Buy Elversberg tickets for the 2026/27 season and you are buying into the smallest club ever to reach the Bundesliga. SV Elversberg come from a village inside a municipality of roughly ten thousand people in Saarland, they finished second in the 2. Bundesliga on 62 points and their ground holds about ten thousand while a new north stand is built around it. The German league granted a temporary exemption to let them play there at all.
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That exemption runs to spring 2027 and it is the reason this season exists in its current form. The Ursapharm-Arena an der Kaiserlinde falls short of the capacity the Bundesliga normally requires, the club is spending an estimated €30 million to €40 million taking it to around 15,000 and none of that additional capacity is available at the start of the campaign because the north stand is unfinished.
The consequence for anybody outside the club is stark and the club has stated it plainly: only members can buy remaining day tickets this season. There is no general public sale to wait for. Season cards renewed between 15 and 28 June, members take what is left and everything else reaches the market only when somebody who holds a place cannot use it.
Most German clubs run a sale order that ends with a public window. Elversberg's does not, because there is nothing left by the time it would open. A ground of roughly ten thousand places, a season card base that renewed in June and a membership that has grown with four promotions in nine years leaves no residue to sell.
The club has been direct about the reason. The north stand is still under construction, the additional capacity it will provide does not exist yet and seat changes cannot be accommodated because there is nowhere to move anybody to. Even the general renewal window for non-members was made conditional on how the building work progressed.
That makes the secondary market the only route into this stadium for anyone who is not a member, which is unusual even by Bundesliga standards. Places released by season card holders and members who cannot attend a particular week are what circulate, and they carry no eligibility condition at all. For a visitor travelling to Saarland for one of these fixtures, resale is not an alternative to the front door. It is the door.
1BoxOffice has been trading live event inventory since 2006, which puts close to two decades of completed transactions behind everything on this page. The risk in resale is almost never the price. It is whether the barcode in your inbox opens a turnstile on the day, and at a ground with ten thousand places and no walk-up option there is no recovering from a failure.
Sellers here are verified before their stock goes live, and every confirmed order carries a guarantee that pays out at 150% if something fails. That matters more at this ground than at most, because Spiesen-Elversberg is not a place you can improvise an afternoon in if the ticket does not work.
Every fixture at the Kaiserlinde this season is scarce by construction rather than by opponent. A Bundesliga club playing in front of ten thousand people is without precedent in the modern era, and the arithmetic does not improve for any date on the calendar. What follows are the factors that make some of them harder still.
The practical conclusion is that this is the hardest ground to get into in the Bundesliga and it is not close. If you want to see a fixture here, start looking months ahead and expect resale to be the mechanism.
Face value at Elversberg is modest and the club has kept it that way through promotion. Season cards run from €84 at the concession end to €658 for a category one seat, with a full-price standing card at €252 across the campaign. Discounts apply for members, students, seniors and supporters with a disability, and children between six and eighteen are catered for in designated sections only.
Resale ranges behave differently here from anywhere else in the division. Opponent matters less than usual because everything sells out, and scarcity does the work instead. Position matters, with the small seated areas carrying a clear premium over the terracing. Timing works firmly against the buyer, because there is no late release from a club that cannot supply its own members.
The table gives typical resale ranges in pounds for 2026/27. Treat them as planning figures rather than quotations, and expect the two visits from Bayern and Dortmund to sit well above the top of these bands.
| Type of Ticket | Typical Price Range (GBP) |
|---|---|
| Bundesliga standing | £35 – £110 |
| Bundesliga seated (standard fixtures) | £60 – £170 |
| Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund | £120 – £350+ |
| DFB-Pokal | £30 – £100 |
| Hospitality / VIP | £250 – £600+ |
Prices reflect typical resale ranges and may change as demand and availability shift.
Not from the club, and this is the one page in this series where that answer is unqualified. Elversberg have confirmed that only members may purchase the day tickets remaining for this season. There is no general public window, no ballot open to outsiders and no walk-up. The ground is too small and the membership too large relative to it.
