The 2011–12 season was Eintracht Frankfurt's 112th season and their 1st season in the 2. Bundesliga after being relegated from the Bundesliga for the 4th time.
The 2011–12 season saw Eintracht play local rival FSV Frankfurt in a league match for the first time in almost 50 years. The last league game between the two had been played on 27 January 1962, then in the Oberliga Süd. For the first of the two matches, FSV's home game on 21 August 2011, the decision was made to move to Eintracht's stadium as FSV's Volksbankstadion only holds less than 11,000 spectators and in excess of 40,000 spectators were expected for the game.Das Frankfurter Derby elektrisiert www.kicker.de, published: 21 August 2011, accessed: 21 August 2011 The game, held in front of over 50,000 spectators, ended in a 4–0 victory for Eintracht.2. Bundesliga 2011/2012 .:. 5. Spieltag: FSV v Eintracht Weltfussball.de, accessed: 21 August 2011
Transfers Summer transfers in Marcos Alvarez from FC Bayern Munich II Bamba Anderson loaned from Borussia Mönchengladbach Stefan Bell loaned from Mainz 05, was previously loaned to TSV 1860 München Habib Bellaïd loan return from CS Sedan Constant Djakpa from Bayer Leverkusen, was previously loaned to Hannover 96 Julian Dudda from Eintracht Frankfurt U19 Rob Friend from Hertha BSC Erwin Hoffer from loaned from Napoli, was previously loaned to 1. FC Kaiserslautern Mohammadou Idrissou from Borussia Mönchengladbach Thomas Kessler loaned from 1. FC Köln, was previously loaned to FC St. Pauli Ümit Korkmaz loan return from VfL Bochum Matthias Lehmann from FC St. Pauli Karim Matmour from Borussia Mönchengladbach Nikola Petković loan return from Al-Ahli Gordon Schildenfeld from SK Sturm GrazSummer transfers out
Halil Altıntop to Trabzonspor Ioannis Amanatidis to unknown Zlatan Bajramović retired Chris to VfL Wolfsburg Ralf Fährmann to FC Schalke 04 Martin Fenin to Energie Cottbus Maik Franz to Hertha BSC Marcel Heller to Dynamo Dresden Kevin Kraus to SpVgg Greuther Fürth Andreas Rössl to FC Ismaning Marco Russ to VfL Wolfsburg Patrick Ochs to VfL Wolfsburg Nikola Petković to Red Star Belgrade Aleksandar Vasoski to AO Kavala Winter transfers in
Mohammed Abu loaned from Manchester City, was previously loaned to Strømsgodset IF Martin Amedick from 1. FC Kaiserslautern Heiko Butscher from SC FreiburgWinter transfers out
Mohammed Abu loan return to Manchester City and passed on to Strømsgodset IF Stefan Bell loan return to Mainz 05 Ricardo Clark loaned to Stabæk IF Theofanis Gekas to Samsunspor Georgios Tzavelas to AS Monaco
Results Pre-season matches
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Domestic Cup
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Domestic Cup
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Indoor soccer tournament
Indoor soccer tournament
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Source: Notes: * Fixture date not yet fixed
References
Sources Official English Eintracht website Eintracht-Archiv.de Eintracht Frankfurt on the kicker sports magazine