SV Elversberg


SpVgg 07 Elversberg is a German association football club, located in Spiesen-Elversberg, Saarland.

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, but then disappeared into tier IV and V football until 1980 when they re-emerged in the Amateur Oberliga Südwest for a span of seven seasons. After nearly another decade spent between the Verbandsliga Saarland and the Landesliga Saarland/Nordost the club returned to tier III football in the Regionalliga West/Südwest.
Since 1998, SV Elversberg has played in the Regionalliga Süd 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.

Honours

League

Recent managers of the club:
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:

SV Elversberg

SV Elversberg II

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↑ Promoted↓ Relegated

Current squad