SV Wacker Burghausen is a German football club based in Burghausen, Bavaria and is part of one of the nation's largest sports clubs with some 6,000 members participating in two dozen different sports.

SV Wacker Burghausen
Full nameSportverein Wacker Burghausen
Founded1930
GroundWacker-Arena
Capacity10,000
ChairmanDr. Willi Kleine
ManagerHannes Sigurðsson
LeagueRegionalliga Bayern (IV)
2021–223rd

History edit

 
Historical chart of Wacker Burghausen league performance

The club was founded on 13 November 1930 and was made up largely of employees from the local chemical factory Wacker Chemie, which was established in 1914, and still sponsors the club today. The first football side in the city was part of the gymnastics club Turnverein Burghausen. In 1922, the footballers left TV to form 1. FC Burghausen which became part of SV at the time of its founding.[1] Besides football, the new club had departments for shooting, athletics, and youth.

SV won the East Bavarian championship just three years later in 1933, but then afterwards toiled in anonymity in the local lower-level leagues until 1993 when they won the Landesliga Bayern-Süd (V) title, followed by the Bayernliga (IV) championship two years later, which advanced the club to the Regionalliga Süd (III). In 2002–03, the team played its way into the 2. Bundesliga where they competed until being relegated at the end of the 2006–07 campaign.

Wacker earned a seventh-place finish in the Regionalliga in 2007–08, which qualified the team for the new 3. Liga the following season. It finished the 2008–09 season in 18th place, on a relegation rank but was saved from having to step down to the Regionalliga by the withdrawal from the league of Kickers Emden for financial reasons.[2]

The club finished in 18th place, on a relegation rank but was saved from having step down to the Regionalliga for a second time by the insolvency of Rot Weiss Ahlen. After good results in 2011–12 and 2012–13 the club finished 19th in the league in 2013–14 and was relegated to the Regionalliga Bayern.

Reserve team edit

The SV Wacker Burghausen II team played in the Bayernliga (IV) from 2005 to 2007, making Burghausen one of the few clubs to have had both first and second teams play at this level. The reserve team finished 15th in the Landesliga Bayern-Süd (VI) in the 2010–11 season, narrowly avoiding relegation. At the end of the 2011–12 season the team qualified directly for the newly expanded Bayernliga after winning the league championship in the Landesliga.[3] It played in the Bayernliga until 2014 when the club decided to withdraw the team from competition at the end of the season.[4]

Honours edit

The club's honours:

Recent managers edit

Recent managers of the club:[5]

Manager Start Finish
Rainer Hörgl 1 July 2000 25 October 2000
Rudi Bommer 26 October 2000 30 June 2004
Markus Schupp 1 July 2004 14 December 2006
Gino Lettieri 2 January 2007 30 June 2007
Ingo Anderbrügge 1 July 2007 31 March 2008
Peter Assion 1 April 2008 30 June 2008
Günter Güttler 1 July 2008 14 April 2009
Ralf Santelli 15 April 2009 30 June 2009
Jürgen Press 1 July 2009 9 August 2010
Mario Basler 11 August 2010 14 May 2011
Rudi Bommer 1 July 2011 31 December 2011
Reinhard Stumpf 5 January 2012 30 June 2012
Georgi Donkov 1 July 2012 5 September 2013
Uwe Wolf 13 September 2013 30 June 2014
Mario Demmelbauer 1 July 2014 11 November 2014
Uwe Wolf 12 November 2014 Present

Recent seasons edit

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:[6][7]

Key edit

Promoted Relegated

Retired numbers edit

11 –   Marek Krejčí, Forward (2004–07) – posthumous honour.

Current squad edit

As of 31 August 2023[8]

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   AUT Markus Schöller
4 DF   FIN Jasper Maljojoki
5 DF   GER Viktor Miftaraj
6 MF   GER Felix Bachschmid
7 MF   AUT Dennis Schmutz
8 MF   GER Sebastian Niedermayer
10 MF   GER Kenneth Sigl
15 DF   GER Marcel Spitzer
17 DF   GER Alexander Spitzer
18 MF   KOS Edin Hyseni
19 FW   ALB Brajan Begotaraj
No. Pos. Nation Player
20 MF   GER Luca Schmitzberger
21 FW   GER Thomas Winklbauer
22 MF   UKR Artur Andreychyk
23 MF   GER Tobias Duxner
27 DF   GER Emin Salispahic
30 GK   GER Justin Hille
31 DF   GER Christoph Schulz
32 MF   GER Dennis Ade
33 FW   CRO Andrija Bošnjak
35 DF   AUT Moritz Sommerauer
37 GK   GER Fabian Stapfer

References edit

  1. ^ Die Chronik der Fußballabteilung in der Übersicht (in German), SV Wacker Burghausen website, accessed: 26 November 2010
  2. ^ Kickers Emden verzichtet auf die 3. Liga (in German), Northern German football association website, published: 10 June 2009, accessed: 10 June 2009
  3. ^ Das war die Relegation 2012 auf Verbandsebene (in German) fupa.net, published: 7 June 2012, accessed 8 June 2012
  4. ^ "Historisches" und vier Treffer für die Statistiker: Wacker II siegt bei Unterhaching II glatt mit 4:0 (in German) heimatsport.de, published: 18 May 2014, accessed: 22 May 2014
  5. ^ Wacker Burghausen .:. Trainer von A-Z (in German) weltfussball.de, accessed: 5 April 2011
  6. ^ Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (in German) Historical German domestic league tables
  7. ^ Fussball.de – Ergebnisse (in German) Tables and results of all German football leagues
  8. ^ "Kader" (in German). SV Wacker Burghausen. Retrieved 27 February 2018.

External links edit