Joining the club is a genuine option if you live within reach of Saarland and intend to attend regularly, though membership brings access to a queue rather than a guarantee. For a single visit from outside the region it will not produce a ticket in time, and the club's own guidance makes that clear rather than implying otherwise.
What does exist is the secondary market, and it carries no membership requirement whatsoever. Season card holders and members with a conflicting weekend release their places, and those places are open to anyone. At a ground where the front door is closed to non-members, that is the entire answer.
Season cards at Elversberg renewed between 15 and 28 June 2026 through the online shop, the hotline or in person at the stadium on 23 June. Renewal at a newly promoted club with this capacity is close to universal, and the club stated that no additional places would be available at the start of the season because the north stand remains under construction.
The practical consequence for a buyer is the thinnest resale pool of any club in the division in absolute terms. Ten thousand places produce far fewer weekly releases than forty or sixty thousand do. What circulates tends to be seated rather than standing, and it moves quickly when it appears.
| Season Card Type | Price (2026/27) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Standing, full price | €252, about £215 | Roughly €15 a match across seventeen fixtures. The lowest full-price entry into the ground and effectively unobtainable new. |
| Seated, category 1 | €658, about £560 | The premium seated band in the covered main areas, and it is the highest price the club charges. |
| Seated, lower categories | Between the two bands | Intermediate seated pricing across the remaining areas, set by position and cover. |
| Concessions | From €84 | Reduced rates for members, students, seniors and supporters with a disability. Discounts must be selected before purchase. |
| Children, ages 6 to 18 | Reduced, restricted areas | Available in designated sections only rather than across the ground, which is a function of how little space there is. |
Season card figures are the club's published 2026/27 bands with approximate pound conversions and may change between campaigns.
The Ursapharm-Arena is a four-sided ground in woodland on the edge of the village, and until recently it was a lower-division stadium with terracing on most sides. The west stand has been completed, the north stand is being built through this season and the dressing rooms have been operating out of containers while the work goes on.
| Area | Best For | Price Bracket | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home terracing | Atmosphere | Lowest | The bulk of the ground's capacity, standing, unreserved and close to the pitch in a way that a 60,000-seat bowl cannot replicate. A full season card costs €252. |
| Seated, category 1 | Sightline and cover | Highest | The premium seated band in the completed main areas, covered and with the most even view. €658 for a season card, the top price at this club. |
| Seated, lower categories | Value | Middle | Intermediate seated positions across the remaining stands, priced by position and by whether they are under cover. |
| North stand | Not yet in use | Not applicable | Under construction through this season, carrying new dressing rooms, a media centre, camera positions and extra capacity. Not available at the start of the campaign. |
| Field Lounges | Premium experience | Highest | Hospitality positions at pitch level with food and drink service, a format that does not exist at any other Bundesliga ground. |
| Away section | Visiting supporters | Set by the visiting club | Allocated through the visiting club under the standard ten percent rule, which at this capacity is a small block by Bundesliga standards and a source of considerable friction. |
One thing to understand before you buy. This is a ground where the standing areas are the normal experience rather than the budget option, and where the distance from the back of a terrace to the goal line is shorter than the walk to your seat at most clubs in this division.
Elversberg's travelling support is small in absolute terms and enthusiastic beyond its size, which is what happens when a village club reaches the Bundesliga for the first time. Away allocations at the larger grounds will comfortably exceed what this club can fill, which makes away fixtures the easier proposition for a neutral wanting to see them play.
