SV Meppen

SV Meppen
Basic data
Surname	Sports club Meppen 1912 e. V.
Seat	Meppen , Lower Saxony
founding	November 29, 1912 (as Amisia Meppen football club)
Colours	Blue White
Members	1588 (November 26, 2019)
Board spokesman	Andreas Kremer
Website	svmeppen.de
First soccer team
Head coach	Torsten Frings
Venue	Hänsch Arena
Places	13,696
league	3rd league
2019/20	7th place
home Away

The SV Meppen ( sports club Meppen 1912 e. V. ) is a 1912 in Meppen established German football club with about 1,600 members. The first men's team played continuously in the 2nd Bundesliga between 1987 and 1998 . SV Meppen has been playing in the 3rd division since the 2017/18 season . In addition, the Meppener won several amateur championships, and in 1999 the Lower Saxony Cup . The first women's team at SV Meppen has played in the 1st women's Bundesliga since the 2020/21 season .

history

→ Main article: Seasonal balance sheets of SV Meppen

Early years (1912 to 1957)

Today's SV Meppen goes back to the Amisia Meppen football club founded by high school students on November 29, 1912 . Amisia is the Latin name of the river Ems . On February 8, 1920, Amisia merged with MTV Meppen, also founded in 1912, and the paramilitary youth group Gruppe Jungdeutschland Meppen to form the Meppen 1912 gymnastics and sports club . As part of the clean divorce , the association split on April 13, 1922. The footballers founded SV Meppen, while the remaining departments founded TV 1912 Meppen .

In the first few years, the footballers played on the “school playground” before the club moved into the Lathener Strasse sports field in 1924. In terms of sport, the Meppeners only played a role at the local level until the end of the Second World War . The Emsland was considered a footballing diaspora and was overshadowed by the clubs from Osnabrück . In the 1920s and 1930s, the club alternately belonged to the West German Game Association and the North German Football Association .

After the war, a team reinforced with numerous Poles made the club known in the region. After a series of 35 games without defeat in a row, SV Meppen qualified in 1947 for the newly introduced Landesliga Weser / Ems . The decisive qualifying game against Stern Emden was lost 2-1, but the Meppeners benefited from the fact that the qualified TuS Lengerich moved to the Westphalian association .

SV Meppen was able to hold itself in the state league for two years before relegation to the third-class amateur league 2 had to be accepted in 1949 . In 1952, the amateur league could only be held by a win in the play-off against TuS Haste 01 , before the move to the Emsland district league took place two years later. In the meantime, SV Union Meppen was the sporting number one in town. In 1957, the SVM became champion of the Emsland district class and thus made it to the 8th amateur league .

Path to the regional league (1957 to 1970)

In terms of sport, the Meppener were able to quickly establish themselves in the league and always occupied single-digit positions in the table. In the 1960/61 season, after a long neck-and-neck race with TuS Lingen , the SVM was one point ahead of the amateur league champions. The subsequent promotion round was also successfully completed. The highlight was an 11-0 win on June 18, 1961 against TuS Heidkrug , in which striker Gerd Sand scored six goals. Sand also proved to be one class higher than accurate and with 33 goals this season had a significant share in relegation.

Coach Horst Witzler moved from VfL Germania Leer to Meppen, under whose direction things went up in sport over the next two years. In the 1963/64 season , the Meppener celebrated the relay victory in the Amateur Oberliga West . In the playoff for the relay victory, the SVM was able to prevail against TSR Olympia Wilhelmshaven 1-0. The game took place in the Oldenburger Stadion Donnerschwee . The finals for the Lower Saxony championship against the amateurs of Hannover 96 followed . Despite a 3-1 success in the first leg, Meppen lost the title with a 5-1 defeat in Hanover. The promotion to the Regionalliga Nord was missed as a third party in the promotion round. The only victory of the round was a spectacular 6: 5 win at Leu Braunschweig .

In the following years, the club was only mediocre in the now single-track Lower Saxony State League . With the former amateur national player Hermann Michel , who took over the training in 1967, the success returned. In his first season in 1967/68 , Michel led the team to the Lower Saxony Championship. However, she failed again in the promotion round to the Regionalliga.

