DSV Leoben

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DSV Leoben
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Basic data
Surname Donawitzer Sportverein Leoben
Seat Leoben , Styria
founding February 1, 1928 (as WSV Donawitz )
Colours Green white
president Edi dear
Website dsv-leoben.at
First soccer team
Head coach Ivo Goelz
Venue Donawitz Stadium
Places 6000
league Regional League Styria
2019/20
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The DSV Leoben is an Austrian football club from the district Donawitz the Styrian district capital Leoben . He has been playing in the fourth-class Styrian regional league since the 2013/14 season.

history

Foundation as WSV Donawitz and first successes

The Donawitz factory sports club was founded on February 1, 1928 , according to the club's official information . The club colors of WSV Donawitz were green and white. The year 1922 is often used as the founding year. However, this refers to the now non-existent club Donawitzer SV, which in the early years played at the same time as WSV Donawitz in the league of the Upper Styria district, but has nothing to do with the history of the WSV Donawitz, which was founded as a pure company sports club of the Styrian Alpine Montan AG .

In the 1930/31 season the club played for the first time in the 1st class of Styria, the highest league for Styrian clubs at the time, and was now able to compete with well-known clubs such as SK Sturm Graz , Grazer AK , Grazer SC and Kapfenberger SC . The Donawitzer soon became a fixture in the league and achieved top positions year after year. In 1939 the "Montanstädter" finally celebrated the championship title of the newly established Styria - Carinthia division , but could not prevail in the promotion round to the former Gauliga Ost against the overpowering FC Wien , the Linz ASK and the WSV BU Neunkirchen . In the same year the place Donawitz was incorporated into Leoben, but the WSV kept the name Donawitz in its club name. In the war years until 1945 the game operation could no longer be maintained and the club was dissolved. The WSV Donawitz sports facility was converted into a parking lot for heavy and armored vehicles .

Re-establishment and a new beginning

In 1949, WSV Donawitz registered again and started playing in the lower classes. As early as 1954, the Leoben played in the Styrian national league and celebrated the championship title in this division in 1954/55, which also meant promotion to the then State B league . Donawitz has played in one of the two highest leagues in Austria without interruption since 1956! In 1958 WSV Donawitz even achieved promotion to the State League A with a 2: 2 and a 5: 1 win over SV Austria Salzburg , in which they could hold out for two years. After a few seasons in the second level (Regionalliga Mitte), the last appearance of WSV Donawitz under this name in the top Austrian league followed in 1968/69.

Renaming to DSV Alpine

In 1970 the WSV Donawitz was renamed WSV Alpine Donawitz . With the championship title in the regional league in 1971 followed the promotion to the then national league . On May 3, 1971 , the club was renamed Donawitzer SV Alpine, DSV Alpine for short . Strangely enough, the club always received different names in the media, such as DSV Alpine, Donawitz, DSV Donawitz, Alpine Donawitz, DSV Alpine Leoben or Alpine Leoben. In 1972 and 1974 the Styrians achieved their best upper house placement with the 6th place. Despite the athletic qualification, the DSV Alpine - like numerous other clubs - was excluded from the top division in 1974 due to reforms, as the newly introduced Bundesliga only provided for one club per federal state (two clubs from Vienna). In 1984 , the reform victims reached second place in the 2nd division and were promoted to the Bundesliga. There they stayed until 1986 and then again from 1991 - 1992 . In total, the Donawitzer played ten seasons in the highest Austrian league.

Merger to DSV Leoben 1992

After relegation to the second division in 1992, the officials of the clubs DSV Alpine and 1. FC Leoben decided to bundle their forces in the Upper Styrian district capital and merged on June 22, 1992 to form DSV Leoben . For the first time, the city name Leoben has now been included in the club name. This merger bore its first fruits in the 1994/95 season , in which the Montanstädter sensationally reached the cup final. Despite a very good performance and the better chances against the final opponent SK Rapid Wien, the Leoben defeated the Viennese just 0: 1 and thus missed the first Austrian title. Responsible for this was the former Leoben Peter Guggi , who scored the winning goal for Rapid from a long shot. In the 2008/09 season , the Leoben played in the first division .

Bankruptcy 2009

On February 16, 2009, the DSV filed for bankruptcy at the Leoben Regional Court . According to the credit protection association , a compulsory settlement and thus survival as a professional club was not possible. In January 2009, the DSV Leoben had given all professional players the free approval due to the impending insolvency. However, this was only used by seven players, the majority of the players stayed with the club for the time being. After the main sponsor, the financial consulting firm HFL Hans Linz, which had to file for bankruptcy on November 20, 2008 as a result of the global financial crisis and because no new main sponsor could be found, the Donawitzers could no longer be saved. The current liabilities amount to 435,000 euros. According to the statutes of the Austrian Bundesliga, DSV Leoben was the first of three permanent relegated members of the first division and in the 2009/10 season was no longer in one of the two top divisions for the first time since 1956.

Start again in the regional league

The DSV is now playing in the third-class regional league middle . After Dejan Stanković's two-month stay , he was followed shortly afterwards in September 2009 by Richard Niederbacher, the former international and then sports director of DSV Leoben . Afterwards, the coach of the amateur team, Andreas Kindlinger, took over the post of head coach, which he gave up again in spring 2011. He was followed for a year by former GAK player Gregor Pötscher. From May 8, 2012 Manfred Unger was the head coach of the DSV, but was already on leave from the club on August 27. Jürgen Auffinger then led the training on an interim basis. On September 2nd, Heinz Karner was introduced as the new coach, but after a rather unfortunate period - and relegation to the Styrian regional league - he was released on June 30th, 2013. He was followed again by Gregor Pötscher, who had already trained the DSV from 2011 to 2012.

National league

DSV Leoben has been playing in the Styrian regional league since the 2013/2014 season. Here, too, the club does not come to rest - and at the end of 2014 the entire board of DSV Leoben resigns (in the 5-year era of Gabor Heinemann as president, there were no fewer than ten coaches). Wilfried Gröbminger (already on the board of the DSV for decades) pushes himself into the office of chairman. In terms of sport, things are still not going as expected and they only narrowly escaped relegation to the Styrian Oberliga. Coach Gregor Pötscher was dismissed. He was followed by the former DSV player Jürgen Auffinger.

Known players

Known players until 1990

Well-known players since 1990

Trainer (selection)

successes

Trivia

The team is known as the "blast furnace ballet". The reason is that Leoben is still the location of the Montan University for Metallurgy and Mining and the predecessor club WSV Donawitz was founded as a company sports club of the Austrian Alpine Mining Society .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ORF Steiermark of November 21, 2008: Financial advisor HFL Hans Linz broke (accessed on February 16, 2009)
  2. ↑ Kleine Zeitung of February 16, 2009: DSV Leoben has filed for bankruptcy (accessed on February 16, 2009)
  3. ↑ ORF Steiermark from February 16, 2009: DSV Leoben applies for bankruptcy proceedings (accessed on February 16, 2009)
  4. ↑ Leoben separates from trainer Stankovic , accessed on September 18, 2009
  5. ↑ Note in: RevierSport 100/2012, p. 45

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