Eintracht Frankfurt

Club origins

The origins of the club go back to a pair of football clubs founded in 1899: Frankfurter Fußball-Club Victoria von 1899 – regarded as the original team in the club's history – and Frankfurter Fußball-Club Kickers von 1899. Both clubs were founding members of the new Nordkreis-Liga in 1909. These two teams merged in May 1911 to become Frankfurter Fußball Verein (Kickers-Victoria), an instant success, taking three league titles from 1912 to 1914 in the Nordkreis-Liga and qualifying for the Southern German championship in each of those seasons. In turn, Frankfurter FV joined the gymnastics club Frankfurter Turngemeinde von 1861 to form TuS Eintracht Frankfurt von 1861 in 1920. The German word Eintracht means 'harmony' or 'concord', and so Eintracht is the equivalent of United in English in the names of sports teams. At the time, sports in Germany was dominated by nationalistic gymnastics organizations, and under pressure from that sport's governing authority, the gymnasts and footballers went their separate ways again in 1927, as Turngemeinde Eintracht Frankfurt von 1861 and Sportgemeinde Eintracht Frankfurt (FFV) von 1899.

Through the late 1920s and into the 1930s, Eintracht won a handful of local and regional championships, first in the Kreisliga Nordmain, then in the Bezirksliga Main and Bezirksliga Main-Hessen. After being eliminated from the national level playoffs after quarterfinal losses in 1930 and 1931, they won their way to the final in 1932…

Current sport brand: Adidas Home kit: Black shirt with vertical red stripes, black shorts and black socks Away kit: White shirt, black shorts and white socks 3rd kit: Blue-grey shirt with Bembel pattern, blue shorts and grey socks

Sponsoring

National

German Championship / Bundesliga Champions (1): 1959 Runners-up (1): 1932 2. Bundesliga Winners (1): 1997–98 Runners-up (1): 2011–12 DFB-Pokal Winners (5): 1973–74, 1974–75, 1980–81, 1987–88, 2017–18 Runners-up (4): 1963–64, 2005–06, 2016–17, 2022–23 DFB / DFL-Supercup Runners-up (2): 1988, 2018

Continental

European Cup / UEFA Champions League Runners-up (1): 1959–60 UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League Winners (2): 1979–80, 2021–22 International Football Cup (Intertoto Cup) Winners (1): 1966–67 UEFA Super Cup Runners-up (1): 2022

Pre-season

Cup of the Alps Winners: 1967 Fuji-Cup Winners: 1992 Runners-up: 1994 Trofeo Bortolotti Winners: 2016, 2022

Regional

Southern German Championship Champions: 1929–30, 1931–32 Runners-up: 1912–13+, 1913–14+, 1927–28, 1930–31 Oberliga Süd Champions: 1952–53, 1958–59 Runners-up: 1953–54, 1960–61, 1961–62 Nordkreis-Liga Champions: 1911–12+, 1912–13+, 1913–14+ Kreisliga Nordmain Champions: 1919–20+, 1920–21 Runners-up: 1921–22 Bezirksliga Main-Hessen: Champions: 1927–28, 1928–29, 1929–30, 1930–31, 1931–32 Runners-up: 1932–33 Gauliga Südwest/Mainhessen: Champions: 1937–38 Runners-up: 1936–37 Hesse Cup (Tiers 3–7): Winners: 1946, 1969* Runners-up: 1949 Hesse Championship (Tier 3, 4 & 5): Champions: 1970*, 2002*, 2023* Runners-up: 1978*, 1983*, 1995* + As Frankfurter FV * Achieved by Reserve Team