SVN Zweibrücken is a German association football club from the Niederauerbach quarter of

Zweibrücken Zweibrücken (; french: Deux-Ponts, ; Palatinate German: ''Zweebrigge'', ; literally translated as "Two Bridges") is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Schwarzbach river. Name The name ''Zweibrücken'' means 'two bridges'; olde ...

Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...

History

The association was founded in 1929 as ''SV Niederauerbach'' and remained an anonymous local side until winning its way to the

Verbandsliga Südwest The Verbandsliga Südwest is a German amateur football division administered by the Southwest German Football Association, one of the 21 German state football associations. Being the top flight of the Southwestern state association, the Verbandslig ...

(V). A decade later the team captured the division title and was promoted to the Oberliga Südwest (V). ''SV'' also advanced to the finals of the Südwest Pokal (

South West Cup The South West Cup (german: Südwestpokal) is one of the 21 regional cup competitions of German football. The winner of the competition gains entry to the first round of the German Cup. It is limited to clubs from the Rheinhessen-Pfalz region of R ...

) in that successful 2007–08 season, which earned the club a place in the DFB-Pokal (German Cup) tournament in 2008–09. In June 2009 the club changed its name to ''SVN Zweibrücken''. Since entering the Oberliga Südwest in 2008 the team has achieved good results, culminating in a second-place finish in 2011–12. From 2012-13 the Oberliga Südwest was renamed Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar, with ''SVN Zweibrücken'' taking out the league title in its inaugural season and earning promotion to the Regionalliga Südwest. After a seventh-place finish in the league in 2014 the club came last in the following season and was relegated back to the Oberliga. In December 2015 the club announced that it would not pay its players any more and had not done so since October. The club was in danger of becoming insolvent and had been lingering at the bottom of the table. In January 2016 the club withdrew its team from the Oberliga and restarted in one of the 10th-tier leagues below, the B-Klasse Pirmasens-Zweibrücken, for the following season by forming a joint team with FC Oberauerbach.

Honours

The club's honours:

League

Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar The Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar, formerly the ''Oberliga Südwest'', is the highest regional football league for the Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland states of Germany, organized by the Southwestern Regional Football Association. It is the fifth ...

** Champions: 2013 ** Runners-up: 2012 *

(V) ** Champions: 2008 ** Runners-up: 2002

Cup

** Winners: 2011 ** Runners-up: 2008,

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Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:Fussball.de - Ergebnisse
Tables and results of all German football leagues * With the introduction of the

Regionalliga The Regionalliga () is the fourth tier in the German football league system. Until 1974, it was the second tier in Germany. In 1994, it was introduced as the third tier. Upon the creation of the new nationwide 3. Liga in 2008, it became the four ...

s in 1994 and the

3. Liga The 3. Liga is a professional association football league and the third division in Germany. In the German football league system, it is positioned between the 2. Bundesliga and the fourth-tier Regionalliga. The modern 3. Liga was formed for t ...

in 2008 as the new third tier, below the

2. Bundesliga The 2. Bundesliga ( ) is the second division of professional football in Germany. It was implemented 11 years after the founding of the Fußball-Bundesliga as the new second division for professional football. The 2. Bundesliga is ranked below ...

, all leagues below dropped one tier. In 2012 the Oberliga Südwest was renamed

Key

References

External links

Official team site

SVN Zweibrücken at Weltfussball.de

Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv
historical German domestic league tables {{DEFAULTSORT:Zweibrucken, Svn Football clubs in Germany Football clubs in Rhineland-Palatinate Association football clubs established in 1929 1929 establishments in Germany