SV Elversberg

{{short description|German football club}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2023}}

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| fullname = Sportvereinigung 07 Elversberg e.V.

| image = SV Elversberg Logo 2021.svg

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| founded = 1907

| ground = UrsapharmArena

| capacity = 10,000

| chairman = Dieter-Niklas Grünwald

| manager = Horst Steffen

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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

File:SV Elversberg logo (old).svg

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.{{cite web |url=https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/sport/sz-sport/sv-elversberg-mit-aufstieg-in-3-liga-waechst-die-ursapharm-arena-das-ist-neu_aid-69472279 |title=SV Elversberg: Mit dem Aufstieg wächst die Arena |website=Saarbrücker Zeitung |language=de |date=15 May 2022 |access-date=31 August 2022 |archive-date=31 August 2022 |archive-url=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 |url-status=live }}

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.{{cite web |url=https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/sport/sz-sport/sve/3-liga-sv-elversberg-besiegt-ingolstadt-und-wird-meister_aid-91166063 |title=Sieg gegen Ingolstadt – SV Elversberg wird Meister |website=Saarbrücker Zeitung |language=de |date=27 May 2023 |access-date=27 May 2023 |archive-date=27 May 2023 |archive-url=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 |url-status=live }}

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

Honours

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Coaching staff

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Position

! Name

Manager

| {{flagicon|GER}} Horst Steffen

Assistant Manager

| {{flagicon|GER}} Rudi Thömmes

First-Team Coach

| {{flagicon|LUX}} Raphael Duarte

Goalkeeper Coach

| {{flagicon|GER}} Sascha Purket

Athletic Coach

| {{flagicon|GER}} Tobias Tröß

Match Analyst

| {{flagicon|GER}} Franz Dietrich

Sporting Director

| {{flagicon|GER}} Nils-Ole Book

Head of First-Team Football

| {{flagicon|POL}} David Blacha

Scout

| {{flagicon|GER}} Volker Ruoff

Doctor

| {{flagicon|GER}} Dr. Frank Krämer

Lead Physiotherapist

| {{flagicon|GER}} Melanie Hubert

Physiotherapist

| {{flagicon|GER}} Asbjörn Wieneke

Kit Manager

| {{flagicon|GER}} Volker Lefebre

Academy Manager

| {{flagicon|GER}} Francesco Notarrigo
{{flagicon|GER}} Andreas Hölscher

Recent managers

File:SV Elversberg logo.svg

Recent managers of the club:[http://www.weltfussball.de/teams/sv-07-elversberg/9/ SV 07 Elversberg .:. Trainer von A-Z] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140720053243/http://www.weltfussball.de/teams/sv-07-elversberg/9/ |date=20 July 2014 }} {{in lang|de}} weltfussball.de. Retrieved 14 July 2012

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! Manager

! Start

! Finish

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| align="left" | {{flagicon|USA}} Brent Goulet

| 13 April 2004

| 10 March 2008

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| align="left" | {{flagicon|Serbia}} Đurađ Vasić

| 11 March 2008

| 6 October 2009

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| align="left" | {{flagicon|GER}} Günter Erhardt

| 15 October 2009

| 26 September 2011

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| align="left" | {{flagicon|GER}} Jens Kiefer

| 27 September 2011

| 22 August 2013

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| align="left" | {{flagicon|GER}} Dietmar Hirsch

| 2 September 2013

| 14 April 2014

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| align="left" | {{flagicon|GER}} Roland Seitz

| 14 April 2014

| 31 May 2014

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| align="left" | {{flagicon|GER}} Willi Kronhardt

| 1 June 2014

| 7 May 2015

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| align="left" | {{flagicon|GER}} Stefan Minkwitz

| 7 May 2015

| 30 June 2015

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| align="left" | {{flagicon|GER}} Michael Wiesinger

| 1 July 2015

| 30 June 2017

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| align="left" | {{flagicon|GER}} Karsten Neitzel

| 1 July 2017

| 11 March 2018

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| align="left" | {{flagicon|GER}} Roland Seitz

| 11 March 2018

| 29 October 2018

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| align="left" | {{flagicon|GER}} Horst Steffen

| 1 November 2018

| present

Recent seasons

File:SV Elversberg Logo 2015.svg

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:[http://www.f-archiv.de/ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181002180000/http://www.f-archiv.de/ |date=2 October 2018 }} {{in lang|de}} Historical German domestic league tables[http://www.fussball.de/fussball-ergebnisse-die-top-ligen-bei-fussball-de/id_45692854/index Fussball.de – Ergebnisse] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110518003238/http://www.fussball.de/fussball-ergebnisse-die-top-ligen-bei-fussball-de/id_45692854/index |date=18 May 2011 }} {{in lang|de}} Tables and results of all German football leagues[http://www.fussball.de/mannschaft/sv-elversberg-ii-sv-elversberg-saarland/-/saison/1516/team-id/011MICTS08000000VTVG0001VTR8C1K7#!/section/team-timeline SV Elversberg II] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123190129/http://www.fussball.de/mannschaft/sv-elversberg-ii-sv-elversberg-saarland/-/saison/1516/team-id/011MICTS08000000VTVG0001VTR8C1K7#!/section/team-timeline |date=23 November 2015 }} {{in lang|de}} Fussball.de. Retrieved 4 November 2015

