team from the Oberliga Nordrhein . The game operations of other teams such as the youth department, the second and third teams, the women's team and the handball department were not affected. The initial bankruptcy plan did not find a majority in the creditors' meeting. Only a large fundraising campaign and a charity game against 1. FC Köln (10-0 for the billy goats in front of 6350 spectators) brought together the initially sufficient sum of € 35,000. The game operations of SC Fortuna Köln including its youth department - which with 500 players, 25 teams and 90 coaches and supervisors is one of the largest youth football departments in Germany - was initially secured under the leadership of chairman Egbert Bischoff.

Felix Bably, NRW League 2008/09 (Photo: Sebastian Flügel)

Kevin Kruth, NRW League 2008/09 (Photo: Sebastian Flügel)

Consolidation (2005-2014)

Since the 2005/06 season, the first team played in the Mittelrhein Association League and, with an average of 400 tickets sold, had more spectators than many regional leagues . With seventh place at the end of the 2005/06 season, the free fall of recent years could be stopped. On October 16, 2006, the general assembly elected Klaus Ulonska as the new chairman of SC Fortuna Cologne after Egbert Bischoff had resigned from his position a few weeks earlier.

On the last matchday of the 2007/08 season, the SC narrowly missed the championship in the Mittelrhein Association League against VfL Leverkusen with a (1: 1) draw. The Südstädter would have needed a win against Leverkusen. Due to the expected large crowd, this game was not played in Leverkusen, but - on the advice of the police - in the neutral Sportpark Höhenberg , the venue of FC Viktoria Köln . The game took place in front of the remarkable crowd of 7000 spectators. Later on, VfL Leverkusen was refused promotion by the sports court of the West German Football and Athletics Association on July 10, 2008 due to late filing of documents relating to the licensing process. The SC Fortuna Köln therefore played from the 2008/09 season in the newly founded fifth-rate NRW league . It was the first ascent for the club in 35 years.

In May 2009 it became known that SC Fortuna Köln had gone into debt to cover the costs of the first half of the 2008/09 season. The first season in the new NRW League ended the team after a mixed second half with a goal difference of 60:55 in ninth place in the table. Kevin Kruth finished second in the top scorer list with 21 goals. The 2009/10 season, for which sixth place had been spent as a goal, finished the team on a disappointing 15th place in the table, only the goal difference separated them from a relegation rank. In the 2010/11 season , promotion to the Regionalliga West with third place in the table was narrowly missed, but was happily achieved through the withdrawal of the actual promoted Germania Windeck on June 6, 2011. On June 15, 2011, the German Football Association finally granted Fortuna Köln Spielbetriebsgesellschaft mbH its license for the 2011/12 regional league season. The team surprisingly ended the first season in seventh place in the table - with a squad that was largely designed for the NRW League due to the long lack of clarity about promotion.

SC Fortuna Köln caused a sensation when it finished the first half of the 2012/13 season as first in the Regional League West and then in December 2012 when the former professional footballer Matthias Scherz , who actually ended his active career at 1. FC Köln in the summer of 2009, was signed had announced. However , the Südstädter gambled away the chances of promotion to the 3rd division created in 2008 in the second half of the season. The team ended the season seven points behind Lotte in second place in the table. In the 2013/14 season they qualified as champions of the Regionalliga West for the promotion games to the 3rd division. Fortuna Köln prevailed there with a 1-0 home win and a 1-2 away defeat due to the away goals rule against the second team of FC Bayern Munich . The decisive goal for 1: 2 fell in stoppage time.

The coat of arms of SC Fortuna Köln until 2019.

Return to professional football and relegation again (since 2014)

From the 2014/15 season, Fortuna Köln played again in the professional area - in the third division . The league succeeded on the 36th matchday despite a significant defeat at Holstein Kiel. In a fairly balanced league, the risk of relegation in 2015/16 for Fortuna was banned a little earlier; in the end she finished 11th this time. The following year she was able to stay on the penultimate matchday. In both 2016 and 2017, the team just missed making it into the DFB Cup due to defeats in the final of the Middle Rhine Cup.

