DSV Leoben

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

Staff

Name Birth Country in Donawitz since Last team
Trainer Carsten Jancker 28.08.1974   Germany 07/2021 FC Marchfeld Donauauen
Co-Trainer Uwe Thonhofer 09.04.1969   Austria 07/2021 Trainer SC Pernegg
Co-Trainer Dino Škvorc 02.02.1990   Croatia 07/2022 Spieler
Torwarttrainer Markus Pototschnig 08.04.1998   Austria 07/2021

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Coaching history (21st century)

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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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