SV Elversberg

SpVgg 07 Elversberg is a German association football club, located in Spiesen-Elversberg, Saarland. The club plays in the 2. Bundesliga from the 2023–24 season following promotion from the 3. Liga in 2022–23.

SV Elversberg

Full name	Sportvereinigung 07 Elversberg e.V.
Founded	1907
Ground	UrsapharmArena
Capacity	10,000
Chairman	Dieter-Niklas Grünwald
Manager	Horst Steffen
League	2. Bundesliga
2024–25	2. Bundesliga, 3rd of 18
Website	sv07elversberg.de
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

SV Elversberg active departments
Football (men's)	Football (women's)

History

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 won the Regionalliga Südwest under coach Horst Steffen, earning promotion to the 3. Liga. The club continued their rise by winning the 3. Liga in 2022–23, securing historic promotion to the 2. Bundesliga. In their debut 2. Bundesliga season, they finished 11th, solidifying their status in the league.^[1] In the 2024–25 season, SV Elversberg secured third place in the 2. Bundesliga, earning a spot in the promotion play-offs against 1. FC Heidenheim, who had finished 16th in the Bundesliga.^[2]

Promotion Success

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

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.^[4]

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

Coaching staff

Position	Name
Manager	Horst Steffen
Assistant Manager	Rudi Thömmes
First-Team Coach	Raphael Duarte
Goalkeeper Coach	Sascha Purket
Athletic Coach	Tobias Tröß
Match Analyst	Franz Dietrich
Sporting Director	Nils-Ole Book
Head of First-Team Football	David Blacha
Scout	Volker Ruoff
Doctor	Dr. Frank Krämer
Lead Physiotherapist	Melanie Hubert
Physiotherapist	Asbjörn Wieneke
Kit Manager	Volker Lefebre
Academy Manager	Francesco Notarrigo Andreas Hölscher

Recent managers

Logo used 2010–2015

Recent managers of the club:^[5]

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

Logo used 2015–2021

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:^[6][7][8]

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 3rd

SV Elversberg II Season Division Tier Position 2003–04 Kreisliga A Höcherberg VIII 1st ↑ 2004–05 Bezirksliga Ost VII 2nd 2005–06 Bezirksliga Ost 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 17 February 2025^[9]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. 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 19 DF  GER Lukas Pinckert 20 GK  AUT Nicolas Kristof 21 MF  GER Paul Stock

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 FW  GER Younes Ebnoutalib 23 MF  GER Carlo Sickinger 24 FW  GER Luca Schnellbacher 25 MF  BUL Lukas Petkov 26 DF  GER Arne Sicker 27 FW  GER 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

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  GER Mohammad Mahmoud (at Zürich U21 until 30 June 2025)