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.

History

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.Homepage DSV Leoben

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.

Current squad
DSV Leoben-Kader

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 YôuthHomepage DSV Leoben

Coaching history (21st century)
Mitarbeiter DSV Leoben Retrieved 21 August 2023  
 Start End Coach 19992002  Milan Djuricic 2001 2003  Petar Segrt 2003 2005  Heinz Thonhofer 2005 2007  Dejan Stankovic 2007 2007  Manfred Kohlbacher 2007 2008  Walter Kogler2008 2009  Heimo Kump 2009 2009  Dejan Stankovic20092010  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 Karner2013 2015  	Gregor Pötscher 2015 2018  Jürgen Auffinger 2018 2018  Gottfried Jantschgi 2018 2018  Helmut Kalander 2018 2018   Jürgen Kogler 2018 2019   Hannes Reinmayr 20192020   Ivo Gölz 2020 2023    Carsten Jancker 2023      Rene Poms

Other websites
  Official website

References

Graz, SK Sturm
Category:Football clubs of Styria
Category:1928 establishments in Europe
Category:1920s establishments in Austria