Hamburg-Eimsbütteler Ballspiel-Club () is a German

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Eimsbüttel Eimsbüttel () is one of the seven boroughs (Bezirke) of Hamburg, Germany. In 2020 the population was 269,118. History On March 1, 2008 Eimsbüttel lost part of its area to the borough Altona where it formed the Sternschanze quarter. Geography ...

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, Germany. The club is also known as HEBC Hamburg, HEBC and Hamburg-Eimsbütteler BC.

History

The club was founded in 1911 as SC Eibe. The club merged three times over ten years. First, they merged with Harvestehuder FC in 1912 to form Hamburger BC 1911. They had a failed merger with SC Hansa 1911 in 1919 then merged with Eimsbütteler SC in 1921 to form Hamburg-Eimsbütteler BC. They then merged with Sport 01 Hamburg during

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but re-formed as Hamburg-Eimsbütteler Ballspiel-Club after. During these years, they were mostly in the second division of the Fußball-Bezirksklasse Groß-Hamburg (Football district class Greater Hamburg). The club competed in the 1935 Tschammerpokal, but was eliminated by

Eimsbütteler TV Eimsbütteler Turnverband is a German sports club based in Eimsbüttel, Hamburg. Apart from football, the club also offers a variety of other sports, like basketball, volleyball, and fencing. The club's golden era was in the 1930s and early 1940s ...

, 7:3. The club played in the 1. Klasse Hamburg from 1945 to 1947, which was the second highest class of West German football. They were relegated in 1949 and had dropped down to the fourth division by 1951. The club made it back to the third division from 1954 to 1957 then made it to the second division until demotion in 1960. With the creation of the

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in 1963, they remained in the third division. The team made it to the finals of the

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in 1982–83 but were defeated by Hummelsbütteler SV in the penalty kick shootout. The team struggled in the decades after, often staying in the sixth division in the 1990s and 2000s. They were demoted to the 7th division in 2011 and had to fight off other demotion battles before eventually making it back to the fifth division in 2017–18, where they play today.

The club received the Uwe-Seeler-Preis erhalten (Uwe-Seeler-Prize) in 2016 for their contributions to youth football. Andy Grote and

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awarded the prize. The club's indoor soccer team competed for the Laubvogel Cup in 2017. The team hired Özden Kocadal as a head coach in 2019. HEBC made significant upgrades to their facilities in 2020, with the installation of LED's and floodlights. The club's main rival is

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, with matches between the clubs being considered a derby.

Honors

* Fußball-Bezirksklasse Groß-Hamburg :Champions: 1942–43 *

Verbandsliga Hamburg-Germania The Verbandsliga Hamburg-Germania was the fourth tier of the German football league system and the second-highest league in the German state of Hamburg, together with the Verbandsliga Hamburg-Hansa and Verbandsliga Hamburg-Hammonia, until its dis ...

:Champions: 1956–57

Notable players and staff

* Horst Haecks - Played for the club as a youth player and later played for

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. * Aferdita Kameraj - Played for the club as a youth player. She later played in the

Frauen-Bundesliga The Frauen-Bundesliga (German for ''Women's Federal League''), currently known as the FLYERALARM Frauen-Bundesliga for sponsorship reasons, is the top level of league competition for women's association football in Germany. In 1990 the German Foo ...

for

Hamburger SV Hamburger Sport-Verein e.V. (), commonly known as Hamburger SV () or Hamburg (), is a German sports club based in Hamburg, with its largest branch being its football section. Though the current HSV was founded in June 1919 from a merger of three ...

. *

Jörn Großkopf Jörn Großkopf (born 29 August 1966 is a German former Association football, football player and manager. He is currently in charge of FC Alsterbrüder. Playing career Großkopf, nicknamed ''"Krümel"'', was born in Hamburg. He made his Bundesl ...

- He played in the

for FC St. Pauli and later coached HEBC Hamburg from 2018 to 2019. *

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- Played for the club as a youth player and later played for the Germany youth football team. *

Thomas Wolter Thomas Wolter (born 4 October 1963) is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder or a defender, and the current manager of SV Werder Bremen's youth academy. Club career Born in Hamburg, Wolter arrived at SV Werder Brem ...

- Played for the club from 1979 to 1984 and made an appearance for the Germany national team. * Daniel Brückner - Played for the club from 2001 to 2004 and later played for

SC Paderborn Sport-Club Paderborn 07 e.V., commonly known as simply SC Paderborn 07 () or SC Paderborn, is a German association football club based in Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club has enjoyed its greatest successes since the turn of the mille ...

in the Bundesliga. * - He played for the club as a youth player and later played in the first division for

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and

Borussia Dortmund Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e. V. Dortmund, commonly known as Borussia Dortmund (), BVB (), or simply Dortmund (), is a German professional sports club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is best known for its men's professional footb ...

. * - He played for the club as a youth player and later played for

Werder Bremen Sportverein Werder Bremen von 1899 e. V. (), commonly known as Werder Bremen (), Werder or simply Bremen, is a German professional sports club based in Bremen, Bremen (state), Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. Founded on 4 February 1899, they are be ...

. * André Trulsen - He played for the club as a youth player and later played for FC St. Pauli and 1. FC Köln. He was later voted in as one of the best players in FC St. Pauli's history.

References

External links

Official Website
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