SV Meppen

Full name	Sportverein Meppen 1912 e.V.
Nickname(s)	SVM
Founded	29 November 1912; 111 years ago (1912-11-29)
Ground	Hänsch-Arena
Capacity	13,696
Chairman	Andreas Kremer
Manager	Ernst Middendorp
League	Regionalliga Nord
2022–23	3. Liga, 17th of 20 (relegated)
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

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

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

• Amateurliga Niedersachsen (III)
  • Champions: 1968
• Oberliga Nord (III)
  • Champions: 1987
• Regionalliga Nord (IV)
  • Champions: 2017
• Niedersachsenliga (V)
  • Champions: 2011
• Lower Saxony Cup
  • Winners: 1999, 2021
  • Runners-up: 2015, 2019, 2022

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  GER Bennet Schmidt 4 DF  NED Sander van Looy 5 MF  GER Jonas Fedl 6 MF  GER Tim Möller 7 MF  GER Fynn Seidel 8 MF  GER Willi Evseev 9 FW  NED Lars Spit 10 FW  GER Marek Janssen 11 FW  GER Christoffer Scheppe (on loan from Arminia Bielefeld) 13 FW  GER Jonathan Wensing 14 DF  BRA Bruno Soares 15 DF  GER Joshua Siemoneit 16 GK  GER Julius Pünt 17 DF  GER Tobias Mißner 18 MF  GER Lukas Eixler

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 DF  GER Luis Sprekelmeyer 22 MF  GER Steffen Puttkammer 23 MF  GER Niclas Wessels 24 DF  GER Tjark Reinert 25 MF  GER Felix Golkowski 26 DF  GER Joe Klöpper 30 DF  GER Daniel Haritonov 31 MF  GER Luca Prasse 32 GK  GER Erik Domaschke 34 MF  CIV Junior Kone 36 MF  GER Amin Muja 37 MF  GER Oliver Holthaus 38 MF  GER Daniel Benke 39 DF  TUR Yiğit Karademir (on loan from VfL Osnabrück)

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