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Full name | Karlsruher Sport-Club Mühlburg-Phönix e. V. | ||
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Nickname(s) | KSC, Eurofighter (since 93–94 season)[citation needed] | ||
Founded | 6 June 1894 | ||
Ground | BBBank Wildpark | ||
Capacity | 34,302[citation needed] | ||
President | Holger Siegmund-Schultze[1] | ||
Head coach | Christian Eichner | ||
League | 2. Bundesliga | ||
2022–23 | 2. Bundesliga, 7th of 18 | ||
Website | Club website | ||
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Karlsruher Sport-Club Mühlburg-Phönix e. V. better known as Karlsruher SC is a German association football club, based in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg that currently plays in the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of German football. Domestically, the club was crowned German champion in 1909, and won the DFB-Pokal in 1955 and 1956. In Europe, KSC won the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1996, which remains the club's last major honor.
Formed as Karlsruher Fussball Club Phönix in 1894, the modern form of the club was formed as the result of several mergers in 1952, and its early success granted KSC a spot in the
History
A succession of mergers
The most successful of these ancestral clubs was Karlsruher Fussball Club Phönix, formed on 6 June 1894 by dissatisfied members of the gymnastics club Karlsruher Turngemeinde. They quickly became a strong regional side, playing in the Südkreis-Liga, and won the national title in 1909, defeating defending champions Viktoria 89 Berlin 4–2 in the championship final that season.[citation needed] In 1912, Phönix merged with KFC Alemannia, established in 1897, to create KFC Phönix (Phönix Alemannia).
Two other threads[jargon] in the evolution of KSC were the formation of FC Mühlburg in 1905 out of 1. FV Sport Mühlburg (founded in 1890) and Viktoria Mühlburg (founded in 1892), and the merger of FC Germania (founded in 1898) and FC Weststadt (founded in 1902) to form VfB Karlsruhe in 1911.[citation needed] FC Mühlburg and VfB Karlsruhe would in turn merge to form VfB Mühlburg in 1933.[citation needed] The group of clubs which came together to form VfB Mühlburg were an undistinguished lot,[according to whom?] sharing just one season of upper-league play between them. The new side, however, started to compete in the first-division Gauliga Baden immediately after the league was established in 1933.
A lower-table side through the 1930s, VfB's performance improved considerably[
The formation of Karlsruher SC
KFC Phoenix and VfB Mühlburg united to form the Karlsruher Sport-Club Mühlburg-Phönix e. V., on 16 October 1952 and the new team earned good[according to whom?] results throughout the remainder of the decade. In 1955, they beat Schalke 04 3–2 to win the DFB-Pokal, and repeated the success next year with a 3–1 win over Hamburger SV. That season, they also made an appearance in the national final, where they lost 2–4 to Borussia Dortmund. KSC was Oberliga Süd champion in 1956, 1958 and 1960, as well as runner-up in the DFB-Pokal in 1960, when they lost the final match 2–3 to Borussia Mönchengladbach. Their record earned them admission as one of sixteen founding clubs into Germany's new professional football league, the Bundesliga, when it began play in 1963.
Karlsruhe struggled in the top flight, never managing better than a 13th-place finish over five seasons before finally being demoted to the second-division
The Schäfer era
Under the guidance of new coach
As the millennium drew to a close, Karlsruhe faded.[
After relegation from the Bundesliga in 1998
KSC finished fifth in their first season in the 2. Bundesliga after relegation, only two points behind third-place SSV Ulm 1846 which was promoted to the Bundesliga. However, a last place finish in a terrible[according to whom?] 1999–2000 season played under dire[tone] financial circumstances dropped them down to the Regionalliga Süd (III). The club rebounded[vague] and on the strength of a first-place result in the Regionalliga made a prompt[tone] return to second division play. After four seasons of mediocre[according to whom?] play that saw KSC narrowly avoid being sent further down,[vague] the team turned in a much-improved[according to whom?] performance and earned a sixth-place result in 2005–06.
From 2007
KSC secured the 2007 2. Bundesliga title with three games left in the season by way of a 1–0 victory over SpVgg Unterhaching on 29 April, combined with a draw by second-placed Hansa Rostock on 30 April.[2] KSC maintained its dominance over the course of the season, playing 14 matches (nine wins, five draws) before suffering[tone] their first loss of the campaign at the hands of Erzgebirge Aue. They are[vague] the first team in the history of the single-division 2. Bundesliga to occupy the top spot throughout the whole season.
