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| Full name | Fußball-Club 08 Homburg-Saar e.V. | ||
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| Founded | 1908 | ||
| Ground | Waldstadion Homburg | ||
| Capacity | 16,488[1] | ||
| Chairman | Herbert Eder[citation needed] | ||
| Manager | Roland Seitz | ||
| League | Regionalliga Südwest (IV) | ||
| 2024–25 | Regionalliga Südwest, 8th of 18 | ||
Fußball-Club 08 Homburg or simplyFC Homburg is aGerman association football club based inHomburg, Saarland, that competes in theRegionalliga Südwest.
The club was founded on 15 June 1908 asFussball Club Homburg by a group of seventeen young men at the local Hohenburg pub.
In February 1913 they were renamedFussballverein Homburg and went on to take the local championship that season. By the mid-1920s the side was playing second-division football, but folded on 27 August 1936. A new multi-sport club known asVfL Homburg was formed 5 March 1937 out of a group of local sides that includedTurnverein 1878 Homburg,Schwimmverein Homburg,Kraftsportverein Homburg,Boxclub Homburg,Tennis-Club Homburg, as well as the former membership of the defunctFV. The footballers again took up play in second-tier competition and failed in two attempts (1938, 1941) to win their way through the regional promotion playoff to the first division Gauliga Südwest.
After World War II, Allied occupation authorities dissolved all types of associations in Germany, including football clubs. The club was soon re-constituted asSportverein Homburg and won a division championship in the Amateurliga Saarland (III) in 1948 before resuming the nameFC Homburg in January 1949.
The Saarland wasoccupied by the French who made various efforts to see the state become independent of Germany or join France. In sport this was manifested as separate 1952 Olympic and1954 World Cup teams for Saarland, the establishment of a short-lived football league for the state, and the German club1. FC Saarbrücken playing in the French second division.[citation needed]Homburg played in the Saarland Ehrenliga from 1949 to 1951 asFC Homburg-Saar.[citation needed] By the time of the 1951–52 season the return of German teams to theGerman Football Association had been negotiated: the Ehrenliga faded away and by 1956 the independent Saarland Fussball Bund had re-joined the DFB.
A second Amateurliga Saarland title in 1957 advancedFC to the 2. Liga-Südwest (II) and in December of that year they adopted the nameFC 08 Homburg/Saar. The club was relegated to the Amateurliga in 1960 which had become a fourth-tier circuit by 1963.
In the late 1970s, the team advanced to the quarter-finals of the DFB-Pokal on two occasions, and, on into the early 1980s, moved frequently between third- and fourth-tier play. In the second half of the decade the team was greatly successful. They played their way back to the second division and on into theBundesliga in 1986.Homburg played two seasons there, were relegated, and returned for one final Bundesliga season in 1989–90 before beginning a gradual descent which would lead them toOberliga Südwest (IV) where they play today.
The team was able to beat the famous clubFC Bayern Munich in Munich 4–2 after extra time in the first round of the1991–92 DFB-Pokal.[2] They were relegated from the2. Bundesliga after the 1994–95 season.
In 1988, the DFB prohibited the team from wearing the sponsorship logo of a condom manufacturer on ethical and moral grounds.[citation needed] In 1998, they entered into an agreement with1. FC Saarbrücken to loan players to that team to help improveHomburg's financial situation.[citation needed] In 1999, the club became close to bankruptcy, which led to them being denied a license to play in the Regionalliga West/Südwest (III) and demotion to the Oberliga Südwest (IV). The club qualified for the 2006–07 German Cup, exiting in the first round 1–2 to Bundesliga sideVfL Bochum.Homburg was finally promoted toRegionalliga West after finishing atop theOberliga Südwest ahead ofFK Pirmasens on a goal differential of plus 2 in the 2009–10 season. Their Regionalliga cameo ended with a 17th place finish and a return to fifth tier play.Homburg won the Oberliga Südwest title and qualified for theRegionalliga Südwest (IV) for 2012–13.
The club's honours:[citation needed]
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Recent managers of the club:[3]
| Manager | Start | Finish |
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| Christian Hock | 14 November 2010 | 21 April 2011 |
 Taifour Diane | 22 April 2011 | 30 June 2011 |
| Christian Titz | 1 July 2011 | 10 April 2014 |
| Sebastian Stache | 7 April 2014 | 21 April 2014 |
| Robert Jung | 22 April 2014 | 30 June 2014 |
| Jens Kiefer | 1 July 2014 | 14 April 2017 |
| Jürgen Luginger | 17 April 2017 | 30 June 2020 |
| Matthias Mink | 1 July 2020 | 17 February 2021 |
 Joti Stamatopoulos | 18 February 2021 | 8 March 2021 |
| Timo Wenzel | 9 March 2021 | 23 April 2023 |
| Sven Sökler | 24 April 2023 | 30 June 2023 |
| Danny Schwarz | 1 July 2023 | 3 December 2024 |
| Roland Seitz | 1 January 2025 | - |
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The recent season-by-season performance of the club:[4][5][6]
| Season | Division | Tier | Position |
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| 1984–85 | 2. Bundesliga | II | 16th |
| 1985–86 | 2. Bundesliga | II | 1st ↑ |
| 1986–87 | 1. Bundesliga | I | 16th |
| 1987–88 | 1. Bundesliga | I | 17th ↓ |
| 1988–89 | 2. Bundesliga | II | 2nd ↑ |
| 1989–90 | 1. Bundesliga | I | 18th ↓ |
| 1990–91 | 2. Bundesliga | II | 4th |
| 1991–92 | 2. Bundesliga | II | 6th |
| 1992–93 | 2. Bundesliga | II | 16th |
| 1993–94 | 2. Bundesliga | II | 10th |
| 1994–95 | 2. Bundesliga | II | 17th ↓ |
| 1999–2000 | Oberliga Südwest | IV | 3rd |
| 2000–01 | Oberliga Südwest | 4th | |
| 2001–02 | Oberliga Südwest | 9th | |
| 2002–03 | Oberliga Südwest | 12th | |
| 2003–04 | Oberliga Südwest | 4th | |
| 2004–05 | Oberliga Südwest | 4th | |
| 2005–06 | Oberliga Südwest | 2nd | |
| 2006–07 | Oberliga Südwest | 4th | |
| 2007–08 | Oberliga Südwest | 7th | |
| 2008–09 | Oberliga Südwest | V | 2nd |
| 2009–10 | Oberliga Südwest | 1st ↑ | |
| 2010–11 | Regionalliga West | IV | 17th ↓ |
| 2011–12 | Oberliga Südwest | V | 1st ↑ |
| 2012–13 | Regionalliga Südwest | IV | 14th |
| 2013–14 | Regionalliga Südwest | 11th | |
| 2014–15 | Regionalliga Südwest | 6th | |
| 2015–16 | Regionalliga Südwest | 6th | |
| 2016–17 | Regionalliga Südwest | 15th ↓ | |
| 2017–18 | Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar | V | 1st ↑ |
| 2018–19 | Regionalliga Südwest | IV | 3rd |
| 2019–20 | Regionalliga Südwest | 4th | |
| 2020–21 | Regionalliga Südwest | 7th | |
| 2021–22 | Regionalliga Südwest | 6th | |
| 2022–23 | Regionalliga Südwest | 4th | |
| 2023–24 | Regionalliga Südwest | IV | 5th |
| 2024–25 | Regionalliga Südwest | ongoing |
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