SV Fortuna Magdeburg

SV Fortuna Magdeburg
Full name Sportverein Fortuna Magdeburg 1911 e.V.
Founded 1 August 1911
Ground Stadion Am Schöppensteg
Ground Capacity 4,000
League Landesliga Sachsen-Anhalt Nord (VII)
2014–15 7th

SV Fortuna Magdeburg is a German association football club from the city of Magdeburg in Saxony-Anhalt.

History

The club was founded 1 August 1911 as Magdeburger Fußball-Verein Fortuna 1911. An earlier unrelated side known as Fussball Club Fortuna Magdeburg played in the Verbandes Magdeburger Ballspiel-Vereine (Federation of Magdeburg Ballplay Teams) between 1901 and 1904, including an appearance in the 1903–04 league final, soon after which the club was dissolved.

The new similarly named club was established in 1911 with departments for football, athletics, handball, and volleyball. The team enjoyed some limited success in local competition during the interwar period. In 1933 German football was re-organized under the Third Reich into sixteen top-flight divisions where Fortuna made single season appearances in the Gauliga Mitte in 1933–34 and 1938–39. After World War II occupying Allied authorities ordered the dissolution of all organizations in the country, including sports and football associations. Fortuna was re-constituted in 1950 as BSG Turbine Magdeburg with the club's best performances coming in the early to mid-60s when they played as a second division side in East Germany's DDR-Liga. During this period the sports club grew considerably and added a number of other departments including swimming and water polo, cycling, table tennis, chess, and billiards.

After German reunification in 1990 the club was re-established acknowledging its old identity as SV Fortuna Magdeburg. A championship in the Landesliga Sachsen-Anhalt (V) in 1995 elevated the club to the NOFV-Oberliga Süd (IV) where they would compete for four seasons before financial problems drove them to the Landesklasse Sachsen-Anhalt (VII) in 2000. In recent seasons the club has been fluctuating between Verbandsliga, Landesliga and Landesklasse, playing in the Landesliga once more since 2013.[1][2]

The current day sports club has departments for badminton, boxing, gymnastics, football, and volleyball.

Stadium

SV Fortuna Magdeburg play at the Stadion Am Schöppensteg (capacity 4,000) which was built in 1938 as Werner-Seelenbinder-Stadion.

Honours

The club's honours:

Famous persons

References

  1. Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (German) Historical German domestic league tables
  2. SV Fortuna Magdeburg at Fussball.de (German) Tables and results of all German football leagues

External links

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