SC Fortuna Köln

Fortuna Köln

Full name

Sport Club Fortuna Köln e.V.

Founded

1948

Ground

Südstadion

Capacity

11,748

Chairman

Hanns-Jörg Westendorf

Manager

Uwe Koschinat

League

3. Liga

2015–16

11th

Home colours

Away colours

SC Fortuna Köln is a German association football club playing in the city of Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia.

History

Logo of predecessor side Victoria Köln 1911

The club was formed as on 21 February 1948 through the merger of three local sides: Victoria Köln 1911 (one of two clubs to bear the name), Bayenthaler SV 1920, and Sparkassen-Verein Köln 1927. Of these clubs, Victoria had the best results, winning its way to the first division of the Gauliga Köln-Aachen in 1941 and capturing the division title there the following season. Bayenthaler SV 1920 side also spent a season in the Gauliga in 1943–44 before the division collapsed as war overtook the region. In 1976, SC Fortuna Köln was joined by FC Alter Markt Köln.

Through most of the last four decades Fortuna has played as a second division side. Highlights of the club's history include promotion to the Bundesliga for the 1974 season and an impressive run through the 1983 German Cup. The team took out SC Freiburg in the first round and eked out a win on penalties over SSV Ulm 1846 in their next match. They then eliminated three first division sides in a row: first Eintracht Braunschweig and Borussia Mönchengladbach, before crushing Borussia Dortmund 5:0 in their semi-final match. This put them into the final against hometown rivals 1. FC Köln, the first time the Cup final had come down to a local derby. Although they outplayed their opposition, Fortuna's magic had run out and they lost 0:1 on a late goal from goal scorer Pierre Littbarski.

In 1986, the side came close to a return to the Bundesliga, but was beaten by Borussia Dortmund in the promotion round. Each team had won their home match in a two-game series, which forced a third contest under the rules in effect at the time. Instead of advancing on the strength of away goals, Fortuna was crushed 0:8 by Borussia Dortmund. A handful of seasons later the club avoided relegation to third tier football at the end of the 1991–92 schedule only when division rivals Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin were denied a licence.

One of the key features of Fortuna's history was the presidency of deep-pocketed Jean Löring. Beginning in 1967, the millionaire's support of the club helped them to continue to field competitive sides for much longer than they might otherwise have. In 1982, he even helped out in another way: trained as an electrician, he personally fixed the floodlights when they failed during a match against SV Darmstadt 98 so the game could go on. Löring, who had been an Oberliga player himself with Alemannia Aachen in his younger years, was ousted as president in 2000 and the club soon deteriorated. In 2005 the club failed financially and was forced to withdraw from league play.

Since 2008, the club has been owned (like Ebbsfleet United F.C.) partially by the web-based venture deinfussballclub.de.^[1] Until 2008, the SCF played in the fifth division Verbandsliga Mittelrhein, gaining promotion with a second place finish to the new Oberliga Nordrhein-Westfalen. Fortuna Köln finished Oberliga as 9th in 2008–09, as 15th in 2009–10 season and as 3rd in 2010–2011 saison. From the 2011–12 season the club played in the Fußball-Regionalliga West until in 2014 they won that league and beat the second team of Bayern Munich to get promoted to the German third league.

Despite insolvency, the club was able to salvage its youth department, one of the largest in Germany with over 500 players on 25 teams, through a fundraising campaign organized by the former chairman Egbert Bischoff that included a benefit game against 1. FC Köln.

Recent chairman Klaus Ulonska once competed in the 1962 European Championships in Athletics, co-winning the 4 × 100 m Relay.

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:^[2]^[3]

Year	Division	Tier	Position
1999–2000	2. Bundesliga	II	16th ↓
2000–01	Regionalliga Nord	III	4th
2001–02	Regionalliga Nord	III	18th ↓
2002–03	Oberliga Nordrhein	IV	10th
2003–04	Oberliga Nordrhein		8th
2004–05	Oberliga Nordrhein		18th ↓
2005–06	Verbandsliga Mittelrhein	V	7th
2006–07	Verbandsliga Mittelrhein		9th
2007–08	Verbandsliga Mittelrhein		2nd ↑
2008–09	NRW-Liga	V	9th
2009–10	NRW-Liga		14th
2010–11	NRW-Liga		3rd ↑
2011–12	Regionalliga West	IV	7th
2012–13	Regionalliga West		2nd
2013–14	Regionalliga West		1st ↑
2014–15	3. Liga	III	14th
2015–16	3. Liga		11th
2016–17	3. Liga

