SpVgg 07 Elversberg is a German association football club, located in

Spiesen-Elversberg Spiesen-Elversberg is a municipality in the district of Neunkirchen, in Saarland, Germany. It is situated approximately southwest of Neunkirchen, and northeast of Saarbrücken. Sport The district of Elversberg has a popular football team, whi ...

, Saarland. The club plays in the 2. Bundesliga from the 2023–24 season following promotion from the

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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 The Kreisliga Saar (English: ''District league Saar'') was the highest association football league in the Territory of the Saar Basin, governed by a League of Nations mandate, and parts of the Bavarian region of Palatinate and the Prussian Rhine P ...

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

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(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

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(IV) and the Landesliga Saarland/Nordost (V) the club returned to tier III football in the

Regionalliga West/Südwest The Regionalliga West/Südwest was the third tier of the German football league system in the states of Saarland, Rheinland-Pfalz and Nordrhein-Westfalen from 1994 to 2000. Overview The Regionalliga West/Südwest was formed in 1994 to form a ...

. 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

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where it stayed until 2012 when it became part of the new

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. In

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, the club finished runners-up in the new league and qualified for the promotion play-off to the

where it overcame the reserve team of

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to earn promotion to this league. SV Elversberg lasted for only one season in the 3. Liga, suffering relegation alongside fellow Saar side

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back to the Regionalliga. They finished runners-up in the Regionalliga Südwest in 2015–16 but lost to

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in the promotion play-off and had to remain in the league. The following season, they won the league but were denied promotion by

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, 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

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, earning promotion to the

. The club continued their rise by winning the 3. Liga in 2022–23, securing historic promotion to the 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

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. In their debut 2. Bundesliga season, they finished 11th, solidifying their status in the league. In the 2024–25 season, SV Elversberg secured third place in the 2. Bundesliga, earning a spot in the

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against 1. FC Heidenheim, who had finished 16th in the Bundesliga. However, they were defeated 4–3 on aggregate, following a 2–1 home loss that was sealed in stoppage time.

Honours

League

** Champions:

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(IV) **Champions: 2017, 2022 ** Runners-up: 2013, 2016 * Oberliga Südwest (IV) ** Champions: 1996, 1998 *

(IV) ** Champions: 1980, 1994, 2008 (reserve team)

Cup

Saarland Cup The Saarland Cup (German: ''Saarlandpokal'') is one of the 21 regional cup competitions of German football. The winner of the competition gains entry to the first round of the German Cup. It is limited to clubs from Saarland, however, teams from t ...

** Winners: 2009, 2010,

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** Runners-up: 1979, 1982, 2004,

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Coaching staff

Recent managers

Recent managers of the club:

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:

SV Elversberg

SV Elversberg II

* With the introduction of the

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s in 1994 and the

in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier. ;Key

Current squad

Out on loan

References

External links

*
SV 07 Elversberg
at Worldfootball.net
Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
– historical German domestic league tables {{DEFAULTSORT:Elversberg, SV Football clubs in Germany Football clubs in Saarland Association football clubs established in 1907 1907 establishments in Germany Neunkirchen (German district) 3. Liga clubs