Hertha Berlin 2015/2016 Away Shirt

HERTHA BERLIN - AWAY SHIRT 2015/2016

Hertha BSC are a Berlin-based German football club founded in 1892, making them one of the oldest sides in the country. Affectionately known as Die Alte Dame ("The Old Lady"), the capital club play their home matches at the Olympiastadion, the 74,475-capacity arena that hosted the 1936 Olympic Games and the 2006 FIFA World Cup final. Hertha lifted back-to-back German championships in 1930 and 1931 - long before the Bundesliga existed - and have spent the modern era as one of Berlin's two top-flight institutions.

The 2015/2016 campaign - during which this smart away shirt was worn - was the club's first full season under Hertha legend Pál Dárdai, the Hungarian who had made a club-record 286 Bundesliga appearances as a player. His organised, hard-working side spent the bulk of the autumn in the European places, even sitting third at the winter break, and eventually finished seventh in the Bundesliga on 50 points, qualifying for the 2016/2017 UEFA Europa League playoffs.

A deep DFB-Pokal run carried Hertha all the way to the semi-finals, where they were beaten 3-0 at home by Borussia Dortmund in front of a packed Olympiastadion. A stingy defence anchored by Norwegian goalkeeper Rune Jarstein conceded just 42 goals across the Bundesliga campaign - the 3rd best in the division.

Ivorian forward Salomon Kalou finished as the club's top scorer with 17 goals in all competitions (14 in the Bundesliga), the former Chelsea winger thriving in Dárdai's counter-attacking system. He was complemented by Bosnian striker Vedad Ibišević, who chipped in with 10 of his own after a summer move from Stuttgart, while left-back Marvin Plattenhardt's set-piece deliveries earned him his first Germany call-up - the start of a path that would lead to the Euro 2016 squad.

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