Hamburg-Eimsbütteler
Ballspiel-Club von 1911 eV, or HEBC as they are often known, is a football club
based in the district of Eimsbüttel in the northern German city of Hamburg,
that was formed on August 13th 1911, as SC Elbe, before merging with other clubs three times in its first ten years of existence.
In 1913, Harvestehuder FC
joined forces to become Hamburg BC 1911, before being joined in 1919 by SC
Hansa 1911 Hamburg Vgg Hamburger BC 1911 Hansa 1911. However, a
year later, the club reverted to the title of Hamburg BC.
In 1921, Eimsbütteler
SC, which had been founded by disenfranchised members of SC Union 03 Altona to become
Hamburg-Eimsbütteler BC. During World War II, German football was divided into sixteen top-flight Gauligas under Third Reich rule. HEBC spent the 1944 season in the Gauliga Hamburg.
The club formed a wartime joint venture with Sport 01 Hamburg from 1943 to form KSG Eimsbüttel before HEBC Hamburg was re-formed in 1945, when the team played in Hamburg Klasse 1, one of the top-flight regional
leagues at the time, until 1947.
They then became members of Oberliga Nord, before the newly
formed Elbestaffel of the Fußball-Verbandsliga Hamburg was established. HEBC then dropped down to 1 Klasse and then the Bezirksklasse in 1948-49, before a further demotion to the Kreisklasse followed a couple of years later.
The club
reclaimed their Bezirksklasse place in 1953-54 before winning another promotion
in 1957 to Amateurliga Hamburg. In 1959-60, Hamburg-Eimsbütteler
were relegated once again. The introduction of the Bundesliga in 1963 ensured
that HEBC remained in the third tier and finished in mid-table of Landesliga
Hamburg in 1964-65 and the following three seasons.
The team narrowly escaped relegation in 1967-68 before going down at the end of the 1969-70 season to Verbandsliga Hamburg. HEBC dropped further down into local football before regaining their Verbandsliga fourth-tier place in 1987-88.
Their spell
lasted two seasons before returning to the Landesliga following the 1989-90
season. A return to the Verbandsliga was made following promotion in 1993-94.
After a tenth-place finish, HEBC ended bottom of the table in 1995-96.
By the time HEBC returned to the Verbandsliga, it had become the fifth tier in 2003. A series of mid-table seasons ensued before another relegation occurred in 2006-07. The club came back from the Bezirksliga to the now fifth tier, Landesliga Hamburg Hammonia Staffel in 2012-13.
HEBC went
back down in 2013-14 before recovering its status at the first attempt. A
third place was achieved in 2016-17 before the team romped to the Hammonia
title in 2017-18 to win promotion to Oberliga Hamburg, finishing in the
relegation places in their debut season.
The team recovered with the goals of Janosch Rinckens firing HBEC, with Jan Geist in the position of team trainer, to the top of the Landesliga Hamburg Hammonia table in 2019-20 when the COVID-19 pandemic halted the season. Their efforts were rewarded with promotion to the fifth-tier Oberliga Hamburg their reward.
Özden Kocadal was in charge of the side when things returned to normal, as ninth place was achieved in 2022-23. The goals of Patrick Meins helped HBEC to fifth the following season, backed up by a seventh-place finish in 2024-25. Philipp Oblock was appointed as trainer in the summer of 2025.
My visit
Thursday
14th March 2019
I’d arrived
on a flight to a grey, wet and cold Hamburg Airport, but I was still determined
to enjoy the afternoon before heading off to check in to my Altona hotel for a
three-day stay. SC Sperber had been the first port of call on my agenda in
Alsterdorf.
Once I’d
taken my photos, I took a U1 train towards Farmsen. Alighting at Jungfernstieg, I changed onto the U2 towards Niendorf Nord before getting out at Emilienstraße
to visit Hamburg-Eimsbütteler BC.
To find the
entrance to the Professor-Reinmüller-Platz ground, I
walked past the shops on Fruchtallee before taking a right turn along Heußweg.
The narrow Tornquiststraße was just off there, which ran down the side of the
ground.
Unfortunately,
the ground was locked, but I managed to get some photos through the wire
fencing after finding a way past trees and shrubbery. I did manage to get to
the clubhouse entrance behind the east goal.
Professor-Reinmüller-Platz
was very neat and tidy with its artificial surface and new concrete paths, but it only had a few steps of open terrace down either touchline in the way of spectator
accommodation.
My original
plan was to head to my hotel, but instead I decided to fit in another venue; Rudolf-Barth-Stadion,
the home of SC Union 03 Altona and their tenants HFC Falke. My trip was well
underway!
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