Eintracht Frankfurt (women) facts for kids
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| Founded | 1973, as SG Praunheim | |||
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| Ground | Stadion am Brentanobad | |||
| Capacity | 5,200 | |||
| President | Mathias Beck | |||
| Sporting director | Katharina Kiel | |||
| Head coach | Niko Arnautis | |||
| League | Frauen-Bundesliga | |||
| 2023–24 | 3rd of 12 | |||
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Eintracht Frankfurt is a famous German women's association football club. It is based in Frankfurt, a city in Germany. Their main team plays in the Frauen-Bundesliga, which is the top women's football league in Germany.
This club used to be called 1. FFC Frankfurt from 1998 to 2020. Eintracht Frankfurt has won many titles. They have won the German women's football championship seven times. They also won the DFB-Pokal Frauen (German Cup) nine times. On top of that, they have won the UEFA Women's Champions League four times. Only one other club, Lyon, has won more European titles. Eintracht plays their home games at the Stadion am Brentanobad. Their biggest rivals are 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam.
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History of Eintracht Frankfurt Women
The club started as SG Praunheim in 1973. This was when a women's football team was first created there. Even though they hadn't won national titles yet, they joined the new Bundesliga when it began in 1990. In the early 1990s, Praunheim slowly got better each season.
Building a Winning Team
A big change happened in the 1993–94 season. Monika Staab, a former player, became the coach and head of the women's football section. Siegfried Dietrich joined as manager and investor. Together, they created a plan to make the club very successful. This was a new idea for women's football in Germany.
Because of their hard work, the club reached the playoffs for the German championship in 1995–96. They lost the final game 0–1 to TSV Siegen. After this, they stayed one of the best teams in Germany. But they didn't win any titles yet. They were also often behind their local rival, FSV Frankfurt.
Becoming 1. FFC Frankfurt
On January 1, 1999, the women's team left Praunheim. They formed their own club called 1. FFC Frankfurt. This new club found success right away! In their first season, they won both the German Cup and the championship. In 1999–2000, they won their second cup. However, they lost the championship to FCR Duisburg.
From 2000 to 2003, the club won three "doubles" in a row. A "double" means winning both the league and the cup in the same season. They also became the best team in Europe. They won the first-ever UEFA Women's Cup in 2002. During these years, a team from Potsdam started to challenge them. In 2003–04, Turbine Potsdam won their own double. This meant Frankfurt didn't win a title that year, after winning ten titles in five years!
European Success and Rivalries
In the years that followed, both Frankfurt and Potsdam were the top teams in German football. But winning in Europe was tough. Umeå from Sweden won two European titles. They even beat Frankfurt 8–0 in the 2004 final.
After Potsdam won their own UEFA Women's Cup in 2005, the two German rivals met in the 2006 UEFA Women's Cup final. Frankfurt won their second European title with a 4–0 victory in the first game. A record crowd of 13,100 people watched the final. Even German Chancellor Angela Merkel was there!
Frankfurt won another double in 2006–07. But they lost in the European quarter-finals. They then won their second "treble" in 2007–08. A "treble" means winning the league, the cup, and the European title. This made them the first club to win the UEFA Women's Cup three times. The second game of the final against Umeå had 27,640 fans. This was a new record for a women's club football game in Europe.
In the 2008–09 season, the club's performance dropped. They finished fourth in the league, which was their worst result in a long time. They also didn't reach the cup final. They lost to Bayern Munich. In Europe, FCR 2001 Duisburg knocked them out.
Becoming Eintracht Frankfurt
In 2019, the club announced a plan to join the men's football club Eintracht Frankfurt. This merger was confirmed in June 2020. From July 1, 2020, the women's team became part of Eintracht Frankfurt. Now, the club has up to five women's teams playing at different levels.
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Stadium
Eintracht Frankfurt plays their home games at the Stadion am Brentanobad. This stadium is in the Rödelheim area of Frankfurt. They share it with the men's team of Rot-Weiss Frankfurt. The city of Frankfurt owns the stadium. It can hold 5,200 people, and 1,100 of those seats are covered. In recent years, Eintracht has had the most fans at their games in the Bundesliga. They usually have more than 1,000 spectators on average.
Sometimes, Eintracht has played big home games at the Commerzbank-Arena. This is the main stadium for the men's football team. The 2006 UEFA Women's Cup final between Frankfurt and Potsdam in 2006 had 13,100 fans. This is still a record for European club football matches.
Rivalries
A strong rivalry grew between Frankfurt and 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam in the early 2000s. Potsdam, from former East Germany, started to become a top team. This rivalry became very important in both the German Cup and the European Cup. Potsdam even took the national title from Frankfurt and then became European champions.
The two clubs had different ways of building their teams. Frankfurt liked to buy players from Germany and other countries. Potsdam focused on training young players from their own club system. When players like Petra Wimbersky and Karolin Thomas moved from Potsdam to Frankfurt, it made the rivalry even stronger.
This rivalry has been good for German women's football. It has helped create healthy competition in the league. It has also helped the German national team become very successful. Later, new strong teams like VfL Wolfsburg and FC Bayern München became top clubs. They replaced Frankfurt and Potsdam as the main rivals in Germany.
Players
First-team squad
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Former players
Reserves and youth teams
Eintracht Frankfurt's women's football section has five teams in total. These teams play at different levels of the German women's football league system. Besides the main first team, there is a reserves team called Eintracht II. This team plays in the 2. Frauen-Bundesliga, which is the second-highest league. There are also three younger teams to help develop new players.
Before the club joined Eintracht Frankfurt in 2020, Eintracht already had its own women's teams. These included two senior teams and one youth team. Their main team played in the third-tier league. After the merger, these teams became youth teams. They still play in the third to fifth-tier leagues.
Honours
- Frauen-Bundesliga
- Winners (7): 1998–99, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2004–05, 2006–07, 2007–08 (record)
- DFB-Pokal Frauen
- Winners (9): 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2010–11, 2013–14
- UEFA Women's Cup / UEFA Women's Champions League
- Winners (4): 2001–02, 2005–06, 2007–08, 2014–15
- DFB-Hallenpokal
- Winners: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2012
- Regionalliga Süd
- Winners: 2018
- Hessenliga
- Winners: 2012, 2017
- Hesse Cup
- Winners: 2013, 2019
See also
In Spanish: Eintracht Fráncfort (femenino) para niños
