FC Hanau 93

FC Hanau 93

Full name	1. Hanauer Fußball-Club 1893
Nickname(s)	die Schwarz-Weißen
Founded	1893
Ground	Sportplatz an der Kastanienallee
Capacity	ca. 800
Chairman	Frank Feuerriegel
Coach	Kreso Ljubicic
League	Hessenliga (VI)
2022/23	8th (Hessenliga)
Home colours Away colours

FC Hanau 93 is a German association football club based in Hanau, Hesse.

History

Early history

Founded in 1893, the club is Hesse's oldest. In its first year, the club was winless in a half dozen matches, but the next season emerged as south German champion and earned an appearance in a national championship match. Hanau was one of the founding clubs of the German Football Association formed in 1900.

In those early days of German football Hanau laid a 23–1 drubbing on a hopelessly green Kickers Offenbach side. The club managed a series of unsuccessful appearances in the local league final between 1902 and 1905 and were "robbed" of a title through bureaucratic machinations in 1907, before finally taking the local title in 1909. It became a founding member of the Nordkreis-Liga in 1909, where it played until the outbreak of the war. After the First World War, the club played in the Kreisliga Nordmain without any real success. In 1926, Hanau found itself in a legal squabble with FSV Frankfurt and the league that led to its exclusion from play for a short time. Through the late 1920s and into the 1930s the team played in the Bezirksliga Main-Hessen of the Süddeutschland Verband.

Nazi era

German football was reorganized into sixteen top-flight divisions, or Gauligen, in Nazi Germany in 1933. Playing in the Gauliga Hessen Hanau captured three more regional titles in the late 1930s (1935, 1936, 1938) and advanced to the quarter-finals of the inaugural Tschammerpokal, predecessor of today's DFB-Pokal, in 1935. The Gauliga Hessen was broken up into two divisions in 1941 with the club going to the Gauliga Hessen-Nassau where they played consistently good football until the collapse of football leagues in Germany at the end of World War II. In spite of their play they were not granted entry to the local upper-tier leagues once re-established after the war, being bypassed for clubs from larger towns, and losing their ground to the American military.

Post war football

However, the club pressed on, playing in improvised uniforms on temporary grounds. Through the next two decades they bounced up and down between what was then second and third division play in Hesse. Their play improved enough to earn the side regular appearances in the Oberliga Hessen (III) through the late 1960s and into the 1970s, and in 1978–79 they enjoyed the adventure of a break through into the 2nd Bundesliga Süd. After a 17th-place finish, they returned to the Oberliga Hessen (III) where they played until 1987. The club had a brush with financial failure in the mid 1990s that included the loss of their grounds, and considered a merger with Progres Frankfurt. They were able to recover themselves and, for a while, Hanau played in Gruppenliga Frankfurt Ost (VII) with a renewed focus on its youth teams. For the first time since the introduction of a single Hessenliga in the 1947/48 season, there will be the first Hanau derby in the coming 2023/24 season. The city rival is the Verbandsliga Süd champions and climbers of the 2022/23 season, Hanauer SC 1960. The so-called HSC was founded in 1960 in a pub on Freigerichtstraße in the workers' housing estate, colloquially known as the "Dunlopviertel". and previously played in the Verbandsliga for seven years, in which the club rose from the group league for the first time in 2016. This first Hessenliga derby will take place on Easter Saturday 2024 as the HSC's home game in the Herbert Dröse Stadium.

National Championship Final (1894/2007)

In 1894, the club qualified for the national championship final organised by the Deutscher Fußball- und Cricketbund (German Football and Cricket Association), a predecessor of the German Football Association. BFC Viktoria 1889 and Hanau were scheduled to contest the country's championship in Berlin, but Hanau could not afford to make the trip and so forfeited the match, leaving Viktoria national football champions. In 2007 (113 years later), the final was finally played after enthusiastic support from the President of the German Football Federation (DFB), Theo Zwanziger. The first leg was won by Viktoria 3–0 and the second leg on 28 July ended as a draw at 1–1. The final was played with the heavy leather balls used in the late 19th century. ^[1]

Players

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 5 MF   GER Ahmed Raafat 21 MF   GER Tolga Talha Uenal

Honours

The club's honours:

League (tier) Nordkreis-Liga (I) Champions: 1916 Runners-up: 1912 Gauliga Hessen (I) Champions: 1935, 1936, 1938 Runners-up: 1939, 1941 Oberliga Hessen (III) Champions: 1953, 1961, 1978 Gruppenliga Hessen Mitte (IV) Champions: 1966 Gruppenliga Hessen Süd (IV) Champions: 1973, 1976 Landesliga Hessen-Süd (IV) Runners-up: 1984 Gruppenliga Frankfurt Ost (VII) Champions: 2017 Bezirksliga Hanau (VII) Champions: 2003 Runners-up: 2008 Kreisoberliga Hanau (VIII) Champions: 2010, 2015 Runners-up: 2014 Kreisliga A Hanau (VIII) Champions: 2000

Cup Hesse Cup Winners: 1950, 1978

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club: ^{[2] [3]}

Season	Division	Tier	Position
1999–2000	Kreisliga A Hanau	VIII	1st ↑
2000–01	Bezirksliga Hanau	VII	5th
2001–02	Bezirksliga Hanau		4th
2002–03	Bezirksliga Hanau		1st ↑
2003–04	Bezirksoberliga Frankfurt-Ost	VI	4th
2004–05	Bezirksoberliga Frankfurt-Ost		5th
2005–06	Bezirksoberliga Frankfurt-Ost		18th ↓
2006–07	Bezirksliga Hanau	VII	3rd
2007–08	Bezirksliga Hanau		2nd ↑
2008–09	Gruppenliga Frankfurt Ost		15th ↓
2009–10	Kreisoberliga Hanau	VIII	1st ↑
2010–11	Gruppenliga Frankfurt Ost	VII	7th
2011–12	Gruppenliga Frankfurt Ost		15th ↓
2012–13	Kreisoberliga Hanau	VIII	4th
2013–14	Kreisoberliga Hanau		2nd
2014–15	Kreisoberliga Hanau		1st ↑
2015–16	Gruppenliga Frankfurt Ost	VII	5th
2016–17	Gruppenliga Frankfurt Ost		1st ↑
2017-18	Verbandsliga Hessen-Süd	VI	3rd
2018–19	Verbandsliga Hessen-Süd		2nd ↑
2019–20	Hessenliga	V	14th
2020–21	Hessenliga		4th
2021–22	Hessenliga		15th
2022–23	Hessenliga		8th
2023–24	Hessenliga

• 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. Also in 2008, a large number of football leagues in Hesse were renamed, with the Oberliga Hessen becoming the Hessenliga, the Landesliga becoming the Verbandsliga, the Bezirksoberliga becoming the Gruppenliga and the Bezirksliga becoming the Kreisoberliga.

↑ Promoted

↓ Relegated

References

1. "Viktoria Berlin win 1894 final, 113 years late". Reuters. 2007. Archived from the original on 25 May 2011. Retrieved 28 July 2007.
2. Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (in German) Historical German domestic league tables
3. Fussball.de – Ergebnisse Archived 18 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine (in German) Tables and results of all German football leagues

External links

• Official website
• Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (in German) historical German domestic league tables
• Archived 30 October 2020 at the Wayback Machine