Hannover 96

Hannover 96
Full name	Hannoverscher Sportverein von 1896
Founded	1896
Ground	HDI-Arena
Capacity	49,000
Chairman	Martin Kind
Manager	Taifun Korkut
League	Bundesliga
2014-15	Bundesliga, 15th

Hannover 96, also sometimes called Hanover 96 in English,^[1]^[2] is a sports club in Hanover, a city in northern Germany.

The sports club was founded in 1896. Hannover 96 is famous for its football (AE: "Soccer") team that has almost always played in the first or second German football league (Except 1996-1998).

Hannover 96 was German Football Champion in 1938 and 1954 and German Cup winner in 1992. The club played eight seasons in European cup competitions (24 matches).

Home stadium of Hannover 96 is the HDI-Arena (capacity: 49.000).

In 1963 the German national Football League, the Fußball-Bundesliga was founded. Hannover 96 joined the Bundesliga in 1964 and played there for the following ten years. In the 1970s and 1980s the club went down to the second league and up again several times. In the 1990s Hannover 96 played eight seasons in the second Bundesliga and two years in the third league, the Regionalliga Nord (1996-98).

Since 2002, Hannover 96 is (again) a member of the first German Football league, the Bundesliga.

Some famous players who have been in the team for a long time: Altin Lala Albanian national player, Steven Cherundolo, USA-national player, Robert Enke, former German national goalkeeper.

The coach of the football team (August 2014) is Taifun Korkut, the club's president is Martin Kind.

Former Coaches: Dieter Hecking 2009, Andreas Bergmann 2009, Peter Neururer 2006, Ewald Lienen 2005, Ralf Rangnick 2004, Horst Ehrmanntraut 2001, ......

References

↑ phttps://www.dw.com/en/hanover-96/a-2718395
↑ https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1SA0JP/

Other websites

Official website

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