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Competing in the fifth tier just 20 years ago and led solely by local boy Frank Schmidt since 2007, find out more about the Bundesliga's 57th and newest club.
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May 29, 2023 · BERLIN (AP) — Little-known Heidenheim has seemingly come out of nowhere to reach the Bundesliga, a remarkable success for a town of just 50,000 inhabitants in the south of Germany. Two injury-time goals propelled Frank Schmidt’s team to promotion as second-division champion on Sunday.
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1. FC Heidenheim 1846 is a German professional association football club from the town of Heidenheim, Baden-Württemberg. The club currently plays in the Bundesliga, the top tier of the German football league system.
Sep 17, 2023 · Heidenheim win their first ever Bundesliga game on the day Frank Schmidt becomes the longest-serving manager in German history.
- Small Town, Big Dreams
- Big screen to The Big time?
- The Season So Far…
Located roughly between Stuttgart and Munich, close to Baden-Württemberg’s border with Bavaria, Heidenheim an der Brenz isn’t exactly a hotbed of German football. But that makes their rise – and promotion, if they clear the final hurdle – even more remarkable. According to the latest estimation (2021), the population of the town’s urban area is abo...
Over the past few years, behind-the-scenes documentaries covering football clubs seem to have enjoyed a surge in popularity. While in some cases they feel like PR exercises, particularly when focusing on bigger teams, the series do lend a certain degree of insight to the average football fan. Schmidt was a central part of such a documentary in 2013...
Promotion has looked a genuine possibility for much of this season for Heidenheim. They lost only two league games before February and have been beaten at home – the modest 15,000-seater Voith-Arena – once all campaign in the 2. Bundesliga. The 3-2 loss at Paderborn on 14 May put a spanner in the works, but Jan-Niklas Beste’s cool finish from Tim K...
Jun 19, 2023 · Against all odds, they triumphed and secured their first-ever promotion to the illustrious Bundesliga, unlike the Luton Town they were never a part of top division of football. Witness this remarkable tale of Heidenheim’s dramatic rise, defying conventions and etching their name in football history.
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Oct 25, 2024 · Heidenheim will be looking to bounce back from their defeat last time out in the Bundesliga when they host Hoffenheim at Voith-Arena on Sunday in their eighth league game of the season.
