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 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 Pr ...

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 The Amateurliga Saarland was the highest football league in the state of Saarland and the third tier of the German football league system from 1951, when the clubs from the Saar returned to Germany, till the formation of the Oberliga Südwest an ...

(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 The Verbandsliga Saarland is currently the seventh tier of the German football league system in the German federated state of Saarland. Until the introduction of the Saarlandliga in 2009 it was the sixth tier, until the introduction of the 3. Liga ...

(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 r ...

. 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

Regionalliga Südwest The Regionalliga Südwest ( en, Regional League Southwest) is the fourth tier of the German football league system in the states of Hesse, Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland. It is one of five leagues at this level, together wit ...

. In

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

3. Liga The 3. Liga is a professional association football league and the third division in Germany. In the German football league system, it is positioned between the 2. Bundesliga and the fourth-tier Regionalliga. The modern 3. Liga was formed for t ...

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 finished first in the Regionalliga Südwest to promote to the

Honours

League

(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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, 2016,

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Recent managers

Recent managers of the club:

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:SV Elversberg II
Fussball.de, accessed: 4 November 2015

SV Elversberg

SV Elversberg II

* With the introduction of the

Regionalliga The Regionalliga () is the fourth tier in the German football league system. Until 1974, it was the second tier in Germany. In 1994, it was introduced as the third tier. Upon the creation of the new nationwide 3. Liga in 2008, it became the fourt ...

s in 1994 and the

in 2008 as the new third tier, below the

2. Bundesliga The 2. Bundesliga ( ) is the second division of professional football in Germany. It was implemented 11 years after the founding of the Fußball-Bundesliga as the new second division for professional football. The 2. Bundesliga is ranked below ...

, all leagues below dropped one tier. ;Key

Current squad

References

External links

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SV 07 Elversberg at Worldfootball.netDas 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