The 2017/18 season was the Fortuna’s most successful in the third division to date. Throughout the first half of the season she was never placed below fourth place. However, after a series of eight games without a win at the end of the season, promotion was clearly missed. After the 13th matchday of the following season , head coach Uwe Koschinat left the club after seven years and moved to SV Sandhausen . His successor Tomasz Kaczmarek introduced himself with two major defeats (0: 7 and 0: 6). With the defeat against 1860 Munich on the penultimate match day, relegation to the regional league was sealed. After Oliver Zapel took over as coach for the last four match days , Thomas Stratos was signed for the 2019/20 season .

successes

SC Fortuna Köln played in the 2nd Bundesliga for 26 years . The highlights of the club's history were on the one hand the season in the 1st Bundesliga ( 1973/74 ), when they only had to be relegated because of the worse goal difference, and on the other hand the DFB Cup final in 1983 on June 11, 1983 against 1. FC Köln , that Fortuna lost 0-1. The most important players of the cup finalists were the strikers Dieter Schatzschneider and Dieter Lemke , goalkeeper Bernd Helmschrot , the defenders Florian Hinterberger and Jürgen Baier and the "midfield motor " Hannes Linßen . In the semifinals they had defeated Borussia Dortmund 5-0, in the quarterfinals and in the round of 16 they had already won against the two first division clubs Borussia Mönchengladbach (replay after a 2-2 draw) and Eintracht Braunschweig 2-1 each.

On May 29, 2013, the SC Fortuna Köln team defeated Alemannia Aachen 2-1 in the finals for the Middle Rhine Cup in Bonn's Sportpark Nord and qualified for the 2013/14 DFB Cup . In the first main round, FSV Mainz 05 visited the Südstadion, the Mainz team won 2-1.

On June 1, 2014, Fortuna Cologne returned to professional football (3rd division) after a dramatic second leg at Bayern Munich II. After winning the first leg in Cologne's Südstadion 1-0 on May 28, they were 0-1 behind in the second leg at Grünwalder Strasse at the break and received a yellow-red card in the final quarter of an hour. Shortly before the end of the season, Bayern made it 2-0. Fortuna, however, scored 1: 2 in the very last minute of stoppage time and rose due to the away goals rule .

title

• Middle Rhine Cup winner 2012/13
• Champion of the Regionalliga West 2013/14

Placements

In the Eternal Table of the Bundesliga, SC Fortuna Köln is 51st out of 56 teams. In the Eternal Table of the 2nd Bundesliga , the Südstadt team are fourth. In 26 seasons, the team reached 1,376 points and is only behind Greuther Fürth , Alemannia Aachen and FC St. Pauli . Fortuna is in 24th place in the all-time table of the 3rd division and 57th in the all-time table of the regional soccer league .

Status in the respective Eternal Table:

• Bundesliga:
  51st place (out of 56) - 1 season
• 2nd Bundesliga:
  4th place (out of 127) - 26 seasons
• 3rd league:
  24th place (out of 60) - 5 seasons
• Regionalliga:
  Place 57 (out of 390) - 12 seasons

The following season data have been taken from the club records at the German Sports Club for Football Statistics .

Legend: ↓ descended ↑ ascended 

Personalities

• Jean Löring , German entrepreneur and long-time patron and president of SC Fortuna Köln (1966–2001)
• Klaus Ulonska , German athlete and president of SC Fortuna Köln (from 2006 until his death in 2015)

The first men's team

For the squad from previous seasons, see SC Fortuna Köln / names and numbers .

Squad of the 2020/21 season

(As of August 20, 2020)

No.	Nat.	player	in the team since	Last club
goalkeeper
01		Kevin Rauhut	2019	Energy Cottbus
12		Martin Velickov	2019	FC Pesch
33		Robin Schoch	2020	MSV Duisburg U19
Defense
02		Noe Baba	2019	Lupo Martini Wolfsburg
06th		Franko Uzelac	2019	SV Babelsberg 03
17th		Dan-Patrick Poggenberg	2020	SG Sonnenhof Großaspach
27		Nico Ochojski	2017	Alemannia Aachen U19
28		Lars Bender	2019	Energy Cottbus
29		Jean Marie Nadjombe	2014	own U19
30th		Jannik Löhden	2020	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen
midfield
08th		Dennis Brock	2019	Bonner SC
10		Hamza Salman	2019	Bonner SC
13		Nicolas Westerhoff	2017	own U19
15th		Kai Försterling Bèltran	2019	own II. team
19th		Batuhan Ozden	2020	1. FC Köln U19
21st		Suheyel Najar	2020	FC Viktoria Cologne
23		Kelvin Lunga	2019	SV Rödinghausen
25th		Timo Hölscher	2020	FC Viktoria Cologne
31		Nico Brandenburger	2020	Prussia Munster
39		Maik cone	2016	Holstein Kiel
Storm
09		Roman Prokoph	2019	1. FC Cologne II
11		Francis Ubabuike	2020	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen
14th		Mike Owusu	2019	SG Sonnenhof Großaspach
20th		Julian Günther-Schmidt	2020	FC Carl Zeiss Jena

