SV Elversberg

SV Elversberg
Full name	Sportvereinigung 07 Elversberg e.V.
Founded	1907
Ground	Waldstadion an der Kaiserlinde
Capacity	10,000
Chairman	Dieter-Niklas Grünwald
Manager	Horst Steffen
League	2. Bundesliga
2023–24	2. Bundesliga, 11th of 18
Website	sv07elversberg.de
	Current season

SpVgg 07 Elversberg is a German association football club, located in Spiesen-Elversberg, Saarland. The club plays in 2. Bundesliga from 2023 to 2024 after promotion from 3. Liga in 2022–23.

History

The club was founded in 1907 as FC Germania Elversberg. It was dissolved in 1914, but then re-constituted in 1918 as Sportvereinigung VfB Elversberg, spending a season in the tier-one Kreisliga Saar in 1921–22. After World War II a number of local associations came together to form Sportgemeinde Elversberg. The current club became independent of SG as SV Elversberg VfB 07 in 1952. From 1951 to 1960 SV played in the Amateurliga Saarland (III), but then disappeared into tier IV and V football until 1980 when they re-emerged in the Amateur Oberliga Südwest (III) for a span of seven seasons. After nearly another decade spent between the Verbandsliga Saarland (IV) and the Landesliga Saarland/Nordost (V) the club returned to tier III football in the Regionalliga West/Südwest.

Since 1998, SV Elversberg has played in the Regionalliga Süd (III) as a lower table side. For the 2008–09 season, the club belonged to the new Regionalliga West where it stayed until 2012 when it became part of the new Regionalliga Südwest. In 2012–13, the club finished runners-up in the new league and qualified for the promotion play-off to the 3. Liga where it overcame the reserve team of TSV 1860 München to earn promotion to this league.

SV Elversberg lasted for only one season in the 3. Liga, suffering relegation alongside fellow Saar side 1. FC Saarbrücken back to the Regionalliga. They finished runners-up in the Regionalliga Südwest in 2015–16 but lost to FSV Zwickau in the promotion play-off and had to remain in the league. The following season, they won the league but were denied promotion by SpVgg Unterhaching, who beat them 5–2 on aggregate in another promotion play-off.

Promotion Success

In the 2021–22 season, SV Elversberg finished first in the Regionalliga Südwest to promote to the 3. Liga.^[1]

In the 2022–23 season, SV Elversberg secured promotion to the 2023–24 2. Bundesliga for the first time ever in history on 21 May 2023, before they managed to win the league on the final matchday following a 2–1 victory over Ingolstadt.^[2]

At the end of the 23-24 season, Elversberg finished in 11th place.

Honours

League

3. Liga
- Champions: 2023
Regionalliga Südwest (IV)
- Champions: 2017, 2022
- Runners-up: 2013, 2016
Oberliga Südwest (IV)
- Champions: 1996, 1998
Verbandsliga Saarland (IV)
- Champions: 1980, 1994, 2008 (reserve team)

Cup

Saarland Cup
- Winners: 2009, 2010, 2015, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
- Runners-up: 1979, 1982, 2004, 2014, 2016, 2019

Recent managers

Recent managers of the club:^[3]

Manager	Start	Finish
Brent Goulet	13 April 2004	10 March 2008
Đurađ Vasić	11 March 2008	6 October 2009
Günter Erhardt	15 October 2009	26 September 2011
Jens Kiefer	27 September 2011	22 August 2013
Dietmar Hirsch	2 September 2013	14 April 2014
Roland Seitz	14 April 2014	31 May 2014
Willi Kronhardt	1 June 2014	7 May 2015
Stefan Minkwitz	7 May 2015	30 June 2015
Michael Wiesinger	1 July 2015	30 June 2017
Karsten Neitzel	1 July 2017	11 March 2018
Roland Seitz	11 March 2018	29 October 2018
Horst Steffen	1 November 2018	present

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:^[4]^[5]^[6]

SV Elversberg

Season	Division	Tier	Position
1999–2000	Regionalliga West/Südwest	III	12th
2000–01	Regionalliga Süd		14th
2001–02	Regionalliga Süd		11th
2002–03	Regionalliga Süd		14th
2003–04	Regionalliga Süd		12th
2004–05	Regionalliga Süd		10th
2005–06	Regionalliga Süd		9th
2006–07	Regionalliga Süd		9th
2007–08	Regionalliga Süd		15th
2008–09	Regionalliga West	IV	11th
2009–10	Regionalliga West		7th
2010–11	Regionalliga West		12th
2011–12	Regionalliga West		13th
2012–13	Regionalliga Südwest		2nd ↑
2013–14	3. Liga	III	18th ↓
2014–15	Regionalliga Südwest	IV	3rd
2015–16	Regionalliga Südwest		2nd
2016–17	Regionalliga Südwest		1st
2017–18	Regionalliga Südwest		5th
2018–19	Regionalliga Südwest		4th
2019–20	Regionalliga Südwest		3rd
2020–21	Regionalliga Südwest		2nd
2021–22	Regionalliga Südwest		1st ↑
2022–23	3. Liga	III	1st ↑
2023–24	2. Bundesliga	II	11th
2024–25	2. Bundesliga	II

