DSV Leoben

association football club in Austria

DSV Leoben KAIF Energy is an Austrian football club from the Donawitz district of the Styrian town of Leoben. They play in the playing in the third-tier Regionalliga Mitte since the 2022/23 season.

DSV Leoben
Full nameDonawitzer Sport Verein Leoben
Founded16 December 1928
GroundDonawitz Stadium
Capacity6,000
ManagerCarsten Jancker
LeagueAustrian Regionalliga Central
2021/221st

History change

WSV Donawitz change

The club was founded on 1 February 1928 as Werkssportverein Donawitz. The colours were green-white. They played their first season at the top Styrian league in 1930/31. WSV reached the title in 1939 but lost the playoffs for promotion to the Gauliga Ost after losing to FC Wien, Linzer ASK and WSV BU Neunkirchen. That same year, Donawitz became part of Leoben but WSV kept its name. 1944 the club was dissolved and a quick restart after the war was out of question , especially since the sports field was used as a tank parking lot.[1]

Football was reestablished in Donawitz in 1949 . In 1955 they won another title and were promoted to the second tier of Austrian football. In 1958 WSV Donawitz won promotion to the top tier, only to be relegated back after two years.

DSV Alpine change

In 1970 the club was renamed WSV Alpine Donawitz .1971 they won promotion back to the country's top tier. On 3 May 1971, the club was renamed again to Donawitzer SV Alpine or just DSV Alpine. They came 6th in the league in 1972 and 1974. After the 1973/74 season the club was forced to the 2nd tier because the number of teams in the league was decreased from 17 to 10 clubs and only one team from Styria (Sturm Graz) was included. They only got back to the top tier in 1984 and remained there until 1986. After that they had they had another spell from 1991 until 1992. They were 10 years in the Austrian Bundesliga.

DSV Leoben change

After relegation in 1992 DSV Alpine and 1. FC Leoben merged to DSV Leoben . The club was founded on 22 June 1992. Their first success was reaching the 1995 Austrian Cup final. They lost to SK Rapid Wien .

In 2009 the club went bankrupt. The DSV now competed in the third-class Regionalliga Mitte. From the 2013/2014 season, DSV Leoben played in the Styrian league. 2021/22 they won the league and were promoted to the Regionalliga Central. In the 2022-23 season they were promoted to 2. League.

Current squad change

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As of 27 July 2023

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
2 DF   Austria Julian Turi
3 DF   Croatia Ricardo Bagadur
4 DF   Slovenia Luka Brkic
5 MF   Croatia Matija Horvat
6 MF   Austria Nico Pichler
7 FW   Slovenia Tilen Pecnik
8 MF   Austria Stefan Radulovic
9 FW   Austria Thomas Hirschhofer
10 MF   Austria Michael John Lema
11 MF   Albania Drini Halili
13 DF   Austria Stefan Umjenovic
17 DF   Switzerland Enrique Wild
No. Pos. Nation Player
18 MF   Austria Marco Untergrabner
20 MF   Austria Christoph Halper
21 GK   Austria Florian Wiegele
22 FW   Austria Winfred Amoah
23 DF   Austria Josef Weberbauer
24 DF   Germany Timo Perthel
27 DF   Austria Florian Freissegger
28 GK   Slovenia Žan Pelko
30 FW   Austria Kevin Friesenbichler
34 GK   Slovenia Fabian Kinzl
71 MF   Austria Thomas Maier
77 MF   Austria Josip Eskinja

Staff change

Name Birth Country in Donawitz since Last team
Trainer [[ René Poms]] 05.07.1975   Austria 08/2023 NK Osijek
Co-Trainer Dino Škvorc 02.02.1990   Croatia 07/2022 Spieler
Torwarttrainer Philipp Martin 01.11.88   Austria 01/2023 Grazer AK Yôuth

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Coaching history (21st century) change

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Start End Coach
1999 2002   Milan Djuricic
2001 2003   Petar Segrt
2003 2005   Heinz Thonhofer
2005 2007   Dejan Stankovic
2007 2007   Manfred Kohlbacher
2007 2008   Walter Kogler
2008 2009   Heimo Kump
2009 2009   Dejan Stankovic
2009 2010   Richard Niederbacher
2010 2011   Andreas Kindlinger
2011 2012  Gregor Pötscher
2012 2012   Bernhard Muhr
2012 2012   Adolf Pinter
2012 2012   Manfred Unger
2012 2012   Jürgen Auffinger
2012 2013   Heinz Karner
2013 2015   Gregor Pötscher
2015 2018   Jürgen Auffinger
2018 2018   Gottfried Jantschgi
2018 2018   Helmut Kalander
2018 2018   Jürgen Kogler
2018 2019   Hannes Reinmayr
2019 2020   Ivo Gölz
2020 2023   Carsten Jancker
2023   Rene Poms

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