Geography is mixed. Kaiserslautern, Mainz, Frankfurt and Hoffenheim are all comfortable trips from Saarland, and Stuttgart and Köln are manageable. Hamburg and the northern away days are long, and Munich is the full length of the country.
| Away Detail | What to Expect |
|---|---|
| Typical allocation | German league rules provide visiting clubs with up to 10 percent of capacity, ranging from around 3,000 at the smaller grounds to more than 7,000 at Signal Iduna Park. Elversberg will not fill the larger allocations. |
| Where you will be | A segregated block behind a goal or in a corner, with a standing section at grounds that retain terracing. Sightlines vary considerably from stadium to stadium. |
| Access requirements | No fan card is needed for standard Bundesliga away fixtures. Because Elversberg's own allocations are modest and go to members first, resale is often the practical route even for away days. |
| Transport | Many German match tickets include regional public transport on the day, though the scheme varies by federal state. From Saarland the western and south-western fixtures are straightforward and the northern ones are not. |
| Timing on the day | Away sections open earlier and empty later than home stands, and visiting supporters can be held inside for 15 to 30 minutes after high-profile fixtures. Build that into any train booked for the same evening. |
At a ground this size the decision is simpler than anywhere else in the division, because nothing is far from anything. The table matches the common priorities to what the Kaiserlinde actually offers.
| Priority | Best Option | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Best atmosphere | Home terracing | Standing, unreserved and the default experience at this club. Ten thousand people in a wooded ground on the edge of a village produces something no modern arena can manufacture. |
| Best view | Seated, category 1 | The premium band in the completed stands, covered and central. In a ground of this size the difference is comfort rather than visibility. |
| Family-friendly | Designated child sections | Children between six and eighteen are catered for in specific areas rather than throughout the ground, so check which section a listing admits you to before buying for a family. |
| Premium experience | Field Lounges | Pitch-level hospitality with catering, unique to this stadium in the Bundesliga. Also one of the few routes in that does not depend on a member releasing a place. |
| Most obtainable | Seated, lower categories | Seated places circulate more often on resale than standing ones do, because standing card holders are the least likely supporters at this club to give a week up. |
The Waldstadion an der Kaiserlinde sits in woodland on the edge of Spiesen-Elversberg, a municipality of roughly ten thousand people in the Saarpfalz district of Saarland. It has been the club's home throughout its climb from the Saarland amateur leagues, and until this summer it had never needed to accommodate anything larger than a second-division fixture.
It holds about ten thousand people, which is comfortably the smallest capacity in the Bundesliga and smaller than the away allocation several clubs in this division routinely take on the road. The German league granted a temporary exemption to allow top-flight football to be played there, valid until spring 2027, on the condition that the club brings the ground up to standard in the meantime.
That work is happening now and it is substantial. The west stand has been completed, the north stand is under construction through this season and the finished capacity will be around 15,000. The estimated cost sits between €30 million and €40 million, most of it going to companies based in Saarland, and the additional places will not be available when the campaign starts.
The specification of the new stand tells you how far this club has had to travel administratively as well as competitively. It carries expanded dressing rooms, the first-team facility alone covering roughly eighty square metres, a modern media centre with additional workspaces, upgraded camera positions, coaching areas and dedicated rooms for the referees. Until it opens, the dressing rooms have been running out of containers, which is not a detail most Bundesliga clubs have ever had to publish.
The one genuine innovation is at pitch level. The plans include Field Lounges, premium positions on the same plane as the playing surface with food and drink service, a format that does not exist at any other ground in the German top flight. A village club has produced the only example of it in the division.
Access has needed rebuilding too. An additional car park of around 500 spaces has been added, along with a Park and Ride facility of roughly a thousand spaces served by shuttle buses, because the road network around a village was never designed for a Bundesliga matchday. Anyone driving should use the Park and Ride rather than attempting to get close to the ground.
What all of this adds up to is a season played inside a building site, in a village, under a licence exemption, in front of ten thousand people. There is no other fixture list in European top-flight football that looks like this one, and there will not be again once the north stand opens.
Hospitality at Elversberg is limited by the same arithmetic as everything else, but the club has made a deliberate feature of the little it has. The Field Lounges at pitch level are the headline product and are unique in the Bundesliga, offering positions level with the playing surface and catering to match.
