SV Drochtersen/Assel

The club was formed in 1977 in a merger of the football departments of two local clubs, VTV Assel and TVG Drochtersen. First, unsuccessful attempts to combine the two had already been made three years earlier but were voted down by the members of VTV. It took until 1985 to see the new club having some success when it won promotion to the Bezirksliga. From there the club rose to the Bezirksoberliga Lüneburg, now the Landesliga, in 1987. After an era of success the club declined again in the late 1990s, suffering relegation down to the Bezirksliga in 1997. In 2001 the club returned to what was now the Landesliga Lüneburg.[1]

A runners-up finish in the Landesliga in 2004–05 took SV Drochtersen/Assel up to the tier five Verbandsliga Niedersachsen-Ost where it played as a lower table side for the next three seasons. In 2008, with the disbanding of the Oberliga Nord, the league was renamed to Oberliga Niedersachsen-Ost. Drochtersen/Assel achieved two upper table finishes in the league in the next two seasons. A seventh place in 2009–10 qualified the club for the now single division Oberliga but a 17th place in 2010–11 meant it had to drop down to the Landesliga again.[2]

Winning a championship in the Landesliga Lüneburg in 2011–12 took the club back up to the Niedersachsenliga. After three seasons at this level the club won the league in 2014–15 and earned promotion to the Regionalliga Nord.[2]

After winning the Lower Saxony Cup in 2018, SV Drochtersen/Assel qualified for the DFB-Pokal. In the first round, they were drawn at home against Bayern Munich – winner of the previous six Bundesliga titles – and lost by a sole goal from Robert Lewandowski in the last ten minutes.[3]

In 2019, they won the Lower Saxony Cup again, qualifying for their third participation in the DFB-Pokal in four years.[4] They were beaten 5–0 by Schalke in the first round.[5]

As of 12 February 2018[6]

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  GER Jannis Trapp 3 DF  GER Meikal Klee (Vice-Captain) 4 DF  GER Nikola Serra 6 DF  GER Matti Grahle 7 MF  GER Finn-Patrick Gierke 8 FW  BIH Marcel Andrijanić 10 MF  GER Florian Nagel 11 MF  GER Jasper Gooßen 12 DF  GER Nico Mao 13 DF  GER Sören Behrmann (Captain) 14 FW  GER Alexander Neumann 15 DF  GER Laurens Rogowski 17 FW  GER Erdogan Pini

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 MF  GER Jannes Elfers 19 MF  GER Marco Schuhmann 20 MF  GER Oliver Ioannou 21 MF  GER Dimitri Fiks 22 GK  GER Philip Kühn 23 DF  GER Julian Stöhr 24 MF  GER Marcel Brunsch 25 MF  GER Sven Zöpfgen 26 DF  GER Marius Winkelmann 28 DF  GER Danny Berner 29 FW  GER Paul Meyer 30 GK  GER Patrick Siefkes 31 GK  GER Christopher Schellin

The club's honours:

• Niedersachsenliga
  • Champions: 2015
• Landesliga Lüneburg
  • Champions: 2012
  • Runners-up: 2005
• Lower Saxony Cup
  • Winners: 2016, 2018, 2019

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:[7][2]

• 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. With the disbanding of the Oberliga Nord in 2008 the two Verbandsligas Ost and West in Niedersachsen were elevated to Oberliga status. From 2010 onwards the Oberliga Niedersachsen, commonly referred to as Niedersachsenliga, has been played in single division format.

Key

• Official team site (in German)
• SV Drochtersen/Assel at Weltfussball.de (in German)