Werder Bremen
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| Full name | Sportverein Werder Bremen von 1899 e. V. |
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| Nickname(s) |
Die Werderaner (The River Islanders) Die Grün-Weißen (The Green-Whites) |
| Short name | Bremen |
| Founded | 4 February 1899 |
| Ground | Weserstadion |
| Capacity | 42,100 |
| President | Klaus-Dieter Fischer |
| Coach | Alexander Nouri |
| League | Bundesliga |
| 2015–16 | 13th |
| Website | Club home page |
Sportverein Werder Bremen von 1899 e. V. (German pronunciation: [ˈvɛʁdɐ ˈbʁeːmən]), commonly known as Werder Bremen, is a German sports club located in Bremen in the northwest German federal state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. The club was founded in 1899 and has grown to 40,400 members. It is best known for its association football team.
Bremen's football club has been a mainstay in the Bundesliga, the top league of the German football league system. Bremen have won the Bundesliga championship four times and the DFB-Pokal six times. Their latest Bundesliga championship came in 2004, when they won a double, their last win of the German cup came in 2009. Bremen have also had European success, winning the 1992 European Cup Winners' Cup. Bremen also reached the final match of the last edition of the UEFA Cup in 2009 (it was rebranded the UEFA Europa League the following season), During the mid-2000s, Bremen was one of the most successful teams in the Bundesliga, but the club has not played in a European competition since the 2010–11 campaign.
Since 1924, Werder Bremen's stadium is the Weserstadion. Werder Bremen's coach Viktor Skrypnyk was dismissed in September 2016. Werder Bremen has a rivalry with Hamburger SV, another Bundesliga club in northern Germany, known as the Nordderby (English: North derby).
The club was founded on 4 February 1899 as Fußballverein Werder by a group of 16 vocational high school students who had won a prize of sports equipment. The students took the club's name from the seldom-used regional German word for "river peninsula", which described the riverside field on which they played their first football games.
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