The practical case for hospitality here is availability rather than luxury. With day tickets restricted to members, the corporate routes are among the few ways into this ground that do not depend on somebody releasing a place, which for a business group or a one-off visit can matter more than what is on the buffet.
| Package | What It Includes | Typical Price Range (GBP) |
|---|---|---|
| Field Lounge place | A position at pitch level with food and drink service, unique to this stadium in the German top flight. | £350 – £700 per person |
| Business seat | Seated place in the completed stands with lounge access, catering and a separate entrance. | £250 – £450 per person |
| Business seat, Bayern or Dortmund | The same product for the two largest fixtures in the club's history, where demand will far exceed provision. | £400 – £800 per person |
| Group hospitality | Reserved space for a party with catering arranged to requirements. Very limited given the size of the ground. | Quoted per fixture and party size |
| Matchday catering package | Pre-match food and drink attached to a seated ticket where offered. | £180 – £320 per person |
Hospitality ranges reflect typical package and resale pricing and may change with fixture category and availability.
The sequence below takes a few minutes and removes most of the ways a resale purchase goes wrong. At this ground the second step matters more than usual, because listings appear rarely and disappear fast.
Step1
Open the exact fixture
Use the home and away lists at the bottom of this page to reach the match you want. Each fixture has its own page with its own listings, so you are seeing supply for that date rather than for the club in general.
Step2
Have your account ready before you need it
You can create an account before or during checkout. At a ground with ten thousand places and no public sale, the difference between having your details stored and not having them is often the difference between getting in and not.
Step3
Check which section the listing admits you to
Standing and seated are priced very differently here and children are only catered for in designated areas. Establish what you are looking at before comparing anything else, because you cannot change section afterwards.
Step4
Filter by quantity next
If you need three or four places together, set that filter first. At this capacity a listing holding four together is genuinely rare, and finding out at checkout that it holds two wastes the only opportunity you had.
Step5
Read the listing notes properly
The notes state the delivery method, the expected timing, whether the ticket carries a name and which part of the ground it covers. Two listings at the same price can behave very differently on the day.
Step6
Compare on the checkout total
The final figure includes any service and delivery charges, so judge listings on that rather than the headline. A slightly dearer listing with a faster and more certain delivery route is usually the better purchase.
Step7
Pay and confirm
Enter your payment details on the encrypted checkout page and confirm the order. An order reference and confirmation email arrive immediately, and the 150% guarantee applies from that moment rather than from delivery.
Step8
Follow it through to delivery
Use track order with your reference to see where the ticket is. German clubs commonly release digital tickets in the final week before kick-off, so a quiet stretch after purchase is routine rather than a warning sign.
After that the work is logistical, and at this ground it needs more thought than most. Plan the Park and Ride rather than driving to the stadium, allow for a village road network handling a Bundesliga crowd and arrive early if you have a standing place.
Elversberg tickets are the scarcest in the Bundesliga for every fixture rather than a handful, but a few dates sit beyond even that.
| Fixture Type | Why It Moves Fast |
|---|---|
| Bayern Munich | The largest match in the club's 119-year history, played in front of ten thousand people. Demand for this fixture will exceed the entire capacity of the ground many times over and no public sale exists. |
| Borussia Dortmund | The other fixture of that magnitude, with the largest travelling support in Germany arriving at the smallest ground it has ever visited in the top flight. |
| Schalke and the promoted rivals | Schalke bring 210,000 members and came up alongside Elversberg. Paderborn, the third promoted club, is the other fixture with second-division familiarity behind it. |
| Early-season fixtures | Played before the north stand opens, at the lower capacity, which makes the opening rounds tighter than anything later in the campaign. |
| Any standing place, any fixture | Terracing is the default experience here rather than the budget option, and standing card holders are the least likely supporters at this club to release a week. |
German football has moved almost entirely to digital delivery and Elversberg are no exception, though resale listings cover several formats depending on how the original ticket was issued. The listing notes tell you which applies before you commit.
Whichever applies, read the notes before you commit. They set out the method, the expected timing and any identification requirement, and at a ground with no spare capacity they are the difference between walking in and going home.