In 1970 , under strange circumstances, he finally made the leap into the regional league. The SVM was allowed to take part in the promotion round as fifth in the table because the amateur teams of Eintracht Braunschweig (champions) and Hannover 96 (fourth) were not allowed. A 1: 1 at SC Sperber Hamburg on the last day of the game brought the Meppeners second place in the promotion round. In order to bring the regional league back to the target strength of 18 clubs, the North German Football Association set an additional relegation. With a 5-1 win on the last match day against the SV Bremen police , the SVM managed to climb one goal ahead of ASV Bergedorf 85 , in which the Meppeners were defeated 0-2.

Up and down in the amateur camp (1970 to 1987)

As a result of the late promotion - most regional league clubs had already started preparing for the season when Meppen's promotion was determined - the SVM could not strengthen itself sufficiently and had to leave the regional league as the bottom of the table. The low point of the season was a 1: 9 defeat at HSV Barmbek-Uhlenhorst . The team managed to get promoted straight away . The decision was made again on the last match day, when ASV Bergedorf 85 was beaten 4-0 in front of 10,000 spectators. Striker Gerd Sand ended his career with promotion.

SV Meppen has now established itself in the regional league. The association was supported by the textile manufacturer Hubert Niebuhr. Eighth place in the 1973/74 season was not enough for the newly introduced 2nd Bundesliga, so the SVM had to play in the amateur Oberliga Nord . A highlight of this time was a friendly against Ajax Amsterdam with world stars Johan Cruyff and Johan Neeskens in front of 17,500 spectators. As third in the 1974/75 season, the Meppener qualified for the first time for the German amateur championship . In the second round, the SVM was only just eliminated from Itzehoer SV . In the following years, a sporty decline began. One reason for this was Niebuhr's financial policy, which left behind a large mountain of debt. In 1978 the Meppener ended the season as penultimate and had to relegate to the Lower Saxony state league.

The descent turned out to be a stroke of luck for the club. With Hans-Dieter Schmidt , a new trainer was hired to drive youth work and the professionalization of the club structures. His vision of leading SV Meppen into the 2nd Bundesliga was dismissed as "crazy" by the board at the time. With seven points ahead of the Lüneburger SK , Meppen was champion and finished the promotion round as second in the group. Since two northern clubs, OSV Hannover and OSC Bremerhaven, were promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga and only one, FC St. Pauli, was relegated to the major league, a playoff for the third promoted team was due. With a 4-1 victory over VfR Neumünster , the SVM managed to get back up straight away.

The SVM quickly established itself in the Oberliga Nord. In the 1979/80 season, the Meppener qualified for the DFB Cup for the first time . Here the team retired in the first round with the amateurs of 1. FC Kaiserslautern . A year later , the SVM was fourth in the league. In 1982 the Meppener completed a friendly against FC Barcelona . 18,500 viewers saw the first appearance of the future world star Diego Maradona in Europe. The 1985/86 season closed the team again as third in the table. At the amateur championship in 1986 , the Meppener failed in the first round at VfR Bürstadt .

In 1987 SV Meppen became champions of the Oberliga Nord under coach Rainer Persike . After a botched start to the season, the Meppener fought an exciting duel with SV Arminia Hannover , which ended with a point ahead in favor of the Emsländer. As an outsider, the team made it into the 2nd Bundesliga with a 4-2 win on the last matchday at SpVgg Erkenschwick in the promotion round . The Emsländer benefited from the simultaneous 3-1 defeat of Hertha BSC against BVL 08 Remscheid . The rise of the team with players from the region was described in the media as a "miracle". Among the 22 players in the squad were 19 native Emslanders.

Meppen in the 2nd Bundesliga (1987 to 1998)

The team, which for financial reasons only appeared as semi-professionals, quickly asserted itself in the 2nd Bundesliga. Thanks to the courageous appearances of the team and the enthusiastic audience, the SVM advanced to a nationwide popular club. Chants of mockery by the opposing fans such as “Take off the Meppeners' rubber boots !” Made the Meppen fans more proud than angry. The two new entrants, the US-American Paul Caligiuri and the Finn Marko-Olavi Myyry , had a large part in relegation . With Caligiuri, SV Meppen provided a World Cup participant in 1990 .

