Our first team lost 1-2 at Oberhausen, with an own goal by our keeper helping Oberhausen.
Our reserve lost 0-1 against Grün-Weiß Wolfen who had been deducted 3 points for subbing in a non-eligible player on the first matchday of the season. When everyone was just coming to terms with the nil-all draw, the referee blew [...]

but alas, it was not enough. In the past years, Magdeburg had usually gone out on penalties, against Duisburg in 2003 and last year against Paderborn. This time, we didn’t even get that far. But we were better. In front of a sell-out crowd Magdeburg lost 1-4 to Bundesliga side Dortmund today - but the [...]

Today was the official season opening at 1. FC Magdeburg.Thanks in part to some rain showers early in the day, the crowd wasn’t all that great, but around 7,000 people wanted to see the friendly against 2nd Bundesliga outfit FC Carl Zeiss Jena.
After Magdeburg narrowly missed out on the promotion to 2nd Bundesliga last season, [...]

is apparently the promotion to Bundesliga 2 for FC Magdeburg. After a good game, Magdeburg only managed a 1-all draw with FC St. Pauli and thus dropped to third in the table, since Osnabrück managed to come back from a 0-1 scoreline and won against Ahlen 2-1.
Magdeburg has played an extraordinary season, their first in [...]

After matchday 35, FC Magdeburg only needed 4 points from the remaining three matches to secure promotion. But as always, things didn’t quite work out as planned.On matchday 36, Magdeburg only managed a 1-all draw with Leverkusen’s reserves. The equaliser came seconds before the game ended, and after Leverkusen had played with a man down [...]