Original Nike football shirt Fortuna Wuppertal

The club was founded in 1973 by the merger of TSG Jahn Wuppertal with the 1912 founded SSV Nächstebreck. In addition to football, the club offers the sports of badminton, gymnastics, tennis, table tennis and volleyball.

The footballers of Fortuna reached in 1994 the final of the Lower Rhine Cup against GSV Moers. The result is unknown, but qualified the time in the Verbandsliga Niederrhein antretenden Wuppertal for the DFB Cup. In the first round, the Fortuna received a bye before the opponent was called in round two FC Rumeln-Kaldenhausen. The Bundesliga newcomers from Duisburg won the game clearly with 7: 0. Later, the team was dissolved. In 2004 there was a new beginning in the district league. Only two years later succeeded the rise in the national league, where the march into the Niederrhein league succeeded. It followed the direct re-descent, before the team in 2013 again rose to the Lower Rhine league.

The men's team rose in 2010 in the district league. After two descents in a row, the Wuppertal were in 2012 in the county league B arrived. Since the direct resurgence, the team plays in the county league A.