SV Elversberg II

Season	Division	Tier	Position
2003–04	Kreisliga A Höcherberg	VIII	1st ↑
2004–05	Bezirksliga Ost	VII	2nd
2005–06	Bezirksliga Ost	VII	1st ↑
2006–07	Landesliga Nordost	VI	1st ↑
2007–08	Verbandsliga Saarland	V	1st ↑
2008–09	Oberliga Südwest		16th
2009–10	Oberliga Südwest		10th
2010–11	Oberliga Südwest		9th
2011–12	Oberliga Südwest		12th
2012–13	Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar		15th
2013–14	Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar		5th
2014–15	Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar		9th
2015–16	Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar		16th ↓
2016–17	Saarlandliga	VI	10th
2017–18	Saarlandliga		11th
2018–19	Saarlandliga		1st ↑
2019–20	Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar	V	3rd

With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier.

Key

↑ Promoted	↓ Relegated

Current squad

As of 30 August 2024^[7]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	GER	Frank Lehmann
2	DF	GER	Elias Baum (on loan from Eintracht Frankfurt)
3	DF	FRA	Florian Le Joncour
5	DF	GER	Frederik Jäkel (on loan from RB Leipzig)
6	DF	GER	Robin Fellhauer (captain)
7	MF	GER	Manuel Feil
8	MF	GER	Semih Sahin
10	FW	KOS	Fisnik Asllani (on loan from TSG Hoffenheim)
11	MF	GER	Luca Dürholtz
17	MF	GER	Frederik Schmahl
18	FW	GER	Mohammad Mahmoud
19	DF	GER	Lukas Pinckert
20	GK	AUT	Nicolas Kristof


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
21	MF	GER	Paul Stock
23	MF	GER	Carlo Sickinger
24	FW	GER	Luca Schnellbacher
25	MF	BUL	Lukas Petkov
26	DF	GER	Arne Sicker
27	FW	ERI	Filimon Gerezgiher
28	GK	GER	Tim Boss
29	MF	GER	Tom Zimmerschied
30	MF	GER	Muhammed Damar (on loan from TSG Hoffenheim)
31	DF	GER	Maximilian Rohr
32	MF	GER	Daniel Pantschenko
33	DF	GER	Maurice Neubauer

References

^ "SV Elversberg: Mit dem Aufstieg wächst die Arena". Saarbrücker Zeitung (in German). 15 May 2022. Archived from the original on 31 August 2022. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
^ "Sieg gegen Ingolstadt – SV Elversberg wird Meister". Saarbrücker Zeitung (in German). 27 May 2023. Archived from the original on 27 May 2023. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
^ SV 07 Elversberg .:. Trainer von A-Z Archived 20 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine (in German) weltfussball.de. Retrieved 14 July 2012
^ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv Archived 2 October 2018 at the Wayback Machine (in German) Historical German domestic league tables
^ Fussball.de – Ergebnisse Archived 18 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine (in German) Tables and results of all German football leagues
^ SV Elversberg II Archived 23 November 2015 at the Wayback Machine (in German) Fussball.de. Retrieved 4 November 2015
^ "Kader - First Team". sv07elversberg.de (in German). Sportvereinigung 07 Elversberg. Archived from the original on 25 August 2023. Retrieved 4 September 2023.

External links

Official website
SV 07 Elversberg at Worldfootball.net
Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables (in German)

[1] "SV Elversberg: Mit dem Aufstieg wächst die Arena". Saarbrücker Zeitung (in German). 15 May 2022. Archived from the original on 31 August 2022. Retrieved 31 August 2022.

[2] "Sieg gegen Ingolstadt – SV Elversberg wird Meister". Saarbrücker Zeitung (in German). 27 May 2023. Archived from the original on 27 May 2023. Retrieved 27 May 2023.

[3] SV 07 Elversberg .:. Trainer von A-Z Archived 20 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine (in German) weltfussball.de. Retrieved 14 July 2012

[4] Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv Archived 2 October 2018 at the Wayback Machine (in German) Historical German domestic league tables

[5] Fussball.de – Ergebnisse Archived 18 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine (in German) Tables and results of all German football leagues

[6] SV Elversberg II Archived 23 November 2015 at the Wayback Machine (in German) Fussball.de. Retrieved 4 November 2015

[7] "Kader - First Team". sv07elversberg.de (in German). Sportvereinigung 07 Elversberg. Archived from the original on 25 August 2023. Retrieved 4 September 2023.

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