SV Meppen
Full nameSportverein Meppen 1912 e.V.
Nickname(s)SVM
Founded29 November 1912 (1912-11-29)
GroundHänsch-Arena
Capacity13,696
ChairmanAndreas Kremer
ManagerErnst Middendorp
LeagueRegionalliga Nord
2022–233. Liga, 17th of 20 (relegated)

SV Meppen is a German association football club playing in Meppen, Lower Saxony. The club was founded on 29 November 1912 as Amisia Meppen and joined Männer-Turnverein Meppen on 8 February 1920 to form TuS Meppen 1912. The football branch left TuS Meppen in 1921 to create a separate club called Sport Verein Meppen 1912 e.V.. SV Meppen spent a total of 11 years in the 2. Bundesliga.

History

Historical chart of SV Meppen league performance

Meppen have had a relatively quiet history playing in III and IV level circles, winning their first title of any sort when they claimed the Amateurliga Lower Saxony (IV) championship in 1961. They claimed a second title there in 1968 and then qualified for the Regionalliga Nord (II) in 1972. After league re-structuring in 1974 the team played in the Oberliga Nord (III) where they won the championship in 1987 and then emerged out the promotion playoffs to join the 2. Bundesliga.

Generally, the side ended up in mid-table with their best finishes being 7th in 1994 and 6th in 1995. Meppen played their way into the final eight of the 1997 DFB-Pokal competition on the strength of a memorable 6–1 victory over Eintracht Frankfurt. The club's eleven-year run on the professional circuit ended in 1998 and they began a slide that landed them in the Oberliga Nord (V), where played half a dozen seasons burdened by ongoing financial problems. During the new century Meppen dropped to the Niedersachsenliga (5th division). They won the championship in 2011 and advanced to the Regionalliga Nord, which they won in 2017 to return to the 3. Liga.

Honours

Players

Current squad

As of 17 August 2023[1]

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 Germany GER Bennet Schmidt
4 DF Netherlands NED Sander van Looy
5 MF Germany GER Jonas Fedl
6 MF Germany GER Tim Möller
7 MF Germany GER Fynn Seidel
8 MF Germany GER Willi Evseev
9 FW Netherlands NED Lars Spit
10 FW Germany GER Marek Janssen
11 FW Germany GER Christoffer Scheppe (on loan from Arminia Bielefeld)
13 FW Germany GER Jonathan Wensing
14 DF Brazil BRA Bruno Soares
15 DF Germany GER Joshua Siemoneit
16 GK Germany GER Julius Pünt
17 DF Germany GER Tobias Mißner
18 MF Germany GER Lukas Eixler
No. Pos. Nation Player
19 DF Germany GER Luis Sprekelmeyer
22 MF Germany GER Steffen Puttkammer
23 MF Germany GER Niclas Wessels
24 DF Germany GER Tjark Reinert
25 MF Germany GER Felix Golkowski
26 DF Germany GER Joe Klöpper
30 DF Germany GER Daniel Haritonov
31 MF Germany GER Luca Prasse
32 GK Germany GER Erik Domaschke
34 MF Ivory Coast CIV Junior Kone
36 MF Germany GER Amin Muja
37 MF Germany GER Oliver Holthaus
38 MF Germany GER Daniel Benke
39 DF Turkey TUR Yiğit Karademir (on loan from VfL Osnabrück)

Women's team

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 Germany GER Laura Sieger
2 DF Netherlands NED Jenske Steenwijk
3 DF Germany GER Nina Rolfes
4 DF Germany GER Toma Ihlenburg
5 MF Germany GER Bianca Becker
8 DF Germany GER Lisa-Marie Weiss
11 MF Germany GER Linda Preuß
No. Pos. Nation Player
15 FW Albania ALB Kristina Maksuti
16 MF Germany GER Sarah Schulte
17 MF Germany GER Noreen Günnewig
18 MF Japan JPN Mai Hirata
20 DF Germany GER Julia Pollak
22 DF Germany GER Kara Bathmann
27 FW Germany GER Vildan Kardesler

Stadium

The "MEP-Arena" is located in northern Meppen on Lathener Strasse. Construction on the site was finished in 1924 and the stadium was named "Hindenburg Stadion" two years later. In 1992 the stadium was renamed "Emsland-Stadion". A sponsorship deal in 2011 currently has the stadium branded as "MEP-Arena". The stadium's largest ever crowd of 18,000 spectators watched SV Meppen play a 1982 friendly against a Barcelona team that included Diego Maradona. Today the stadium has a capacity of 13,696.

Literature

  • Hans Vinke: Die Meppen-Story, Geschichte eines Fußball-Phänomens, 1997, ISBN 3-927099-56-2

References

  1. ↑ "SV Meppen – Squad 2023/2024". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
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