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DSV Leoben

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DSV Leoben
Full nameDonawitzer Sport Verein Leoben
Founded1928; 96 years ago (1928)
GroundDonawitz Stadium
Capacity6,000
ChairmanDejan Stanković
ManagerRene Poms
LeagueRegionalliga Central
2023–242. Liga, 4th of 16
(administratively relegated)

DSV Leoben, commonly known as DSV Leoben GGMT Revolution for sponsorship reasons is an Austrian association football club based in Leoben. It was founded in 1928. The club currently play in Regionalliga Central, one of the third tiers of Austrian Football. They play at the Donawitz Stadium.

History

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WSV Donawitz

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The club was founded on 1 February 1928 opgericht as Werkssportverein Donawitz, playing in green-white colours. They played their first season at the top Styrian league in 1930/31, playing against the likes of SK Sturm Graz, Grazer AK, Grazer SC and Kapfenberger SC. WSV clinched the title in 1939 but subsequently lost the playoffs for promotion to the Gauliga Ost after losing to FC Wien, Linzer ASK and WSV BU Neunkirchen. That same year, Donawitz town became part of Leoben but WSV kept its name.

Historical chart of the club's league performance

After World War II, football was restored in Donawitz in 1949 and the club won another league title in 1955 to clinch promotion 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

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In 1970 the club was renamed WSV Alpine Donawitz and after a year 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, but after the 1973/74 season the club was demoted to the 2nd tier after 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 en had they had another spell from 1991 until 1992. They totalled 10 years in the Austrian Bundesliga.

DSV Leoben

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Old Logo

After relegation in 1992, board members of DSV Alpine and 1. FC Leoben decided to merge and the new club DSV Leoben was established on 22 June 1992. Their first success was reaching the 1994/95 Austrian Cup final, which they lost to local giants SK Rapid Wien with former player Peter Guggi at the helm.

They were demoted to the third tier Regionalliga Mitte in 2009, after going into administration.

In 2022–23, DSV Leoben secure promotion to Austrian 2. Liga from 2023 to 2024 after Champions of Regionalliga Mitte in 2022–23.

Current squad

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As of 6 February 2024

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 AUT Julian Turi
4 DF Slovenia SVN Luka Brkic
5 MF Croatia CRO Matija Horvat
6 MF Austria AUT Nico Pichler
7 FW Senegal SEN Cheikhou Dieng
8 FW Scotland SCO Barry Hepburn (on loan from Bayern Munich II)
9 FW Austria AUT Thomas Hirschhofer
11 MF Albania ALB Drini Halili
14 MF Nigeria NGA Kingsley Michael
17 DF Switzerland SUI Enrique Wild
18 MF Austria AUT Marco Untergrabner
No. Pos. Nation Player
19 FW Austria AUT Deni Alar
20 MF Austria AUT Christoph Halper
22 FW Austria AUT Winfred Amoah
23 DF Austria AUT Josef Weberbauer
24 DF Germany GER Timo Perthel
28 GK Slovenia SVN Žan Pelko
30 FW Austria AUT Kevin Friesenbichler
33 MF Germany GER Moritz Heinrich
34 GK Austria AUT Fabian Kinzl
77 MF Austria AUT Josip Eskinja

Managers

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See also: Category:DSV Leoben managers

References

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  1. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 November 2017. Retrieved 26 January 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ "DSV Leoben - Trainerhistorie".
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 19 January 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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