SV Waldhof Mannheim

SV Waldhof Mannheim
Full name Sportverein Waldhof Mannheim e.V.
Nickname(s) Waldhof Buben (The Waldhof Boys)
Founded 1907
Ground Carl-Benz-Stadion
Ground Capacity 27,000 (~15,000 seats)
Chairman Steffen Künster
Manager Kenan Kocak
League Regionalliga Südwest (IV)
2014–15 13th

SV Waldhof Mannheim is a multi-sports club, located in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg. It is most known for its association football team; however, there are also professional handball and table-tennis sides. The club today has a membership of over 2,400.

History

The club was founded 1907 and played in the second division of the Westkreis-Liga just before the First World War. Waldhof became part of the Kreisliga Odenwald in 1919 and won this league in 1920 and 1921. In each of those two seasons, the club failed to advance in the Southern German championship because it was grouped with all-powerful 1. FC Nuremberg at the time. The club took out a Bezirksliga Rhein championship in 1924 before joining the Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar in 1927, where it won five out of the next six division titles without ever performing particularly well in the Southern championship.

Its enjoyed its best performances in the Gauliga Baden, one of sixteen top-flight divisions established through the 1933 re-organization of German football under the Third Reich. Waldhof dominated the division through the 30s and into the early 40s by capturing the title five times and consistently finishing well up the table. They were unable, however, to translate that into success at the national level. Their best result came in 1940 when they went out in a semi-final match against FC Schalke 04, the dominant side of the era, before settling for fourth place after losing a consolation round match to Rapid Vienna.

After World War II, Waldhof picked up play in the Oberliga Süd where they earned mid-table results until being relegated to the 2nd Oberliga Süd in 1954. They bounced up and down between first and second division play until the formation of the Bundesliga, Germany's new professional football league, in 1963. The next season saw them in the tier II Regionalliga Süd alongside local rivals VfR Mannheim. A string of unimpressive results finally led to relegation in 1970 to the Amateurliga Nordbaden (III).

SV Chio Waldhof Mannheim ca. 1972–78.

Support from a new sponsor, snack chip maker Chio, revived the team and helped their return to the second division where they played as SV Chio Waldhof Mannheim from 1972 to 1978. They continued to play as a middling side there until an unexpected breakthrough to the Bundesliga in 1983. Waldhof spent seven seasons competing at the top flight until a 17th-place finish saw the club relegated at the end of the 1989–90 season. They delivered another seven seasons as a decent 2.Bundeliga club until slipping to the Regionalliga Süd for two seasons in 1997–99. A merger with VfR Mannheim was considered in 1998 but the club walked away from a deal at the last minute. Their return to the 2.Bundesliga in 1999 after a season long struggle with Kickers Offenbach was cut short in 2003 when financial irregularities saw the German Football Association deny the team a license, dropping them to the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg (IV). Another attempt at a merger with VfR failed that same year. The club played in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg until 2007–08, when a third-place finish allowed them qualification for the Regionalliga.

After coming fourth in the Regionalliga Süd in 2008–09, the club was moved across to the Regionalliga West in 2009–10 in an effort to balance out the three Regionalligas.[1]

After just two seasons in the Regionalliga, Waldhof again had their license withdrawn in 2010 and were demoted back to the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg, now the fifth level of German football, despite having finished clear of the relegation zone on the pitch with the league's smallest budget. Waldhof Mannheim spent only one year in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg, winning this league in 2010-11 and advancing directly back to the Regionalliga. On 11 June 2011 they defeated FV Illertissen 6-0 in their final season match to clinch promotion and also set a new fifth-division attendance record, with 18,312 spectators seeing the match. It surpassed the previous record, the 2009 Leipzig derby, by more than 3,000 spectators.[2]

At the end of the 2011-12 season the club was grouped into the new Regionalliga Südwest, which replaced the Regionalliga Süd in the region.

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Germany GK Dennis Broll
2 Germany MF Maximilian Schilling
3 Germany DF Christian Mühlbauer
4 Togo DF Alban Sabah
5 Germany DF Marcel Seegert
6 Germany MF Sebastian Gärtner
7 Germany MF Ali Ibrahimaj
8 Italy MF Daniel di Gregorio
9 Germany FW Marcel Sökler
10 Democratic Republic of the Congo FW Freddy Mombongo-Dues
11 Italy FW Giuseppe Burgio
12 Germany GK Levent Cetin
13 Germany DF Michael Fink
14 Germany MF Hanno Balitsch
15 Germany DF Marco Müller
No. Position Player
16 Germany MF Patrick Haag
17 Germany MF Gianluca Korte
18 Germany MF Philipp Förster
20 Germany FW Jannik Sommer
21 Germany MF Morris Nag
22 Germany MF Marius Schilling
23 Germany DF Robin Neupert
24 Germany DF Jannik Marx
25 Germany GK Markus Scholz
28 Germany FW Benedikt Zahn
29 Germany MF Antonyos Celik
33 Germany FW Alban Ramaj
68 Germany MF Nico Seegert
83 Germany MF Jonas Strifler

