Eintracht Frankfurt

Eintracht have won the German championship once, the DFB-Pokal five times, the UEFA Europa League twice and finished as runner-up in the European Cup once.

The team was one of the founding members of the Bundesliga at its inception[4] and has spent a total of 55 seasons in the top division, thus making them the seventh longest participating club in the highest tier of the league.

[6] Eintracht Frankfurt have either won or drawn more than three-quarters of their games as well as having finished the majority of their seasons placed in the top half of the table,[7] but also having the highest number of losses in the league (657).

The player with the highest number of appearances (602) in the Bundesliga, Charly Körbel,[10] spent his entire senior career as a defender for Eintracht Frankfurt.

][11] With almost 14,000 active athletes in over 50 sports in 2024, Eintracht Frankfurt is the largest multi-sports club in the world with a professional football team.

[citation needed] These two teams merged in May 1911 to become Frankfurter Fußball Verein (Kickers-Victoria), an instant success,[tone] taking three league titles from 1912 to 1914 in the Nordkreis-Liga and qualifying for the Southern German championship in each of those seasons.

After being eliminated from the national level playoffs after quarterfinal losses in 1930 and 1931, they won their way to the final in 1932 where they were beaten 2–0 by Bayern Munich, who claimed their first ever German championship.

Eintracht would return to Glasgow for the final at Hampden Park, although they lost 7–3 to Real Madrid despite taking an early lead.

][tone] a place as one of the original 16 teams selected to play in the Bundesliga, Germany's new professional football league, formed in 1963.

Lóránt, notable for introducing zonal marking to the Bundesliga,[citation needed] took Frankfurt into fourth place by the end of the season, finishing only two points behind champions Borussia Mönchengladbach.

[21] Eliminating Aberdeen, Dinamo București, Feyenoord and FC Zbrojovka Brno in the earlier rounds of the UEFA Cup, Eintracht reached the semi-finals, at which point only West German teams remained.

among the Bundesliga's best, such as Uwe Bein, Uli Stein, Jørn Andersen, Manfred Binz, Tony Yeboah and Andreas Möller.

[26] Relegation would come in 1995–96, with neither club legend[tone] Charly Körbel or the previously successful Dragoslav Stepanovic able to rescue Eintracht.

Promotion coach Horst Ehrmantraut left in December, and Jörg Berger returned to try to save Eintracht once more.

Eintracht secured a Bundesliga return on the final day of the 2002–03 season with a 6–3 win over Reutlingen, dramatically[tone] scoring 3 in the last 10 minutes of the game.

After setting a new record for most points in the first half of the season, the club struggled after the winter break, going seven games without scoring a goal.

[33] Eintracht reached their second DFB-Pokal final in a row in 2017–18, this time winning 3–1 against heavy favourites Bayern Munich – who Kovač had already agreed to join from next season.

In 2018–19, Eintracht's attacking trio of Luka Jović, Ante Rebić and Sébastien Haller won lots of praise[from whom?]

[35] Making only their second appearance in the modern Europa League, Eintracht won all six group games against Lazio, Apollon Limassol and Marseille, and beat highly rated[according to whom?]

With Jović, Rebić and Haller all leaving in the summer of 2019, Eintracht regressed in 2019–20 and failed to[tone] qualify for Europe, but returned to the Europa League with a 5th-place finish in 2020–21, after which Adi Hütter left for Borussia Mönchengladbach.

In the 2021–22 Europa League, Eintracht topped their group and stunned[tone] Barcelona in the quarter finals, taking a 3–0 lead at the Camp Nou and eventually winning 3–2 with approximately 30,000 travelling Frankfurt fans in attendance.

[43] The club crest derives from the coat of arms of the city of Frankfurt, which itself is a reference to the one-headed Imperial Eagle of the 13th century.

[44] The crest has evolved showing little significant change until 1980, when a stylized eagle in black and white was chosen to represent the team.

is SGE, taken from the club's old official name Sportgemeinde Eintracht (Frankfurt), which roughly translates into English as "Sports Community Harmony."

& C. A. Schneider, a local manufacturer of shoes and especially slippers (called Schlappe in the regional Hessian dialect) was a major financial backer of the club and helped propel[tone] it to national relevance.

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The club board decided to dissolve the team after the 2013–14 season while playing in the regular league system in the fourth tier, the Regionalliga Süd.

is made up of nineteen sections: Betty Heidler, the hammer throw world champion of 2007, was a member of the Eintracht Frankfurt athletics team.

Other Eintracht athletes include the 2008 Olympians Andrea Bunjes, Ariane Friedrich, Kamghe Gaba and Kathrin Klaas.

The professional footballers are managed as a separate limited corporation, Eintracht Frankfurt Fußball-AG, which is a subsidiary of the parent club.

The first team of Frankfurter Fußball-Club Victoria in 1899
Oberliga Süd match in 1946: Karlsruher FV v Eintracht Frankfurt
Historical chart of Eintracht Frankfurt league performance
Cha Bum-kun , coach Friedel Rausch , and Bernd Hölzenbein during Eintracht's successful 1979–80 UEFA Cup campaign
Friedhelm Funkel as Eintracht Frankfurt coach
Eintracht Frankfurt before the Europa League match at FC Salzburg on 28 February 2020
The Eintracht crest is based on the city coat of arms.
Eintracht's eagle ( Adler ) over the years: the logo of Frankfurter FV 1911 and the red eagle of TuS Eintracht Frankfurt 1920 and Sportgemeinde Eintracht Frankfurt 1967 before today's more traditional style logo was adopted
Kit used in 2020 season featuring team captain David Abraham
Paul Oßwald (right) led Eintracht Frankfurt to the German championship in 1959 and the European Cup final in 1960 .
Dino Toppmöller
Charly Körbel has the most appearances in Eintracht Frankfurt and Bundesliga history
Eintracht Frankfurt supporters performance
Indoor court of Eintracht's tennis section in Seckbach
Betty Heidler while being honoured in Osaka.