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| Full name | Sportvereinigung 07 Elversberg e.V. | |||
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| Founded | 1907 | |||
| Ground | UrsapharmArena | |||
| Capacity | 10,000 | |||
| Chairman | Dieter-Niklas Grünwald | |||
| Manager | Horst Steffen | |||
| League | 2. Bundesliga | |||
| 2023–24 | 2. Bundesliga, 11th of 18 | |||
| Website | sv07elversberg | |||
 Current season | ||||
SpVgg 07 Elversberg is aGerman association football club, located inSpiesen-Elversberg, Saarland. The club plays in2. Bundesliga from 2023 to 2024 after promotion from3. Liga in 2022–23.
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The club was founded in 1907 asFC Germania Elversberg. It was dissolved in 1914, but then re-constituted in 1918 asSportvereinigung VfB Elversberg, spending a season in the tier-oneKreisliga Saar in 1921–22. After World War II a number of local associations came together to formSportgemeinde Elversberg. The current club became independent ofSG asSV Elversberg VfB 07 in 1952. From 1951 to 1960SV played in theAmateurliga Saarland (III), but then disappeared into tier IV and V football until 1980 when they re-emerged in the AmateurOberliga Südwest (III) for a span of seven seasons. After nearly another decade spent between theVerbandsliga Saarland (IV) and the Landesliga Saarland/Nordost (V) the club returned to tier III football in theRegionalliga 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 newRegionalliga West where it stayed until 2012 when it became part of the newRegionalliga Südwest. In2012–13, the club finished runners-up in the new league and qualified for the promotion play-off to the3. Liga where it overcame the reserve team ofTSV 1860 München to earn promotion to this league.
SV Elversberg lasted for only one season in the 3. Liga, suffering relegation alongside fellow Saar side1. FC Saarbrücken back to the Regionalliga. They finished runners-up in the Regionalliga Südwest in2015–16 but lost toFSV Zwickau in the promotion play-off and had to remain in the league. Thefollowing season, they won the league but were denied promotion bySpVgg Unterhaching, who beat them 5–2 on aggregate in another promotion play-off.
In the2021–22 season, SV Elversberg finished first in the Regionalliga Südwest to promote to the3. Liga.[1]
In the2022–23 season, SV Elversberg secured promotion to the2023–24 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 overIngolstadt.[2]
At the end of the23-24 season, Elversberg finished in 11th place.
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| Position | Name |
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| 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 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 |
The recent season-by-season performance of the club:[4][5][6]
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