SV Fortuna Magdeburg is a German association football club from the city of

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 ...

Saxony-Anhalt Saxony-Anhalt (german: Sachsen-Anhalt ; nds, Sassen-Anholt) is a state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. It covers an area of and has a population of 2.18 million inhabitants, making it the ...

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 Verband 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

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into sixteen top-flight divisions where Fortuna made single season appearances in the

Gauliga Mitte The Gauliga Mitte was the highest football league in the Prussian province of Saxony and the German states of Thuringia and Anhalt from 1933 to 1945, all located in the center (German:''Mitte'') of Germany. Shortly after the formation of the leagu ...

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

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'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

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. After

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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 The NOFV-Oberliga Süd is the fifth tier of the German football league system in the southern states of the former East Germany. It covers the German states of Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Saxony and southern Brandenburg. It is one of fourteen Oberl ...

(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 from 2013 to 2016 when a league championship took the club up to the Verbandsliga.Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
Historical German domestic league tablesSV Fortuna Magdeburg at Fussball.de
Tables and results of all German football leagues 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: *

Verbandsliga Sachsen-Anhalt The Verbandsliga Sachsen-Anhalt is the sixth tier of the German football league system and the highest league in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt (german: Sachsen-Anhalt). Until the introduction of the 3. Liga in 2008 it was the fifth tier of the ...

** Champions: 1996 * Landesliga Sachsen-Anhalt Nord ** Champions: 1995, 2011, 2016 * Landesklasse Sachsen-Anhalt 2 ** Champions: 2007, 2010 ** Runners-up: 2005, 2006

Famous persons

Horst Buhtz Horst Buhtz (21 September 1923 – 22 March 2015) was a German football manager and former football player who played as a midfielder. Club career Buhtz began his playing career at Fortuna Magdeburg where he played for the senior team aged 16, a ...

, played in Germany before a stint with

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club

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from 1952 to 1957. After finishing his playing career in Switzerland he returned to Germany to coach several

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sides. *

Bernd Heynemann Bernd Reinhold Gerhard Heynemann (born 22 January 1954 in 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, ...

, became a well known Bundesliga referee and also officiated international and European championship matches for FIFA. The highlight of his career was in officiating at the 1998 World Cup tournament in France. *

Marcel Schmelzer Marcel Schmelzer (; born 22 January 1988) is a German former professional footballer who last played as a left-back for Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund, serving as captain from 2016 to 2018. He was capped by Germany at international level. A ...

, Germany national football team, Bundesliga player (Borussia Dortmund), began his career at SV Fortuna,

References

External links

Official website

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