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1.FC Magdeburg
Full name	1. Fußball-Club Magdeburg
Founded	December 22, 1965
Ground	Stadion Magdeburg (Capacity 27,250)
Chairman	Volker Rehboldt
Manager	Dirk Heyne
League	Regionalliga Nord (III)
2006-07	Regionalliga Nord (III), 3rd
Home colours 　 Away colours

1. FC Magdeburg is a German football club playing in Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt. The club has its origins in Soviet-occupied post-World War II East Germany. In 1945 players from the disbanded clubs Magdeburger SC Prussia 1899 and Cricket Viktoria Magdeburg formed Sportgruppe (SG) Sudenburg. This club and SG Lemsdorf came together as the sports club BSG Eintracht Sudenburg, which in turn merged with SAG Krupp Grusson in 1950. The next year the club was re-named BSG Stahl Magdeburg, and then in 1952, became Motor Mitte Magdeburg. Half way through the 1957 season the football team left MMM and joined Sportclub Aufbau Magdeburg. In 1965, the club was renamed SC Magdeburg and on December 22, 1965 the football team left the sports club to found a football-only club named 1. FC Magdeburg.

The club began a gradual ascent to the DDR-Oberliga in the late 1950s and managed to stay in the top flight of East German football for most of the next three-and-a-half decades. Magdeburg captured three East German Cups in the 1960s as a prelude to an even more successful decade to come. They won their first national championship in 1972 beginning a four-year-long string of triumphs that included a fourth East German Cup in 1973, a national championship and 2:0 win over AC Milan in the European Cup Winners' Cup final in 1974, and a third national title in 1975. They finished out the decade with East German Cups in 1978 and 1979. The club's last national honour was yet another East German Cup in 1983 – their seventh win in seven Cup final appearances.

Re-unification in 1990 also brought the merger of the football leagues of the two Germanys. 1. FC Magdeburg found themselves out of first division play in the Oberliga Nordost-Mitte/Regionalliga Nordost (III). That did not keep the side from putting on a memorable German Cup performance in 2000 by knocking out 1. FC Köln, FC Bayern Munich and Karlsruher SC before being put out themselves by a narrow 0:1 margin in a quarter final match against FC Schalke 04. Financial problems in 2002 drove them to fourth division Oberliga Nordost-Süd. However, they have continued to enjoy a measure of success at this level with a handful of Saxony-Anhalt Cup wins, the latest in 2007. In 2006, the club won promotion to third division Regionalliga Nord. At the end of the 2006/07 season, the club found themselves in third place, missing out on promotion to Second Bundesliga by merely two points. Since 2007 1. FC Magdeburg are playing their competitive matches in the newly-constructed Stadion Magdeburg.

Logos of Krupp Gruson Magdeburg, Stahl Magdeburg, Motor Mitte Magdeburg, SC Aufbau Magdeburg, SC Magdeburg, early 1.FC Magdeburg and a version used for a short time at the beginning of the 1990s

• European Cup Winners Cup: 1974
• East German Champions: 1972, 1974, 1975
• East German U21-Champions: 1963, 1964, 1965, 1970, 1989
• East German U18-Champions: 1966, 1968, 1980
• East German Cup Winners: 1964, 1965, 1969, 1973, 1978, 1979, 1983
• East German U21-Cup Winners: 1970, 1984
• State Cup Winners of Saxony-Anhalt: 1993, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2007
• German F.A. A-Juniors Cup Winners: 1999

No. Position Player 1 GK Marian Unger 2 DF Peter Otte 3 DF Christian Prest 4 DF Mats Wejsfelt 5 DF Pit Grundmann 6 MF Mario Kallnik (captain) 7 MF Frank Gerster 8 MF Andy Müller 10 MF Kais Manai 11 FW Danny Kukulies 12 GK Christian Beer 13 DF Christian Loth 14 MF Michael Habryka

No. Position Player 15 FW Eric Agyemang 16 DF Tobias Friebertshäuser 17 DF Marcel Probst 18 FW Ivica Jarakovic 19 MF Stephan Neumann 20 FW Matthias von der Weth 21 FW Christopher Kullmann 22 MF Dennis Tornieporth 23 MF Matthias Deumelandt 26 MF Florian Müller 27 MF Björn Lindemann

• Jürgen Sparwasser, 57 DDR caps (1969-77), a hero in the east for his goal against West Germany in the '74 World Cup
• Martin Hoffmann, 66 DDR caps
• Jürgen Pommerenke, 57 DDR caps
• Joachim Streich, 98 DDR caps
• Wolfgang Steinbach, 28 DDR caps
• Dirk Stahmann, 46 DDR caps

Season	Competition	Round	Nation	Club	Score
1964/65	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1R		Galatasaray	1-1, 1-1, 1-1 (C)
1965/66	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	Q		CA Spora Luxembourg	1-0, 2-0
		1/8		FC Sion	8-1, 2-2
		1/4		West Ham United	0-1, 1-1
1969/70	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1R		MTK Budapest	1-0, 1-1
		1/8		Académica Coimbra	1-0, 0-2
1972/73	European Clubs' Champions Cup	1R		TPS Turku	6-0, 3-1
		1/8		Juventus	0-1, 0-1
1973/74	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1R		NAC Breda	0-0, 2-0
		1/8		Baník Ostrava	0-2, 3-0
		1/4		Beroe Stara Zagora	2-0, 1-1
		1/2		Sporting Lisboa	1-1, 2-1
		F		AC Milan	2-0
1974/75	European Clubs' Champions Cup	1/8		FC Bayern München	2-3, 1-2
1975/76	European Clubs' Champions Cup	1R		Malmö FF	1-2, 2-1 (1-2 a.p.)
1976/77	UEFA Cup	1R		A.C. Cesena	3-0, 1-3
		2R		Dinamo Zagreb	2-0, 2-2
		1/8		Videoton SC Székesfehérvári	5-0, 0-1
		1/4		Juventus	1-3, 0-1
1977/78	UEFA Cup	1R		Odra Opole	2-1, 1-1
		2R		Schalke 04	4-2, 3-1
		1/8		RC Lens	4-0, 0-2
		1/4		PSV Eindhoven	1-0, 2-4
1978/79	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1R		Valur Reykjavik	1-1, 4-0
		1/8		Ferencvárosi TC	1-0, 1-2
		1/4		FC Baník Ostrava	2-1, 2-4
1979/80	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1R		Wrexham AFC	2-3, 5-2
		1/8		Arsenal FC	1-2, 2-2
1980/81	UEFA Cup	1R		Moss FK	2-1, 3-2
		2R		AC Torino	1-3, 1-0
1981/82	UEFA Cup	1R		Borussia Mönchengladbach	3-1, 0-2
1983/84	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	Q		Swansea City	1-1, 1-0
		1R		FC Barcelona	1-5, 0-2
1986/87	UEFA Cup	1R		Athletic Bilbao	0-2, 1-0
1990/91	UEFA Cup	1R		RoPS	0-0, 1-0
		2R		Girondins de Bordeaux	0-1, 0-1

• Official team site
• Supporters Club - FanRat e.V.
• The Abseits Guide to German Soccer