In the 1990/91 DFB Cup , the team advanced to the round of 16, in which they lost with a narrow 1-0 defeat at 1. FC Köln . Before the start of the season there was unrest in the club environment after top performers like Myyry, Caligiuri and Reinhold Tattermusch had been sold and the proceeds invested in the expansion of the stadium. As a result, the team had to fight long to stay in the league. In 1991 Horst Ehrmantraut took over as coach. In its very first season , SVM was the leader of the table for a few weeks thanks to top-class newcomers like Damir Bujan . Finally, the team reached sixth place in the northern group of the then briefly split second Bundesliga. A highlight was a 3-1 win at VfL Osnabrück.

Ehrmantraut led his team into the top tier of the 2nd Bundesliga in the mid-1990s. At the same time, the stadium was modernized for over 2.5 million marks, which the club had to raise itself. The Interior Minister of Lower Saxony at the time, Gerhard Glogowski , rejected a state grant , while his favorite club, Eintracht Braunschweig, received grants for the modernization of the stadium. When the team was put together, the Emsland policy was put aside, so that in the 1992/93 season only half the team consisted of locals.

The SVM reached its sporting zenith in the 1994/95 season , when the team had good chances of promotion to the Bundesliga for months . Strikers Rainer Rauffmann and Jan Sievers scored 15 and 14 goals respectively this season and in Emsland people dreamed of a guest appearance by FC Bayern Munich . A series of four games without a win in the final phase of the season, however, shattered the Bundesliga dreams. The 2-0 defeat at 1. FC Nürnberg was rated as won by the German Football Association for Meppen, as the Nürnberg team had used four instead of the three foreign players allowed at the time.

A year later, the Meppener caused a big surprise in the second round of the DFB Cup when they beat Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt 6-1. By investing in the stadium, however, the club could not invest enough money in the team, so that the SVM fell behind in terms of sport. The last highlight of the second division era was a 6-7 defeat at 1. FC Kaiserslautern on the last day of the 1996/97 season . It was the highest scoring game in the history of the second division. The 1997/98 season finally brought the end of Meppener in the second division. A series of eleven games without a win brought the team into the relegation ranks, which they should not leave. Even coach Wolfgang Rolff , who replaced Paul Linz in December 1997 , did not manage to turn around. The SVM finally rose from bottom of the table.

Decline (1998-2011)

With an international team, a direct return to promotion should be achieved at great expense. This was missed far with eleventh place in the 1998/99 regional league season . Coach Mirko Votava was replaced by Rainer Persike, who was eventually replaced by Theo Bücker . In the following season, the Meppener were only eleventh and thus missed the qualification for the two-track regional league from 2000. The only bright spot during this time was the cup game against Bayern Munich in front of 16,500 spectators, which ended in a 1: 4 defeat.

Even in the fourth-class Oberliga Niedersachsen / Bremen, the team had to worry about staying up for a long time. Although she was able to stabilize in terms of sport, liabilities of 1.6 million euros meant that the club had to file for bankruptcy in 2001 . With a newly formed team around the returnees Andreas Helmer , the Meppener played in the top group in the 2001/02 season . Since the necessary licensing documents were submitted too late, the DFB refused the Meppenern the regional league license for formal reasons.

In 2004 the SVM qualified for the single-track Oberliga Nord again. After a false start in the season, the team was able to achieve the eighth place required for qualification after a 5-0 win on the last day of the match at FC Oberneuland and send their worst competitor VfB Oldenburg into the fifth division. After a good third place in the 2004/05 season , in which an 8-1 win at FT Eider Büdelsdorf , the SVM slipped back into mid-table. A year later , qualification for the three-track regional league was missed, which means that SV Meppen was relegated to the fifth-class Oberliga Niedersachsen-West. On the last day of the match, the Meppeners did not get beyond a 1-1 draw at champions Holstein Kiel , while competitor VfB Oldenburg defeated SV Henstedt-Rhen . Oldenburg was seventh with the better goal difference compared to Meppen and took part in the relegation round to the regional league since the sixth TuS Heeslingen did not receive a license.

