SV Elversberg explained

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

Cup

Recent managers

Recent managers of the club:[3]

ManagerStartFinish
Brent Goulet13 April 200410 March 2008
Đurađ Vasić11 March 20086 October 2009
Günter Erhardt15 October 200926 September 2011
Jens Kiefer27 September 201122 August 2013
Dietmar Hirsch2 September 201314 April 2014
Roland Seitz14 April 201431 May 2014
Willi Kronhardt1 June 20147 May 2015
Stefan Minkwitz7 May 201530 June 2015
Michael Wiesinger1 July 201530 June 2017
Karsten Neitzel1 July 201711 March 2018
Roland Seitz11 March 201829 October 2018
Horst Steffen1 November 2018present

Recent seasons

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

SV Elversberg

SeasonDivisionTierPosition
1999–2000Regionalliga West/SüdwestIII12th
2000–01Regionalliga Süd14th
2001–02Regionalliga Süd11th
2002–03Regionalliga Süd14th
2003–04Regionalliga Süd12th
2004–05Regionalliga Süd10th
2005–06Regionalliga Süd9th
2006–07Regionalliga Süd9th
2007–08Regionalliga Süd15th
2008–09Regionalliga WestIV11th
2009–10Regionalliga West7th
2010–11Regionalliga West12th
2011–12Regionalliga West13th
2012–13Regionalliga Südwest2nd ↑
2013–143. LigaIII18th ↓
2014–15Regionalliga SüdwestIV3rd
2015–16Regionalliga Südwest2nd
2016–17Regionalliga Südwest1st
2017–18Regionalliga Südwest5th
2018–19Regionalliga Südwest4th
2019–20Regionalliga Südwest3rd
2020–21Regionalliga Südwest2nd
2021–22Regionalliga Südwest1st ↑
2022–233. LigaIII1st ↑
2023–242. BundesligaII11th
2024–252. Bundesliga

SV Elversberg II

SeasonDivisionTierPosition
2003–04Kreisliga A HöcherbergVIII1st ↑
2004–05Bezirksliga OstVII2nd
2005–06Bezirksliga Ost1st ↑
2006–07Landesliga NordostVI1st ↑
2007–08Verbandsliga SaarlandV1st ↑
2008–09Oberliga Südwest16th
2009–10Oberliga Südwest10th
2010–11Oberliga Südwest9th
2011–12Oberliga Südwest12th
2012–13Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar15th
2013–14Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar5th
2014–15Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar9th
2015–16Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar16th ↓
2016–17SaarlandligaVI10th
2017–18Saarlandliga11th
2018–19Saarlandliga1st ↑
2019–20Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/SaarV3rd
Key
PromotedRelegated

Current squad

[7]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: SV Elversberg: Mit dem Aufstieg wächst die Arena . Saarbrücker Zeitung . de . 15 May 2022 . 31 August 2022 . 31 August 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220831210611/https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/sport/sz-sport/sv-elversberg-mit-aufstieg-in-3-liga-waechst-die-ursapharm-arena-das-ist-neu_aid-69472279 . live .
  2. Web site: Sieg gegen Ingolstadt – SV Elversberg wird Meister . Saarbrücker Zeitung . de . 27 May 2023 . 27 May 2023 . 27 May 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230527135958/https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/sport/sz-sport/sve/3-liga-sv-elversberg-besiegt-ingolstadt-und-wird-meister_aid-91166063 . live .
  3. http://www.weltfussball.de/teams/sv-07-elversberg/9/ SV 07 Elversberg .:. Trainer von A-Z
  4. http://www.f-archiv.de/ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
  5. http://www.fussball.de/fussball-ergebnisse-die-top-ligen-bei-fussball-de/id_45692854/index Fussball.de – Ergebnisse
  6. http://www.fussball.de/mannschaft/sv-elversberg-ii-sv-elversberg-saarland/-/saison/1516/team-id/011MICTS08000000VTVG0001VTR8C1K7#!/section/team-timeline SV Elversberg II
  7. Web site: Kader - First Team . sv07elversberg.de . Sportvereinigung 07 Elversberg . 4 September 2023 . de . 25 August 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230825095834/https://sv07elversberg.de/teams/profis/kader/ . live .