Gates open two hours before kick-off. If you have a standing place this is not advice but the mechanism, because the terracing is unreserved and the positions worth having go to whoever walks in first. In a ground this size the difference between a good spot and a poor one is measured in a few metres, but it is still a difference.
The stronger reason is the approach. A village road network is absorbing a Bundesliga crowd for the first time, the club has built a Park and Ride of around a thousand spaces with shuttle buses specifically to manage it, and arriving late means joining a queue that the local infrastructure was never designed to handle. Use the shuttles rather than driving to the ground.
Standard Bundesliga fixtures do not require photographic identification. Matches designated high-risk can attract additional conditions, and name-bound tickets exist for certain categories, in which case the listing will state the requirement and you should carry the document named on it.
Mobile entry is the default, though print-at-home remains common at this level. Add any digital pass to your wallet before you set off rather than at the gate, keep the phone charged and screenshot the barcode as insurance. If you are arriving as a group for the terracing, travel together rather than agreeing to meet inside.
Bags larger than A4 format are refused and the restriction is applied at the outer perimeter. This matters more here than at a city-centre ground, because there are no station lockers, no shopping centre and nowhere obvious to leave anything in a village. Travel out with nothing bigger than a small shoulder bag.
Prohibited items follow the standard German list: bottles, cans, flares, poles, professional camera equipment and anything usable as a projectile. With the ground still under construction in part, expect stewarding to be attentive about where people go as well as what they carry.
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Full name | SV 07 Elversberg |
| Founded | 1907, as FC Germania Elversberg |
| Nickname | Schwarz und Weiß (The Black and White) |
| Stadium | Ursapharm-Arena an der Kaiserlinde, around 10,000 places during construction |
| Capacity when complete | Approximately 15,000, expected in 2027 |
| Head coach | Vincent Wagner, appointed 6 June 2025, contract to June 2028 |
| Captain | Lukas Pinckert |
| President | Dominik Holzer |
| League | Bundesliga, promoted as 2. Bundesliga runners-up in 2026 |
SV Elversberg have existed since 1907 and spent almost all of that time in regional football. What has happened since 2022 has no parallel in the modern Bundesliga: three promotions in five seasons taking a village club from the fourth tier to the first, with the same stadium and the same district throughout.
For a hundred years this was a club that won its own region and went no further. Saarland is the smallest German state outside the city-states, its football is dominated historically by 1. FC Saarbrücken, and Elversberg were a village side within that. The titles listed above are real achievements at their level and none of them suggested what followed.
The turning point was 2022. Elversberg had won the Regionalliga in 2017 and failed in the play-offs, which is where most clubs of this size stop trying. Winning it again five years later produced promotion, and the 3. Liga title that followed at the first attempt took them into the second division as champions.
The first second-division season was the one that proved the climb was not a fluke. Eleventh place with a squad assembled on one of the smallest budgets in the division, playing in a ground that had to be adapted mid-season, established that this was a functioning football operation rather than a novelty.
The 2024/25 season was the near miss. Third place and a play-off against Heidenheim that Elversberg lost 4-3 across two legs, followed within weeks by their coach leaving for a Bundesliga club. Losing Horst Steffen to Werder Bremen after a season like that would have ended the project at most clubs of this size.
Instead the club appointed Vincent Wagner, a 39-year-old who had been running Hoffenheim's reserve team and had won the Regionalliga with them, then went one place better. Sixty-two points and second place produced automatic promotion without the play-off, and the exemption that followed from the German league is what allows the Kaiserlinde to host top-flight football while it is being rebuilt around the fixtures.
