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Hallescher FC
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Full nameHallescher Fußball-Club e.V.
Nickname(s)Chemie
Founded26 January 1966
GroundKurt-Wabbel-Stadion
Capacity23,860
ManagerSven Köhler
LeagueRegionalliga Nord (IV)
2009–10Regionalliga Nord, 4th

Hallescher FC is a German association football club based in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt.

History

HFC Chemie team photo, Oberliga-season 1983.

The club's roots are in the 1946 formation of SG Glaucha in Soviet-occupied East Germany around the core of Hallescher Fußball-Club Wacker which was founded in 1900. Wacker had participated in the playoff rounds for the German championship in 1921, 1928, and 1934, when it won the Gauliga Mitte.

As was common in the East at the time, the club would undergo frequent name changes, the first one was to SG Freiimfelde Halle in 1948. In the following year they won the eastern championship as ZSG Union Halle and repeated this success in 1952.

A succession of further name changes followed: BSG Turbine Halle (1953); SC Chemie Halle-Leuna (1957); SC Chemie Halle (1958); and FC Chemie Halle (1966).

The last name change reflects the separation of football departments from their parent sports clubs all across East Germany, forming football clubs, as sports bureaucrats strove to build a powerful national football team. As BSG Turbine Halle the side won its first East German Cup in 1956, and a second one in 1962, this time as SC Chemie Halle. The club played in the premier DDR-Oberliga as a middling side, with the occasional lapse that would drop them to the second tier DDR-Liga. Their best result in this period was third place Oberliga finish in 1970–71 that earned them a first-round UEFA Cup appearance.

With German reunification in 1990, and the merger of the country's eastern and western leagues, the club entered the 2.Bundesliga as Hallescher FC. A steady decline followed that saw the club in Verbandsliga Sachsen-Anhalt (V) by the 1995–96 season. They play in NOFV-Oberliga Süd (IV) and promoted to Regionalliga Nord (IV) in 2007–2008 as champions.

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Frequent name changes have been accompanied by frequent changes to the team logo. These are just some of the crests worn by Halle teams over the years.

Current squad

As of 11 August 2010

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 Germany GER Jürgen Rittenauer
2 DF Czech Republic CZE Jan Benes
3 DF Germany GER Christoph Klippel
4 MF Germany GER Steve Finke
5 DF Republic of the Congo CGO Patrick Mouaya
6 MF Germany GER Toni Lindenhahn
7 MF Germany GER Marco Stier
8 DF Germany GER David Sieber
9 FW Germany GER Thomas Neubert
10 FW Turkey TUR Selim Aydemir
11 MF Germany GER René Stark
13 GK Croatia CRO Darko Horvat
No. Pos. Nation Player
14 MF Germany GER Philipp Schubert
15 DF Germany GER Christian Kamalla
17 MF Germany GER Nico Kanitz
18 FW Germany GER Angelo Hauk
20 MF Portugal POR Telmo Texeira-Rebelo
22 DF Germany GER Marco Hartmann
23 MF Germany GER Benjamin Boltze
24 MF Germany GER Ronny Hebestreit
25 DF Germany GER Benjamin Knaack
26 FW Germany GER Dennis Wegner
27 FW Czech Republic CZE Pavel David
28 FW Germany GER Markus Müller

Notable former players

Honours

  • East German Champions: 1948, 1952
  • East German Cup: 1956, 1962
  • Saxony-Anhalt Cup: 1994, 2002, 2008, 2010
  • NOFV-Oberliga Süd Champions: 2008
  • Central German champions: 1921, 1928
  • Verbandsliga Sachsen-Anhalt (As fifth tier) Champions: 1997, 2000