FC Astoria Walldorf
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Wikipedia - FC Astoria Walldorf
FC Astoria Walldorf is a German association football club from the town of Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg.
The club is named after John Jacob Astor, who was born in Walldorf in 1763 and later emigrated to the United States where he became a successful businessman. His descendants, founders of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, generously supported the town of Walldorf and the new football club, formed in 1908, was named Astoria in his honour.
History
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. 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.
Astoria Walldorfs hemmaarena är Dietmar-Hopp-Stadion, som har en kapacitet på 5 000 åskådare. Klubbens färger är blått och vitt.
Astorias största framgångar inkluderar att vinna Baden-Württembergs pokal 1997 och 2013 samt att nå DFB-Pokals andra omgång 2013/14.
Klubben har ett starkt ungdomsprogram och har producerat flera spelare som har gått vidare till att spela i högre divisioner, inklusive Timo Werner, Robin Koch och Nadiem Amiri.
Astoria Walldorf är en välskött klubb med en rik historia och en ljus framtid.