At this time, the Austrian beverage manufacturer Red Bull contacted the association to invest in it. For investments in the club, Red Bull demanded a majority of 50 + 1 percent as well as a change in the club name, the club emblem and the club colors. SV Meppen rejected the demands. After a good start to the 2009/10 season, there followed a sporty decline; on December 15th, 2009 Rainer Persike took over the post of sporting director. He led the team in 2010 in the single-track Oberliga Niedersachsen. For the 2010/11 season , Johann Lünemann took over as coach. Under his leadership, the team secured the championship title and promotion to the regional league early after a strong second half.

Present (since 2011)

After promotion to the regional league, SV Meppen was represented on the German soccer map for the first time in eleven years. For the 2011/12 season , Michael Holt from Wuppertaler SV and René Wessels from SC Veendam signed two well-known faces. With them, SV Meppen wanted to establish itself in the regional league. On March 25, 2012, coach Johann Lünemann was dismissed and replaced by the previous sporting director Rainer Persike as interim coach until the end of the season. At the end of the 2011/12 regional league season, twelfth place was achieved. Heiko Flottmann took over as coach for the 2012/13 season . On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the club, the club played against Borussia Dortmund on July 11, 2012 . The reigning German champions fell 0: 1 behind, but still managed to win the game 2: 1.

For the 2013/14 season , Christian Neidhart switched to SV Meppen as the sporting director and succeeded Rainer Persike . On May 26, 2013, coach Heiko Flottmann was dismissed, whose position Neidhart also took over. Neidhart led the Meppener in fourth place in the 2013/14 season. On April 6, 2015, the semi-finals of the NFV Cup were won 2-1 against SK Hansa from Lüneburg , making SV Meppen back in the DFB Cup for the first time in 16 years, where they met 1. FC Köln in round one and lost 4-0. In the 2016/17 season , SV Meppen reached the relegation games for promotion to the 3rd division as champions of the Regionalliga Nord. The opponent was SV Waldhof Mannheim from the Regionalliga Südwest . Here, after two goalless draws, they were just 4: 3 i. E. prevail and rose on.

As a result, the ex-national player Ronald Maul was signed as managing director. In addition, the stadium was upgraded through extensive construction work for the new league, also to meet the requirements of the DFB . The north stand has been straightened, wooden benches have been replaced with seats, video surveillance has been expanded and control areas have been expanded. After SV Meppen finished the first season in the higher division with 58 points in 7th place, additional underfloor heating and a new floodlight system were installed. Overall, the city of Meppen and the district of Emsland invested more than four million euros in the Hänsch arena . In 2019, Meppen reached the final of the Lower Saxony Cup again, but lost it 0-1 at SV Drochtersen / Assel and missed qualifying for the DFB Cup.

In the 2019/20 season, they played for promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga until the interruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic . After the restart, however, it was no longer possible to build on the performance and finished 7th in the table at the end of the season.

After SV Meppen with Benjamin Girth , Nick Proschwitz and Deniz Undav had to let the top scorer go for three consecutive years, coach Neidhart also left the club after seven years for the 2020/21 season . In July 2020 it was announced that the ex-national player Torsten Frings will be the new head coach.

