FC Astoria Walldorf

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)
2022–23Regionalliga Südwest, 12th of 18
Websitehttps://fcastoria.de/

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

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

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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

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The club's honours:

Current squad

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As of 15 September 2024[2]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Germany GER Tim Hansen
2 DF Germany GER Maik Goß
3 DF Germany GER Emanuel Gstettner
4 DF Germany GER Dennis Egel (on loan from SV Sandhausen)
5 DF Germany GER Roman Hauk
6 MF Greece GRE Jannis Boziaris
7 MF Germany GER Tim Fahrenholz
8 DF Germany GER Lennart Grimmer
9 FW Germany GER Marcel Carl
10 MF Germany GER Maximilian Waack
11 FW Germany GER Felix Kendel
12 DF Germany GER Bennet Schieber
13 MF Germany GER Emilian Lässig
17 MF Germany GER Theodoros Politakis
18 FW Germany GER Tilmann Jahn
No. Pos. Nation Player
19 FW Austria AUT Bekem Bakci
20 FW Germany GER Marco Rienhardt
21 DF Germany GER Ken Hauser
22 GK Germany GER Jerik von der Felsen
24 FW Germany GER Jonas Arcalean
25 MF Germany GER Topaz Kronmüller
26 MF Germany GER Andre Redekop
27 DF Germany GER Max Müller
29 DF Germany GER Andre Sirianni
30 MF Germany GER Moritz Reuther
31 MF Germany GER Nazif Tchadjei
32 FW Germany GER Louis Safranek
33 GK Austria AUT Mario Schragl
38 MF Germany GER Arion Erbe
MF Germany GER Alexander Müller

Recent managers

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Recent managers of the club:[3]

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

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The recent season-by-season performance of the club:[4][5]

Key

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Promoted Relegated

Stadium

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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.[6]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Warum heißen die so? Heute: FC Astoria Walldorf" [Where does their name mean? Today: FC Astoria Walldorf] (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 - Kader 2024/2025". FC Astoria. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
  3. ^ FC Astoria Walldorf .:. Trainer von A-Z (in German) weltfussball.de, accessed: 17 September 2011
  4. ^ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (in German) Historical German domestic league tables
  5. ^ Fussball.de - Ergebnisse (in German) Tables and results of all German football leagues
  6. ^ FC-Astoria Stadion Archived 7 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine (in German) weltfussball.de, accessed: 17 September 2011
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