DSV Leoben

**DSV Leoben KAIF Energy** is an Austrian football club from the Donawitz district of the Styrian town of  Leoben. They play in the playing in the third-tier Regionalliga Mitte since the 2022/23 season.

### WSV Donawitz

The club was founded on 1 February 1928  as _Werkssportverein Donawitz_. The colours were green-white. They played their first season at the top Styrian league in 1930/31. WSV reached the title in 1939 but lost the playoffs for promotion to the Gauliga Ost after losing to FC Wien, Linzer ASK and WSV BU Neunkirchen. That same year, Donawitz became part of Leoben but WSV kept its name.
1944 the club was dissolved  and a quick restart after the war was out of question , especially since the sports field was used as a tank parking lot.

Football was reestablished in Donawitz in 1949 . In  1955 they won another title and were promoted 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_ .1971 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. After the 1973/74 season the club was forced to the 2nd tier because 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. After that they had they had another spell from 1991 until 1992. They were 10 years in the Austrian Bundesliga.

### DSV Leoben

After relegation in 1992  DSV Alpine and _1. FC Leoben_  merged to _DSV Leoben_ . The club was founded on  22 June 1992. Their first success was reaching the 1995 Austrian Cup final. They lost to   SK Rapid Wien .

In 2009 the club went bankrupt. The DSV now competed in the third-class Regionalliga Mitte. From the 2013/2014 season, DSV Leoben played in the Styrian league. 2021/22 they won the league and were promoted to the Regionalliga Central. In the 2022-23 season they were promoted to 2. League.

## Staff

||Name|Birth|Country|in Donawitz since|Last team|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Trainer|René Poms|05.07.1975||08/2023|NK Osijek|
|Co-Trainer|Dino Škvorc|02.02.1990||07/2022|Spieler|
|Torwarttrainer|Philipp Martin|01.11.88||01/2023|Grazer AK Yôuth|

## Coaching history (21st century)

|Start|End|Coach|
| --- | --- | --- |
|1999|2002|Milan Djuricic|
|2001|2003|Petar Segrt|
|2003|2005|Heinz Thonhofer|
|2005|2007|Dejan Stankovic|
|2007|2007|Manfred Kohlbacher|
|2007|2008|Walter Kogler|
|2008|2009|Heimo Kump|
|2009|2009|Dejan Stankovic|
|2009|2010|Richard Niederbacher|
|2010|2011|Andreas Kindlinger|
|2011|2012|Gregor Pötscher|
|2012|2012|Bernhard Muhr|
|2012|2012|Adolf Pinter|
|2012|2012|Manfred Unger|
|2012|2012|Jürgen Auffinger|
|2012|2013|Heinz Karner|
|2013|2015|Gregor Pötscher|
|2015|2018|Jürgen Auffinger|
|2018|2018|Gottfried Jantschgi|
|2018|2018|Helmut Kalander|
|2018|2018|Jürgen Kogler|
|2018|2019|Hannes Reinmayr|
|2019|2020|Ivo Gölz|
|2020|2023|Carsten Jancker|
|2023||Rene Poms|

## Other websites

- Official website

## Infobox (football club)

- **clubname**: DSV Leoben
- **image**: Logo DSV Leoben.jpg
- **fullname**: Donawitzer Sport Verein Leoben
- **founded**: 16 December 1928
- **ground**: Donawitz Stadium
- **capacity**: 6,000
- **manager**: Carsten Jancker
- **league**: Austrian Regionalliga Central
- **season**: 2021/22
- **position**: 1st