1. FC Heidenheim
Full name1. Fußballclub
Heidenheim 1846 e.V.
Founded1 January 1846 (1846-01-01)
1 January 2007 (2007-01-01) (merger from Heidenheimer SB)
GroundVoith-Arena
Capacity15,000
PresidentHolger Sanwald
Head coachFrank Schmidt
LeagueBundesliga
2022–232. Bundesliga, 1st of 18 (promoted)
WebsiteClub website

1. FC Heidenheim 1846, commonly known as FC Heidenheim or just Heidenheim, is a German professional association football club from the city of Heidenheim, Baden-Württemberg. Since the 2023–24 season they play in the Bundesliga, the top tier in the German football league system.

History

Historical chart of Heidenheim league performance

The club was formed in the year of 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 German Football Association (Deutscher Fußball-Bund or DFB).

Logo of parent association Heidenheimer SB

Heidenheimer SB itself was founded through the 1972 merger of TSB Heidenheim and VfL Heidenheim. The club's origins go back to 14 August 1846, with the establishment of the gymnastics club Turngemeinde Heidenheim, which folded in 1852, but was re-constituted under the same name in 1861. The club was renamed Turnverein Heidenheim in 1872.

A football department was created within the association on 8 July 1890 and became an independent side known as VfR Heidenheim on 21 August 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 1890.

In the meantime, parent club TV 1846 Heidenheim was joined on 13 July 1935 by SpVgg Heidenheim and then on 3 April 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 21 December 1902 and was renamed Turnerbund Heidenheim on 6 August 1904. This club merged with Arbeiterturnverein 1904 Heidenheim on 8 March 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 3 February 1946 joined TSV 1846 Heidenheim to form TSB 1846 Heidenheim.

The 27 May 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 to 1975 and again from 1976 to 1979. 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. In 2007, the football department decided to split off from Heidenheimer SB as a legally independent club with retrospective effect from January 1, 2007.[1] A successful season finish in 2008 saw the club being promoted to the Regionalliga Süd. Having simultaneously won the Württemberg Cup, Heidenheim was allowed to participate in the first round of the DFB-Pokal in the following season, where the team lost 0–3 to VfL Wolfsburg. In 2009, Heidenheim finished first in the Regionalliga Süd and got promoted to the 3. Liga.

After five seasons in the 3. Liga with the club always finishing in the upper half of the table, 1. FC Heidenheim won the league in 2013–14, and earned promotion to the 2. Bundesliga for the first time. At the same time the club, however, withdrew its reserve team, playing in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg, from competition after such teams ceased to be compulsory for professional clubs.

In the 2019–20 season, 1. FC Heidenheim finished third to play against the 16th-placed Bundesliga club, Werder Bremen, in the promotion-relegation play-offs.[2] The tie ended in a 2–2 draw on aggregate, as 1. FC Heidenheim lost on the away goals rule to stay in 2. Bundesliga.[3]

On the final matchday of the 2022–23 season, 1. FC Heidenheim managed to score two goals in the stoppage time to win 3–2 against Jahn Regensburg, in which they finished top of the table ahead of Darmstadt on goal difference and promoted to the Bundesliga for the first time in their history.[4] On 17 September 2023, the club won their first ever Bundesliga match, in a 4–2 home victory against Werder Bremen, on the same day that head coach, Frank Schmidt, set the record as the longest serving manager in the history of German football.[5]

Honours

The club's honours:

  • ‡ Won by SB Heidenheim.
  • † Won by VfL Heidenheim.
  • # Won by reserve team.

Players

Current squad

As of 1 September 2023[6]

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 Kevin Müller
2 DF Germany GER Marnon Busch
3 MF Germany GER Jan Schöppner
4 DF Germany GER Tim Siersleben
5 MF Germany GER Benedikt Gimber
6 DF Germany GER Patrick Mainka (captain)
8 FW Germany GER Eren Dinkçi (on loan from Werder Bremen)
9 FW Germany GER Stefan Schimmer
10 FW Germany GER Tim Kleindienst
11 FW Germany GER Denis Thomalla
16 MF Germany GER Kevin Sessa
17 MF Germany GER Florian Pick
18 FW Germany GER Marvin Pieringer
19 DF Germany GER Jonas Föhrenbach
No. Pos. Nation Player
20 FW Austria AUT Nikola Dovedan
21 MF Germany GER Adrian Beck
22 GK Germany GER Vitus Eicher
23 DF Germany GER Omar Haktab Traoré
24 FW Germany GER Christian Kühlwetter
27 DF Germany GER Thomas Keller
29 DF The Gambia GAM Seedy Jarju
30 MF Germany GER Norman Theuerkauf
33 DF United States USA Lennard Maloney
34 GK Austria AUT Paul Tschernuth
36 MF Germany GER Luka Janes
37 MF Germany GER Jan-Niklas Beste
40 GK Germany GER Frank Feller
44 FW Kosovo KOS Elidon Qenaj

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF Germany GER Tim Köther (at MSV Duisburg until 30 June 2024)