In their return season to the Bundesliga in 2007–08 they finished 11th, fading in the second half of the year after a strong[
The club successfully bounced back[tone] in 2012–13 when it won a championship in the 3. Liga and earned promotion back to the 2. Bundesliga.
2014–15 would see the club come close to a return to the Bundesliga, a third-place finish would see them play a promotion play-off against Hamburg, and after a 1–1 draw in Hamburg in the first leg, KSC were seconds away from promotion, only for Hamburg to score an equaliser in the 90th minute to force extra time, where they would score a winning away goal late in the second half to secure their Bundesliga status for another season.[3]
In 2019, Karlsruhe won 4–1 against Preußen Münster on matchday 31,[4] therefore returning to the 2. Bundesliga after a hiatus of two years.
Reserve team
The Karlsruher SC II, historically also referred to as Karlsruher SC Amateure, is a successful side in its own right,[according to whom?] playing for many years as high up as the Regionalliga Süd. At the end of the 2011–12 season, the team was forcefully relegated to the Oberliga because of the relegation of the first team to the 3. Liga as reserve teams of 3. Liga clubs are not permitted in the Regionalliga anymore from 2012.[vague][citation needed] The team had suffered[tone] a similar fate in 2000, when the first team was relegated to the Regionalliga Süd and the reserve team therefore had to leave this league despite finishing above the relegation ranks.
Between 1991 and 2000, the team also won the
After many restrained years,[vague] in which the targeted promotion was clearly missed,[according to whom?] the already greatly reduced second team was discontinued for financial reasons at the end of the 2017–18 Oberliga season.[6] However, KSC reopened its second team as a fans' team for the 2019–20 season and entered the Kreisklasse C, the lowest level of league football in Karlsruhe and North Baden.[7]
League timeline
Honours
The club's honours:
League
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CupInternational
Reserve team
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- All pre-1952 titles listed here were won by Phönix Karlsruhe.[citation needed]
Players
Current squad
- As of 23 January 2024[8]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Out on loan
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Reserve team squad
Coaching staff
Position | Name |
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Head coach | Christian Eichner |
Assistant head coach | Zlatan Bajramović |
Assistant coach | Sirus Motekallemi |
Goalkeeper coach | Markus Miller |
Fitness coach | Florian Böckler |
Rehab coach | Wendelin Wäcker |
Team Doctor | Dr. Marcus Schweizer |
Physiotherapist | Matteo Poppert Kevin Benz |
Kit man | Torsten Merkel Cafer Aydogan |
Laundry | Gloria Schorb |
Bus Driver | Thomas Laschuk Andreas Heinrich |
Technical Director | Necat Aygün |
Youth Chief Scout | Sebastian Freis |
Team Manager | Burkhard Reich Sarah Saliba |
Coaching history
Coaches of the club since 1952:[9]
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Recent seasons
The recent season-by-season performance of the club:[10][11]
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Karlsruher SC
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Karlsruher SC II
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- 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. In 2012, the number of Regionalligas was increased from three to five with all Regionalliga Süd clubs except the Bavarian ones entering the new Regionalliga Südwest.[citation needed]
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References
- ^ "Beirat: KSC - MEINE HEIMAT".
- ^ "Bundesliga – Die offizielle Seite". bundesliga.de – die offizielle Webseite der Bundesliga.
- ^ Hamburg, Hamburger Abendblatt- (26 April 2017). "Was der HSV mit dem rasanten Absturz des KSC zu tun hat". abendblatt.de (in German). Retrieved 2 April 2019.
- ^ "LIVE! Preußen Münster – Karlsruher SC, 3. Liga, Saison 2018/19, 37. Spieltag". kicker (in German). Retrieved 11 May 2019.
- ^ DFB-Pokal (in German) Weltfussball.de. Retrieved 11 January 2015
- ^ ka-news (6 March 2018). "Bittere Entscheidung im Wildpark: KSC meldet zweite Mannschaft ab!". ka-news.de (in German). Retrieved 4 June 2018.
- ^ "KSC II feiert Rückkehr als Fanmannschaft". KSC.de (in German). Karlsruher SC. 12 June 2019.
- ^ "Kader: KSC". Karlsruher SC (in German). Retrieved 10 October 2023.
- ^ "Karlsruher SC .:. Trainer von A-Z" (in German). weltfussball.de. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ^ "Historical German domestic league tables" (in German). Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ^ "Tables and results of all German football leagues" (in German). Fussball.de. Archived from the original on 18 May 2011. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ^ a b 30 Jahre Bundesliga (1963–1993), DFB special edition booklet
External links
- Official website
- Karlsruher SC at Weltfussball
- Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables (in German)