Reserve team

The SV Waldhof II, historically also referred to as SV Waldhof Amateure, rose to the tier-IV league Verbandsliga Nordbaden in 1986 and remained there until gaining promotion to the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg in 2001. After two seasons in the Oberliga with good results, the team had to be withdrawn due to the forced relegation of the first team. In the 2007–08 season, the team narrowly missed out on Verbandsliga promotion when it finished second on equal points to the SV Sandhausen II.[3]

Honours

The club's honours:

League

Cup

Youth

Recent managers

Recent managers of the club:[4]

Manager Start Finish
Uwe Rapolder 29 March 1997 12 November 2001
Walter Pradt 12 November 2001 3 December 2001
Andy Egli 6 December 2001 10 September 2002
Walter Pradt 11 September 2002 2 April 2003
Stefan Kuntz 3 April 2003 26 May 2003
Viktor Olscha 27 May 2003 30 June 2004
Eugen Hach 1 July 2004 3 November 2004
Maurizio Gaudino 4 November 2004 6 January 2005
Slavko Petrović 7 January 2005 22 December 2005
Massimo Morales 23 December 2005 30 June 2006
Steffen Menze 1 July 2006 20 September 2007
Alexander Conrad 21 September 2007 30 June 2009
Walter Pradt 1 July 2009 30 June 2010
Reiner Hollich 1 July 2010 2 April 2013
Andreas Clauß 3 April 2013 30 June 2013
Kenan Kocak 1 July 2014 Present

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:[5][6]

SV Waldhof Mannheim

Season Division Tier Position
1999–2000 2. Bundesliga II 12th
2000–01 2. Bundesliga 4th
2001–02 2. Bundesliga 9th
2002–03 2. Bundesliga 18th ↓
2003–04 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg IV 3rd
2004–05 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg 11th
2005–06 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg 8th
2006–07 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg 10th
2007–08 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg 3rd ↑
2008–09 Regionalliga Süd 4th
2009–10 Regionalliga West 14th ↓
2010–11 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg V 1st ↑
2011–12 Regionalliga Süd IV 12th
2012–13 Regionalliga Südwest 6th
2013–14 Regionalliga Südwest 5th
2014–15 Regionalliga Südwest 13th
2015–16 Regionalliga Südwest

SV Waldhof Mannheim II

Season Division Tier Position
1999–2000 Verbandsliga Nordbaden V 2nd
2000–01 Verbandsliga Nordbaden 2nd ↑
2001–02 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg IV 6th
2002–03 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg 10th ↓
2003–04
2004–05 Landesliga Rhein/Neckar VI 9th
2005–06 Landesliga Rhein/Neckar 11th
2006–07 Landesliga Rhein/Neckar 8th
2007–08 Landesliga Rhein/Neckar 2nd
2008–09 Landesliga Rhein/Neckar VII 2nd ↑
2009–10 Verbandsliga Nordbaden VI 5th
2010–11 Verbandsliga Nordbaden 12th
2011–12 Verbandsliga Nordbaden 7th
2012–13 Verbandsliga Nordbaden 11th
2013–14 Verbandsliga Nordbaden 8th
2014–15 Verbandsliga Nordbaden 13th ↓
2015–16 Landesliga Rhein/Neckar VII

Key

Promoted Relegated

Stadium

SV Waldhof plays its home games at the Carl-Benz-Stadion, which holds 27,000 and opened in 1994.[7]

References

  1. Der SVW spielt im Westen (German) kicker sportmagazin, published: 15 June 2009, accessed: 30 June 2009
  2. Sebert will "absolut regionalligataugliche" Spieler (German) kicker.de, published: 14 June 2011, accessed: 15 June 2011
  3. Fussball.de: Table of the Landesliga Rhein/ Neckar accessed: 17 July 2008
  4. Waldhof Mannheim .:. Trainer von A-Z (German) weltfussball.de, accessed: 18 September 2011
  5. Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (German) Historical German domestic league tables
  6. Fussball.de - Ergebnisse (German) Tables and results of all German football leagues
  7. Carl-Benz-Stadion (German) weltfussball.de, accessed: 18 September 2011

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