Coaching staff

Position Name
Head coachGermany Frank Schmidt
Assistant head coachGermany Bernhard Raab
Germany Dieter Jarosch
Goalkeeping coachGermany Bernd Weng
Athletic coachGermany Said Lakhal
Medical DepartmentGermany Udo Tiefenbacher
Team DoctorGermany Andreas Heintzen
PhysiotherapistGermany Marc Weiss
Germany Roland Bosch
Supervisor/ Stuff ManagerGermany Manuel Henck
Team ManagerGermany Alexander Raaf

Recent managers

Recent managers of the club:[7]

Manager Start Finish
Dieter Märkle 1 July 2006 17 September 2007
Frank Schmidt 17 September 2007 Present

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:[8][9]

1. FC Heidenheim

Season Division Tier Position
1998–99 Verbandsliga Württemberg V 3rd
1999–2000 Verbandsliga Württemberg 5th
2000–01 Verbandsliga Württemberg 10th
2001–02 Verbandsliga Württemberg 8th
2002–03 Verbandsliga Württemberg 2nd
2003–04 Verbandsliga Württemberg 2nd ↑
2004–05 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg IV 5th
2005–06 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg 2nd
2006–07 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg 3rd
2007–08 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg 4th ↑
2008–09 Regionalliga Süd 1st ↑
2009–10 3. Liga III 6th
2010–11 3. Liga 9th
2011–12 3. Liga 4th
2012–13 3. Liga 5th
2013–14 3. Liga 1st ↑
2014–15 2. Bundesliga II 8th
2015–16 2. Bundesliga 11th
2016–17 2. Bundesliga 6th
2017–18 2. Bundesliga 13th
2018–19 2. Bundesliga 5th
2019–20 2. Bundesliga 3rd
2020–21 2. Bundesliga 8th
2021–22 2. Bundesliga 6th
2022–23 2. Bundesliga 1st ↑
2023–24 Bundesliga I

1. FC Heidenheim II

Season Division Tier Position
1999–2000
2000–01
2001–02
2002–03
2003–04 Bezirksliga Kocher/Rems VII 9th
2004–05 Bezirksliga Kocher/Rems 2nd
2005–06 Bezirksliga Kocher/Rems 10th
2006–07 Bezirksliga Kocher/Rems 1st ↑
2007–08 Landesliga Württemberg 2 VI 12th
2008–09 Landesliga Württemberg 2 VII 3rd
2009–10 Landesliga Württemberg 2 1st ↑
2010–11 Verbandsliga Württemberg VI 7th
2011–12 Verbandsliga Württemberg 4th
2012–13 Verbandsliga Württemberg 1st ↑
2013–14 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg V 12th
2014–present withdrawn from competition
Key
↑ Promoted ↓ Relegated

Stadium

Since June 1973, the team has played in the Albstadion which has a capacity of 8,000. Since the extension in 2009, the stadium is now called Voith-Arena and accommodates 10,000 visitors. Following another extension in 2013 the stadium holds 13,000 visitors.[10] At the beginning of 2015, another extension was added increasing capacity to 15,000.[11]

References

  1. ↑ ""hsb1846" jetzt "1.FC Heidenheim 1846"" (in German). hsb-news.de.tl. Archived from the original on 5 June 2023. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
  2. ↑ "Heidenheim to face Werder Bremen in the Bundesliga promotion-relegation play-off". bulinews.com. 28 June 2020. Archived from the original on 30 June 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  3. ↑ Schrader, Max (6 July 2020). "1. FC Heidenheim – Werder Bremen 2:2: Trotz wilder Schlussphase mit drei Toren – SVW bleibt in der Bundesliga". SPOX.com (in German). Archived from the original on 6 July 2020. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
  4. ↑ "1. FC Heidenheim steigt nach Drama in Bundesliga auf – HSV in der Relegation" (in German). Heidelberg24. 28 May 2023. Archived from the original on 28 May 2023. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
  5. ↑ "Heidenheim win first game as manager breaks record". Archived from the original on 24 October 2023. Retrieved 17 September 2023 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  6. ↑ 1. FC Heidenheim squad Archived 21 January 2020 at the Wayback Machine fc-heidenheim.de. Retrieved 3 March 2019
  7. ↑ 1. FC Heidenheim 1846 .:. Trainer von A-Z Archived 7 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine (in German) weltfussball.de. Retrieved 18 September 2011
  8. ↑ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv Archived 5 September 2019 at the Wayback Machine (in German) Historical German domestic league tables
  9. ↑ Fussball.de – Ergebnisse Archived 18 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine (in German) Tables and results of all German football leagues
  10. ↑ Voith-Arena Archived 7 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine (in German) weltfussball.de. Retrieved 18 September 2011
  11. ↑ "Voith-Arena in Heidenheim – Daten u. Fakten". voith-arena.de (in German). Archived from the original on 5 July 2018. Retrieved 12 September 2019.

Sources

  • Grüne, Hardy (2001). Vereinslexikon. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag ISBN 3-89784-147-9
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