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| Full name | Fußball-Club Alsterbrüder von 1948 e.V. | |
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| Founded | 1948 | |
| Ground | Walter-Wächter-Platz | |
| Capacity | 1000 | |
| Manager | Jörn Großkopf | |
| League | Landesliga Hammonia (VI) | |
| 2024–25 | Oberliga Hamburg, 16th of 18 (relegated) | |
FC Alsterbrüder (full nameFußball-Club Alsterbrüder von 1948 e.V.) is afootball club from theHamburg-Eimsbüttel district in theeponymous borough. The first team was promoted to the fifth-tierOberliga Hamburg in 2023.
FC Alsterbrüder was founded in 1948 as theCanoe-Club Alsterbrüder-Victoria. The name is based on a club of the same name founded in 1910, which in turn was a merger of thewater sports department of theSC Victoria and the Canoe-Club Alsterbrüder. The renaming to the current name took place in 1954, after thewater sports department had left the club.[1]
The teams of FC Alsterbrüder always played in the lower Hamburg amateur leagues until the first men's team were promoted to theLandesliga Hammonia at the end of the 2021/22 season. It was the first time the club played at the sixth-tier level.[2] With a win against Hausbruch-Neugrabener Turnerschaft two matchdays before the end of the 2022/23 season, they managed to gain promotion to theOberliga Hamburg.[3] FC Alsterbrüder also reached the semi-finals of theHamburger Pokal, where they were eliminated 0:7 by the Oberliga sideTSV Sasel.[4]
The home ground of FC Alsterbrüder is the Walter-Wächter-Platz in Eimsbüttel, named after the resistance fighterWalter Wächter. In 2018, club members had pushed through the renaming of the previouslyGustav Falke-named sports facility due to Falke's nationalist and anti-French positions.[2] TheEmilie-Wüstenfeld-Gymnasium is located in the immediate vicinity and shares the use of the sports ground.
