DSV Leoben

DSV Leoben is an Austrian association football club based in Leoben. It was founded in 1928. They play at the Donawitz Stadium.

DSV Leoben
Full nameDonawitzer Sport Verein Leoben
Founded1928 (1928)
GroundDonawitz Stadium
Capacity6,000
ManagerCarsten Jancker
LeagueAustrian Regionalliga Central

History

WSV Donawitz

The club was founded on 1 February 1928 opgericht as Werkssportverein Donawitz, playing in green-white colours. They played their first season at the top Styrian league in 1930/31, playing against the likes of SK Sturm Graz, Grazer AK, Grazer SC and Kapfenberger SC. WSV clinched the title in 1939 but subsequently lost the playoffs for promotion to the Gauliga Ost after losing to FC Wien, Linzer ASK and WSV BU Neunkirchen. That same year, Donawitz town became part of Leoben but WSV kept its name.

After World War II, football was restored in Donawitz in 1949 and the club won another league title in 1955 to clinch promotion to the second tier of Austrian football. In 1958 WSV Donawitz won promotion to the top tier, only to be relegated back after two years.

DSV Alpine

In 1970 the club was renamed WSV Alpine Donawitz and after a year they won promotion back to the country's top tier. On 3 May 1971, the club was renamed again to Donawitzer SV Alpine or just DSV Alpine. They came 6th in the league in 1972 and 1974, but after the 1973/74 season the club was demoted to the 2nd tier after the number of teams in the league was decreased from 17 to 10 clubs and only one team from Styria (Sturm Graz) was included. They only got back to the top tier in 1984 and remained there until 1986 en had they had another spell from 1991 until 1992. They totalled 10 years in the Austrian Bundesliga.

DSV Leoben

After relegation in 1992, board members of DSV Alpine and 1. FC Leoben decided to merge and the new club DSV Leoben was established on 22 June 1992. Their first success was reaching the 1994/95 Austrian Cup final, which they lost to local giants SK Rapid Wien with former player Peter Guggi at the helm.

They were demoted to the third tier Regionalliga Mitte in 2009, after going into administration.

Current squad
As of 1 January 2023

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  BIH Admir Pečkoviċ
5 DF  SVN Dino Kerić
6 MF  AUT Nico Pichler
7 MF  SVN Tilen Pečnik
8 MF  AUT Philipp Hütter
9 FW  AUT Thomas Hirschhofer
10 MF  AUT Luca Pichler
11 DF  ALB Drini Halili
12 DF  AUT Stefan Pfeifer
14 MF  AUT Gregor Grubišić
17 MF  AUT Lorenz Reisinger
18 DF  AUT Marco Untergrabner
No. Pos. Nation Player
20 MF  AUT Lukas Skrivanek
23 DF  AUT Lukas Prokop
24 DF  GER Timo Perthel
25 DF  CRO Dino Škvorc
27 DF  AUT Florian Freisegger
28 GK  SVN Žan Pelko
33 DF  CRO Domogaj Sabljo
34 GK  AUT Fabian Kinzl
71 MF  AUT Thomas Maier
77 MF  AUT Josip Eskinja
99 FW  CRO Luka Pisačić

Managers

References
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  2. "DSV Leoben - Trainerhistorie".
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 19 January 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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