Hannover 96
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Hannover 96 ist a sports club in Hanover, a city in northern Germany.
The sports club was founded in 1896. Hannover 96 is famous for its football (AE: "Soccer") team that has almost always played in the first or second German football league (Except 1996-1998).
Hannover 96 was German Football Champion in 1938 and 1954 and German Cup winner in 1992. The club played eight seasons in European cup competitions (24 matches).
Home stadium of Hannover 96 is the AWD-Arena (capacity: 49.000).
In 1963 the German national Football League, the Fußball-Bundesliga was founded. Hannover 96 joined the Bundesliga in 1964 and played there for the following ten years. In the 1970s and 1980s the club went down to the second league and up again several times. In the 1990s Hannover 96 played eight seasons in the second Bundesligaand two tears in the third league, the Regionalliga Nord (1996-98).
Since 2002, Hannover 96 is (again) a member of the first German Football league, the Bundesliga.
Some famous players who have been in the team for a long time: Altin Lala Albanian national player, Steven Cherundolo, USA-national player, Robert Enke, German national goalkeeper (currently exchange keeper after Jens Lehmann and Timo Hildebrand).
The coach of the football team (April 2007) is Dieter Hecking, the club's president is Martin Kind.
Former Coaches: Peter Neururer 2006, Ewald Lienen 2005, Ralf Rangnick 2004, Horst Ehrmanntraut 2001, ......
