FC 08 Homburg

Full name

Fußball-Club 08 Homburg-Saar e.V.

Founded

1908

Ground

Waldstadion Homburg

Capacity

16,488^[1]

Manager

Jens Kiefer

League

Regionalliga Südwest (IV)

2015–16

6th

Home colours

Away colours

FC Homburg is a German association football club based in Homburg, Saarland. The club was founded on 15 June 1908 as Fussball Club Homburg by a group of seventeen young men at the local Hohenburg pub.

History

In February 1913 they were re-named Fussballverein Homburg and went on to take the local championship that season. By the mid 20s the side was playing second division football, but folded on 27 August 1936. A new multi-sport club known as VfL Homburg was formed 5 March 1937 out of a group of local sides that included Turnverein 1878 Homburg, Schwimmverein Homburg, Kraftsportverein Homburg, Boxclub Homburg, Tennis-Club Homburg, as well as the former membership of the defunct FV. The footballers again took up play in second tier competition and failed in two attempts (1938, 1941) to win their way through the regional promotion playoff to the first division Gauliga Südwest.

After World War II, Allied occupation authorities dissolved all types of associations in Germany, including football clubs. The club was soon re-constituted as Sportverein Homburg and captured a division championship in the Amateurliga Saarland (III) in 1948 before resuming the name FC Homburg in January 1949.

The Saarland was occupied by the French who made various efforts to see the state become independent of Germany or join France. In sport this was manifested as separate 1952 Olympic and 1954 World Cup teams for Saarland, the establishment of a short-lived football league for the state, and the German club 1. FC Saarbrücken playing in the French second division. Homburg played in the Saarland Ehrenliga from 1949 to 1951 as FC Homburg-Saar. By the time of the 1951–52 season the return of German teams to the German Football Association had been negotiated: the Ehrenliga faded away and by 1956 the independent Saarland Fussball Bund had re-joined the DFB.

A second Amateurliga Saarland title in 1957 advanced FC to the 2. Liga-Südwest (II) and in December of that year they adopted the name FC 08 Homburg/Saar. The club was relegated to the Amateurliga in 1960 which had become a fourth tier circuit by 1963.

In the late 1970s the team advanced to the quarter finals of the DFB-Pokal on two occasions, and on into the early 1980s moved frequently between third and fourth tier play. Then, in the second half of the decade, they enjoyed their greatest success. They played their way back to the second division and on into the Bundesliga in 1986. Homburg played two seasons there, were relegated, and returned for one final Bundesliga season in 1989–90 before beginning a gradual descent which would lead them to Oberliga Südwest (IV) where they play today.

The club had a moment of glory in 1991 when it beat FC Bayern Munich in Munich 4–2 after extra time in the first round of the 1991–92 DFB-Pokal.^[2] They were relegated from the Second Bundesliga after the 1994–95 season.

Along the way the club had a couple of misadventures. In 1988, the DFB prohibited the team from wearing the sponsorship logo of a condom manufacturer on ethical and moral grounds. In 1998, they entered into an agreement with 1. FC Saarbrücken to loan players to that team to help ease Homburg's financial pinch. Despite this, in 1999, the club had a brush with bankruptcy that led to their being denied a license to play in the Regionalliga West/Südwest (III) and demotion to the Oberliga Südwest (IV). The club qualified for the 2006–07 German Cup and went out in the first round 1–2 to Bundesliga side VfL Bochum. Homburg was finally promoted to Regionalliga West after finishing atop the Oberliga Südwest ahead of FK Pirmasens on a goal differential of plus 2 in the 2009–10 season. Their Regionalliga cameo ended with a 17th place finish and a return to fifth tier play. Homburg immediately bounced back by capturing the Oberliga Südwest title and qualifying for the Regionalliga Südwest (IV) for 2012–13.