A club that has been in the Bundesliga for a matter of weeks does not have legends in the conventional sense. What it has is a set of people who took it from the fourth tier to the first, and the honest version of this list reflects that rather than inventing a history the club has not had.
| Figure | Role | Contribution | Milestones |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horst Steffen | Head coach, 2019 to 2025 | Took the club from the Regionalliga to the brink of the Bundesliga across six years, winning the fourth tier in 2022, the 3. Liga in 2023 and finishing third in the second division in 2025. Left for Werder Bremen having built almost the entire climb. | Two promotions, a 3. Liga title, a 2025 play-off |
| Vincent Wagner | Head coach, from June 2025 | Arrived at 39 from Hoffenheim's reserve side, where he had won the Regionalliga, then delivered promotion to the Bundesliga in his first season with 62 points and second place. Followed a six-year predecessor and improved on his best finish immediately. | Promotion to the Bundesliga, 2026 |
| Ole Book | Sporting director | Responsible for the recruitment model that has kept the squad competitive through three divisions on a budget far below its rivals, as well as for the appointment of Wagner when a much safer choice was available. | Squad building across three promotions |
| Dominik Holzer | President | Leads a club that has had to build a Bundesliga stadium, a licensing case and a top-flight operation simultaneously, in a municipality of ten thousand people, on a construction budget of €30 million to €40 million. | The Kaiserlinde rebuild and the DFL exemption |
| Lukas Pinckert | Defender and captain | Captains the side into the top flight, one of the players who has come through the divisions with the club rather than arriving for the Bundesliga season. | Club captain for the first Bundesliga campaign |
| Ursapharm | Principal sponsor | The Saarland pharmaceutical company whose backing gave the ground its name and gave a village club the financial base to compete upward. Rare among German sponsors in being local to the club it funds. | Naming partner through the entire climb |
| The 2022–23 squad | Players, 3. Liga title season | Won the third division at the first attempt after promotion from the Regionalliga, which is the result that turned a good regional side into a professional club. Most of them never played in the Bundesliga. | 3. Liga champions, 2023 |
Elversberg's honours are regional and recent, and there is no purpose in dressing them up. The club has never won a national trophy and its highest league finish before this season was second in the 2. Bundesliga. What it has instead is a promotion record that no German club has matched over the same period.
| Competition | Titles |
|---|---|
| Bundesliga | 0 (first season, 2026/27) |
| DFB-Pokal | 0 |
| 2. Bundesliga | 0 (runners-up 2025/26, promoted) |
| 3. Liga | 1 (2022/23) |
| Regionalliga Südwest | 2 (2017, 2022), runners-up 2013 and 2016 |
| Oberliga Südwest | 2 (1996, 1998) |
| Verbandsliga Saarland | 3 (1980, 1994, 2008) |
Read that table from the bottom up and it becomes a route map. Verbandsliga in 1980, Oberliga in the 1990s, Regionalliga in 2017 and 2022, the 3. Liga in 2023 and the Bundesliga in 2026. Four divisions in nine years, from the same ground.
Elversberg do not have rivalries in the way a hundred-year Bundesliga club does, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest. What they have are two regional fixtures with real weight and a set of first meetings that will acquire meaning over time.
The Saarland derby and the only fixture on this list with genuine history behind it. Saarbrücken are the traditional club of the region, founder members of the Bundesliga in 1963 and the side every Saarland footballer grew up aware of, and Elversberg spent a century as the smaller neighbour. The relationship inverted completely between 2022 and 2026, with Elversberg climbing two divisions while Saarbrücken remained in the third tier, and that reversal is the whole substance of the rivalry now. The clubs are not in the same division this season, which is precisely why supporters of both want the cup draw to produce it.
Sixty kilometres north across the state line sits the club whose Fritz-Walter-Stadion holds nearly five times what the Kaiserlinde does. Kaiserslautern were German champions four times and are the regional heavyweight that most of the surrounding area supports, which makes any meeting a question of local allegiance rather than geography alone. They have met regularly in the second division in recent seasons and the fixture has been consistently well attended and consistently tense.
Not a rivalry by any historical measure, but the fixture that will define this season for both clubs. Elversberg and Paderborn came up together, they finished second and third in the same division and both will spend this campaign fighting the same battle at the bottom of the same table. Two clubs of similar size arriving in the top flight in the same summer produces a fixture that matters far more than the history behind it suggests.
