Arminia Magdeburg U19

Magdeburg's football name belongs to 1. FC Magdeburg, and everything else in the city plays in its shadow.

The club that runs the U19 side began in June 1953 as a works team and spent the German Democratic Republic years as BSG Motor Magdeburg-Süd. That name lasted until 10 June 1991, when the BSG was wound up and the members re-formed as SV Arminia '53 Magdeburg. The green and red survived the change; the Grün-Roten kept the tag they had carried through the old league.

What Arminia won, it won at home. The Magdeburg City Cup came four times — 1974, 1975, 1981 and 1986 — in a city competition against neighbours who are still neighbours. There is nothing above that on the honours board, and the senior side now plays in the sixth tier, the Lotto-Landesliga Nord Sachsen-Anhalt.

The junior sections run from the smallest age group up to the A-Juniors, which is where this side sits, inside a membership of around 400. Arminia is a partner club of 1. FC Magdeburg, and Til Heitzmann took that road, leaving for the professional academy and staying there from 2018 to 2022.

The 2,000-capacity ground and the artificial surface are the club's whole plant.