FC Astoria Walldorf

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.

The club's honours:

As of 29 August 2023[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 1 GK  GER Luis Idjakovic 2 DF  GER Maik Goß 3 DF  GER Emanuel Gstettner 4 DF  GER Laurin Stich 5 DF  GER Roman Hauk 6 MF  GER Kevin Krüger 7 MF  GER Tim Fahrenholz 8 MF  GER Boubacar Barry 9 FW  GER Marcel Carl 10 MF  GER Maximilian Waack 11 MF  GER Birkan Celik 12 DF  GER Bennet Schieber 13 MF  GER Emilian Lässig 16 DF  GER Mike Manegold

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 MF  GER Theodoros Politakis 18 FW  GER Tilmann Jahn 20 MF  GER Patrice Kabuya 22 GK  GER Jerik von der Felsen 23 DF  GER Mario Müller 24 MF  GER Eric Onos 25 MF  GER Topaz Kronmüller 27 DF  GER Max Müller 28 DF  GER Malte Moos (on loan from Stuttgarter Kickers) 31 DF  GER Lennart Grimmer 32 FW  GER Louis Safranek 33 GK  AUT Mario Schragl 34 FW  GER Turan Çalhanoğlu 38 MF  GER Arion Erbe

Recent managers of the club:[3]

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

• 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.

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]

• Official website
• Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables (in German)
• FC Astoria Walldorf at Weltfussball.de