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FC Hansa Rostock is a German football club of the Bundesliga (premier league), based in the City of Rostock. Currently in its 10th consecutive Bundesliga season. This year, the Ostseestadion, Hansa's home arena, celebrates its 50th birthday.

History

The club was founded on December 28 1965, when the soccer division of the club SC Empor Rostock diverged and the new FC Hansa Rostock was founded. The antecedent had been created in 1954, when the team of the SC Empor Lauter was ordered to relocate to Rostock to form a forceful team playing in the new Ostseestadion (finished in 1954). The 1960s were the most "successful" time of the club. 1962-1964 the team was three times the vice champion of the East German premier league, the Oberliga, as well as four times losing the final of the East German cup. In the 1970s the club mostly finished in the lower half of the table, and also went to the second division for a while. In the 1980s the success returned, especially when the club surprisingly became last Oberliga champion (after the German reunification renamed to NOFV-Oberliga) in 1991, as well as winning the east German cup for the first time. The club thus qualified for the Bundesliga. However after one year in the first league they went down to the second league, managing to return to the first league in 1995, and having remained there for nine years now. Several famous German soccer players were brought up by FC Hansa Rostock, only to be sold to wealthier clubs like Bayern Munich or Borussia Dortmund - most notably Stefan Beinlich and Oliver Neuville.

Fans

In a study, FC Hansa Rostock placed fourth in Germany (after Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, and Schalke 04) in terms of fans. It has currently about 3.8 million supporters.

Stadium

The old Ostseestadion was built in 1954, with the participation of several hundreds of citizens of Rostock who helped for free. In 2001, the new 30,000 seat stadium was completed.

Former Players

This is a short list of notable former players, many of whom have been sold to other clubs: Oliver Neuville, Stefan Beinlich, Marko Rehmer, Olaf Bodden, Carsten Jancker, Jonathan Akpoborie, Martin Max, Victor Agali, Andreas Jakobsson.

Squad

FC Hansa Rostock has become known for having a large proportion of Scandinavian players. Keeper

20px Carsten Busch
20px Axel Keller
20px Matthias Schober

Defence

20px Michael Hartmann
20px Delano Hill
20px Denis Lapaczinski
20px Kim Madsen
20px Ronald Maul
20px Uwe Mhrle
20px Joakim Persson

Midfield

20px Godfried Aduobe
20px Kevin Hansen
20px Markus Lantz
20px Jari Litmanen
20px Thomas Meggle
20px Gabriel Melkam
20px David Rasmussen
20px Thomas Rasmussen
20px Ren Rydlewicz
20px Rzundara Tjikuzu

Forward

20px Marcus Allbck
20px Magnus Arvidsson
20px Antonio di Salvo
20px Rade Prica
20px Marco Vorbeck

Coaches

Jrg Berger (head coach)
Frank Engel (assistant coach)
Perry Brutigam (goalkeeper coach)

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