SVN Zweibrücken is a German association football club from the Niederauerbach quarter of Zweibrücken, Rhineland-Palatinate.
History The association was founded in 1929 as SV Niederauerbach and remained an anonymous local side until winning its way to the Verbandsliga Südwest (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) 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 to 2013 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.SVN zahlt keine Spielergehälter mehr fupa.net, published: 3 December 2015, accessed: 4 December 2015 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 Champions: 2013 Runners-up: 2012 Verbandsliga Südwest (V) Champions: 2008 Runners-up: 2002
Cup South West Cup Winners: 2011 Runners-up: 2008, 2014
Recent seasons The recent season-by-season performance of the club:Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv Historical German domestic league tablesFussball.de - Ergebnisse Tables and results of all German football leagues Season Division Tier Position 1999–2000 Verbandsliga Südwest V 3rd 2000–01 Verbandsliga Südwest 5th 2001–02 Verbandsliga Südwest 2nd 2002–03 Verbandsliga Südwest 3rd 2003–04 Verbandsliga Südwest 4th 2004–05 Verbandsliga Südwest 3rd 2005–06 Verbandsliga Südwest 4th 2006–07 Verbandsliga Südwest 6th 2007–08 Verbandsliga Südwest 1st ↑ 2008–09 Oberliga Südwest 13th 2009–10 Oberliga Südwest 3rd 2010–11 Oberliga Südwest 5th 2011–12 Oberliga Südwest 2nd 2012–13 Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar 1st ↑ 2013–14 Regionalliga Südwest IV 7th 2014–15 Regionalliga Südwest 18th ↓ 2015–16 Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar V 18th ↓ 2016–17 B-Klasse Pirmasens/Zweibrücken X 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. In 2012 the Oberliga Südwest was renamed Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar.
Key ↑ Promoted ↓ Relegated
References
External links (archived) SVN Zweibrücken at Weltfussball.de Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv – historical German domestic league tables