Squad changes in the 2020/21 season

(As of August 10, 2020)

Accesses	Departures
Summer 2020
Nico Brandenburger ( Prussia Munster ) Julian Günther-Schmidt ( FC Carl Zeiss Jena ) Jannik Löhden ( Rot-Weiß Oberhausen ) Batuhan Özden ( 1. FC Köln U19 ) Dan-Patrick Poggenberg ( SG Sonnenhof Großaspach ) Robin Schoch ( MSV Duisburg U19 ) Francis Ubabuike ( Rot-Weiß Oberhausen )	Farid Abderrahmane ( 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig ) Serhat-Semih Guler ( ZFC Meuselwitz ) Jannes Hoffmann (unknown) Felix-Benedict Neuhäuser ( 1. FC Kaan-Marienborn ) Nedim Pepic (unknown) Lionel Salla ( Red-White Koblenz ) Paul Schünemann (own reserve) Georgios Touloupis ( Bonner SC ) Firat Tuncer (unknown) Kevin Weidlich (unknown)

Trainer and function team

(As of July 18, 2020)

Surname	function	in the team since
Coaching staff
Alexander end	Head coach	2020
Zlatko Muhović	Assistant coach	2019
Gianluca Kohn	Goalkeeping coach	2020
Nils Vogt	Athletic trainer	2020
Medical department
Jens Enneper nb1	Team doctor	2020
Ulrich Müller-Lung nb2	Radiologist	2019
Fabian Kobus	Physiotherapist	2019
Sporting organization
Sascha Dreist	Team manager	2018
Matthias Schäfer	supervisor	2002
Corporate Design
Fred ( Little Panda )	mascot	2015

^nb1part-time. Dr. Enneper works in his Müngersdorf practice as a specialist in orthopedics, trauma surgery, chiropractic and sports medicine. From 1997 to 2007 he was the club doctor of the ASV Köln and from 2014 to 2017 the team doctor of the Cologne Falcons .

^nb2part-time. Dr. Müller-Lung works in his Lindenthal practice as a specialist in radiological diagnostics.

Well-known former players and coaches

Charles Akonnor , player Ralf Außenem , player and coach Ercan Aydoğmuş , player Anthony Baffoe , player Jürgen Baier , player Julio Baylón , player Mikkel Beck, player Julius Biada , player Tomasz Bobel , player Peter Boers , player Andreas Brandts , player Thomas Brdarić , player Noel Campbell , player Hajrudin Catic , player Horst-Franz Degen , player Alexander Ende, player Wolfgang Fahrian , goalkeeper and player advisor Uwe Fuchs , player Hans-Jürgen Gede , player Stephan Glaser , player Ivica Grlić , player Ernst-Günter Habig , player Uwe Helmes , player Bernd Helmschrot , player Antoine Hey , player Dirk Hupe , player

Günter Hutwelker, player Jacek Jarecki, player Thiemo-Jérôme Kialka , player Uwe Koschinat , trainer Hans Krankl , trainer Thomas Kraus , player Rainer Krieg , player Adam Ledwoń , player Hannes Linßen , player and coach Dirk Lottner , player Martin Luppen , trainer Reinhard Majgl , player Daniel Majstorović , player Adam Matysek , player Matthias Mink , player and coach Karl-Heinz Mödrath , player Andreas Moog, player Hans-Günter news , player Jürgen Niggemann , player Lukas Nottbeck , player Mehdi Pashazadeh , player Viktor Passulko , player Dieter Paucken , player Roy Präger , player Johannes Rahn , player

Gerd Roggensack , trainer Wolfgang Rolff , player Hans Sarpei , player Dieter Schatzschneider , player Matthias Scherz , player Edgar Schmitt , player Hansjörg Schneider , player Heiko Scholz , player Rainer Schütterle , player Günther Schuhmacher, player Markus Schuler , player Toni Schumacher , trainer Bernd Schuster , trainer Peter Seufert , player Matthias Stammann , player Albert Streit , player Karl-Heinz Struth , player Peter Vollmann , trainer Achim Weber , player Tim Wiese , player Tony Woodcock , player Macchambes Younga-Mouhani , player Gerd Zimmermann , player

deinfussballclub.de (2008–2012)

Since April 3, 2008, following the example of Ebbsfleet United , the club has been giving external people a limited say in its first men's football team. The newly founded deinfussballclub.de DFC GmbH initially tried to acquire 30,000 members within one year under the patronage of film director Sönke Wortmann . For an annual fee of 39.95 euros, these members had a say in transfers, the conclusion of friendly matches, jersey colors, merchandising and other internal issues. The opinion of the members should also be heard in the team line-up, but the coach retained the last word.

