What do you do when you can’t attend the biggest game in the season of your team? Exactly, television is the solution. Thanks to the regional broadcaster, matches of Magdeburg have become a regular feature in their programme schedule. This is due to Magdeburg’s performances in the autumn and the atmosphere on the terraces. The…
The season of FC Magdeburg is already great, now off-pitch developments make sure, there is no relapse to old days. Read more →
The year 2015 is almost over; time to look back and reflect on another 365 days of football and football writing. A review. Topics of 2015 The topics of this year were most certainly FIFA’s collapse in late May and revelations about corruption at the DFB, Germany’s FA in securing the World Cup 2006 in…
Last week the fans of Dynamo Dresden were the talk of the town called football culture with their huge banner that covered the whole ground. All credit went to them as a lot of work and time was dedicated to it. It was an honour for FC Magdeburg, the visitors on that day that the…
What is a choreography? What is not? Dynamo Dresden have set the bar high for other clubs to show their support. Last Saturday the fans and supporters of Dynamo Dresden wrote history by unfurling a banner that covered the whole of the ground. The whole of their ground? No, only the away end was left…
This has been a turbulent year for FC Magdeburg. It was also a very important one. Firstly, history played an big role as the Club remembered the 40th anniversary of their biggest triumph: winning the Cup Winners Cup vs. AC Milan in Rotterdam in 1974. In the previous decades, this trophy proved to be a…
In the last week of October, FC Magdeburg had their biggest game of the season: a Cup tie against Bayer Leverkusen, a team from the top range of the Bundesliga and regular Champions League participant. It was a fight David vs. Goliath with an unlucky ending for the small club. It was however, a sign…
Since Magdeburg have won the Cup Winners’ Cup in 1974 40 years have passed; years during which the club has not seen the best of times. Since 1989 the club appears to be in a loop of promotion, insolvency and scandals. ‘Quo Vadis?’ thus seems to be the appropriate question in 2014. The events of…
After missing out on promotion by mere 5 minutes in 2007, the club once more failed to keep the momentum and stumbled. It did not fall. Another period of unrest ensued with heavy rotation on the coaching position as well as the playing staff. This period came to an end in 2012 when Andreas Petersen…
Magdeburg’s chances for promotion have received a knock last week when they were defeated by Neustrelitz, who deserve to be top of the league. The visitors, Plauen, had nothing to lose as they are safe from relegation and have nothing to do with promotion either. Nonetheless, it was an entertaining match on a wonderful sunny…