Key

↑ Promoted	↓ Relegated

Honours

The club's honours:

DFB-Pokal
- Finalists: 1983
Middle Rhine Cup
- Winners: 2013
Regionalliga West
- Champions: 2014
Verbandsliga Mittelrhein (V)
- Champions: 2008

Players

Current squad

As of 22 August 2016^[4]

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

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	André Poggenborg
3	DF	Daniel Flottmann
4	DF	Boné Uaferro
5	MF	Markus Pazurek
6	DF	Dennis Engelman
7	MF	Michael Kessel
10	MF	Cauly
11	MF	Kai-David Bösing
13	FW	Johannes Rahn
14	DF	Cimo Röcker
15	MF	Christopher Theisen
16	DF	Kusi Kwame
17	DF	Jannik Schneider

No.	Position	Player
18	FW	Marc Brašnić (on loan from Bayer Leverkusen)
19	FW	Serhat Koruk
20	MF	Oliver Schröder
22	MF	Florian Hörnig
23	GK	Tim Boss
27	DF	Cédric Mimbala
28	MF	Lars Bender
30	MF	Hamdi Dahmani
31	MF	Jannik Stoffels
34	MF	Kristoffer Andersen
37	GK	Zicos Resvanis
39	MF	Maik Kegel

References

↑ "Deinfussballklub.De" (in German). Retrieved 2011-07-21.
↑ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (German) Historical German domestic league tables, accessed: 3 December 2015
↑ SC Fortuna Köln (German) Fussball.de, accessed: 3 December 2015
↑ Fortuna Köln squad 2015/16

External links

SC Fortuna Köln

Information	Club Managers Players Seasons Stadium

Seasons	2015–16

3. Liga clubs

2016–17 clubs	VfR Aalen Chemnitzer FC MSV Duisburg Rot-Weiß Erfurt FSV Frankfurt SG Sonnenhof Großaspach Hallescher FC Holstein Kiel Jahn Regensburg Fortuna Köln Sportfreunde Lotte 1. FC Magdeburg 1. FSV Mainz 05 II Preußen Münster VfL Osnabrück SC Paderborn 07 Hansa Rostock Werder Bremen II SV Wehen Wiesbaden FSV Zwickau

Former clubs	Alemannia Aachen Erzgebirge Aue SV Babelsberg 03 Bayern Munich II Arminia Bielefeld Energie Cottbus Carl Zeiss Jena Darmstadt 98 Borussia Dortmund II Dynamo Dresden Eintracht Braunschweig SV Elversberg Fortuna Düsseldorf 1. FC Heidenheim FC Ingolstadt 04 Karlsruher SC Kickers Emden Kickers Offenbach TuS Koblenz RB Leipzig Rot Weiss Ahlen Rot-Weiß Oberhausen 1. FC Saarbrücken SV Sandhausen Stuttgarter Kickers VfB Stuttgart II 1. FC Union Berlin SpVgg Unterhaching Wacker Burghausen Wuppertaler SV Würzburger Kickers

Landesliga Mittelrhein 1 (VI) 2016–17 clubs

FV Bonn-Endenich 08 SV Deutz 05 SpVg Frechen 20 SSV Homburg-Nümbrecht GKSC Hürth SC Fortuna Köln II SG Köln-Worringen VfL Leverkusen SV Lohmar TuS Marialinden SSV Merten TuS Oberpleis FC Pesch Hertha Rheidt SV Schlebusch FV Wiehl 2000

Under 19 Bundesliga West 2015–16 clubs

VfL Bochum Borussia Dortmund MSV Duisburg Fortuna Düsseldorf Rot-Weiss Essen 1. FC Köln SC Fortuna Köln Bayer Leverkusen Borussia Mönchengladbach 1. FC Mönchengladbach SC Preußen Münster FC Schalke 04 TSG Sprockhövel Wuppertaler SV

