FC Hansa Rostock
FC Hansa Rostock is a German football club of the Bundesliga (premier leaque) , based in the city Rostock. Currently in the 9th consecutive Bundesliga season.
History
The club was founded on December 28 1965, when the soccer division of the club SC Empor Rostock diverged and the new FC Hansa Rostock was founded. The antecedent had been created in 1954, when the team of the SC Empor Lauter was ordered to relocate to Rostock to form a forceful team playing in the new Ostseestadion (finished in 1954).
The 1960s were the most "successful" time of the club. 1962-1964 the team was three times the vice champion of the East German premier 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 lower half of the table, and also went to the second division for a while.
In the 1980s the success returned, especially when the club surprisingly became last Oberliga champion (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 they went down to the second league, managing to return to the first league in 1995, and having remained there for nine years now.
Several famous German soccer players were brought up by FC Hansa Rostock, only to be sold to wealthier 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 a large 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
- Antonio di Salvo (Italy)
- Magnus Arvidsson (Sweden)