On December 6, 2008, the general meeting of SC Fortuna Köln decided, with a few abstentions, before the 30,000 members of deinfussballclub.de had reached the beginning of 2009, to spin off the first men's soccer team from the main club and to become Fortuna Köln Spielbetriebsgesellschaft mbH with DFC GmbH bring in. The spin-off was completed on February 1, 2009. By the end of October 2009 a little more than 10,500 people had registered with deinfussballclub.de; in May 2011, according to the operator, there were still around 7,300 paying members. As a result, after deducting administrative costs and VAT from DFC funds, more than 180,000 euros per year flowed into the first team of SC Fortuna Köln via the game operating company.

The deinfussballclub.de project was discontinued in January 2012. The shares were taken over by an investor, the DFC memberships were converted into a so-called “premium membership” with the same contribution rate. The operator no longer provides any information about the number of members.

The second men's team

Fortuna Köln II, the U23 team, will play in the fifth-class Mittelrheinliga for the first time in the 2019/20 season under coach Marco Zillken , only one division lower than the first team. For the players, advancement into the first team squad is now more likely. Kai Försterling Bèltran, Michael Gorbunow and Serhat-Semih Güler succeeded in doing this for the 2019/20 season. In the previous season, they were promoted to the Middle Rhine League with their team as second in the national league season 1, in their third year of membership in the league.

Trainer and function team

(As of July 3, 2020)

Surname	function	in the team since
Coaching staff
Marco Zillken	Head coach	2019
Gianni Pavone	Assistant coach	2020
Zihni Yildirim	Goalkeeping coach	2017
Sporting organization
Stefan Kleefisch	Team manager	2007
Dennis Kock	supervisor	2019

Women's soccer

In the 2019/20 season, the first women's team under coach Marc Gertzen will take part in the fourth-class Middle Rhine League.

history

Since it was founded in 2003, the women's football division has grown rapidly. In the very first season, the 17-year-old team became district champions with a goal difference of 192: 7. Right off the bat, it then made it through to the association league. There it fought a duel with the regional league relegated Rot-Weiß Merl, with one point behind it was only enough for the runner-up. A year later the promotion to the Regionalliga West was brought under wraps with a 16 point lead. The team could not last long there, however, in 2009/10 it was relegated to the association league again. In the 2010/11 season there was even a threat of relegation from the association league. In 2011/12 he was promoted to the Regionalliga West, followed by relegation to the Middle Rhine League in 2013. In the 2013/14 season, the almost unchanged team made it back to the top undefeated. The 2014/15 season ended with the regional league women as the best promoted women in 5th place in the table. In the following seasons, the team was able to keep itself in the league and belonged to the top group of the league in the 2016/17 season. In 2019, the Cologne women had to relegate.

successes

In 2008, the juniors of SC Fortuna won the FVM Cup finals for C-Juniors, B-Juniors and women. In 2011/12, the women reached the final of the Middle Rhine Cup as a league club after a semi-final victory over the higher-class VfL Kommern . There they were defeated by their fellow competitors for the promotion of Sportfreunde Uevekoven just 1: 2. In the 2012/13 season they were then able to win the cup against this club. After they were eliminated in the semi-finals against Alemannia Aachen in 2013/14, Fortuna won the cup for the fourth time in 2014/15. In the 2016/17 season there was a final against the local rivals from Vorwärts Spoho Cologne . The first game was canceled in extra time when the score was 1: 1 due to a thunderstorm. The replay went to Vorwärts Spoho Cologne, with which Fortuna missed a renewed participation in the DFB Cup.

