SVN Zweibrücken

SVN Zweibrücken

Full name	Sportverein Niederauerbach 1929 Zweibrücken e.V.
Founded	1929
Ground	Westpfalzstadion
Manager	Raphaél Laghnej
League	Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar (V)
2014–15	Regionalliga Südwest (IV), 18th (relegated)
Home colours Away colours

SVN Zweibrücken is a German association football club from the Niederauerbach quarter of Zweibrücken, Rhineland-Palatinate.

History

The association was founded in 1929 as SV Niederauerbach and remained an anonymous local side until winning its way to the Verbandsliga Südwest (V). A decade later the team captured the division title and was promoted to the Oberliga Südwest (V). SV also advanced to the finals of the Südwest Pokal (South West Cup) in that successful 2007–08 season, which earned the club a place in the DFB-Pokal (German Cup) tournament in 2008–09. In June 2009 the club changed its name to SVN Zweibrücken.

Since entering the Oberliga Südwest in 2008 the team has achieved good results, culminating in a second-place finish in 2011-12. From 2012-13 the Oberliga Südwest was renamed Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar, with SVN Zweibrücken taking out the league title in its inaugural season and earning promotion to the Regionalliga Südwest. After a seventh-place finish in the league in 2014 the club came last in the following season and was relegated back to the Oberliga.

In December 2015 the club announced that it would not pay its players anymore and had not done so since October. The club was in danger of becoming insolvent and had been lingering at the bottom of the table.^[1]

Honours

The club's honours:

Current squad

As of 13 October 2015

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

No. Position Player — GK Andrei Popescu — GK Philipp Rommelfanger — GK Robin Koch — DF Henry Alika — DF Berti Diau — DF Ismail Mert — DF Peter Müller — DF Turgut Osmantsa — DF Andrei Tomaru — DF Hermon Tekele — DF Patrick Köhler

No. Position Player — DF Ralph Smith — MF Ryan Asare-Bediako — MF Miguel-Kufulu Augusto — MF Burak Bilaloglu — MF Arnaud Kengne — MF Cihad Gündüz — MF Jannik Jorissen — MF Orji Obichi — FW Valdrin Dakaj — FW Ryan Asarej — FW Stevo Vrbarac

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:^[2][3]

• 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. In 2012 the Oberliga Südwest was renamed Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar.

References

External links

• Official team site
• SVN Zweibrücken at Weltfussball.de
• Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables (German)