Personalities

→ Main article: SV Meppen / Names and Numbers

Squad

As of August 26, 2020

No.	Nat.	player	Born	In the team since	Last club
goal
12		Matthis Harsman	0Oct. 4, 1999	2018	ASC Uelsen U17
32		Erik Domaschke	Nov 11, 1985	2017	FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt
		Luca Plogmann	10 Mar 2000	2020	Werder Bremen
Defense
03		Janik Jesgarzewski	Jan. 26, 1994	2014	FC Twente Enschede
04th		Yannick Osée	June 13, 1997	2019	FK Pirmasens
07th		Hassan Amin	Oct 11, 1991	2018	SV Waldhof Mannheim
15th		Markus Ballmert	Nov. 27, 1993	2017	Hanover 96 II
22nd		Steffen Puttkammer	Sep 30 1988	2017	1. FC Magdeburg
27		David Vržogić	Aug 10, 1989	2016	Alemannia Aachen
		Lars Bünning	Feb. 27, 1998	2020	Borussia Dortmund II
		Jeron Al-Hazaimeh	Feb 13, 1992	2020	Sports fanatic Lotte
midfield
05		Niels Grevink II	08 Sep 1997		Blau-Weiß Dörpen
08th		Thilo Leugers	0Jan. 9, 1991	2016	Atlético Baleares
11		Marcus Piossek	July 21, 1989	2019	Sports fanatic Lotte
14th		Willi Evseev	Feb 14, 1992	2019	Hansa Rostock
16		Florian Egerer	Feb. 17, 1998	2019	Hertha BSC II
18th		René Guder	06 Sep 1994	2019	SV Wehen Wiesbaden
21st		Leonard Bredol	0Aug 1, 2000
25th		Nicolas Andermatt	0Nov 6, 1995	2019	1. FC Schweinfurt 05
30th		Ted Tattermusch	0May 8, 2001
Storm
19th		Valdet Rama	Nov 20, 1987	2019	FK Kukësi
23		Luka Tankulic	June 21, 1991	2018	Sports fanatic Lotte
26th		Julius culvert	0Jan. 4, 1996	2019	SC Paderborn 07
29		Hilal El-Helwe	Nov 24, 1994	2019	Apollo Smyrnis
		Lukas Kruger	Jan. 20, 2000	2020	BFC Dynamo
		Christoph Hemlein	Dec 16, 1990	2020	1. FC Kaiserslautern
		Dejan Bozic	Jan. 22, 1993	2020	Chemnitzer FC

Trainer and supervisor staff 2020/21

Surname	function
Torsten Frings	Head coach
Mario Neumann	Assistant coach
Bjorn Müller	Assistant coach
André Poggenborg	Goalkeeping coach
Daniel Vehring	Physiotherapist
Melanie Hubert	Physiotherapist
Kai Venemann	Physiotherapist

Transfers of the 2020/21 season

As of August 26, 2020

Accesses	Departures
Summer 2020
Jeron Al-Hazaimeh ( Sportfreunde Lotte ) Dejan Bozic ( Chemnitzer FC ) Lars Bünning ( Borussia Dortmund II ) Christoph Hemlein ( 1. FC Kaiserslautern ) Lukas Krüger (without association) Luca Plogmann ( Werder Bremen ; loan)	Marcel Gebers (SV Union Lohne; as an amateur) Jeroen Gies ( 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig ) Marius Kleinsorge (1. FC Kaiserslautern) Marco Komenda ( Holstein Kiel ) Max Kremer ( Energie Cottbus ) Deniz Undav ( Royale Union Saint-Gilloise ) David Vržogić (ASC Green-White Wielen; as an amateur)

Well-known former players

→ Main article : List of SV Meppen players

During the eleven years of membership in the 2nd Bundesliga, SV Meppen used 75 players. Robert Thoben is the record player with 361 appearances and the record scorer with 63 hits. Robert Thoben is followed by Thomas Böttche (332 games), Eckhard Vorholt (296 games), Bernd Deters (276 games) and Andreas Helmer (244 games). The next most successful goal scorers behind Robert Thoben are Martin van der Pütten (48 goals), Rainer Rauffmann (37 goals), Eckhard Vorholt (31 goals) and Marko Myyry (24 goals). Most of the goalkeeper appearances were made by Manfred Kubik (130 games), Stefan Brasas (124 games) and Hermann Rülander (97 games). Stefan Brasas even scored a goal.

With Hilal El-Helwe ( Lebanon ), Hassan Amin ( Afghanistan ), Paul Caligiuri ( USA ), Viktor Maier ( Kyrgyzstan ) and Marko-Olavi Myyry ( Finland ), SV Meppen provided five senior national players.

During his amateur football years, Gerd Sand became a club legend. Between 1959 and 1972 he ran over 600 times for SV Meppen and scored over 500 goals.

