In the summer of 2020, Fortuna’s short Bundesliga comeback came to an end. After only two seasons in the top flight (2018/19 and 2019/20), the club went down under coach Uwe Rosler. Friedhelm Funkel, back once more, had not been able to save them.
Since then Fortuna Dusseldorf have been a second-division club — and the trend has pointed downward. What had been planned as only a temporary stay outside the top tier developed into a lasting sporting building site with the latent danger of sliding all the way into the 3. Liga.