They already have the first record, but they are not happy with it.

Stefan Leitl described it as "difficult to explain" and, above all, as "not deserved".

Greuther Fürth's coach ostensibly meant the late-sealed 2-1 defeat of his team against Eintracht Frankfurt on Sunday, but also the remarkable negative streak of his "clovers", which have no luck in the Bundesliga - if they lack the necessary skills .

Achim Dreis

Sports editor.

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Only one point after eleven match days, no team had stumbled so badly into a season. So far, 1. FC Saarbrücken had held the dubious negative start record, but the Saarlanders then secured their second point on November 16, 1963, the eleventh game day of the 1963/64 season. A certain Dieter Krawczyk met against Prussia Münster to equalize 1: 1.

Fürth's Cédric Itten also scored a goal to equalize 1-1 on Sunday in the 92nd minute, but his Fürth conceded a goal in the fourth minute of stoppage time. And so they are now, with zero wins in ten defeats and a 1-1 draw against Arminia Bielefeld, 8:29 goals and already eight points behind the relegation rank. Realistically speaking, it is hardly possible to stay in the top division, even if Leitl categorically proclaims: "The team works".

Comparisons with the worst team in league history are obvious, but even Tasmania Berlin had a win after eleven game days in the 1965/66 season. Last year, the long-insolvent and dissolved Berlin embarrassment representative returned to the collective memory - also because of the negative streak of another club: Schalke 04 had not won 30 games in a row before it was enough for the royal blue relegated team to win.

Tasmania, which is always a synonym for unsuccessful football, had played 31 games without a win 45 years ago before the Neukölln team defeated their then relegated Borussia Neunkirchen 2-1. Other distant records also still belong to the club, which was once founded by Berlin sailors who raved about an oceanic island. They went goalless in 22 of 30 games. Overall, they only managed 15 goals, but conceded 108 goals. A 0: 9 at home against Meidericher SV marked the low point.

In contrast, the Fürth team appear almost solid: they only lost three of their eleven games this season to zero. And the highest defeat is a 1: 5. On the other hand, their defeat against Frankfurt was the ninth in a row. The Tasmania record stands at ten. The Berliners also suffered eight home defeats in a row, but had at least won their very first game at home: 2-0 against Karlsruher SC.

Fürth, on the other hand, missed out on 22 home games.

Because even during their first flying visit to the Bundesliga in 2012/13, they didn't win a single match at their home in Ronhof.

Mockery is inevitable.

But they accepted this fight: "99 percent have written us off" said midfielder Julian Green and claims: "That's okay, but it's still all there".

His motto: “Self-pity is useless.

It has to go on".

And for exactly 23 games.