Eintracht Frankfurt e.V. (German pronunciation: ['aIntRaxt'fRaNGkfUR(listen) (listen)) It is a professional football club that is based within Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. It is most well-known for its football club founded on March 8, 1899. The club is currently in the Bundesliga which is the highest tier of the German league system of football. Eintracht have been crowned the German championship one time as well as they have won the DFB-Pokal five times as well as they have also won the UEFA Europa League twice and placed second at the European Cup once. Eintracht was one of the original participants in the Bundesliga at the time of its creation and has played the span of 54 years in top league which makes them the seventh-longest participating club in the top division in the Bundesliga.
The first games of the club from 1899 until 1906 was played at the previous Hundswiese field, whose current date location is close to Hessischer Rundfunk. As a result of new rules that required pitches were required to be surrounded by a fence to serve the purposes of formal games. The team constructed an additional pitch near the Eschersheimer Landstrasse named Victoriaplatz in 1906. The team bought stands at a cost that was 350 mark in 1908. The team relocated in 1912 to a new venue in Roseggerstrasse located in Dornbusch with more facilities after which they moved to the old Riederwaldstadion in 1920 after the merger between Frankfurter FV and Frankfurter Turngemeinde von 1861. Since 1925, their venue has been Waldstadion that was changed to Deutsche Bank Park for sponsorship reasons.
Eintracht Frankfurt have enjoyed some successes in the Bundesliga and have either won or drawn over three-quarters of their matches as well as finishing most of their season in the top portion of the table, yet also having the most amount of losses throughout the season. With an average attendance of 47,942 since 2013, the team has also one of the top numbers of attendance worldwide and is eighth highest of those who play in the 36 Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga teams. A player who has the most number of appearances in Bundesliga, Charly Korbel, was a full-time player as a defensive player for Eintracht Frankfurt. The main rival of the club is the local Kickers Offenbach, a local club. Kickers Offenbach, although, because they spent the majority of their history in various divisions, the two clubs have only played two league games over the past 40 years.