Honours

The club's honours:

League

German amateur championship
- Champions: 1983
2. Bundesliga
- Champions: 1986
- Runners-up: 1989
Oberliga Südwest
- Champions: (4) 1982, 1984, 2010, 2012
Amateurliga Saarland
- Champions: (3) 1948, 1957, 1966

Cup

Saarland Cup
- Winners: (6) 1983, 2001, 2006, 2008, 2014, 2016
- Runners-up: (5) 1996, 1998, 2003, 2007, 2015

Recent managers

Recent managers of the club:^[3]

Manager	Start	Finish
Christian Hock	14 November 2010	21 April 2011
Taifour Diane	22 April 2011	30 June 2011
Christian Titz	1 July 2011	10 April 2014
Sebastian Stache	7 April 2014	21 April 2014
Robert Jung	22 April 2014	Present

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:^[4]^[5]

Season	Division	Tier	Position
1999–2000	Oberliga Südwest	IV	3rd
2000–01	Oberliga Südwest		4th
2001–02	Oberliga Südwest		9th
2002–03	Oberliga Südwest		12th
2003–04	Oberliga Südwest		4th
2004–05	Oberliga Südwest		4th
2005–06	Oberliga Südwest		2nd
2006–07	Oberliga Südwest		4th
2007–08	Oberliga Südwest		7th
2008–09	Oberliga Südwest	V	2nd
2009–10	Oberliga Südwest	V	1st ↑
2010–11	Regionalliga West	IV	17th ↓
2011–12	Oberliga Südwest	V	1st ↑
2012–13	Regionalliga Südwest	IV	14th
2013–14	Regionalliga Südwest		11th
2014–15	Regionalliga Südwest		6th
2015–16	Regionalliga Südwest		6th
2016–17	Regionalliga Südwest

With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier. In 2012, the number of Regionalligas was increased from three to five with all Regionalliga West clubs from the Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate entering the new Regionalliga Südwest.

Key

↑ Promoted	↓ Relegated

Current squad

As of 28 July 2016^[6]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Niklas Jakusch
3	DF	Jure Čolak
4	DF	Andreas Gaebler
5	MF	Steven Kröner
6	DF	Tim Stegerer
7	MF	Giovanni Runco
8	MF	Timo Çeçen
9	FW	Manuel Fischer
10	MF	Randy Edwini-Bonsu
11	FW	Tom Schmitt
13	MF	André Kilian
14	MF	Marco Gaiser (on loan from Stuttgarter Kickers)
15	DF	Nils Fischer

No.	Position	Player
17	DF	Faiz Gbadamassi
18	FW	Tobias Zöllner
19	FW	Thierry Steimetz
20	DF	Constantin Leinhos
21	MF	Marc Gallego
22	MF	Chadli Amri
23	MF	Jaron Schäfer
26	FW	Kai Hesse
27	GK	Eric Höh
29	MF	Christian Lensch
30	GK	Patrick Bade
31	DF	Jan Eichmann
33	GK	Florian Fromlowitz

References

↑ http://fc08homburg.de/start/stadion.html
↑ Shock defeats and a record victory FC Bayern Munich website, accessed: 13 November 2008
↑ FC 08 Homburg .:. Trainer von A-Z (German) weltfussball.de, accessed: 6 July 2012
↑ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (German) Historical German domestic league tables
↑ Fussball.de – Ergebnisse (German) Tables and results of all German football leagues
↑ http://fc08homburg.de/start/profis/team/kader/

External links

Official website (German)
The Abseits Guide to German Soccer
FC 08 Homburg at Weltfussball.de
Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables (German)

Regionalliga Südwest (IV) 2016–17 clubs

SV Elversberg TSG 1899 Hoffenheim II FC 08 Homburg 1. FC Kaiserslautern II KSV Hessen Kassel TuS Koblenz SV Waldhof Mannheim FC Nöttingen Kickers Offenbach FK Pirmasens 1. FC Saarbrücken TSV Steinbach Stuttgarter Kickers VfB Stuttgart II Eintracht Trier SSV Ulm 1846 FC Astoria Walldorf Teutonia Watzenborn Wormatia Worms

Verbandsliga Saarland (VII) 2016–17 clubs

Nord/Ost	SG Ballweiler SV Bliesmengen-Bolchen FC Freisen SV Furpach SV Habach SVgg Hangard FC 08 Homburg II FC Palatia Limbach SV Merchweiler VfL Primstal II TuS Rentrisch SV Rohrbach FSG Schiffweiler SV St. Ingbert SV Alemannia Thalexweiler VfB Theley

Süd/West	SV Auersmacher II TuS Beaumarais FSG 08 Bous FC Brotdorf SC Großrosseln FSV Hemmersdorf SV Karlsbrunn SV Losheim SSV Pachten SG Perl/Besch FC Rastpfuhl SG Rehligen-Fremersdorf FC Reimsbach SC Reisbach 1. FC Riegelsberg FV Schwalbach SG Wahlen-Niederlosheim

