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| Full name | Sportverein Röchling Völklingen 06 e.V. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Founded | 1906 | ||
| Ground | Hermann-Neuberger-Stadion | ||
| Capacity | 12,000 | ||
| Manager | Tim Schwartz | ||
| League | Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar (V) | ||
| 2020–21 (Staffel Süd) | 7nd | ||
SV Röchling Völklingen is aGerman association football club that plays inVölklingen, part of the greaterSaarbrücken, Saarland.
The club draws its name from the Röchling family, owners of theVölklingen Ironworks steel factory, a former sponsor of the club which closed down in 1986.[1]
The club was founded asFC Völklingen on 26 April 1906 and renamedSV Völklingen in 1912 before folding in 1916 as a consequence of the fighting along the frontier with France in World War I. In 1919 the club was re-founded asVfB Völklingen and played in theKreisliga Saar, before taking on its old name again later in the year. Like most organizations across Germany, including sports and football teams,SVV was dissolved after World War II at the direction of the occupying Allied authorities.
Reconstituted after the war asSuSG Völklingen, the club suffered through an unsuccessful 1947–48 season in theOberliga Südwest, before playing for three seasons from 1949 to 1951 in the Ehrenliga Saarland, a rump football league established by the occupying French authorities as a manifestation in sport of a more general attempt to have the German state of Saarland join France or become a separate country. This affected a number of German clubs and resulted in Saarland being represented by separate teams in the Olympics and the 1954World Cup. RenamedSV Völklingen in 1951 the team played the balance of the postwar period in the Amateurliga Saarland (III) until advancing to the2nd Oberliga Südwest in 1961.
With the formation in 1963 of theBundesliga, Germany's new top-flight professional league, and the related restructuring of the country's football leagues,Völklingen found itself in theRegionalliga Südwest (II). The team enjoyed its greatest successes in the early-1970s when it earned second-place finishes in the 1972 and 1973 seasons, but was unable to advance in two related attempts through the promotion rounds to the Bundesliga. The club also advanced to the quarter-finals of the1975–76 German Cup before bowing out toHertha BSC Berlin 2–1 in a replay. Through the latter part of the decade the club struggled to avoid relegation, but had already begun a descent that would take them as far down as the Landesliga Saarland-SW (VI) by 1994.SV Völklingen currently play in theOberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar (V).
Völklingen's Hermann Neuberger Stadium was built in 1912 and had a grandstand added in 1955. Its capacity was doubled to accommodate 16,000 spectators when the club joined the 2. Bundesliga in 1974, making it the fourth largest stadium in Saarland.
The club's honours:
The recent season-by-season performance of the club:[2][3]
| Season | Division | Tier | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999–2000 | Verbandsliga Saarland | V | 2nd |
| 2000–01 | Verbandsliga Saarland | 2nd | |
| 2001–02 | Verbandsliga Saarland | 1st ↑ | |
| 2002–03 | Oberliga Südwest | IV | 17th ↓ |
| 2003–04 | Verbandsliga Saarland | V | 5th |
| 2004–05 | Verbandsliga Saarland | 4th | |
| 2005–06 | Verbandsliga Saarland | 2nd | |
| 2006–07 | Verbandsliga Saarland | 12th | |
| 2007–08 | Verbandsliga Saarland | 15th | |
| 2008–09 | Verbandsliga Saarland | VI | 7th |
| 2009–10 | Saarlandliga | 2nd | |
| 2010–11 | Saarlandliga | 1st ↑ | |
| 2011–12 | Oberliga Südwest | V | 13th |
| 2012–13 | Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar | 10th | |
| 2013–14 | Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar | 14th | |
| 2014–15 | Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar | 5th | |
| 2015–16 | Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar | 7th | |
| 2016–17 | Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar | 2nd ↑ | |
| 2017–18 | Regionalliga Südwest | IV | 19th ↓ |
| 2018–19 | Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar | V | 2nd |
| 2019–20 | Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar | V | 12nd |
| 2020–21 | Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar | V | 7nd |
| ↑Promoted | ↓Relegated |