The Middle Rhine Cup was won for the fifth time in the 2018/19 season. Although the Fortuna players were third from last in the Regionalliga West and had to relegate to the Middle Rhine League after this season, they advanced to the final of the Middle Rhine Cup, where they defeated SV Grün-Weiss Brauweiler 2-0. As the winners of this state cup competition, the Fortuna players qualified for the first round of the women's DFB Cup . On August 4, 2019, they played at the stadium Merianstraße in Cologne-Chorweiler against the straight from the 2. Bundesliga relegated FSV Hessen Wetzlar . Despite a late goal from Catia Alves Peireira, the game was lost 4-1.

The B-Juniors belonged to the Regionalliga West until the 2010/11 season, of which they were a founding member in 2008. Before that, they won several association championships and cup finals and until then - together with the C-Juniors team - they were the most successful department for young women in the Mittelrhein Association. It was not until Bayer 04 Leverkusen and 1. FC Köln stepped up their involvement in women's football in the run-up to the 2011 Women's World Cup in Germany that the successes became less frequent. Numerous talents switched to the big clubs in the neighborhood. Players like Jule Brockerhoff, Michelle Fischer and Fiona McCormick, who were among the top performers of the regional league team at the time, were retained. They came from the Fortuna youth department and, starting with the D-Juniors, played in all of the Fortuna female junior teams.

title

• Middle Rhine Cup winner & qualification for the DFB Cup
  • 2007 : 2-1 against FC Sankt Augustin
  • 2008 : 1-0 against VfL Kommern
  • 2013 : 2: 1 n.V. against Sportfreunde Uevekoven
  • 2015 : 1-0 against Pulheimer SC
  • 2019 : 2-0 against SV Grün-Weiss Brauweiler
• District cup winners: six times until 2012, 2014

Well-known players

• Josipa Bokanović (Croatian national player), today Bayer 04 Leverkusen II
• Sara Doorsoun (Bundesliga player and German national player), today VfL Wolfsburg
• Laura Eßer (former Bundesliga player and German junior national player), most recently Fortuna Cologne
• Arzu Karabulut (Turkish national player), today Konak Belediyespor
• Mandana Knopf (former Bundesliga player), most recently 1. FC Köln
• Isabelle Linden (Bundesliga player and German national player), today 1. FC Cologne

Youth football

The club's youth department has long been considered the largest of its kind in Germany, with 27 teams at one time. In the 2006/07 season three of their B-Juniors also played in the national team: Sara Doorsoun and Isabelle Linden (both Germany U-17 ) and Arzu Karabulut (Turkey U-17).

In the 2017/18 season, the male U19 team took part in the first-class A-Juniors Bundesliga in the West relay. For years, the male offspring were represented in the highest possible division for them. When the regional leagues (now the junior Bundesliga ) were introduced in youth football , the teams still played in the second-highest class. The temporary break occurred in the 2004/05 season, when the U19s were relegated from the Association League (now the Middle Rhine League).

In the female junior division, the U17 team plays in the B-Juniorinnen-Mittelrheinliga in the 2017/18 season. The U15 team plays in the C-Juniors District League Season 4.

Sponsors and suppliers

Main sponsors (jersey)

Duration	sponsor
1976-1979	Phantasialand (amusement park)
1980-1982	BAV
June 11, 1983	Vademecum (mouthwash)
1985-1986	HIT (trade)
1986-1992	Natreen (sweetener)
1992-1996	Porta (furniture)
1996-1998	Besaplast (plastics)
1998-2001	Toyota (automobiles)
2002-2003	Scott
2003-2005	Final Kick (sportswear)
2005-2008	Vredestein (tires)
2008–0000	HIT (trade)

Supplier for match and training clothing

Duration	Companies
1974-1991	Adidas
1991-1995	Patrick
1995-1996	Adidas
1996-1999	Diadora
1999-2000	Jako
2000-2007	?
2007-2018	Jako
2018-2019	Erreà
2019–0000	Capelli

Stadion

Main entrance to the south stadium

SC Fortuna Köln plays its home games in Cologne's Südstadion in the Zollstock district .

From 1967 to 1978 the club's home games took place in the Müngersdorfer Stadium . The home games of the joint Bundesliga season 1973/74 had to be played by 1. FC Köln and SC Fortuna Köln in the neighboring Müngersdorfer Radrennbahn .

Handball

The handball department was born in 1933, when the handball players of the dissolved workers' sports clubs joined SV Victoria Cologne , which was merged into the newly founded SC Fortuna Cologne in 1948.

