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Karlsruher
Karlsruher
Full name Karlsruher Sport-Club Mühlburg-Phönix e. V.
Nickname(s) Eurofighter
Short name KSC
Founded 6 June 1894
Ground Wildparkstadion
(Capacity: 29,699)
Chairman Flag of Germany Holger Siegmund-Schultze
Head Coach Flag of Germany Christian Eichner
Current League 2. Bundesliga 
2022–23 2. Bundesliga, 7th
Website Club home page
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Karlsruher SC is a German association football club, based in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg. KSC rose out of the consolidation of a number of predecessor clubs. They currently compete in the 2. Bundesliga, Germany's second tier, and play their home games at Wildparkstadion.

History[]

A succession of mergers[]

The most successful of these ancestral clubs was Karlsruher Fussball Club Phönix, formed on 6 June 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).

It was as Phönix Karlsruhe that the club joined the Gauliga Baden, one of 16 top-flight divisions created in the re-organization of German football under the Third Reich. They slipped from the first division for a single season in 1936, but returned to compete as a mediocre side over the next several years. In the 1943–44 season, Karlsruhe played with Germania Durlach as the combined wartime side named KSG (Kriegssportgemeinschaft) Phönix/Germania Karlsruhe. After World War II in 1946, Phönix re-emerged to compete in the newly formed first division Oberliga Süd, finishing 15th in their first season there. The club was relegated the following season.

Two other threads in the evolution of KSC were the formation of FC Mühlburg in 1905 out of 1. FV Sport Mühlburg (founded in 1890) and Viktoria Mühlburg (founded in 1892), and the merger of FC Germania (founded in 1898) and FC Weststadt (founded in 1902) to form VfB Karlsruhe in 1911. FC Mühlburg and VfB Karlsruhe would in turn merge to form VfB Mühlburg in 1933. The group of clubs which came together to form VfB Mühlburg were an undistinguished lot, sharing just one season of upper-league play between them. The new side, however, started to compete in the first-division Gauliga Baden immediately after the league was established in 1933.

A lower-table side through the 1930s, VfB's 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 the team 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 the club slipped from top-flight competition until earning promotion to the Oberliga Süd 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.

Players[]

Current squad[]

As of 16 August 2022
No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Flag of Germany Kai Eisele
2 DF Flag of Germany Sebastian Jung
3 DF Flag of Jamaica Daniel Gordon
4 DF Flag of Germany Florian Ballas
5 DF Flag of Finland Daniel O'Shaughnessy
6 MF Flag of Germany Leon Jensen
7 FW Flag of Switzerland Simone Rapp
8 MF Flag of Germany Jérôme Gondorf (captain)
9 FW Flag of Turkey Malik Batmaz
10 MF Flag of Germany Marvin Wanitzek
11 MF Flag of South Korea Choi Kyoung-rok
14 FW Flag of Denmark Mikkel Kaufmann (on loan from Copenhagen)
15 DF Flag of Germany Stephan Ambrosius (on loan from Hamburger SV)
16 DF Flag of Germany Philip Heise
17 MF Flag of Germany Lucas Cueto
No. Pos. Nation Player
18 DF Flag of Germany Kilian Jakob
20 DF Flag of France Felix Irorere
21 DF Flag of Germany Marco Thiede
22 DF Flag of Austria Christoph Kobald
24 FW Flag of Germany Fabian Schleusener
26 FW Flag of Germany Paul Nebel (on loan from Mainz 05)
28 DF Flag of Germany Marcel Franke
29 GK Flag of Germany Max Weiß
31 MF Flag of Germany Tim Rossmann
35 GK Flag of Germany Marius Gersbeck
36 FW Flag of Austria Kelvin Arase
38 MF Flag of Germany Tim Breithaupt
39 MF Flag of Turkey Efe-Kaan Sihlaroglu
40 DF Flag of Serbia Lazar Mirković
41 DF Flag of Germany Luca Bolay


Out on loan[]

No. Pos. Nation Player
FW Flag of Germany Dominik Kother (at Waldhof Mannheim)

Reserve team squad[]

Main article:Karlsruher SC II

External links[]

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