2024–25 Fortuna Düsseldorf season

Fortuna Düsseldorf
2024–25 season
Manager	Daniel Thioune
Stadium	Merkur Spiel-Arena
2. Bundesliga	4th
DFB-Pokal	First round
Top goalscorer	League: Tim Rossmann (1); All: Tim Rossmann (1)
Highest home attendance	36,103 (10 August 2024 vs. Karlsruher SC)
Average home league attendance	36,103 (10 August 2024)
Biggest win	2–0 (4 August 2024 vs. Darmstadt)
Biggest defeat	0–2 (18 August 2024 vs. Dynamo Dresden)
	← 2023–24 2025-26 →
	All statistics correct as of 18 August 2024.

The 2024–25 season is the 130th season in the history of Fortuna Düsseldorf and the fifth consecutive season in 2. Bundesliga. In addition to the domestic league, the team is scheduled to participate in the DFB-Pokal.

Transfers

In

Pos.	Player	Transferred from	Fee	Date	Source
DF	Benjamin Böckle	Preußen Münster	Loan return	30 June 2024
MF	Christos Tzolis	Norwich City	€3,500,000	1 July 2024
MF	Noah Mbamba	Bayer Leverkusen	Loan	1 July 2024
MF	Tim Rossmann	Karlsruher SC	Free	1 July 2024	^[1]
FW	Ísak Bergmann Jóhannesson	FC Copenhagen	€2,000,000	1 July 2024	^[2]
GK	Robert Kwasigroch	Hertha BSC	Loan	13 July 2024	^[3]
GK	Florian Schock	VfB Stuttgart	Free	13 July 2024	^[4]
FW	Dženan Pejčinović	VfL Wolfsburg	Loan	19 July 2024	^[5]

Out

Pos.	Player	Transferred to	Fee	Date	Source
FW	Marlon Mustapha	Como	Loan return	30 June 2024
FW	Christoph Daferner	1. FC Nürnberg	Loan return	30 June 2024
GK	Dennis Gorka		End of contract	1 July 2024
GK	Karol Niemczycki	Darmstadt 98		1 July 2024
DF	Benjamin Böckle	Rapid Wien		1 July 2024
MF	Christos Tzolis	Club Brugge	€6,600,000^[6]	4 July 2024	^[7]

Friendlies

Pre-season

7 July 2024 Friendly	Holzheimer SG	0–3	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Neuss
15:30 UTC 2			Affo 12' Schmidt 39' Si-Woo Yang 58'	Stadium: Ludwig-Wolker-Sportanlage

12 July 2024 Friendly	Fortuna Düsseldorf	4–0	Diósgyőri VTK	Bad Wimsbach, Austria
17:00	Hoffmann 28' Iyoha 40' Sobottka 53' Niemiec 55'			Stadium: HF-Stadion Bad Wimsbach

15 July 2024 Friendly	Fortuna Düsseldorf	5–2	Galatasaray	Linz, Austria
19:30	Iyoha 22' Niemiec 25' Schmidt 65' Zimmermann 73' Affo 84'		Demiraby 35' Mertens 60'	Stadium: Raiffeisen Arena

20 July 2024 Friendly^[8]	Kickers Offenbach	1–0	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Offenbach
14:00	Wachs 22'
Note: Two periods of 30 minutes

20 July 2024 Friendly	Fortuna Düsseldorf	0–1	1. FC Kaiserslautern	Offenbach
15:15
Note: Two periods of 30 minutes

27 July 2024 Friendly	Fortuna Düsseldorf	2–1	Ipswich Town
16:00

Competitions

Overall record

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
2. Bundesliga	4 August 2024	18 May 2025	Matchday 1		9	6	2	1	14	7	7	066.67
DFB-Pokal	18 August 2024	18 August 2024	First round	First round	1	0	0	1	0	2	−2	000.00
Total					10	6	2	2	14	9	5	060.00

Last updated: 20 October 2024
Source: Soccerway

2. Bundesliga

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
3	1. FC Magdeburg	17	7	7	3	30	24	6	28	Qualification for promotion play-offs
4	SC Paderborn	16	7	7	2	28	22	6	28
5	Fortuna Düsseldorf	17	7	5	5	28	23	5	26
6	Hannover 96	16	8	2	6	22	17	5	26
7	1. FC Kaiserslautern	16	7	5	4	30	26	4	26

Updated to match(es) played on 20 December 2024. Source: Bundesliga
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head results; 5) Head-to-head away goals scored; 6) Away goals scored; 7) Play-off.^[9]
(Rules 4–6 only apply after home and away matches have been played between the tied teams.)

