SC Hessen Dreieich

SC Hessen Dreieich

Full name	Sportclub Hessen Dreieich e.V.
Founded	20 June 2013
Ground	Sportpark Dreieich
Chairman	Reinhold Gerhardt
Manager	Lars Schmidt
League	Hessenliga
2018–19	Regionalliga Südwest (IV), 18th (relegated)
Website	https://www.hessen-dreieich.de
Home colours

SC Hessen Dreieich is a German association football club from the town of Dreieich, Hesse. The club's greatest success has been promotion to the fourth tier in 2018.

SC Hessen Dreieich was formed on 20 June 2013 to consolidate the local football clubs in the region after cuts in the community budged reduced the support for these by 20 percent. The new club had the support of Hans Nolte, owner of Hahn Air, who invested €2.5 million in a new stadium for the club. The new club took up the league place of the SKG Sprendlingen which had won promotion from the tier seven Gruppenliga to the Verbandsliga Hessen-Süd at the end of the 2012–13 season.^[1] A number of local clubs initially complained about the new club, coached by former Bundesliga player Thomas Epp, claiming it was poaching youth and senior players from them.^[2]

The new club finished ninth in the Verbandsliga in its first season and won the league the year after. Through this the club won promotion to the tier five Hessenliga for 2015–16.^[3] With Zubayr Amiri and Khaibar Amani the club had two players from the Afghanistan national football team in their squad in 2015–16.^[4]

On 15 March 2020, the club announced that it would initially withdraw its first team from competition with the end of the 2019–20 Hessenliga season. This decision was motivated by a desire to focus the club's activities and financial resources more towards its youth teams. Hessen Dreieich's spot in the league was to be filled by the newly founded International Soccer Club Rhein-Main (ISCRM).^[5] However, because of the coronavirus disease pandemic in Germany, the Hessian Football Association froze ISCRM's application to join the Hessenliga on 27 April and Dreieich had to continue participating in the league for 2020–21.^[6]

As of 25 September 2018^[7]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  GER Pierre Kleinheider 3 DF  GER Jörn Kohl 4 DF  SRB Ljubisa Gavric 5 DF  KOS Alban Lekaj 6 MF  GER Daniel Henrich 7 MF  AFG Zubayr Amiri 8 MF  AFG Abassin Alikhil 9 FW  GER Kai Hesse 10 MF  CRO Toni Reljic 14 MF  GER Danny Klein 15 DF  MNE Dennis Taljan 16 MF  GER Can Cemil Özer 17 FW  GER Enis Bunjaki 18 MF  GER Denis Streker 19 DF  GER Loris Weiss

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 MF  GER Keanu Hagley 21 DF  GER Dominic Rau 22 MF  GER Fidan Salii 23 FW  CRO Tino Lagator 25 DF  CIV Constant Djakpa 27 DF  ANG Eduardo Landu 28 DF  MAR Mohamed Boukayouh 29 DF  GER Niko Opper 30 MF  GER André Fliess 31 MF  GER Uwe Hesse 32 MF  GER Nico Seegert 33 GK  GER Marcel Czirbus 37 MF  GER Kevin Pezzoni 44 GK  GER Pascal Bertram

The club's honours:

• Hessenliga
  • Champions: 2016–17, 2017–18
• Verbandsliga Hessen-Süd
  • Champions: 2013–14

The season-by-season performance of the club:^[3][8]

• Official team site (in German)
• SC Hessen Dreieich at Weltfussball.de (in German)