FC Alsterbrüder

FC Alsterbrüder
Club crest
Full nameFußball-Club Alsterbrüder von 1948 e.V.
Founded1948
GroundWalter-Wächter-Platz
Capacity1000
ManagerJörn Großkopf
LeagueOberliga Hamburg
2023/2414th

FC Alsterbrüder (full name Fußball-Club Alsterbrüder von 1948 e.V.) is a football club from the Hamburg-Eimsbüttel district in the eponymous borough. The first team was promoted to the fifth-tier Oberliga Hamburg in 2023.

History

FC Alsterbrüder was founded in 1948 as the Canoe-Club Alsterbrüder-Victoria. The name is based on a club of the same name founded in 1910, which in turn was a merger of the water sports department of the SC Victoria and the Canoe-Club Alsterbrüder. The renaming to the current name took place in 1954, after the water sports department had left the club.[1]

The teams of FC Alsterbrüder always played in the lower Hamburg amateur leagues until the first men's team were promoted to the Landesliga Hammonia at the end of the 2021/22 season. It was the first time the club played at the sixth-tier level.[2] With a win against Hausbruch-Neugrabener Turnerschaft two matchdays before the end of the 2022/23 season, they managed to gain promotion to the Oberliga Hamburg.[3] FC Alsterbrüder also reached the semi-finals of the Hamburger Pokal, where they were eliminated 0:7 by the Oberliga side TSV Sasel.[4]

Stadium

The home ground of FC Alsterbrüder is the Walter-Wächter-Platz in Eimsbüttel, named after the resistance fighter Walter Wächter. In 2018, club members had pushed through the renaming of the previously Gustav Falke-named sports facility due to Falke's nationalist and anti-French positions.[2] The Emilie-Wüstenfeld-Gymnasium is located in the immediate vicinity and shares the use of the sports ground.

References

  1. ^ Kreisliga: Für das Ende einer Rekordjagd hafo.de, 13 December 2015, accessed 14 April 2023.
  2. ^ a b Mit Hirn und Herz statt Geld: Das Fußball-Wunder der Alsterbrüder Norddeutscher Rundfunk, 10 April 2023, accessed 14 April 2023.
  3. ^ Durchmarsch geglückt: Alsterbrüder mit vorzeitigem Aufstieg am Opferberg! fussifreunde.de, 7 April 2023, accessed 14 April 2023.
  4. ^ Die „Klasse für sich" beendet das Märchen – doch Zankl will „auf ‚Malle' die Karten" für den „Skandal" legen! fussifreunde.de, 10 April 2023, accessed 31 May 2023.