SV Waldhof Mannheim

Full name

Sportverein Waldhof Mannheim e.V.

Nickname(s)

Waldhof Buben (The Waldhof Boys)

Founded

1907

Ground

Carl-Benz-Stadion

Capacity

27,000 (~15,000 seats)

Chairman

Steffen Künster

Manager

Kenan Kocak

League

Regionalliga Südwest (IV)

2014–15

13th

Home colours

Away colours

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	GK	Dennis Broll
2	MF	Maximilian Schilling
3	DF	Christian Mühlbauer
4	DF	Alban Sabah
5	DF	Marcel Seegert
6	MF	Sebastian Gärtner
7	MF	Ali Ibrahimaj
8	MF	Daniel di Gregorio
9	FW	Marcel Sökler
10	FW	Freddy Mombongo-Dues
11	FW	Giuseppe Burgio
12	GK	Levent Cetin
13	DF	Michael Fink
14	MF	Hanno Balitsch
15	DF	Marco Müller

No.	Position	Player
16	MF	Patrick Haag
17	MF	Gianluca Korte
18	MF	Philipp Förster
20	FW	Jannik Sommer
21	MF	Morris Nag
22	MF	Marius Schilling
23	DF	Robin Neupert
24	DF	Jannik Marx
25	GK	Markus Scholz
28	FW	Benedikt Zahn
29	MF	Antonyos Celik
33	FW	Alban Ramaj
68	MF	Nico Seegert
83	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

Kreisliga Odenwald (I)
- Champions: (2) 1920, 1921
- Runners-up: (2) 1922, 1923
Bezirksliga Rhein (I)
- Champions: 1924
Bezirksliga Rhein-Saar (Rhein division) (I)
- Champions: (5) 1928, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933
- Runners-up: 1929
Gauliga Baden (I)
- Champions: (5) 1934, 1936, 1937, 1940, 1942
Oberliga Süd (I)
- Runners-up: 1947
2. Bundesliga (II)
- Champions: 1983
2. Oberliga Süd (II)
- Champions: (2) 1958, 1960
Amateurliga Nordbaden (III)
- Champions: (2) 1971, 1972
Verbandsliga Nordbaden
- Runners-up: 2000^‡, 2001^‡
Landesliga Rhein/Neckar
- Runners-up: 2008^‡, 2009^‡

Cup

North Baden Cup
- Winners: (2) 1998, 1999

Youth

German Under 19 championship
- Champions: 1980
- Runners-up: 1996

^‡ Won by reserve team.

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	V	2nd ↑
2001–02	Oberliga Baden-Württemberg	IV	6th
2002–03	Oberliga Baden-Württemberg	IV	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

With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier.

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

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

External links

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Official website
Abseits Guide to German Soccer
SV Waldhof Mannheim at Weltfussball.de
Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables (German)

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