Player with the most wagers and goals

The following table shows all competitive games and goals for the first team of SV Meppen. This only includes the league games. (As of July 21, 2015)

Calls 01  Bernd Deters 1979-2000 524 02  Robert Thoben 1984-1998 474 03  Josef Menke 1980-1996 460 04th  Hubert Hüring 1969–1971 1972–1984 451 05  Eckhard Vorholt 1985-2000 369 06th Gerd Sand 1959-1972 358 07th  Andreas Helmer 1990-1998 2001-2005 342 08th  Thomas Böttche 1987-1998 332 09  Frank Faltin 1982-1995 332 10 Helmut Heuing 1969-1981 297

Gates 01 Gerd Sand 1959-1972 294 02  Josef Menke 1980-1996 113 03  Martin van der Pütten 1982-1994 112 04th  Hubert Hüring 1969–1971 1972–1984 107 05 Gerd van Zoest 1954-1965 107 06th Georg Rocks 1960-1970 097 07th Heinz Tappel 1969-1977 095 08th  Robert Thoben 1984-1998 087 09 Richard Hoge 1949-1955 076 10 Christel Balzen 1965-1971 074

President

1912–1920: August Krapp 1920: Theodor Kevelaer 1920–1922: District Council Lewald 2 1922–1926: August Krapp 1926–1931: Police Lieutenant Stucke 2 1931–1936: Josef Lienstromberg 1936–1938: Hermann Mertens 1938–1945: Hermann Kley 1946–1949: Josef Lienstromberg 1949–1951: Franz Hoffstadt 1951–1952: Ferdinand Tannen

1952–1954: Josef Westphalen 1954–1968: Hermann Wevers 1968–1970: Paul Kuzka 1970–1974: Hubert Niebuhr 1974–1998: Wolfgang Gersmann 1998–2001: Franz Quatmann 2001-2004: Frank Jehn 2004–2008: Reinhard Meiners since 2008: Andreas Kremer 2 First name unknown

Coach history

Since 1956, SV Meppen has employed 28 coaches and five interim coaches. The latter are marked in italics in the following list . Rainer Persike , who headed the training for eight years from 1983 to 1991, had the longest term in office . Hermann Michel followed at the age of seven between 1967 and 1974.

1956–1957: Günther Richter 1957 -0000: Hans Heyduck 1957–1959: August Opitz 1959–1961: Gerd Timmer 1961–1964: Horst Witzler 1964–1965: Sandor Zele 1965–1966: Theo Otto 1966–1967: Gerd van Zoest 1967–1974: Hermann Michel 1974–1976: Klaus Basikow 1976–1978: Hermann Michel

1978 -0000: Bernd Kugler 1978–1983: Hans-Dieter Schmidt 1983–1991: Rainer Persike 1991–1996: Horst Ehrmantraut 1996–1997: Paul Linz 1997–1998: Wolfgang Rolff 1998–1999: Miroslav Votava 1999 -0000: Rainer Persike 1999–2000: Theo Bücker 2000–2002: Alfons Weusthoff 2002–2003: Andreas Helmer

2003–2004: Jens Friedemann 2004–2005: Georg Belke 2005–2007: Alfons Weusthoff 2007–2009: Hubert Hüring 2009 -0000: Frank Claaßen 2009–2010: Hubert Hüring 2010–2012: Johann Lünemann 2012 -0000: Rainer Persike together with Damir Bujan 2012–2013: Heiko Flottmann 2013–2020: Christian Neidhart

environment

Stadion

→ Main article: Hänsch Arena

The Hänsch-Arena after the promotion game against Waldhof Mannheim on May 31, 2017

The club plays its home games in the Hänsch Arena. The stadium is in the north of Meppen, on Lathener Straße in the Neustadt district. It was inaugurated in 1924 and renamed the Hindenburg Stadium in 1927 . Since the 1990s it was called Emslandstadion . In 2005 it was renamed Vivaris Arena Emsland . SV Meppen is said to have received a five-digit amount for the renaming. From summer 2011 the stadium was called MEP-Arena , after the sponsor Meppener -kauf-Passage . The name Hänsch Arena has been in effect since January 2014. The stadium is a pure football arena with no surrounding tartan track .

In 1969 a floodlight system was installed for the first time, but dismantled after a few years due to safety deficiencies. A new floodlight system was put into operation in October 1996. In 2015, the capacity was reduced from 16,610 seats to 13,815 seats in the course of the DFB Cup game against 1. FC Köln for safety reasons. In the winter of 2017/18, the north stand was demolished and rebuilt, reducing the total capacity to 13,696 seats. The main grandstand (new grandstand) and the back straight (old grandstand) offer the spectators 4,340 seats, 4,164 of which are covered. In order to meet the regulations of the 3rd league, turf heating was installed in July 2018 .

