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| Full name | F. Football club names are a part of the sport 's culture reflecting century-old traditions C. Hansa Rostock e. V. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | Hansa, Hanseaten, Kogge, Hansa-Kogge, Ostseestädter |
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| Founded | December 28, 1965 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | DKB-Arena, Rostock (Capacity 29,000) |
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| Chairman |  Dirk Grabow |
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| Manager | Frank Pagelsdorf |
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| League | 2. Bundesliga | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007/08 | Bundesliga, 17th (Relegated) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FC Hansa Rostock is a German football club based in the city of Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. This is a of lists of the use of Nicknames in football (soccer. Events 1065 - Westminster Abbey is Consecrated. 1308 - The reign of Emperor Hanazono, Emperor of Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. The DKB-Arena (pronounced Deh-Kah-Beh-Arena) previously known as Ostseestadion, is the home stadium of F Rostock (ˈʁɔstɔk from Polabian Roz toc, literally "to flow apart" is the largest City in the north German state The following is a list of Association football stadia. They are ordered by their capacity, that is the maximum number of spectators that the Frank Pagelsdorf (born 5 February 1958 in Hannover) is a German football manager currently managing Hansa Rostock. History For more details on this topic see History of German football 1974 marked the introduction of the second tier of the Bundesliga Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered Below is a list of football clubs in Germany. It contains all clubs that have played in the Bundesliga, 2 Rostock (ˈʁɔstɔk from Polabian Roz toc, literally "to flow apart" is the largest City in the north German state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, sometimes translated as Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania or Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, is a state in Northern Germany comprising They have emerged as one of the most successful clubs from the former East Germany and made several appearances in the 1. Bundesliga. The German Democratic Republic ( GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik DDR; commonly known in English as East Germany) was a Socialist state The Bundesliga is the highest level of Germany 's football league system.
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History
The club was established on 1 November 1954 as the polysportive Sportclub Empor Rostock. The football squad, however, couldn't be recruited from local Betriebssportgemeinschaften like the squad of the handball section, so a transfer of BSG Empor Lauter's squad from Lauter to Rostock was considered. The area around Lauter, near the Czech border, was well-represented in East German football by competitive sides including Wismut Aue, Fortschritt Meerane and Motor Zwickau, so politician Karl Mewis ordered the re-assignment of the footballers of Empor Lauter, over the futile protests of the team's local supporters, to Rostock. Czechoslovakia may also refer to what is now the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The German Democratic Republic ( GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik DDR; commonly known in English as East Germany) was a Socialist state The FC Erzgebirge Aue is a German football club based in Aue, Saxony. This was not an uncommon occurrence in East German football, as clubs were regularly re-named, re-structured, dismantled, or shuffled from city to city at the direction of well-placed communist officials.
The wholesale transfer of the Lauterers to Rostock part way through the 1954-55 season led to the disappearance of that association from play. A new club was formed in 1956 as BSG Motor Lauter and on 1 August 1990 it took up the tradition of the original side to play as Lauterer Sportverein Viktoria 1913.
Play in Rostock
Newly formed SC Empor Rostock took the place of the former Lauter-based club in first division play in November 1954. They finished second the next season, but in 1956 plunged to 14th place and were relegated. They quickly bounced back, rejoining the DDR-Oberliga in 1958, before going on to become a very competitive side with a series of three vice-championships to their credit from 1962-1964, as well as several appearances in the final of the FDGB Pokal. The re-organization of East German sports in 1965 led to the association's football department becoming independent as Fußball Club Hansa Rostock, which was designated as one of the country's 11 "focus clubs" intended to groom talent for the development of a strong East German national side. 1|-| colspan=3|1 as United Team of Germany The East Germany national football team was from 1952 to 1990 the football team of the The new club's name acknowledged Rostock's history as one of the major trading centres of northern Europe's Hanseatic League. The Hanseatic League (also known as the Hansa) was an alliance of trading cities and their Guilds that established and maintained trade
By the 70s the club was consistently finishing in the lower half of the league table and was relegated to the second division DDR-Liga for a single season on three different occasions late in the decade. They returned to form in the 80s and as the football leagues of the two Germanys were merged in 1991 after the re-unification of the country, Rostock won its first national championship in the last ever season of East German football, played out in the transitional NOFV Oberliga Nordost. Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. German reunification (Deutsche Wiedervereinigung took place twice after 1945 first in 1957 the Saarland was permitted to join the Federal Republic of Germany They would also capture the last ever East German Cup with a 1:0 win over FC Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt. FC Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt is a German football club based in Eisenhuttenstadt, Brandenburg, near the Polish border
United Germany and the Bundesliga
The club's timely success earned them a place in the Bundesliga alongside Dynamo Dresden when the league was briefly expanded from 18 to 20 teams for the 1991-92 season to accommodate two former East German teams. Dynamo Dresden are a German football club, based in Dresden, Saxony. Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Hansa was unable to stay up and was relegated after falling just a single point shy of the club ahead of them. Three seasons of tempering in the 2. Bundesliga would return the club to the top flight for the 1995-96 season. Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) In ten years spent in the Bundesliga the team's best results were a pair of sixth place finishes. In spite of frequent placings in the bottom half of the league table, they would persist as the only former East German side able to consistently challenge the well-heeled clubs of the west.
