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Karlsruher SC is a Germany football (soccer) List of football clubs in Germany, based in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg.
KSC rose out of the consolidation of a number of predecessor clubs. They currently play in the Fußball-Bundesliga, having been promoted from the 2. Fußball-Bundesliga in 2007.
History
A succession of mergers
The most successful of these ancestral clubs was
Karlsruher Fussball Club Phönix, formed on June 6, 1894 by dissatisfied members of the gymnastics club
Karlsruher Turngemeinde. They quickly became a strong regional side, playing in the Südkreis-Liga, and captured the national title in 1909, defeating defending champions
Viktoria 89 Berlin 4-2 in the championship final that season. In 1912,
Phönix merged with
KFC Alemannia, established in 1897, to create
KFC Phönix (Phönix Alemannia).
A lower-table side through the 30s
VfBs performance improved considerably in the following decade. As war overtook the country, the Gauliga Baden was sub-divided at various times into a number of more local city-based circuits and Karlsruher SC II was able to earn three second place finishes in divisional play. The Gauliga Baden collapsed in 1944-45 after playing a significantly reduced schedule in which many teams, including Mühlburg were unable to compete. After the war Karlsruher SC II slipped from top-flight competition until earning promotion to the Oberliga Süd (1945-63) in 1947. They generally competed as a mid-table side here with the exception of a strong performance in 1951 when they narrowly missed an advance to the national championship rounds after earning a third place result just a single point behind SpVgg Fürth.
The formation of Karlsruher SC
KFC Phoenix and
VfB Mühlburg united to form the current club,
Karlsruher Sport-Club Mühlburg-Phönix e. V., on October 16, 1952 and the new team earned good results throughout the remainder of the decade. In 1955, they beat
FC Schalke 04 3-2 to win the German Cup, 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 German Cup 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 (football), 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 Regionalliga Süd (1963-74). Over the next three seasons, Karlsruher SC II earned a first-place finish as well as two second-place finishes there, but were unable to advance in the promotion rounds. After the 1974 formation of the 2nd Bundesliga (football), which consisted of two divisions at the time,
KSC finished first in the 2nd Bundesliga Süd and returned to the top flight for the 1975-76 season, but were able to stay up for only two years. They next returned to the first division in 1980 where they spent four seasons before being sent down again. After a two-year absence they fought their way back to the Bundesliga in 1987 to begin an extended stay.
The Schäfer era
Under the guidance of new coach Winfried Schäfer,
KSCs return to the top flight was marked with some success as for the first time Karlsruher SC II managed to work its way out of the bottom half of the league table. In the 1993-94 season, Karlsruher SC II had a successful run in the UEFA Cup, going out in the semi-finals on away goals to Austria Salzburg after beating, in turn, PSV Eindhoven, Valencia CF, Girondins Bordeaux and Boavista Porto. Their stunning 7-0 second-round victory over Valencia, a top team in the Spain La Liga at the time and in historical terms as well, might be considered the high point of Karlsruher SC II's history in its centennial year. Between 1992 and 1997, Karlsruher SC II was ranked in the single digits in six consecutive Bundesliga seasons and also participated in two more UEFA Cups, reaching the third round both in the 1996-97 and 1997-98 seasons, being eliminated from the competition after losing their second-leg matches to Brøndby IF and FC Spartak Moscow respectively. In 1995, KSC won the DFB-Hallenpokal, an indoor football tournament that was traditionally held during winter breaks of the Bundesliga seasons. They also played in the final of the German Cup in 1996, but lost 0-1 to 1. FC Kaiserslautern.
As the millennium drew to a close, Karlsruhe faded. Karlsruher SC II started the 1997-98 Bundesliga season well, with two wins and a draw in their opening three matches, but their downfall began with a 1-6 defeat to Bayer Leverkusen on Day 4. At the league winter break Karlsruher SC II sat outside the relegation ranks, but a series of negative results pushed them down to 15th place until the second-last matchday of the season. Schäfer was fired in March 1998, but this did not keep Karlsruher SC II from slipping to the Second Bundesliga after a 16th-place finish. Karlsruher SC II needed an away draw against FC Hansa Rostock on the final day of the season to avoid relegation, but lost the match 2-4 while Borussia Mönchengladbach beat VfL Wolfsburg 2-0 to overtake KSC and finish 15th on goal difference.
After relegation from the Bundesliga in 1998
KSC finished fifth in their first season in the 2nd 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 1999-2000 season played under dire financial circumstances dropped them down to the Regionalliga (football) (III). Karlsruher SC II rebounded and on the strength of a first place result in the Regionalliga made a prompt return to second division play. After four seasons of mediocre play that saw
KSC narrowly avoid being sent further down, Karlsruher SC II turned in a much-improved performance and earned a sixth place result in 2005-06.