Men

In the 2020/21 season, the men's handball team under coach Stephan Schulze will take part in the fifth-rate Oberliga Mittelrhein. The pre-season ended with an 8th place in the table.

Women

In the 2020/21 season, the women's handball team will take part in the fourth-class North Rhine Regional League under coach Dario Mussachio .

literature

• Axel Pollheim: Luck like me and you - 50 years of Fortuna Cologne . With prefaces by Jean Löring , Egidius Braun and Johannes Rau . 2nd ext. Edition. KSV, Pulheim 1997, ISBN 3-00-002350-X .
• Katrin Arnoldy: 111 reasons to love Fortuna Cologne - a declaration of love to the greatest football club in the world . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-942665-55-1 .
• Heribert Rösgen u. Matthias Langer: SC Fortuna Köln - Football Primer (=  Library of German Football . No. 19 ). Culturcon, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-944068-72-5 . (Novel)

Web links

Commons : SC Fortuna Köln  - Collection of images

• Official website of the men's soccer department
• Official website of the women's soccer department
• Official website of the youth center
• Official website of the handball department

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Currently valid statutes of the entire association as of 2016
2. ↑ kicker.de: Club data - SC Fortuna Cologne
3. ↑ South Stadium
4. ↑ Jürgen Wegmann (Protocol: Imke Ankersen): Jubilation of the century. Relegation 1986, 2nd game: Dortmund - Fortuna Köln 3-1. In: 11freunde.de . May 19, 2016, accessed July 6, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Traditional club before bankruptcy. In: faz.net . January 16, 2003, accessed August 8, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Ten naked men for Fortuna. In: ksta.de . February 4, 2003, accessed August 8, 2019 . 
7. ↑ When chatting with Klaus Ulonska, no questions remained unanswered! May 11, 2009, accessed on May 8, 2016 (deinfussballclub.de chat with 1st chairman Klaus Ulonska). 
8. ^ NRW-Liga (until 11/12) list of goalscorers 2008/09. In: transfermarkt.de . Retrieved May 9, 2016 . 
9. ↑ Windeck withdraws, Fortuna Cologne rises. In: kicker.de . June 7, 2011, accessed May 8, 2016 . 
10. ↑ Fortuna is back in the Regionalliga after 3368 days. In: fortuna-koeln.de. June 15, 2011, accessed July 6, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Philip Sagioglou: You are here again. Cup participant Fortuna Köln is hoping for a sporting renaissance. In: 11 friends . August 1, 2013, accessed May 8, 2016 . 
12. ↑ Achim Pfeiffer: Club chronicle of SC Fortuna Köln, status: WDFV decision on the 2019/20 season end of June 20, 2020 with table based on quotient calculation . ( dsfs.de [PDF; 118 kB ; accessed on August 19, 2020]).
13. ^ Team squad , fortuna-koeln.de
14. ↑ Orthopedics and Sports - Practice Dr. med. Jens Enneper. In: orthopaedieundsport.de. Retrieved January 18, 2020 . 
15. ↑ Our practice - About Dr. med. Ulrich Müller-Lung. In: koelnradiologie.de. Retrieved January 18, 2020 . 
16. ↑ Florian Zerfass: The end of football democracy. In: The time . September 29, 2011. Retrieved July 29, 2017 . 
17. ↑ 2nd men's team - U23 team. In: fortuna-koeln.de. Retrieved June 26, 2019 . 
18. ↑ Stefan Kleefisch: Marco Zillken is the new coach of the U23. In: fortuna-koeln.de. June 26, 2019, accessed June 27, 2019 . 
19. ↑ Klaus Flötgen: Fortuna II makes early promotion clear. In: fupa.net . June 3, 2019, accessed June 26, 2019 . 
20. ^ SC Fortuna Köln II - men, 2nd team. In: fupa.net . Retrieved August 6, 2019 . 
21. ↑ Women - 1st team. In: fortuna-koeln.de. Retrieved March 4, 2019 . 
22. ^ Coach of the women's team Marc Gertzen. In: fupa.net. Retrieved August 1, 2019 . 
