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1. FC Heidenheim

Full name	1. Fußballclub Heidenheim 1846 e.V.
Short name	Heidenheim
Founded	1 January 1846; 178 years ago (1846-01-01)
Ground	Voith-Arena
Capacity	15,000
President	Holger Sanwald
Head coach	Frank Schmidt
League	Bundesliga
2023–24	Bundesliga, 8th of 18
Website	fc-heidenheim.de
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

1. FC Heidenheim 1846 is a German professional association football club from the town of Heidenheim, Baden-Württemberg. The club currently plays in the Bundesliga, the top tier of the German football league system.

History

The club was formed in the year of 2007 through the separation of the football section from parent association Heidenheimer Sportbund, a larger multi sports club that has 5,800 members in 25 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).

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 unacceptable by the Nazi regime and was forcibly 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 1 January 2007. 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. 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.

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.

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. An impressive Bundesliga campaign saw the club finish 8th in the 2023–24 season, comfortably securing safety, and with German champions Bayer Leverkusen's victory over Kaiserslautern in the DFB-Pokal final meant that Heidenheim qualified for their first European appearance, the UEFA Conference League play-offs in their debut Bundesliga season. On 29 August 2024, Heidenheim secure advance to Conference League League Phase for the first time in history after defeating Swedish club BK Häcken 3-2 at home and 5-3 on aggregate in the play-off round.

Honours

The club's honours:

• Won by SB Heidenheim.
• Won by VfL Heidenheim.
• Won by reserve team.

Players

Current squad

As of 30 August 2024

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  GER Kevin Müller (vice-captain) 2 DF  GER Marnon Busch (4th captain) 3 MF  GER Jan Schöppner 4 DF  GER Tim Siersleben 5 MF  GER Benedikt Gimber 6 DF  GER Patrick Mainka (captain) 8 FW  BRA Léo Scienza 9 FW  GER Stefan Schimmer 10 MF  GER Paul Wanner (on loan from Bayern Munich) 11 MF  GER Denis Thomalla 14 FW  GER Maximilian Breunig 16 MF  GER Julian Niehues 17 MF  AUT Mathias Honsak 18 FW  GER Marvin Pieringer 19 DF  GER Jonas Föhrenbach

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 MF  GER Luca Kerber 21 MF  GER Adrian Beck 22 GK  GER Vitus Eicher 23 DF  GER Omar Haktab Traoré 25 FW  GER Christopher Negele 27 DF  GER Thomas Keller 29 FW  DEN Mikkel Kaufmann 30 MF  GER Norman Theuerkauf (3rd captain) 31 FW  GER Sirlord Conteh 33 DF  USA Lennard Maloney 34 GK  AUT Paul Tschernuth 36 MF  GER Luka Janes 39 MF  GER Niklas Dorsch 40 GK  GER Frank Feller

Non-playing staff

Position	Name
Head coach	Frank Schmidt
Assistant head coach	Bernhard Raab Dieter Jarosch
Goalkeeping coach	Bernd Weng
Athletic coach	Said Lakhal Tobias Häußler
Team doctor	Andreas Heintzen Dr. Udo Tiefenbacher
Physiotherapist	Marc Weiss Roland Bosch
Head of scouting	Hans-Peter Baamann
Director of football	Robert Strauß
Team manager	Alexander Raaf
Academy manager	Roger Prinzen Nils Weng
Stadium announcer	Peter Barth
Kit manager	Manuel Henck

Recent managers

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Recent managers of the club:

Recent seasons

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The recent season-by-season performance of the club:

1. FC Heidenheim

1. FC Heidenheim II

• 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.

Key

European record

UEFA club competition record

Accurate as of 19 December 2024

Matches

All results (home and away) list 1. FC Heidenheim's goal tally first.

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Aggregate
2024–25	UEFA Conference League	Play-off round	BK Häcken	2–1	3–2	5–3
		League phase	Olimpija Ljubljana	2–1	—	16th
			Pafos	—	1–0
			Heart of Midlothian	—	2–0
			Chelsea	0–2	—
			İstanbul Başakşehir	—	1–3
			St. Gallen	1–1	—
		Knockout phase play-offs	Copenhagen

UEFA Club Ranking

UEFA coefficient

As of 8 November 2024

Rank	Team	Points
98	Granada	15.683
99	VfB Stuttgart	15.257
100	1. FC Heidenheim	15.257
101	1. FC Köln	15.257
102	VfL Wolfsburg	15.257

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. At the beginning of 2015, another extension was added increasing capacity to 15,000.

References

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18. 1. FC Heidenheim squad Archived 21 January 2020 at the Wayback Machine fc-heidenheim.de. Retrieved 3 March 2019
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Sources

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

External links

• Official website (in German)
• 1. FC Heidenheim 1846 at Weltfussball.de (in German)
• Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv – historical German domestic league tables (in German)
• eufo.de – European football club profiles and current rosters (in German)

• 1. FC Heidenheim
• 1846 establishments in the German Confederation
• Association football clubs established in 1846
• Bundesliga clubs
• Football clubs in Baden-Württemberg
• Football clubs in Germany
• Heidenheim (district)
• Sport in Stuttgart (region)