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 15 September 2024^[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 Tim Hansen 2 DF   GER Maik Goß 3 DF   GER Emanuel Gstettner 4 DF   GER Dennis Egel (on loan from SV Sandhausen) 5 DF   GER Roman Hauk 6 MF   GRE Jannis Boziaris 7 MF   GER Tim Fahrenholz 8 DF   GER Lennart Grimmer 9 FW   GER Marcel Carl 10 MF   GER Maximilian Waack 11 FW   GER Felix Kendel 12 DF   GER Bennet Schieber 13 MF   GER Emilian Lässig 17 MF   GER Theodoros Politakis 18 FW   GER Tilmann Jahn

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 FW   AUT Bekem Bakci 20 FW   GER Marco Rienhardt 21 DF   GER Ken Hauser 22 GK   GER Jerik von der Felsen 24 FW   GER Jonas Arcalean 25 MF   GER Topaz Kronmüller 26 MF   GER Andre Redekop 27 DF   GER Max Müller 29 DF   GER Andre Sirianni 30 MF   GER Moritz Reuther 31 MF   GER Nazif Tchadjei 32 FW   GER Louis Safranek 33 GK   AUT Mario Schragl 38 MF   GER Arion Erbe — MF   GER Alexander Müller

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