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 21 September 2020[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
— GK  GER Paul Lawall
— GK  GER Oliver Seitz
— GK  GER Lukas Böß
— GK  GER Oliver Seitz
— DF  GER Maik Goß
— DF  GER Jonas Weik
— DF  GER Eric Jansen
— DF  GER Roman Hauk
— DF  GER Felix Brand
— DF  GER Johannes Kölmel
— DF  CMR Tabe Nyenty
— DF  GER Nico Hammann
— DF  GER Christoph Becker
— DF  GER Max Müller
— DF  TUR Mert Yörükoğlu
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF  GER Luca Egolf
— MF  GER Tim Fahrenholz
— MF  GER Morris Nag
— MF  GER Andreas Schön
— MF  GER Maximilian Waack
— MF  GER Yakub Polat
— MF  GER Nico Hillenbrand
— FW  GER Steffen Foshag
— FW  GER Nicolai Groß
— FW  GER Giuseppe Burgio
— FW  GER Tilmann Jahn
— FW  GER Niklas Antlitz
— FW  GER Jimmy Marton
— FW  GER Mirco Born

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. "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 - Squad 2020/2021". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  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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