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! Season

! Division

! Tier

! Position

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| 1999–2000

| align="left"| Regionalliga West/Südwest

| rowspan=9| III

| 12th

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| 2000–01

| align="left"| Regionalliga Süd

| 14th

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| 2001–02

| align="left"| Regionalliga Süd

| 11th

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| 2002–03

| align="left"| Regionalliga Süd

| 14th

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| 2003–04

| align="left"| Regionalliga Süd

| 12th

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| 2004–05

| align="left"| Regionalliga Süd

| 10th

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| 2005–06

| align="left"| Regionalliga Süd

| 9th

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| 2006–07

| align="left"| Regionalliga Süd

| 9th

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| 2007–08

| align="left"| Regionalliga Süd

| 15th

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| 2008–09

| align="left"| Regionalliga West

| rowspan=5| IV

| 11th

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| 2009–10

| align="left"| Regionalliga West

| 7th

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| 2010–11

| align="left"| Regionalliga West

| 12th

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| 2011–12

| align="left"| Regionalliga West

| 13th

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| 2012–13

| align="left"| Regionalliga Südwest

| style="background:#ddffdd"| 2nd ↑

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| 2013–14

| align="left"| 3. Liga

| III

| style="background:#ffcccc"| 18th ↓

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| 2014–15

| align="left"| Regionalliga Südwest

| rowspan=8| IV

| 3rd

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| 2015–16

| align="left"| Regionalliga Südwest

| 2nd

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| 2016–17

| align="left"| Regionalliga Südwest

| 1st

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| 2017–18

| align="left"| Regionalliga Südwest

| 5th

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| 2018–19

| align="left"| Regionalliga Südwest

| 4th

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| 2019–20

| align="left"| Regionalliga Südwest

| 3rd

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| 2020–21

| align="left"| Regionalliga Südwest

| 2nd

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| 2021–22

| align="left"| Regionalliga Südwest

|style="background:#ddffdd"|1st ↑

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| 2022–23

| align="left"| 3. Liga

| III

|style="background:#ddffdd"|1st ↑

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| 2023–24

| align="left"| 2. Bundesliga

| rowspan=2| II

| 11th

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| 2024–25

| align="left"| 2. Bundesliga

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! Season

! Division

! Tier

! Position

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| 2003–04

| align="left"| Kreisliga A Höcherberg

| VIII

| style="background:#ddffdd"| 1st ↑

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| 2004–05

| align="left"| Bezirksliga Ost

| rowspan=2| VII

| 2nd

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| 2005–06

| align="left"| Bezirksliga Ost

| style="background:#ddffdd"| 1st ↑

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| 2006–07

| align="left"| Landesliga Nordost

| VI

| style="background:#ddffdd"| 1st ↑

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| 2007–08

| align="left"| Verbandsliga Saarland

| rowspan=9| V

| style="background:#ddffdd"| 1st ↑

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| 2008–09

| align="left"| Oberliga Südwest

| 16th

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| 2009–10

| align="left"| Oberliga Südwest

| 10th

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| 2010–11

| align="left"| Oberliga Südwest

| 9th

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| 2011–12

| align="left"| Oberliga Südwest

| 12th

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| 2012–13

| align="left"| Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar

| 15th

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| 2013–14

| align="left"| Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar

| 5th

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| 2014–15

| align="left"| Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar

| 9th

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| 2015–16

| align="left"| Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar

| style="background:#ffcccc"| 16th ↓

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| 2016–17

| align="left"| Saarlandliga

| rowspan=3|VI

| 10th

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| 2017–18

| align="left"| Saarlandliga

| 11th

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| 2018–19

| align="left"| Saarlandliga

| style="background:#ddffdd"| 1st ↑

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| 2019–20

| align="left"| Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar

| V

| 3rd

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  • 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.

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| style="background:#ffcccc"| ↓ Relegated

Current squad

{{updated|17 February 2025}}{{cite web |title=Kader - First Team |url=https://sv07elversberg.de/teams/profis/kader/ |website=sv07elversberg.de |publisher=Sportvereinigung 07 Elversberg |access-date=4 September 2023 |language=de |archive-date=25 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230825095834/https://sv07elversberg.de/teams/profis/kader/ |url-status=live }}

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{{fs player|pos=DF|no=26|nat=GER|name=Arne Sicker}}

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{{fs player|pos=GK|no=28|nat=GER|name=Tim Boss}}

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{{Fs player|pos=MF|no=30|nat=GER|name=Muhammed Damar|other={{small|on loan from TSG Hoffenheim}}}}

{{Fs player|pos=DF|no=31|nat=GER|name=Maximilian Rohr}}

{{fs player|pos=MF|no=32|nat=GER|name=Daniel Pantschenko}}

{{fs player|pos=DF|no=33|nat=GER|name=Maurice Neubauer}}

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=Out on loan=

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{{fs player|pos=FW|no=|nat=GER|name=Mohammad Mahmoud|other={{small|at Zürich U21 until 30 June 2025}}}}

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References

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