Bundesliga

2016–17 clubs	FC Augsburg Bayer Leverkusen Bayern Munich Borussia Dortmund Borussia Mönchengladbach Darmstadt 98 Eintracht Frankfurt SC Freiburg Hamburger SV Hertha BSC 1899 Hoffenheim FC Ingolstadt 1. FC Köln RB Leipzig Mainz 05 Schalke 04 Werder Bremen VfL Wolfsburg

Former clubs	TSV 1860 Munich Alemannia Aachen Arminia Bielefeld Bayer 05 Uerdingen/KFC Uerdingen 05 Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin VfL Bochum Borussia Neunkirchen Dynamo Dresden Eintracht Braunschweig Energie Cottbus Fortuna Düsseldorf Fortuna Köln SpVgg Greuther Fürth Hannover 96 Hansa Rostock FC 08 Homburg 1. FC Kaiserslautern Karlsruher SC Kickers Offenbach VfB Leipzig Meidericher SV/MSV Duisburg 1. FC Nürnberg Preußen Münster Rot-Weiss Essen Rot-Weiß Oberhausen 1. FC Saarbrücken SC Paderborn 07 FC St. Pauli VfB Stuttgart Stuttgarter Kickers Tasmania Berlin Tennis Borussia Berlin SSV Ulm 1846 SpVgg Unterhaching Waldhof Mannheim Wattenscheid 09 Wuppertaler SV

History	Reichsliga Introduction in 1963 1965 scandal 1971 scandal 2005 scandal

Lists and statistics	All-time table List of clubs Records Borussia Mönchengladbach 12–0 Borussia Dortmund Foreign players Top scorers Attendance

Seasons	1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17

Managers Players Seasons Top scorers

2. Bundesliga clubs

2016–17 teams

Former teams

2. Bundesliga (1981–present)	Alemannia Aachen VfR Aalen Rot Weiss Ahlen Viktoria Aschaffenburg FC Augsburg SV Babelsberg 03 SpVgg Bayreuth Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin Tennis Borussia Berlin Stahl Brandenburg Wacker Burghausen VfR Bürstadt SC Charlottenburg Chemnitzer FC Energie Cottbus Darmstadt 98 MSV Duisburg Rot-Weiß Erfurt Rot-Weiss Essen Eintracht Frankfurt FSV Frankfurt Freiburger FC SC Freiburg FC Gütersloh Hallescher FC TSV Havelse Hertha BSC 1899 Hoffenheim FC Homburg FC Ingolstadt Carl Zeiss Jena Hessen Kassel TuS Koblenz 1. FC Köln Fortuna Köln RB Leipzig VfB Leipzig VfB Lübeck Waldhof Mannheim 1. FSV Mainz 05 SV Meppen Borussia Mönchengladbach Preußen Münster Kickers Offenbach Rot-Weiß Oberhausen VfB Oldenburg VfL Osnabrück SC Paderborn Jahn Regensburg FC Remscheid SSV Reutlingen Hansa Rostock 1. FC Saarbrücken FSV Salmrohr Schalke 04 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 Sportfreunde Siegen Union Solingen Stuttgarter Kickers Eintracht Trier KFC Uerdingen 05 SSV Ulm 1846 SpVgg Unterhaching Wattenscheid 09 SV Wehen Wiesbaden VfL Wolfsburg Wormatia Worms Wuppertaler SV FSV Zwickau

2. Bundesliga Nord (1974–81)	HSV Barmbek-Uhlenhorst Wacker 04 Berlin 1. FC Bocholt Bonner SC Werder Bremen OSC Bremerhaven Borussia Dortmund SpVgg Erkenschwick Schwarz-Weiß Essen 1. SC Göttingen 05 Arminia Hannover OSV Hannover SC Herford Westfalia Herne Holstein Kiel Viktoria Köln Bayer Leverkusen Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid 1. FC Mülheim Spandauer SV DSC Wanne-Eickel Olympia Wilhelmshaven

2. Bundesliga Süd (1974–81)	Eintracht Bad Kreuznach KSV Baunatal VfB Eppingen FC Hanau 93 VfR Heilbronn Bayern Hof ESV Ingolstadt MTV Ingolstadt VfR Mannheim Borussia Neunkirchen FK Pirmasens BSV 07 Schwenningen Röchling Völklingen Würzburger FV

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