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| Full name | Hertha-Berliner Sport-Club von 1892 e. Football club names are a part of the sport 's culture reflecting century-old traditions V. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | Die Alte Dame (The Old Lady) The Blue-Whites |
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| Founded | July 25, 1892 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Olympic Stadium, Berlin (Capacity 74,500) |
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| Chairman |  Dieter Hoeneß |
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| Manager |  Lucien Favre |
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| League | Bundesliga | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007/08 | Bundesliga, 10th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hertha BSC Berlin is a German football club based in Berlin. This is a of lists of the use of Nicknames in football (soccer. Events 285 - Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler Year 1892 ( MDCCCXCII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. The following is a list of Association football stadia. They are ordered by their capacity, that is the maximum number of spectators that the Dieter Hoeneß, (alternative spelling Hoeness) (born 7 January 1953 in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany) was a German Lucien Favre (born November 2, in Saint-Barthélemy, Switzerland) is a former Swiss footballer, currently managing Hertha BSC The Bundesliga is the highest level of Germany 's football league system. 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 Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. Hertha Berlin was a founding club of the DFB (Deutscher Fußball Bund or German Football Association) in Leipzig in 1900. The DFB ( Deutscher Fussball Bund or German Football Association was formed January 28, 1900 in Leipzig. This sort of fix restores section edit linkpoints to where they belong Year 1900 ( MCM) was an exceptional Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar
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History
Early years
The club was formed in 1892 as BFC Hertha 92, taking its name from a steamship with a blue and white smokestack. One of the four young men who founded the club had taken a day trip on this ship with his father. The name Hertha is a variation on Nerthus referring to fertility goddess from Germanic mythology. Nerthus is a Goddess in Germanic paganism associated with fertility.
Hertha performed consistently well on the field, including a win in the first Berlin championship final in 1905. However, their on-field success was not matched financially and in 1920 Hertha merged with the well-heeled club Berliner Sport-Club to form Hertha Berliner Sport Club. The new team continued to enjoy considerable success, while also enduring a substantial measure of frustration. The team played its way to the German championship final in six consecutive seasons from 1926 to 1931, but were only able to come away with the title in 1930 and 1931 with BSC leaving to become an independent club again after the combined side's first championship. Even so, Hertha emerged as the Germany's second most successful team during the inter-war years.
Play under the Third Reich
German football was re-organized under the Third Reich in 1933 into sixteen top-flight divisions, which saw Hertha playing in the Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg. Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the common English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers For the main article see Gauliga Overview The league was introduced in 1933 after the Nazi take over of power in Germany The club continued to enjoy success within their division, regularly finishing in the upper half of the table and capturing the divisional title in 1935, 1937, and 1944. However, they faded from prominence, unable to advance out of the early rounds of the national championship rounds.
Postwar play in divided Berlin
After World War II, occupying Allied authorities banned most organizations in Germany, including sports and football clubs. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Hertha was re-formed late in 1945 as SG Gesundbrunnen and resumed play in the Oberliga Berlin - Gruppe C. The thirty-six teams of the first season of the postwar Oberliga Berlin were reduced to just a dozen the next year and the club found itself out of first division football and playing in the Amateurliga Berlin. By the end of 1949, they had re-claimed their identity as Hertha BSC Berlin and earned a return to the top-flight.
Tensions between the western Allies and the Russians occupying various sectors of the city, and the developing Cold War, led to chaotic conditions for football in the capital. Cold War is the state of conflict tension and competition that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR and their respective allies from the Hertha was banned from play against East German teams in the 1949-50 season after taking on several players and a coach who had fled the Dresden club SG Friedrichstadt for West Berlin. The German Democratic Republic ( GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik DDR; commonly known in English as East Germany) was a Socialist state Dresden (etymologically from Old Sorbian Drežďany, meaning people of the riverside forest, Drježdźany is the Capital city of the German Dresdner SC is a German multisport club playing in Dresden, Saxony. West Berlin was the name given to the western part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990 A number of sides from the eastern half of the city were forced from the Oberliga Berlin to the newly established DDR-Liga beginning with the 1950-51 season.
Through the 50's an intense rivalry developed with Tennis Borussia Berlin. Tennis Borussia Berlin is a German football club based in Berlin. A proposal for a merger between the two clubs in 1958 was resoundingly rejected.
Entry to the Bundesliga
At the time of the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963, Hertha was Berlin's reigning champion and so became an inaugural member of the new professional national league. The Bundesliga is the highest level of Germany 's football league system. Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. In spite of finishing clear of the relegation zone, the team was demoted after the 1964-65 season following attempts to bribe players to play in the city under what had become decidedly unpleasant circumstances after the erection of the Berlin Wall. Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar. Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. The Berlin Wall (Berliner Mauer was a physical barrier separating West Berlin from the German Democratic Republic (GDR ( East Germany) including This caused something of a crisis for the Bundesliga which wanted for political reasons to continue to have a team in its ranks representing the former capital. Through various machinations this led to the promotion of Tasmania 1900 Berlin, which then delivered the worst-ever performance in Bundesliga history. Tasmania 1900 Berlin was a German football club based in the Berlin district of Neukölln Hertha managed a return to the premier German league in 1968-69 and developed a solid following making it Berlin's favorite side.
However, Hertha was again soon touched by scandal through its involvement with several other clubs in the Bundesliga match fixing scandal of 1971. Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. In the course of an investigation of Hertha's role, it was also revealed that the club was 6 million DM in debt. Financial disaster was averted through the sale of the team's former home ground.
