FC Astoria Walldorf

FC Astoria Walldorf is a German association football club from the town of Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg.

For the hotel, see Waldorf Astoria New York.

FC Astoria Walldorf
Full nameFußball-Club Astoria Walldorf e.V.
Founded15 February 1995
GroundFC-Astoria Stadion
Capacity3,000
ChairmanWilhelm Kempf
ManagerMatthias Born
LeagueRegionalliga Südwest (IV)
2017–18Regionalliga Südwest, 11th
WebsiteClub website

The club is named after John Jacob Astor, who was born in Walldorf in 1763 and later emigrated to the United States where he became a successful businessman. His descendants, founders of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, generously supported the town of Walldorf and the new football club, formed in 1908, was named Astoria in his honour.[1]

History

The club was formed on 15 February 1995 through the union of the 1. FC 08 Walldorf and the football department of SG Walldorf Astoria 02.[1] The new club advanced to the Verbandsliga Nordbaden (V) in 2001. Winning the Verbandsliga in 2007, the club was promoted to the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg.

Like TSG 1899 Hoffenheim the club is supported by Dietmar Hopp, the founder of software maker SAP. Hopp initiated negotiations to merge FC Astoria Walldorf, TSG Hoffenheim, and SV Sandhausen to create FC Heidelberg 06 with the long-term objective of reaching the Bundesliga, Germany's first division league. The talks were abandoned in 2005 due to the resistance of the latter two clubs, and the failure to agree on whether the new side's stadium should be located in Heidelberg or Eppelheim.

A North Baden Cup win in 2013–14 earned the club the right to enter the first round of the 2014–15 DFB-Pokal, the German Cup, for the first time. In the same season the club also won the Oberliga title and earned promotion to the tier four Regionalliga Südwest for the first time.

Honours

The club's honours:

Current squad
As of 28 January 2017

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  GER Jürgen Rennar
2 DF  GER John Malanga
4 DF  GER Pascal Pellowski
5 DF  GER Jannik Mohr
6 DF  GER Timo Weber
8 MF  GER Yakub Polat
9 FW  GER Nicolai Groß
10 MF  GER Timo Kern
11 FW  GER André Becker
12 GK  GER Dominik Sandritter
13 DF  GER Jonas Kiermeier
14 MF  GER Ugurtan Kizilyar
17 MF  GER Patrick Geist
No. Pos. Nation Player
18 FW  GER David Etzold
19 DF  GER Marcus Meyer
20 MF  GER Niklas Horn
21 DF  CMR Tabe Nyenty
22 FW  GER Marcel Carl
23 DF  GER Benjamin Hofmann
24 DF  GER Thorben Stadler
25 MF  GER Andreas Schön
27 MF  GER Nico Hillenbrand
28 MF  GER Steffen Haas
31 FW  GER Christopher Hellmann
33 GK  GER Denis Wieszolek

Recent managers

Recent managers of the club:[2]

Manager Start Finish
Roland Dickgießer 1 July 2007 30 August 2011
Thomas Erlein
Guido Streichsbier 2 October 2011 30 June 2014
Matthias Born 1 July 2014 Present

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:[3][4]

Key
↑ Promoted ↓ Relegated

Stadium

FC Astoria Walldorf plays its home matches in the FC-Astoria stadium which features a natural turf field and two artificial turf fields. During the 2006 World Cup the facility was used as the training ground of the Costa Rican national side.[5]

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References
  1. "Warum heißen die so? Heute: FC Astoria Walldorf" [Where does their name mean? Today: FC Astoria Walldorf]. web.archive.org (in German). German Football Association official results website. 8 December 2011. Archived from the original on 22 January 2014. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
  2. FC Astoria Walldorf .:. Trainer von A-Z (in German) weltfussball.de, accessed: 17 September 2011
  3. Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (in German) Historical German domestic league tables
  4. Fussball.de - Ergebnisse (in German) Tables and results of all German football leagues
  5. FC-Astoria Stadion Archived 7 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine (in German) weltfussball.de, accessed: 17 September 2011
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