DSV Leoben

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
Logo DSV Leoben.jpg
Full nameDonawitzer Sport Verein Leoben
Founded16 December 1928
GroundDonawitz Stadium
(capacity: 6,000)
ManagerCarsten Jancker
LeagueAustrian Regionalliga Central
2021/221st

History

WSV Donawitz

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

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

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

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As of 27 July 2023
No. Position Player
2 Austria DF Julian Turi
3 Croatia DF Ricardo Bagadur
4 Slovenia DF Luka Brkic
5 Croatia MF Matija Horvat
6 Austria MF Nico Pichler
7 Slovenia FW Tilen Pecnik
8 Austria MF Stefan Radulovic
9 Austria FW Thomas Hirschhofer
10 Austria MF Michael John Lema
11 Albania MF Drini Halili
13 Austria DF Stefan Umjenovic
17 Switzerland DF Enrique Wild
No. Position Player
18 Austria MF Marco Untergrabner
20 Austria MF Christoph Halper
21 Austria GK Florian Wiegele
22 Austria FW Winfred Amoah
23 Austria DF Josef Weberbauer
24 Germany DF Timo Perthel
27 Austria DF Florian Freissegger
28 Slovenia GK Žan Pelko
30 Austria FW Kevin Friesenbichler
34 Slovenia GK Fabian Kinzl
71 Austria MF Thomas Maier
77 Austria MF Josip Eskinja

Staff

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)

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

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