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Gender:Male

Est:1903

Players:2

Carl Zeiss Jena

Also known as: FC Carl Zeiss Jena, FCCZJ

📍 Jena, Germany, Germany•German Regionalliga Nordost

ID: team_137960

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FC Carl Zeiss Jena is a German football club based in Jena, Thuringia. Formed in 1903 and initially associated with the Carl Zeiss AG factory, they were one of the strongest clubs in East Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s, winning the DDR-Oberliga and the FDGB-Pokal three times each and reaching the 1981 European Cup Winners' Cup Final. Since German reunification in 1990, the club have competed no higher than the second tier. In the 2020–21 season, Jena are playing in the Regionalliga Nordost.

City:Jena, Germany

Country:Germany

Stadium:Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld

Capacity:13,000

Home Venue

Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld

Capacity:13,000

Location:Jena, Germany

Ernst Abbe Sportfeld is a sports facility in Jena, Germany. It was dedicated on August 24, 1924 and was named after entrepreneur Ernst Abbe 15 years later. The facility is in southern Jena, directly on the Saale River. The City of Jena purchased the stadium from the Ernst-Abbe-Stiftung (The Ernst Abbe Foundation) in 1991.