Fortuna Dusseldorf

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Rivals	1. FC Köln
Club Profile	Club Website Twitter: @f95 Facebook: @fortunaduesseldorf Address: Merkur Spiel-Arena, Arena-Straße 1, 40474 Düsseldorf, Germany Nickname: F95
Stadium	Merkur Spiel-Arena is Fortuna Düsseldorf’s home ground. The venue, which has a closable roof and which is also used for non-footballing events such as concerts, has a football capacity of 57,000. It’s not always full as this is a very big stadium for a club of Fortuna Düsseldorf’s size. But Düsseldorf is a big city and the club could little by little re-attract many of the fans who stopped going during the years down in the regional leagues.
Recent History	Founded in 1895, Fortuna Düsseldorf is one of the oldest clubs in all of German football. This club was a regular competitor in the first years of the Bundesliga and often challenged near the top of the table in the Seventies. However, they’ve fallen away a lot since then. They started the 21st century fluctuating between the third and fourth tiers of German football, but have little by little returned to the elite, first by consolidating the club as a Bundesliga 2 team. They were promoted to the Bundesliga again in 2018 and finished 10th in 2018/19 to suggest they are well and truly back. In Friedhelm Funkel, they have a coach who has been at the club since 2016 and who has been a major part of their rebuild.
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Season Guide

2024/2025

Fortuna Dusseldorf

In

Dzenan Pejcinovic (att) VfL Wolfsburg - on loan; Isak Johannesson (mid) FC Copenhagen; Tim Rossmann (att) Karlsruher; Danny Schmidt (mid) FSV Mainz; Noah Mbamba (mid) Bayer Leverkusen - on loan; Robert Kwasigroch (gk) Hertha BSC - on loan; Florian Schock (gk) VfB Stuttgart;

Out

Christos Tzolis (att) (k) Club Brugge; Benjamin Bockle (def) Rapid Vienna; Karol Niemczycki (gk) (sp) SV Darmstadt; Dennis Gorka (gk) released; Marlon Mustapha (att) (sp) Como - end of loan; Christoph Daferner (att) (sp) FC Nurnberg - end of loan;

Dusseldorf missed out on promotion last season after a heartbreaking defeat against Bochum in the play-offs. They somehow squandered a 3-0 first-leg lead, before losing on penalties in front of their own supporters. Not many would have begrudged them a return to the top-flight after an impressive end to the season under coach Daniel Thioune, but they were to fall at the final hurdle. Thioune still has the desire to fight on despite the setback and will look to rally his troops for another season. He will have to do it without star striker Christos Tzolis this time around, after the Greek moved to Club Brugge. He activated a clause in his contract shortly after signing permanently for the club, this meant they did at least get a decent profit from the sale. Dusseldorf were the highest scorers in the division last season, but will find it difficult to repeat that feat without Tzolis. Dzenan Pejcinovic has come in on loan from Wolfsburg with plenty of potential, he could be the answer, but is still inexperienced. The rest of the squad has remained intact so you would expect Dusseldorf to be exciting to watch again. The addition of some young talents should also raise the level. Rossmann is a pacy winger who is hungry to show his skills, while Mbamba looks a tidy player in midfield, having come on loan from Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen.

Target

Dusseldorf have everything in place to be successful so another promotion challenge will be the target. It will of course be difficult with many good sides in the division, but the determination will be strong after coming so close last time out.