FC Hermannstadt

Not to be confused with FC Sibiu.
Hermannstadt
Full nameAsociația Fotbal Club Hermannstadt
Nickname(s)Roș-negrii (The Red and Blacks)
Sibienii (The Sibiu People)
Founded29 July 2015; 9 years ago (2015-07-29)[1]
GroundMunicipal
Capacity12,363
OwnerSibiu Municipality
ChairmanClaudiu Rotar
Head coachMarius Măldărășanu
LeagueLiga I
2023–24Liga I, 9th of 16
Websitehttps://fchermannstadt.ro/
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Current season

Asociația Fotbal Club Hermannstadt (German pronunciation: [ˈhɛʁmanʃtat]), commonly known as FC Hermannstadt, Hermannstadt, or familiarly as Sibiu (Romanian pronunciation: [siˈbiw]), is a Romanian professional football club based in the city of Sibiu (German: Hermannstadt), Sibiu County, that competes in the Liga I.

The team was established in 2015 and introduced in the fourth division, with Hermannstadt being the equivalent of the city's name in the standard German language (i.e. Hochdeutsch). Roș-negrii achieved successive promotions and in 2018 reached the Liga I, the highest level of the Romanian football league system.

During the same year, Hermannstadt also played a Cupa României final, which they lost 0–2 to Universitatea Craiova.

  1. ^ "ASOCIATIA FOTBAL CLUB HERMANNSTADT, SIBIU" (in Romanian). Pagini Aurii. Archived from the original on 26 August 2019. Retrieved 6 August 2017.