Fortuna Düsseldorf

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NICKNAME – Die Flingeraner (The People from Flingern)
FOUNDED – 1895
LOCATED IN – Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia
STADIUM – Merkur Spiel-Arena
BY U-BAHN – 20 minutes from the train station (Line 78)
CAPACITY – 54,600
RELEGATED – 2020
BEST LEAGUE FINISH – Winners (1932/1933)
BEST DFB POKAL RUN – Winners (Twice)
BEST UC/EL FINISH – R16 (Twice)
BEST CWC FINISH – Runners Up (1978/1979)
RECORD GOALSCORER – Peter Mayer (98)
2022/2023 FINISH – 4th (2. Bundesliga)

FIVE FACTS ABOUT FORTUNA DÜSSELDORF
1. Fortuna began life as a gymnastics club in the village of Flingern, which has since been swallowed up by Düsseldorf’s urban sprawl.
2. They hold the record for most consecutive wins in the DFB Pokal (18), during which time they won two cups.
3. Punk rock outfit Die Toten Hosen (The Dead Trousers) are massive fans and sponsored Fortuna between 2001 and 2003.
4. A yo-yo club, they are the only side to have dropped from the Bundesliga down to the fourth tier and returned.
5. But they are not called Fortuna due to the vagaries of fate. They were named after a nearby bakery.

FIVE FACTS ABOUT DUSSELDORF
1. Although “Dorf” means village in German, it’s anything but, with a population of over 600,000.
2. The children of Düsseldorf are credited with inventing the cartwheel (“Radschlager”), now a popular goal celebration.
3. Düsseldorf is synonymous with “Altbier” (it’s great), which is drunk in vast quantities here, but very little elsewhere.
4. The most famous musical sons of the city are not Die Toten Hosen. That mantle belongs to electro pioneers Kraftwerk.
5. Inspiration for their hit “The Model” would not have been hard to come by. Düsseldorf is Germany’s fashion centre.

INTERESTING VIDEO LINKS
Goal music
“Rot Weiß”
Die Toten Hosen playing “Bayern”
A look around Düsseldorf

OTHER GERMAN TEAMS
Arminia Bielefeld, Augsburg, Bayer Leverkusen, Bayern Munich, Bochum, Borussia Dortmund, Borussia MG, Darmstadt, Eintracht Frankfurt, Fortuna Düsseldorf, Freiburg, Greuther Fürth, Heidenheim, Hertha Berlin, Hoffenheim, Köln, Leipzig, Mainz, Paderborn, Schalke, Stuttgart, Union Berlin, Werder Bremen, Wolfsburg