Bundesliga

2016–17 clubs	FC Augsburg Bayer Leverkusen Bayern Munich Borussia Dortmund Borussia Mönchengladbach Darmstadt 98 Eintracht Frankfurt SC Freiburg Hamburger SV Hertha BSC 1899 Hoffenheim FC Ingolstadt 1. FC Köln RB Leipzig Mainz 05 Schalke 04 Werder Bremen VfL Wolfsburg

Former clubs	TSV 1860 Munich Alemannia Aachen Arminia Bielefeld Bayer 05 Uerdingen/KFC Uerdingen 05 Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin VfL Bochum Borussia Neunkirchen Dynamo Dresden Eintracht Braunschweig Energie Cottbus Fortuna Düsseldorf Fortuna Köln SpVgg Greuther Fürth Hannover 96 Hansa Rostock FC 08 Homburg 1. FC Kaiserslautern Karlsruher SC Kickers Offenbach VfB Leipzig Meidericher SV/MSV Duisburg 1. FC Nürnberg Preußen Münster Rot-Weiss Essen Rot-Weiß Oberhausen 1. FC Saarbrücken SC Paderborn 07 FC St. Pauli VfB Stuttgart Stuttgarter Kickers Tasmania Berlin Tennis Borussia Berlin SSV Ulm 1846 SpVgg Unterhaching Waldhof Mannheim Wattenscheid 09 Wuppertaler SV

History	Reichsliga Introduction in 1963 1965 scandal 1971 scandal 2005 scandal

Lists and statistics	All-time table List of clubs Records Borussia Mönchengladbach 12–0 Borussia Dortmund Foreign players Top scorers Attendance

Seasons	1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17

Managers Players Seasons Top scorers

2. Bundesliga clubs

2016–17 teams

Former teams

2. Bundesliga (1981–present)	Alemannia Aachen VfR Aalen Rot Weiss Ahlen Viktoria Aschaffenburg FC Augsburg SV Babelsberg 03 SpVgg Bayreuth Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin Tennis Borussia Berlin Stahl Brandenburg Wacker Burghausen VfR Bürstadt SC Charlottenburg Chemnitzer FC Energie Cottbus Darmstadt 98 MSV Duisburg Rot-Weiß Erfurt Rot-Weiss Essen Eintracht Frankfurt FSV Frankfurt Freiburger FC SC Freiburg FC Gütersloh Hallescher FC TSV Havelse Hertha BSC 1899 Hoffenheim FC Homburg FC Ingolstadt Carl Zeiss Jena Hessen Kassel TuS Koblenz 1. FC Köln Fortuna Köln RB Leipzig VfB Leipzig VfB Lübeck Waldhof Mannheim 1. FSV Mainz 05 SV Meppen Borussia Mönchengladbach Preußen Münster Kickers Offenbach Rot-Weiß Oberhausen VfB Oldenburg VfL Osnabrück SC Paderborn Jahn Regensburg FC Remscheid SSV Reutlingen Hansa Rostock 1. FC Saarbrücken FSV Salmrohr Schalke 04 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 Sportfreunde Siegen Union Solingen Stuttgarter Kickers Eintracht Trier KFC Uerdingen 05 SSV Ulm 1846 SpVgg Unterhaching Wattenscheid 09 SV Wehen Wiesbaden VfL Wolfsburg Wormatia Worms Wuppertaler SV FSV Zwickau

2. Bundesliga Nord (1974–81)	HSV Barmbek-Uhlenhorst Wacker 04 Berlin 1. FC Bocholt Bonner SC Werder Bremen OSC Bremerhaven Borussia Dortmund SpVgg Erkenschwick Schwarz-Weiß Essen 1. SC Göttingen 05 Arminia Hannover OSV Hannover SC Herford Westfalia Herne Holstein Kiel Viktoria Köln Bayer Leverkusen Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid 1. FC Mülheim Spandauer SV DSC Wanne-Eickel Olympia Wilhelmshaven

2. Bundesliga Süd (1974–81)	Eintracht Bad Kreuznach KSV Baunatal VfB Eppingen FC Hanau 93 VfR Heilbronn Bayern Hof ESV Ingolstadt MTV Ingolstadt VfR Mannheim Borussia Neunkirchen FK Pirmasens BSV 07 Schwenningen Röchling Völklingen Würzburger FV

List of clubs

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