FC Hansa Rostock
FC Hansa Rostock is a German football club of the Bundesliga, based in the city Rostock.
German football/soccer club. Currently in the 9th consecutive premier leaque (Bundesliga) season.
History
The club was founded on December 28 1965, when the soccer division of the club SC Empor Rostock was separated into the new club Hansa Rostock. The precursor club was created in 1954, when the team of the SC Empor Lauter was ordered to relocate to Rostock. The 1960s were the most successful time of the club. 1962-1964 the team was three time the vice champion of the East German prime league, the Oberliga, as well as four times loosing the final of the East German cup. In the 1970s the club mostly finished in the bottom half of the league, and also went to the second league for some time. In the 1980s the success returned, especially when the club surprisingly became the last champion of the Oberliga (after the German reunification renamed to NOFV-Oberliga) in 1991, as well as winning the east german cup for the first time. The club thus qualified for the Bundesliga.
However after one year in the first league the club went down to the second league, managing to return to the first league in 1995.
Several famous German soccer players were brought up by Hansa Rostock, only to be bought by the more wealthy clubs like Bayern Munich or Borussia Dortmund - most notably Stefan Beinlich and Oliver Neuville.
Stadium
The old Ostseestadion was built in 1954, with the participation of several hundreds of citizens of Rostock who helped for free.
In 2001, the new 30,000 seat stadium was completed.
Squad
FC Hansa Rostock has become known for having the largest proportion of Scandinavian Players.
Keepers
- Tobias Schober
- Martin Klewer
- Carsten Busch
Defence
- Kim Madsen (Denmark)
- Delano Hill (Netherlands)
- Ronald Maul
- Jochen Kientz
- Joakim Persson (Sweden)
- Uwe Möhrle
- Gerd Wimmer (Austria)
Midfield
- Markus Lantz (Sweden)
- Thomas Rasmussen (Denmark)
- Rzundara Tjikuzu (Namibia)
- René Rydleqicz
- Gabriel Melkam (Nigeria)
- Thomas Meggle
- Kevin Hansen
- Godfried Aduobe (Ghana)
- Gernot Plassnegger (Austria)
Forward
- Rade Prica (Sweden)
- Martin Max (Germany)
- Antonio di Salvo (Italy)
- Magnus Arvidsson (Sweden)