12 Facts About Hertha BSC

Hertha BSC'stha BSCrtha BSC was founded in 1892, and was a founding member of the German Football Association in Leipzig in 1900.

Club was formed in 1892 as BFC Hertha BSC 92, taking its name from a steamship with a blue and white smokestack; one of the four young men who founded the club had taken a day trip on this ship with his father.

The name Hertha BSC is a variation on Nerthus, referring to a fertility goddess from Germanic mythology.

In May 1910, Hertha BSC won a friendly match against Southend United, which was considered significant at the time, as England was where the game originated and English clubs dominated the sport.

However, their on-field success was not matched financially and in 1920 the staunchly working-class Hertha BSC merged with the well-heeled club Berliner Sport-Club to form Hertha BSC Berliner Sport-Club.

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Notwithstanding, Hertha BSC emerged as the Germany's second most successful team during the inter-war years.

At the time of the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963, Hertha BSC was Berlin's reigning champion and so became an inaugural member of the new professional national league.

When Hertha BSC was promoted in 1997, it ended Berlin's six-year-long drought without a Bundesliga side, which had made the Bundesliga the only top league in Europe without representation from its country's biggest city and capital.

However, Hertha BSC was eliminated in the first round of the UEFA Cup by Odense BK.

On 5 February 2015 Pal Dardai, Hertha BSC's longest serving and most capped player ever with 366 appearances took over as the manager of the main squad.

Since 1963, Hertha BSC has played its matches in Berlin's Olympiastadion, originally built for the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Missing out on a trend of promoting women's football, Hertha BSC became one of a decreasing number of major German football clubs left outside the top of women's football.