SC Fortuna Köln is a German association football club based in the city of Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia.

Bayenthaler SV 1920 side also spent a season in the Gauliga in 1943–44 before the division collapsed as war overtook the region.

A handful of seasons later the club avoided relegation to third-tier football at the end of the 1991–92 schedule only when division rivals Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin were denied a licence.

Löring, who had been an Oberliga player himself with Alemannia Aachen in his younger years, was ousted as president in 2000 and the club soon deteriorated.

[1] Until 2008, the SCF played in the fifth division Verbandsliga Mittelrhein, gaining promotion with a second-place finish to the new Oberliga Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Despite insolvency, the club was able to salvage its youth department, one of the largest in Germany with over 500 players on 25 teams, through a fundraising campaign organized by the former chairman Egbert Bischoff that included a benefit game against 1.

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:[3][4][5] The women's football department was founded 2003 and has experienced rapid growth.