Rostock had a very poor first half in the 2004-05 season, earning only a single win and five draws in 17 matches. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. They were unable to recover and at season's end were relegated, leaving the former DDR without a club in the top flight for the first time since re-unification. Like other East German teams they were the victims of a harsh economic reality as the wealthier, well-established western sides bought up the most talented eastern footballers as their clubs struggled to survive financially: Rostock's Stefan Beinlich, Oliver Neuville and Victor Agali were just three players sent west for cash. Stefan Beinlich (born January 13, 1972 in East Berlin) is a German footballer. Oliver Patric Neuville (born May 1, 1973 in Locarno, Switzerland) is a German footballer, currently playing as a forward Victor Okechukwu Agali (born December 29, 1978 in Okpanam) is a football Striker from Nigeria. After two years in the 2. Bundesliga the club returned to the top flight for the 2007-08 season, but was soon relegated back to the 2. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Bundesliga for the 2008-2009 season.
Honours
- East German champions: 1991
- East German vice-champions: 1955, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1968
- East German Cup: 1991
- East German Cup finalists: 1955, 1957, 1960, 1967, 1987
- 2. Bundesliga champions: 1995
- German Indoor champions: 1998
Fans
- In a study, FC Hansa Rostock placed fourth in Germany – behind Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, and Schalke 04 – in terms of the number fans the club has. FC Bayern München is a German Sports club based in Munich, Bavaria (München Bayern BV Borussia Dortmund is a German football club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia and one of the most successful clubs FC Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04, commonly FC Schalke 04, is a German football club originally from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen They currently claim about 3. 8 million supporters as the most successful football team in eastern Germany.
Stadium
The original Ostseestadion was built in 1954, with the participation of several hundred citizens of Rostock who helped for free. The first international match in the Ostseestadion of East Germany was on September 26, 1956. The German Democratic Republic ( GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik DDR; commonly known in English as East Germany) was a Socialist state In 2001, the stadium was refurbished and modified to accommodate 30,000 spectators. On July 2, 2007 the naming rights were sold to Deutsche Kreditbank (DKB), hence the new official name is "DKB-Arena".
Trivia
- Hansa Rostock's official anthem is FC Hansa, wir lieben Dich total (Hansa FC, We Totally Love You), recorded in 1995 by the East German band the Puhdys. The term anthem means either a specific form of Anglican church music (in Music theory and religious contexts or more generally a song (or composition of Die Puhdys (ˈpuːdis are a veteran German Rock band, formed in Oranienburg, in what was then East Germany, in 1969 although they had
- On December 1, 2002 Rostock became the first club to field six foreigners from the same country in a Bundesliga match (Prica, Lantz, Wibran, Jakobsson, Arvidsson and Persson – all Swedes).
- In 2005, the club successfully sued three streakers who disrupted their 2003 match against Hertha Berlin, to recoup the €20,000 they were fined by the DFB for failing to maintain adequate security at their ground. Streaking is the act of taking off one's clothes and running naked through a public place
Current squad
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For recent transfers, see List of German football transfers Summer 2008. For the Australian Rules position see Midfielder (Australian Rules. Tobias Rathgeb (born 3 May 1982 in Ostfildern) is a German football Midfielder who currently plays for F Strikers, also known as forwards and attackers, are the players on a team in Association football (soccer in the row nearest to the opposing Amir Shapourzadeh ( born September 19, 1982 in Tehran) is an Iranian football striker who currently plays for 2 Strikers, also known as forwards and attackers, are the players on a team in Association football (soccer in the row nearest to the opposing In many team Sports a goalkeeper (termed goaltender netminder, goalie, or keeper in some sports Jörg Hahnel (born 11 January 1982 in Erla) is a German football Goalkeeper who currently plays for F For the Australian Rules position see Midfielder (Australian Rules. Stefan Beinlich (born January 13, 1972 in East Berlin) is a German footballer. In Association football (soccer a defender is a player who tries to prevent the other team from scoring Diego Morais Pacheco (born 11 February 1983) is a Brazilian football defender who currently plays for F For the Australian Rules position see Midfielder (Australian Rules. Strikers, also known as forwards and attackers, are the players on a team in Association football (soccer in the row nearest to the opposing Ardiles-Waku Menga (born 28 September 1983 in Kinshasa) is a footballer from DR Congo who currently plays for Hansa Rostock For the Australian Rules position see Midfielder (Australian Rules. Fin Bartels (born February 7, 1987 in Kiel) is a German football Midfielder who plays for Hansa Rostock in Strikers, also known as forwards and attackers, are the players on a team in Association football (soccer in the row nearest to the opposing Victor Okechukwu Agali (born December 29, 1978 in Okpanam) is a football Striker from Nigeria. In many team Sports a goalkeeper (termed goaltender netminder, goalie, or keeper in some sports For the Australian Rules position see Midfielder (Australian Rules. Kai Bülow (born May 31, 1986 in Rostock) is a German footballer who plays in midfield for Hansa Rostock in In Association football (soccer a defender is a player who tries to prevent the other team from scoring Gledson da Silva Menezes (born September 4, 1979 in Felipe Guerra, Rio Grande do Norte) known as Gledson, is a Brazilian In many team Sports a goalkeeper (termed goaltender netminder, goalie, or keeper in some sports Kenneth Kronholm (born October 14 1985 in Fort Belvoir, Virginia) is a German-American football Goalkeeper who currently plays for F
Famous former players
Hansa Rostock sent 21 players to the East German (DDR) national side, as well as a handful to the national team of a united Germany.
A number of Rostock's best players have been sold to other clubs as they struggle to adjust to rough and tumble capitalist western football.
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External links
- official website of FC Hansa Rostock
- HANSANEWS.DE | THE ONLINE MAGAZINE
- hansa::fans.de - For Fans By Fans
- The Abseits Guide to German Soccer
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