Magdeburger FFC is a women's football club from

Magdeburg Magdeburg (; nds, label=Low Saxon, Meideborg ) is the capital and second-largest city of the German state Saxony-Anhalt. The city is situated at the Elbe river. Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of the Archdiocese of Magdebur ...

. The club was founded in 1997 and won promotion to the

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in 2009.

History

The club's roots lie with local sports club ''SG Handwerk Magdeburg''. In the only official

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championship, the 1990-91 season, the team finished last. In 1991 the football department joined

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, but in the next few years the team's performance was inconsistent. After a few mid-table results the team battled against relegation at the end of the 1990s. In 1997 the football department left the club again and created a new club, ''FSV Fortuna Magdeburg/Wolmirstedt''. To further emphasize their independence from Fortuna Magdeburg, the club changed its name to Magdeburger FFC on 1 July 2003. One year later, Magdeburg narrowly missed out on qualifying for the newly created 2nd Bundesliga, finishing 6th in the Regionalliga. In the

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the team reached the 2nd round for the first time in its history, losing 0–6 to Bundesliga side

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. As of July 2010, Magdeburg has qualified for the DFB-Pokal 14 times, twelve times by winning the Saxony-Anhalt Cup and twice by virtue of belonging to the 2nd Bundesliga. In the next three years, 2005 through 2007, Magdeburg finished second in the Regionalliga . In the 2006-07 season, the club fought for the championship against

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and SV Blau-Weiß Hohen Neuendorf, but as Magdeburg had not applied for a license for the 2nd Bundesliga, winning the championship would not have meant promotion. In 2009 the team finally finished first and was promoted to the 2. Fußball-Bundesliga Nord. In its first Bundesliga season they finished sixth. The reserve team won promotion to the Regionalliga Nordost in the 2009-10 season, additionally the club sports several youth teams, ranging from an Under-11 squad to two Under-17 teams.

Honours

* Regionalliga Nordost: 1 ** Champions 2009 ** Runners-up 2005, 2006, 2007 * Saxony-Anhalt Cup: 13 (Record) ** Winners 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 * Saxony-Anhalt Indoor Championship: 5 ** Winners 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008 * U17 NOFV Championship: 1 ** Winners 2007

Past seasons

{, class= class="wikitable" , - style="background-color:#ABCDEF" ! Season ! League ! Rank ! W ! D ! L ! Goals ! Points ! DFB-Pokal , -align="center" , 1990/91 , , Oberliga Nordost , , 10 , , , , , , , , 14:63 , , 6:30 , , outside DFB area , -align="center" , 1991/92 , , Oberliga Nordost , , 6 , , 8 , , 3 , , 9 , , 25:33 , , 19:21 , , not qualified , -align="center" , 1992/93 , , Regionalliga Nordost , , 8 , , 7 , , 7 , , 8 , , 29:32 , , 21:23 , , 1st round , -align="center" , 1993/94 , , Regionalliga Nordost , , 4 , , 9 , , 5 , , 8 , , 40:45 , , 23:21 , , 1st round , -align="center" , 1994/95 , , Regionalliga Nordost , , 7 , , 7 , , 4 , , 11 , , 26:43 , , 18:26 , , not qualified , -align="center" , 1995/96 , , Regionalliga Nordost , , 4 , , 11 , , 3 , , 6 , , 41:27 , , 36 , , 1st round , -align="center" , 1996/97 , , Regionalliga Nordost , , 6 , , 9 , , 3 , , 10 , , 43:44 , , 30 , , 1st round , -align="center" , 1997/98 , , Regionalliga Nordost , , 9 , , 5 , , 1 , , 14 , , 27:71 , , 16 , , 1st round , -align="center" , 1998/99 , , Regionalliga Nordost , , 9 , , 3 , , 3 , , 12 , , 29:64 , , 12 , ,

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, -align="center" , 1999/00 , , Regionalliga Nordost , , 5 , , 12 , , 4 , , 6 , , 56:37 , , 40 , , not qualified , -align="center" , 2000/01 , , Regionalliga Nordost , , 3 , , 11 , , 8 , , 3 , , 59:37 , , 41 , ,

, -align="center" , 2001/02 , , Regionalliga Nordost , , 9 , , 6 , , 2 , , 14 , , 29:52 , , 20 , , not qualified , -align="center" , 2002/03 , , Regionalliga Nordost , , 6 , , , , , , , , 30:48 , , 26 , , not qualified , -align="center" , 2003/04 , , Regionalliga Nordost , , 6 , , 9 , , 2 , , 11 , , 42:57 , , 29 , , 2nd round , -align="center" , 2004/05 , , Regionalliga Nordost , , 2 , , 15 , , 1 , , 6 , , 63:39 , , 46 , ,

, -align="center" , 2005/06 , , Regionalliga Nordost , , 2 , , 15 , , 4 , , 3 , , 63:22 , , 48 , ,

, -align="center" , 2006/07 , , Regionalliga Nordost , , 2 , , 19 , , 1 , , 2 , , 87:21 , , 58 , , not qualified , -align="center" , 2007/08 , , Regionalliga Nordost , , 4 , , 12 , , 5 , , 5 , , 53:24 , , 41 , ,

, -align="center" , 2008/09 , , Regionalliga Nordost , , 1 , , 16 , , 2 , , 4 , , 64:20 , , 50 , , 2nd round , -align="center" , 2009–10 , , 2nd Bundesliga , , colspan="7" , current season

External links

Official club site
Women's football clubs in Germany Association football clubs established in 1997 Football clubs in Saxony-Anhalt 1997 establishments in Germany