Fewest points: this negative record also came in the season after the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. Fortuna collected just 27 points. After matchday 31, a 1–3 defeat to 1. FC Kaiserslautern, it was already clear that the club could at best still reach the relegation playoff.
Relegation was only mathematically sealed after the final matchday, when their protest against a supposedly irregular goal in a 2–2 draw in Bochum was rejected by the DFB and Fortuna had to leave the Bundesliga after 16 years.