In spite of this, the team continued to enjoy a fair measure of success on the field through the 70's with a second place Bundesliga finish behind Borussia Moenchengladbach in 1974-75, a semi-final appearance in the 1979 UEFA Cup, and two appearances in the final of the German Cup (1977 and 1979). Borussia Mönchengladbach, is a German football club based in Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia. Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) The UEFA Cup is a football competition for European club teams organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA. The DFB-Pokal ( Deutscher Fußball-Bund-Pokal or German Football-Federation Cup is an elimination football tournament held annually Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) The following season saw the fortunes of the team take a turn for the worse as they were relegated to 2.Bundesliga where they would spend thirteen of the next seventeen seasons. The Bundesliga is the highest level of Germany 's football league system.
Plans in 1982 for a merger with Tennis Borussia, Blau Weiss 90 and SC Charlottenburg to form a side derisively referred to as FC Utopia never came to fruition. Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) Hertha slipped as low as the third tier Amateur Oberliga Berlin where they spent two seasons (1986-87 and 1987-88). Two turns in the Bundesliga (1982-83 and 1990-91) saw the team immediately relegated after poor performances. Hertha's amateur side enjoyed a greater measure of success, advancing all the way to the final of the German Cup in 1993 where their run ended in a close 0:1 defeat at the hands of Bundesliga side Bayer Leverkusen. The DFB-Pokal ( Deutscher Fußball-Bund-Pokal or German Football-Federation Cup is an elimination football tournament held annually Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball is a German football club based in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia.
Financial woes once more burdened the club in 1994 as it found itself 10 million DM in debt. Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) The crisis was again resolved through the sale of real estate holdings in addition to the signing of a new sponsor and management team. By 1997 Hertha found its way back to the Bundesliga where they have generally managed to finish in the upper third of the slate. Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar When Hertha was promoted in 1997, it ended Berlin's six-year-long drought without a Bundesliga side which made the Bundesliga the only top league in Europe without representation from the country's biggest city and capital.
Most recently, bright spots for the side have been a continuous string of appearances in international play in the UEFA Cup and the UEFA Champions League beginning in the 1999 season, and the signing of players such as Sebastian Deisler and Brazilian international Marcelinho, named the Bundesliga's player of the year in May of 2005. The UEFA Cup is a football competition for European club teams organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA. See also List of European Cup and UEFA Champions League winners The UEFA Champions League, which evolved from the European Champion Clubs' Cup is a seasonal club Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Sebastian Deisler (born January 5, 1980 in Lörrach) is a former football player in Germany and was considered to be the future of For other people See Marcelinho (disambiguation. Marcelo dos Santos (born May 17, 1975 in Campina Grande, Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Hertha has also invested heavily in its own youth football academy, which has produced several players with Bundesliga potential.
The team was almost relegated in the 2003-04 season, but rebounded and finished 4th the following season, but missed out on the Champions League after they were held to a draw on the final day by Hannover 96, which saw Werder Bremen over take them for the spot on the final day. Hannover 96 is a German football club in Hanover, Lower Saxony. Werder Bremen is a German sports club best known for its football team playing in Bremen, in the northwest German federal state of the As a thank-you gesture, Werder sent the Hannover squad ninety-six bottles of champagne. Hanover (i ( haˈnoːfɐ on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony ( Niedersachsen Champagne is a Sparkling wine produced by inducing the in-bottle Secondary fermentation of Wine to effect Carbonation. In 2005-06 the Herthaner finished 6th, and qualified for the UEFA Cup by defeating FK Moskva in the Intertoto Cup but stopped at the first round of the UEFA Cup by Odense BK. This article refers to the Moscow government team formed in 2004 The UEFA Intertoto Cup, also abbreviated as UI Cup and originally called the International Football Cup, was a summer football competition for Odense Boldklub (also known as Odense BK or the more common used OB) is a Danish professional football club based in the town of Odense In 2006-07 Hertha finished 10th after sacking manager Falko Götz at April 11th. Falko Götz (born 26 March 1962 in Rodewisch) is a former Soccer player and now coach Hertha starts saison 2007-08 with a new manager, Lucien Favre from the Swiss Champion of 2006 and 2007, FC Zürich. Lucien Favre (born November 2, in Saint-Barthélemy, Switzerland) is a former Swiss footballer, currently managing Hertha BSC FC Zürich or FCZ (short for Fussballclub Zürich) is a football club from Zürich, Switzerland, founded 1896. They finished 10th again, but starting in the first qualification round of the UEFA Cup via Fair Play Ranking.
Stadium
Hertha BSC plays its matches in Berlin's Olympiastadion. The facility has a capacity of 76,243, making it the second-largest stadium in Germany behind Borussia Dortmund's Westfalenstadion (82,932, including ~67,000 seats). BV Borussia Dortmund is a German football club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia and one of the most successful clubs
The stadium hosts the annual German Cup final and was also the site for six matches of the 2006 FIFA World Cup as well as the tournament final. The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th instance of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football world championship tournament
Since 1904, Hertha's home ground was the Plumpe in the city's Wedding (Gesundbrunnen) district. A stadium was built there in 1923 having a capacity of ~35,000 (~3,600 seats). BSC left that facility behind when it joined the Bundesliga in 1963. The sale of the site in 1974 helped the club avoid bankruptcy
Players
Current squad
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Famous Past Players
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Honours
- German Champions: 2
- 1930, 1931
- Oberliga Berlin Champions: 8
- 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1933
- Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg Champions: 3
- 1935, 1937, 1944
- Premiere League Cup Champions: 2
- 2001, 2002
- UEFA Intertoto Cup Champions: 1
- 2006
External links
- Official website
- Abseits Guide to German Soccer
- Hertha Berlin statistics
- Hertha Berlin formations at football-lineups
- Hertha BSC Blog
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