Fans

SVM mug with logo and lettering: I've been a football fan since I've known the club!

The fans of SV Meppen watch the club's home games on the south stand of the stadium. The most famous fan clubs include Meppen-INC , Die 13 , die Laxtener Jungs , Leftside Meppen and the Meppinias , the latter being made up entirely of women. The Meppen scene acts as the umbrella organization for the fan groups . The official fan shop is located in the stadium. The supporters of SV Meppen see VfL Osnabrück and VfB Oldenburg as their main rivals. The rivalry with Osnabrück arose in the second division era and is justified by the geographical proximity. After SV Meppen was promoted to the 3rd division, the rivalry was revived.

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Second team

The second team of SV Meppen has played in the Weser-Ems 3 regional league since they were promoted in 2008. The team had its most successful period at the end of the 1990s. In 1997 the team, which at that time was still called SV Meppen Amateure , reached the then fifth-class Lower Saxony League West after three consecutive promotions . A year later, the Meppen runners-up behind Blau-Weiß Lohne , before the team was relegated in 1999 as the bottom of the table. After three relegations in a row, the team came back in 2004 in the district league. In 1997 and 1998 the team won the Weser-Ems District Cup.

Third team

The third men's team played in the 2nd district class Emsland Mitte until the 2015/16 season , when they disbanded. For the 2017/18 season, however, she was reactivated and entered the 4th district class Emsland Middle / South , where she immediately made it through to the 2nd district Emsland Middle .

Youth football

SV Meppen provided 17 youth teams in the 2013/14 season, two of which were girls' teams. The A-, B- and C-Juniors as well as the B-Juniors belong to the youth performance center Emsland . The A-Juniors made it to the U-19 Bundesliga in 2014 . There they finished last and were relegated and a year later they were even passed through to the third-class Lower Saxony league, but then immediately rose again. The B-Juniors play in the second-rate Regionalliga Nord, while the C-Juniors became Lower Saxony champions in 2017 and thus made the leap into the first-class Regionalliga Nord. The B-Juniors were among the founding members of the B-Juniors-Bundesliga in 2013 and took part in the final round of the German B-Juniors Championship in 2017 , where they failed in the semi-finals at Bayern Munich .

Women's soccer

→ Main article: SV Meppen (women's football)

Since the 2011/12 season , the footballers of SV Victoria Gersten have been playing under the name SV Meppen. In 1993, the team made it to the then second-class Oberliga Nord , which was renamed Regionalliga Nord two years later . In 2002 the barley women became champions, but missed promotion to the Bundesliga . After the renewed championship two years later, the club waived the promotion round. Since then, the team has played in the 2nd Bundesliga, introduced in 2004.

In the 2019/20 season , which was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic , fourth place was enough for promotion to the Bundesliga, as two higher-placed second teams were not eligible for promotion.

successes

Entry ticket for SV Meppen in the 2nd division, 1997/98 against Fortuna Düsseldorf

• Champion of the Regionalliga Nord 2017
• Champion of the Oberliga Nord 1987
• Lower Saxony champions 1968, 1979, 2011
• Lower Saxony Cup winner 1999
• Champion of the Lower Saxony amateur league , season West 1964
• Champion of the Lower Saxony amateur league , season 8 1961

The team achieved the best placement in the 2nd Bundesliga in the 1994/95 season with sixth place. In addition, SV Meppen topped the 2nd Bundesliga North seven times ( 1991/92 season ). The club played in the 2nd Bundesliga for eleven years without interruption from 1987 to 1998. During this time, the team played a total of 404 second division games, of which they won 124 and lost 141, they played 139 times (goal difference: 495: 547). After the end of the 2018/19 season, SVM is in 36th place in the all-time table of the 2nd Bundesliga .

