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)
2021–2210th
WebsiteClub website

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

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 29 August 2023[2]

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 Germany GER Luis Idjakovic
2 DF Germany GER Maik Goß
3 DF Germany GER Emanuel Gstettner
4 DF Germany GER Laurin Stich
5 DF Germany GER Roman Hauk
6 MF Germany GER Kevin Krüger
7 MF Germany GER Tim Fahrenholz
8 MF Germany GER Boubacar Barry
9 FW Germany GER Marcel Carl
10 MF Germany GER Maximilian Waack
11 MF Germany GER Birkan Celik
12 DF Germany GER Bennet Schieber
13 MF Germany GER Emilian Lässig
16 DF Germany GER Mike Manegold
No. Pos. Nation Player
17 MF Germany GER Theodoros Politakis
18 FW Germany GER Tilmann Jahn
20 MF Germany GER Patrice Kabuya
22 GK Germany GER Jerik von der Felsen
23 DF Germany GER Mario Müller
24 MF Germany GER Eric Onos
25 MF Germany GER Topaz Kronmüller
27 DF Germany GER Max Müller
28 DF Germany GER Malte Moos (on loan from Stuttgarter Kickers)
31 DF Germany GER Lennart Grimmer
32 FW Germany GER Louis Safranek
33 GK Austria AUT Mario Schragl
34 FW Germany GER Turan Çalhanoğlu
38 MF Germany GER Arion Erbe

Recent managers

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

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

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.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 "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 2023/2024". FC Astoria. Retrieved 29 August 2023.
  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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