About Hertha BSC
Identity
Hertha Berliner Sport-Club e.V. — the full name carries the weight of history. Founded in 1892, reformed into its current shape in 1923, Hertha stands as a registered members' association rooted in Berlin. Not a corporation, not a holding company: a club, in the truest sense, built and sustained by its people.
Colours and badge
Blue and white. The colours trace back to the steamship Hertha, which carried the club's founders and their ambition across the water. The badge — simple, enduring — has meant Berlin football for over a century. Every stitch, every match, every season adds to that story.
More than the first team
Hertha is built on layers. The women's team carries the blue and white forward. The youth academy — Hertha BSC Nachwuchsleistungszentrum — has shaped generations of players, some of whom went on to represent Germany at international level. From academy to Olympiastadion, the path runs deep.
Voices across the decades
Hanne Sobek
Forward of the 1920s, a name woven into the club's earliest era. Sobek embodied the spirit of Hertha's formative years.
Otto Rehhagel
A stalwart defender in Hertha colours, later a voice that shaped German football as a national coach. The club bred both his discipline and his vision.
Marcelinho
The Brazilian playmaker who lit up Hertha in the 2000s. Technical brilliance, flair, the kind of talent that made Berlin stop and watch.
Pál Dárdai
Player. Then coach. His journey through Hertha spans two eras — he wore the shirt, then carried the weight of leading it. That continuity is rare and precious.
The capital city rivalry
Berlin has two sides. Hertha BSC and 1. FC Union Berlin. The derby between them is not a fixture to be endured — it is one of German football's fiercest, most unforgiving rivalries. Two clubs, one city, a rivalry etched into the ground itself.
Hertha carries the title of Hauptstadtclub — the capital's club. That name is not boastful. It is a statement of place, of history, of the weight that comes with representing Berlin on football's grandest stages. Every derby is a reckoning. Every blue-and-white shirt on that pitch answers to 130 years of this city's demands.