particularities

SV Meppen versus FC Barcelona

Admission ticket SV Meppen - FC Barcelona

The game against FC Barcelona on August 3, 1982 on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of SV Meppen's club is considered to be the match of the century for SV Meppen. In front of an estimated 22,000 spectators in Meppen's Hindenburg Stadium , the then 21-year-old Diego Maradona made his debut for FC Barcelona, ​​to which the Argentine playmaker had switched after the 1982 World Cup for a record transfer fee of 7.3 million dollars. Meppen's coach Hans-Dieter Schmidt summed up: "He had to be escorted onto the field by police officers, then he grabbed a ball and began to dribble back and forth between the penalty area and the center line. Foot, thighs, head, neck - all sorts of tricks. A swarm of 100 fans followed him within a very short time. Whenever he walked in the opposite direction, an alley formed briefly. Maradona danced through and then the crowd hung back on his heels. An unbelievable picture. " Barcelona won the game 5-0. Goal scorers for Barcelona, ​​coached by Udo Lattek , were Maradona, Allan Simonsen , Quini , Moran and Víctor Muñoz .

SV Meppen and Toni Schumacher

In 1988, SV Meppen unintentionally attracted attention when the goalkeeper of the relegation-threatened Bundesliga club FC Schalke 04 , the former national goalkeeper Toni Schumacher , said: "I don't play in Meppen, I'd rather go to Turkey !" At the time, Meppen was a synonym for second class. When Schalke then had to go into the second division, Schumacher switched to Fenerbahçe Istanbul . The Meppener reacted to this statement with humor. On April 22, 1988, the local freight forwarder Többe sent a truck trailer with the label “SV Meppen - the football experience” right in front of Schumacher's front door in Hürth . He was not at home and heard about the action from his wife by phone. Toni Schumacher himself found the campaign “funny and sovereign”. In 2015 Toni Schumacher traveled to Meppen as Vice President of 1. FC Köln when the billy goats had to compete in the DFB Cup at SV Meppen.

literature

• Hans Vinke: The Meppen story, story of a football phenomenon . Emsland Sportwerbung, 1997, ISBN 3-927099-56-2 .

Web links

• Website of SV Meppen

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ ^{a b} svmeppen.de: SV Meppen on track
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8. ↑ Four is one too many. Introduction of the three-point rule. The year 1995. 1. FC Nürnberg , accessed on August 16, 2013 . 
9. ↑ Match statistics 1. FC Kaiserslautern vs. SV Meppen 7: 6. Fussballdaten.de, accessed on August 16, 2013 . 
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11. ↑ Dirk Krampe: Hofmann's dream goal: BVB wins 2-1 in Meppen. Ruhr Nachrichten , accessed on August 16, 2013 . 
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13. ↑ The pairings of the promotion games to the 3rd league ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , sport1.de , May 5, 2017 
14. ↑ Ex-national player Maul joins Meppen , kicker.de , June 13, 2017
15. ↑ Dieter Kremer: The new grandstand turns the Hänsch Arena into a cauldron. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, January 21, 2018, accessed on August 8, 2018 . 
16. ↑ Underfloor heating in the Hänsch Arena completed. focus.de, July 10, 2018, accessed on August 8, 2018 . 
17. ↑ Neidhardt leaves Meppen at the end of the season and becomes Titz's successor at RWE. In: kicker . Olympia-Verlag , June 19, 2020, accessed on June 22, 2020 . 
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24. ↑ oA: Germany, your derbies . In: Zeitspiel, No. 6, page 41
25. ^ German sports club for soccer statistics (ed.): Soccer in the Weser-Ems district 1979-2006 . Taught 2018, p. 405, 414 .
26. ↑ Dieter Kremer: JLZ Emsland is promoted to the Bundesliga. FuPa , accessed July 6, 2014 . 
27. ↑ SV Meppen C-Juniors move up to the regional league. Lower Saxony Football Association , accessed on June 16, 2017 . 
28. ↑ B-Juniors qualify for the finals of the German U17-Junior Championships. JLZ Emsland, accessed on June 16, 2017 . 
29. ↑ https://www.ndr.de/sport/fussball/Werder-und-Meppen-stieg-in-Frauen-Bundesliga-auf,zweiteliga180.html
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31. ↑ Jörg Wulram: Penalty, one-two and autographs: Maradona in Meppen Kicker.de, June 1, 2020
32. ↑ Tobias Ahrens: Our Father, who you are in Meppen 11 Freunde, April 16, 2020
33. ↑ Johannes Freytag: With Maradona in Meppen NDR, 5. March 2017
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