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
9	6	2	1	14	7	7	20	1	2	1	3	5	−2	5	0	0	11	2	9

Last updated: 20 October 2024.
Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Ground	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A
Result	W	D	W	W	W	D	W	L	W
Position	2	4	2	1	1	1	1	1	1

Updated to match(es) played on 20 October 2024. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

The match schedule was released on 4 July 2024.^[10]

4 August 2024 1	Darmstadt 98	0–2	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Darmstadt
13:30 UTC 2	Nürnberger 54' Vukotić 78' El Idrissi 83'	Report	Vukotić 55' (o.g.) Hoffmann 79' Jóhannesson 81' Rossmann 86' (Zimmerman)	Stadium: Merck-Stadion am Böllenfalltor Attendance: 17,810 Referee: Robert Kampka

10 August 2024 2	Fortuna Düsseldorf	0–0	Karlsruher SC	Düsseldorf
13:00 UTC 2	Hoffmann 67' Klaus 76'	Report	Rapp 39'	Stadium: Merkur Spiel-Arena Attendance: 36,103 Referee: Robert Hartmann

25 August 2024 3	SSV Ulm	1–2	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Ulm
13:30 UTC 2	Higl 41' (pen.)	Report	Pejčinović 81' Schmidt 82'	Stadium: Donaustadion Attendance: 13,226 Referee: Eric Weisbach

30 August 2024 4	Fortuna Düsseldorf	1–0	Hannover 96	Düsseldorf
18:30 UTC 2	Schmidt 59'	Report		Stadium: Merkur Spiel-Arena Attendance: 35,416 Referee: Florian Heft

15 September 2024 5	Hertha BSC	0–2	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Berlin
13:30 UTC 2		Report	Kownacki 13' Niemiec 66'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 50,135 Referee: Michael Bacher

21 September 2024 6	Fortuna Düsseldorf	2–2	1. FC Köln	Düsseldorf
13:00 UTC 2	Iyoha 25' Niemiec 90 5'	Report	Martel 21' Maina 61'	Stadium: Merkur Spiel-Arena Attendance: 51,500 Referee: Christian Dingert

27 September 2024 7	Greuther Fürth	1–2	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Fürth
18:30 UTC 2	Srbeny 45'	Report	Haag 43' Jóhannesson 90 1' (pen.)	Stadium: Sportpark Ronhof Attendance: 12,405 Referee: Matthias Jöllenbeck

6 October 2024 8	Fortuna Düsseldorf	0–3	Hamburger SV	Düsseldorf
13:30 UTC 2		Report	Dompé 8' Glatzel 83' (pen.), 90'	Stadium: Merkur Spiel-Arena Attendance: 51,500 Referee: Martin Petersen

19 October 2024 9	Jahn Regensburg	0–3	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Regensburg
13:00 UTC 2		Report	Oberdorf 44' Kownacki 81' Vermeij 89' (pen.)	Stadium: Jahnstadion Attendance: 12,310 Referee: Lukas Benen

DFB-Pokal

18 August 2024 First round	Dynamo Dresden	2–0	Fortuna Düsseldorf	Dresden
18:00	Kastenmeier 17' (o.g.) Meißner 69' (Meier) Casar 81' Menzel 81'	Report	Sobottka 55' De Wijs 74' Klaus 81' Tanaka 85'	Stadium: Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion Attendance: 29,660 Referee: Sascha Stegemann