Current
KSC secured the 2007 2. Fußball-Bundesliga title with a 1-0 victory over SpVgg Unterhaching on April 29, combining with a Hansa Rostock draw on April 30.
FC Hansa Rostock. They are the first team in the history of the one-tier 2nd Bundesliga to occupy one of the top spots throughout the whole season.
In their return season to the Bundesliga in 2007/08 they finished 11th, fading in the second half of the season after a strong start had seen them feature in the European places.
Honours
Karlsruher SC
- German champions: 1909 (as Phoenix Karlsruhe)
- German vice-champions: 1956
- German Cup winners: 1955, 1956
- German Cup finalists: 1960, 1996
- Südkreis-Liga (I) champions: 1909
- Bezirksliga Baden (I) champions: 1933
- 2. Fußball-Bundesliga champions: 1984, 2007
- Southern German championship: 1909, 1958, 1960, 1975
- Regionalliga Süd champions: 1969, 2001
- UEFA Cup: UEFA Cup 1993-94 (semifinals), UEFA Cup 1996-97 (third round), UEFA Cup 1997-98 (third round)
- UEFA Intertoto Cup: UEFA Intertoto Cup 1996
Karlsruher SC II
- North Baden Cup winners: 1991, 1994, 1996, 2000
League results
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Reserve team
The
Karlsruher SC II, historically also referred to as
Karlsruher SC Amateure, is a successful side in its own right, playing as high up as the
Regionalliga Süd, where it is currently, as of 2009-10, based.
Recent seasons
Honors
- Oberliga Baden-Württemberg (III-IV) champions: 1990, 1996, 2005
- Verbandsliga Nordbaden (IV-V) champions: 1983, 1989, 1994
- Amateurliga Nordbaden (III) champions: 1965
Players
For recent transfers, see List of German football transfers summer 2009.
Karlsruher SC II squad
As of July 21, 2009
Manager: Rainer Krieg
Notable players
- Serhat Akın
- Slaven Bilić
- Guido Buchwald
- Sean Dundee
- Melkam Gabriel
- Mario Eggimann
- Marco Engelhardt
- Giovanni Federico
- Thorsten Fink
- Clemens Fritz
- Thomas Häßler
- Michael Harforth
- Joshua Kennedy
- Oliver Kahn
- Adrian Knup
- Oliver Kreuzer
- Sergei Kiriakov
- Jens Nowotny
- Ivan Saenko
- Mehmet Scholl
- Edgar Schmitt
- Rainer Schuetterle
- Dragoslav Šekularac
- Michael Tarnat
- Edmond Kapllani
- Conor Casey
- David Regis
Coaches
- Hans Hipp - 16 October 1952 - 30 April 1953
- Friedel Moser - 1 May 1953 - 30 June 1953
- Adolf Patek - 1 July 1953 - 31 July 1956
- Ludwig Janda - 1 July 1956 - 30 June 1959
- Eduard Frühwirth - 1 July 1959 - 30 June 1962
- Kurt Sommerlatt - 1 July 1962 - 26 January 1965
- Helmut Schneider - 27 January 1965 - 18 October 1965
- Werner Roth (German football coach) - 19 October 1965 - 1 November 1966
- Paul Frantz - 2 November 1966 - 24 October 1967
- Georg Gawliczek - 25 October 1967 - 8 February 1968
- Herbert Widmayer - 10 February 1968 - 18 February 1968
- Bernhard Termath - 19 February 1968 - 30 June 1968
- Kurt Baluses - 1 July 1968 - 21 May 1971
- Carl-Heinz Rühl - 1 July 1973 - 30 June 1977
- Bernd Hoss - 1 July 1977 - 26 October 1977
- Rolf Schafstall - 27 October 1977 - 15 April 1978
- Walter Baureis - 1 July 1978 - 26 November 1978
- Manfred Krafft - 1 July 1978 - 30 June 1981
- Max Merkel - 27 November 1981 - 30 June 1982
- Horst Franz - 1 July 1982 - 31 January 1983
- Werner Olk - 1 July 1984 - 22 March 1985
- Lothar Buchmann - 26 March 1985 - 25 April 1986
- Winfried Schäfer - 1 July 1986 - 25 March 1998
- Jörg Berger - 25 March 1998 - 25 August 1998
- Rainer Ulrich - 26 August 1998 - 15 October 1999
- Joachim Löw - 28 October 1999 - 19 April 2000
- Stefan Kuntz - 1 July 2000 - 25 October 2002
- Lorenz-Günther Köstner - 1 November 2002 - 20 December 2004
- Reinhold Fanz - 28 December 2004 - 4 January 2005
- Edmund Becker - 13 January 2005 - current
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