FC Hansa Rostock🔵🔴
🛳️The traders of the Hanseatic League | career mode idea
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Backstory:
The Fußballclub Hansa Rostock is a football club based in Rostock, Germany. The team was founded three days after Christmas Day of 1965, even though the initial foundation was in 1954, they had some problems to be recruited from local enterprise sports communities, so they transferred from Lauter to their current position. During the years before 1965, they saw lots of changes, for example about the name and the administration.
Think that they were designated as one of the country’s 11 dedicated football clubs intended to grow talents for the development of a strong East German national team.
By the 1970s, the club was consistently recording bad results, then they met relegation to the second division DDR-Liga.
They returned to win in the 1980s and as the leagues of West Germany and East Germany were merged, Rostock won their first national championship. This is the most important title ever won.
The club’s successes earned them a place in Bundesliga. Hansa, however, was unable to stay up and was relegated.
After three seasons in the 2. Bundesliga they came back to Bundesliga and stayed there for ten years, the team’s best results were a pair of sixth-place finishes. Despite low performances, the team confirmed itself as the only former East German team able to challenge the wealthy clubs of the West.
On 1 December 2002, Rostock became the first club to play with six foreigners from the same country (Sweden) in a Bundesliga match.
The real problems arrived in the first years of the 21st century, the main reason was their financial state, like other East German teams, because they were victims of a tough economic reality: the richest western teams bought the most talented eastern footballers while their clubs struggled to survive financially.
They bought the Finnish icon Jari Litmanen too, but he wasn’t enough.
Nowadays, after almost ten years in the third German division, they got promoted to the second division and are playing a quite good season, indeed they’re now 9th in the standings.
Today’s challenge is based on the city of Hansa: Rostock. This used to be a very important city in the XII century because it was a part of the Hanseatic League.
For those who don’t know what it is, it was a coalition between several cities that in the late Middle Ages and until the beginning of the Modern Era maintained a monopoly of trading over a large part of Northern Europe and the Baltic Sea (for this reason, the club have a ship on their logo).
The states involved in this league were: Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Russia.
Here are all the rules, tips and objectives that you have to follow:
🔄Transfers:
• You can only buy players from Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Russia and in your final XI start you must have a player from each of these nationalities (to make it easier you don’t have to have players from Estonia, Latvia and Russia);
• For each market window you have to do at least 3 transfers, which can be both purchases and sales (loans are accepted), because Rostock was an important city of trade.
📈Development:
• At least five of your players in the final XI start have to be from your youth academy, the regens don’t count;
• Given that the team were tasked grow talents for the development of a strong German national team, three of your German players have to be called up for the 2026 World Cup.
🎯Objectives:
• Whenever you want, you have to play a full match with at least six players from Sweden in the starting lineup, as the team did in 2002. If you want to make it harder, win it too;
• For the first two years you have to organise the team, financial resources etc… for the Bundesliga and already prepare a possible final XI start;
• In the third season try to reach a medium-high ranking in Bundesliga, so try to reach the UEL or UECL (if you can, the next year you have to do your best);
• In the fourth season try to win a domestic cup and fight for the qualification of the UCL;
• In the fifth season win a domestic cup or the Bundesliga and qualify for the UCL;
• In the sixth or seventh season win everything.
💡Tips:
• Try to search for a goalkeeper in Estonia or Latvia from the youth academy;
• Use as a manager Felix Magath, Florian Kohfeldt (tutorial for the face), Markus Gisdol or Josef Zinnbauer because all of them used to coach Hamburger SV or Werder Bremen, teams located in the cities that were the most influential during the Hanseatic League.
👍Useful info:
Ovr attack: 69
Ovr midfield: 67
Ovr defence: 67
Average ovr: 68
😈Rival: St. Pauli
🏟️Stadium: Ostseestadion (without licence)
💰Transfer budget: €5.4M
🤑Club Worth: €12.9M
🔝Best player: M. Kolke (72 OVR)
🌟Best talent: R. van Drongelen (POT 76)
👶Average age: 26 y.o.
List of players to buy that could be useful:
*you don’t have to buy them, they’re only a suggestion
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