Hannover 96

Hannover 96
	Hannover 96 Logo.svg
Full name	Hannoverscher Sportverein von 1896
Founded	1896
Ground	Heinz von Heiden Arena; (capacity: 49,000)
Chairman	Sebastian Kramer
Manager	[[ Christian Titz]]
League	2. Bundesliga
2024-25	2. Bundesliga, 9th

Hannover 96, also sometimes called Hanover 96 in English,^[1]^[2] is 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 Heinz von Heiden 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 Bundesliga and two years 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, former German national goalkeeper.

The coach of the football team (April 2026) is Christian Titz, the club's president is Sebastian Kramer.

Current squad

As of 14 January 2026

No.		Position	Player
1	GK	Germany	Nahuel Noll (on loan from TSG Hoffenheim)
3	DF	Germany	Boris Tomiak
4	DF	Germany	Hendry Blank (on loan from Red Bull Salzburg)
5	DF	Romania	Virgil Ghiță (vice-captain)
6	DF	Poland	Maik Nawrocki (on loan from Celtic)
7	FW	Sierra Leone	Mustapha Bundu
8	MF	Germany	Enzo Leopold (captain)
9	FW	Finland	Benjamin Källman
10	FW	Germany	Noah Weißhaupt (on loan from SC Freiburg)
11	FW	Austria	Benedikt Pichler
13	MF	Germany	Franz Roggow
14	MF	Lebanon	Husseyn Chakroun
15	MF	Germany	Noël Aséko (on loan from Bayern Munich)
16	FW	Norway	Håvard Nielsen
17	DF	Germany	Bastian Allgeier
18	FW	Japan	Daisuke Yokota (on loan from Gent)

No.		Position	Player
19	DF	France	William Kokolo
20	DF	South Africa	Ime Okon
21	MF	Malawi	Mwisho Mhango
22	MF	Germany	Noah Engelbreth
23	MF	Iceland	Stefán Teitur Þórðarson
24	FW	Tunisia	Elias Saad (on loan from FC Augsburg)
26	MF	France	Waniss Taïbi
27	DF	Japan	Hayate Matsuda
29	MF	Sweden	Kolja Oudenne
30	GK	Germany	Leo Weinkauf
33	DF	Germany	Maurice Neubauer
34	FW	Germany	Denis Husser
37	DF	Germany	Brooklyn Ezeh
39	FW	Turkey	Taycan Kurt
40	GK	Germany	Jonas Schwanke