Statistics

As of 18 August 2024

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		2. Bundesliga		DFB Pokal
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
3	DF	GER	André Hoffmann	2	0	2	0	0	0
4	MF	JPN	Ao Tanaka	3	0	2	0	1	0
5	DF	GER	Joshua Quarshie	2	0	0 1	0	0 1	0
7	FW	GER	Dženan Pejčinović	1	0	0	0	0 1	0
8	MF	ISL	Ísak Bergmann Jóhannesson	3	0	2	0	1	0
11	MF	GER	Felix Klaus	3	0	2	0	1	0
15	DF	GER	Tim Oberdorf	3	0	2	0	1	0
18	FW	GER	Jona Niemiec	3	0	0 2	0	1	0
19	FW	GER	Emmanuel Iyoha	3	0	2	0	1	0
21	MF	GER	Tim Rossmann	3	1	1 1	1	1	0
22	MF	GER	Danny Schmidt	3	0	1 1	0	0 1	0
23	MF	GER	Shinta Appelkamp	2	0	2	0	0	0
25	DF	GER	Matthias Zimmermann	3	0	2	0	1	0
27	FW	POL	Dennis Jastrzembski	1	0	0	0	0 1	0
30	DF	NED	Jordy de Wijs	3	0	0 2	0	1	0
31	MF	GER	Marcel Sobottka	3	0	2	0	1	0
33	GK	GER	Florian Kastenmeier	3	0	2	0	1	0
39	MF	BEL	Noah Mbamba	1	0	0	0	0 1	0
46	MF	GER	Sima Suso	1	0	0 1	0	0	0

Goalscorers

Place	Position	Number	Name	2. Bundesliga	Total
1	MF	21	Tim Rossmann	1	1
Opponent's Own Goal(s)				1	1
Total				2	2

Assists

Place	Position	Nation	Number	Name	2. Bundesliga	DFB Pokal	Total
1	DF		25	Matthias Zimmermann	1	0	1
Total					1	0	1

Clean Sheets

Place	Position	Nation	Number	Name	2. Bundesliga	DFB Pokal	Total
1	GK		22	Florian Kastenmeier	2	0	2
Total					2	0	2

Disciplinary record

Number	Nation	Position	Name	2. Bundesliga			DFB Pokal			Total
Number	Nation	Position	Name
3		DF	André Hoffmann	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
4		MF	Ao Tanaka	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0
8		MF	Ísak Bergmann Jóhannesson	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
11		MF	Felix Klaus	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	0
30		DF	Jordy de Wijs	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0
31		MF	Marcel Sobottka	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0
Total				4	0	0	4	0	0	8	0	0

References

^ "Fortuna verpflichtet Tim Rossmann | www.f95.de". www.f95.de.
^ "Rund zwei Millionen Euro: Düsseldorf zieht Kaufoption bei Johannesson". kicker.
^ "Fortuna komplettiert das Torhüterteam | www.f95.de". www.f95.de.
^ "Neuer Torwart für Fortuna | www.f95.de". www.f95.de.
^ "Fortuna leiht Dzenan Pejcinovic aus | www.f95.de". www.f95.de.
^ "Confirmed Transfer: Club Brugge signs Christos Tzolis". OneFootball. July 7, 2024.
^ "Christos Tzolis verlässt die Fortuna | www.f95.de". www.f95.de.
^ "Blitzturnier in Offenbach - News / OFC". ofc.de.
^ "DFL–Spielordnung (SpOL)" [Match rules] (PDF) (in German). Deutsche Fußball Liga. 7 June 2024. p. 3. Retrieved 10 September 2024.
^ "2024/25 Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 fixture lists to be released on 4 July". bundesliga.com. 7 June 2024.

[1] "Fortuna verpflichtet Tim Rossmann | www.f95.de". www.f95.de.

[2] "Rund zwei Millionen Euro: Düsseldorf zieht Kaufoption bei Johannesson". kicker.

[3] "Fortuna komplettiert das Torhüterteam | www.f95.de". www.f95.de.

[4] "Neuer Torwart für Fortuna | www.f95.de". www.f95.de.

[5] "Fortuna leiht Dzenan Pejcinovic aus | www.f95.de". www.f95.de.

[6] "Confirmed Transfer: Club Brugge signs Christos Tzolis". OneFootball. July 7, 2024.

[7] "Christos Tzolis verlässt die Fortuna | www.f95.de". www.f95.de.

[8] "Blitzturnier in Offenbach - News / OFC". ofc.de.

[9] "DFL–Spielordnung (SpOL)" [Match rules] (PDF) (in German). Deutsche Fußball Liga. 7 June 2024. p. 3. Retrieved 10 September 2024.

[10] "2024/25 Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 fixture lists to be released on 4 July". bundesliga.com. 7 June 2024.

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