SV Elversberg

Logo used until 2010

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. 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]

Logo used 2010–2015

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

Logo used 2015–2021

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

• 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

As of 4 September 2023[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 4 DF  GER Kevin Conrad (captain) 5 DF  GER Frederik Jäkel (on loan from RB Leipzig) 6 MF  GER Patryk Dragon 7 MF  GER Manuel Feil 8 MF  GER Semih Sahin 9 FW  GER Dominik Martinović 10 MF  GER Jannik Rochelt 11 MF  GER Luca Dürholtz 13 DF  POR Marcel Correia 14 DF  GER Robin Fellhauer 17 MF  GER Paul Wanner (on loan from Bayern Munich) 18 DF  FRA Hugo Vandermersch (on loan from Stade Malherbe Caen) 19 DF  GER Lukas Pinckert

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 GK  AUT Nicolas Kristof 21 MF  GER Paul Stock 22 MF  GER Joseph Boyamba 23 MF  GER Carlo Sickinger 24 FW  GER Luca Schnellbacher 25 MF  GER Sebastian Saftig 26 DF  GER Arne Sicker 28 GK  GER Tim Boss 29 FW  DEN Wahid Faghir (on loan from VfB Stuttgart) 30 FW  CIV Kevin Koffi 31 MF  GER Thore Jacobsen 33 DF  GER Maurice Neubauer 35 DF  AUT Nico Antonitsch

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  GER Daniel Pantschenko (at Union Titus Pétange until 30 June 2024)

Wikimedia Commons has media related to SV Elversberg.

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