1. FC Heidenheim 1846

Football club infobox
clubname = 1. FC Heidenheim 1846


fullname = 1. Fußballclub Heidenheim 1846 e.V.
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founded = August 14, 1846
ground = Albstadion
capacity = 6,000
chairman = Volker Wiedenmann
manager = Klaus Mayer
league = Regionalliga Süd
season = 2007-08
position = Oberliga Baden-Württemberg (IV), 4rd
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1. FC Heidenheim 1846 is a German football club from the city of Heidenheim, Baden-Württemberg.

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History

The current day club was formed in 2007 through the separation of the football section from parent association "Heidenheimer Sportbund", a larger sports club that has 5,800 members in 27 departments. The independence of the football side allows it to operate under the stricter economic standards set for professional clubs which are members of the DFB (Deutscher Fußball-Bund or German Football Association).

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A football department was created within the association on July 8, 1911 and became an independent side known as "VfR 1911 Heidenheim" on August 21, 1922. The swimming club "Schwimmverein 04 Heidenheim" joined "VfR" in 1936 to form "VfL Heidenheim 04". In 1949, following World War II, these two clubs went their separate ways, the swimmers under their original name, and the footballers as "VfL Heidenheim 1911".

In the meantime, parent club "TV 1846 Heidenheim" was joined on July 13, 1935 by "SpVgg Heidenheim" and then on April 3, 1937 merged with "1. Sportverein 1900 Heidenheim" - which was known as "Athletenklub Hellenstein" until 1920 - to become "TSV 1846 Heidenheim". After the war "TSV" was united with "Turnerbund Heidenheim 1902" whose history was as a worker's club. "TB" was established on December 21, 1902 and was re-named "Turnerbund Heidenheim" on August 6, 1904. This club merged with "Arbeiterturnverein 1904 Heidenheim" on March 8, 1919. Like other worker's clubs, "TB" was considered as politically unreliable by the Nazi regime and was dissolved in 1933. It was re-established after the war and on February 3, 1946 joined "TSV 1846 Heidenheim" to form "TSB 1846 Heidenheim".

The May 27, 1972 merger of "TSB" and "VfL" brought all these threads together, returning the footballers to the fold of the original gymnastics club. "Heidenheimer SB" and predecessor "VfL Heidenheim" played in the Amateurliga Württemberg (III) from 1963-75 and again from 1976-79. Regional cup wins led to the team's participation in the opening round of the DFB-Pokal (German Cup) in 1975, 1978, and 1980, before the side slipped into lower level competition.

The club has since recovered and in 2004 advanced to the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg where they still compete today.

FC Heidenheim welcomed Premiership team Birmingham City to their stadium for a friendly game in July 2007. The final score was 1-0 to the Blues courtesy of a well taken Mikael Forssell strike.

The club archived Regionalliga qualification in 2007-08 with a fourth-place finish.

Honours

Recent seasons

tadium

Since June 1973 the team has played in the Albstadion which has a capacity of 6,000.

External links

* [http://www.fc-heidenheim.de Official team site]
* [http://www.fch-fankurve.de Fansite]

References

*Grüne, Hardy (2001). Vereinslexikon. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag ISBN 3-89784-147-9
* [http://www.f-archiv.de/ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv] historical German domestic league tables (in German)
* [http://eufo.de/football/ger/heidr_sb.htm eufo.de] European football club profiles and current rosters