23. ↑ Women - game plan of the Middle Rhine League. In: fupa.net. Retrieved August 1, 2019 . 
24. ↑ Women - Regionalliga West 2018/19 - Final table. In: fussball.de. Retrieved June 28, 2019 . 
25. ↑ Fortuna Cologne wins the Middle Rhine Cup for women. In: fupa.net. Retrieved June 28, 2019 . 
26. ↑ Achim Stuhr: SC Fortuna Köln in the DFB Women's Cup. In: fortuna-koeln.de. July 31, 2019, accessed August 1, 2019 . 
27. ↑ Catia Alves Pereira. In: fortuna-koeln.de. Retrieved August 8, 2019 . 
28. ↑ DFB Women's Cup: SC Fortuna Köln against FSV Hessen Wetzlar. In: fvm.de . August 4, 2019, accessed August 8, 2019 . 
29. ^ Women - district cup final from September 21, 2011. In: fussball.de. Retrieved June 28, 2019 . 
30. ↑ Women - District Cup final from October 3, 2013. In: fussball.de. Retrieved June 28, 2019 . 
31. ↑ Male offspring - U19 team. In: fortuna-koeln.de. Retrieved July 7, 2017 . 
32. ↑ A-Junioren-Bundesliga - Season schedule of the West season. In: DFB . Retrieved July 7, 2017 . 
33. ↑ Female offspring - U17 team. In: fortuna-koeln.de. Retrieved July 16, 2017 . 
34. ↑ Female offspring - U15 team. In: fortuna-koeln.de. Retrieved July 16, 2017 . 
35. ↑ Football Association Middle Rhine (ed.): Graduating junior women . July 14, 2017 ( A to C juniors season 2017/18 [PDF; 60 kB ; accessed on July 16, 2017]).
36. ↑ Phantasialand - kicker team photo from the 1976/77 season. In: kicker.de . Retrieved July 22, 2019 . 
37. ^ BAV - kicker team photo from the 1980/81 season. In: kicker.de. Retrieved July 22, 2019 . 
38. ^ Vademecum - 11 friends team photo from the cup final 1983. In: 11freunde.de . Retrieved August 9, 2019 . 
39. ↑ HIT - kicker team photo of the 1985/86 season. In: kicker.de. Retrieved July 22, 2019 . 
40. ↑ Natreen - kicker team photo from the 1986/87 season. In: kicker.de. Retrieved July 22, 2019 . 
41. ^ Porta - kicker team photo of the 1992/93 season. In: kicker.de. Retrieved July 22, 2019 . 
42. ^ Besaplast - kicker team photo of the 1996/97 season. In: kicker.de. Retrieved July 22, 2019 . 
43. ↑ Toyota gives Fortuna Cologne a helping hand. In: horizont.net . August 3, 1998. Retrieved July 14, 2019 . 
44. ↑ Toyota - kicker team photo of the 1998/99 season. In: kicker.de. Retrieved August 1, 2019 . 
45. ↑ Final Kick - Photo of a game scene on October 24, 2004. In: imago-images.de . Retrieved August 12, 2019 . 
46. ↑ Fortuna Cologne: Vredestein no longer on the jerseys, but a sponsor. In: reifenpresse.de. August 11, 2008, accessed August 12, 2019 . 
47. ^ Vredestein - Photo of a game break on May 20, 2007. In: flickr.com. Retrieved August 12, 2019 . 
48. ↑ HIT stays on Fortuna Köln's chest. In: fortuna-koeln.de. June 25, 2009. Retrieved July 13, 2019 . 
49. ↑ HIT - kicker team photo of the 2016/17 season. In: kicker.de. Retrieved August 1, 2019 . 
50. ↑ Stefan Kurth: erhà replaces Jako as the supplier. In: fortuna-koeln.de. April 16, 2018, accessed July 13, 2019 . 
51. ↑ Annika Onkelbach: Capelli Sport new Fortuna supplier. In: fortuna-koeln.de. June 13, 2019, accessed July 13, 2019 . 
52. ↑ Cf. Axel Pollheim: Lück wie ich un du - 50 years Fortuna Cologne. 2nd Edition. 1997, p. 413.
53. ↑ Handball - 1st men's team. In: fortuna-koeln.de. Retrieved August 22, 2020 . 
54. ↑ Table and schedule for the 2020/2021 season - Oberliga Mittelrhein Men. In: liga.nu. Retrieved August 22, 2020 . 
55. ↑ Final table of the 2019/2020 season - Oberliga Mittelrhein men. In: sis-handball.de. Retrieved August 22, 2020 . 
56. ↑ Handball - women's team. In: fortuna-koeln.de. Retrieved August 22, 2020 . 
57. ↑ Match dates in the 2020/2021 season - Regionalliga Nordrhein Frauen. In: liga.nu. Retrieved August 22, 2020 .