The first meeting between a club from a village of ten thousand people and the most successful side in German football is the fixture this entire climb has been building toward. It will be played in front of about ten thousand spectators in a wooded ground in Saarland, which will make it the smallest attendance Bayern have recorded in a Bundesliga away fixture in decades. Nothing in this club's 119 years compares to it.
The other first meeting of that scale, and arguably the harder one logistically. Dortmund travel with the largest support in Germany and routinely fill allocations of seven thousand, which at the Kaiserlinde would represent most of the ground. The away allocation will be a fraction of what they want and the fixture will be the most heavily managed of the season.
| Season | Summary |
|---|---|
| 2021/22 | Regionalliga Südwest champions and promotion to the 3. Liga, five years after winning the same division and failing in the play-offs. Horst Steffen had been in charge since 2019 and had built a side that dominated the fourth tier, and this was the season the club finally converted a title into a division. |
| 2022/23 | 3. Liga champions at the first attempt and promotion to the 2. Bundesliga for the first time in the club's history. Winning the third division as a newly promoted side is rare, and it took Elversberg from a regional club to a professional one inside two seasons. |
| 2023/24 | Eleventh in the 2. Bundesliga, a comfortable first season at that level with one of the smallest budgets in the division. The ground required adaptation to meet second-tier requirements, which was the first indication of the licensing problem that has shaped everything since. |
| 2024/25 | Third place and the promotion play-off, lost 4-3 on aggregate to Heidenheim across two legs. Steffen departed for Werder Bremen within weeks of the season ending, taking six years of work with him, and the club promoted Vincent Wagner from Hoffenheim's reserve setup on 6 June. |
| 2025/26 | Second on 62 points and automatic promotion to the Bundesliga in Wagner's first season, going one better than the play-off defeat of the previous year. The DFL granted a temporary stadium exemption to spring 2027 and construction on the north stand began immediately. |
Wagner enters the Bundesliga with a squad strengthened through loans from larger clubs rather than through spending, which is the only model available at this scale. Lukas Pinckert captains, Noel Futkeu arrived on loan from Eintracht Frankfurt, Noah Darvich from VfB Stuttgart and Francis Onyeka from Bayer Leverkusen. Values below are approximate market valuations converted to pounds and shift with form, age and contract length.
| No. | Player | Position | Value (£) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Frank Lehmann | Goalkeeper | 1.0m |
| 2 | Nicholas Mickelson | Defender | 1.2m |
| 3 | Florian Le Joncour | Defender | 1.5m |
| 4 | Luis Seifert | Defender | 1.8m |
| 6 | Amara Condé | Midfielder | 1.5m |
| 7 | Maurice Krattenmacher | Midfielder | 4.5m |
| 8 | Łukasz Poręba | Midfielder | 2.0m |
| 9 | Noel Futkeu (on loan) | Forward | 4.0m |
| 10 | Noah Darvich (on loan) | Midfielder | 4.5m |
| 11 | Jason Çeka | Midfielder | 2.5m |
| 12 | Elias Etringer | Goalkeeper | 0.4m |
| 15 | Raif Adam | Midfielder | 1.5m |
| 16 | Luca Pfeiffer | Forward | 2.0m |
| 17 | Frederik Schmahl | Midfielder | 1.2m |
| 19 | Lukas Pinckert (captain) | Defender | 1.5m |
| 20 | Nicolas Kristof | Goalkeeper | 0.8m |
| 21 | Lasse Günther | Defender | 1.8m |
| 24 | Luca Schnellbacher | Forward | 1.2m |
| 25 | Lukas Petkov | Midfielder | 2.0m |
| 26 | Luca Sirch | Defender | 1.0m |
| 27 | Filimon Gerezgiher | Midfielder | 1.5m |
| 29 | Tom Zimmerschied | Midfielder | 1.8m |
| 30 | Jan Gyamerah | Defender | 0.9m |
| 31 | Maximilian Rohr | Defender | 1.0m |
| 39 | Cole Campbell | Midfielder | 2.5m |
| 40 | Francis Onyeka (on loan) | Midfielder | 3.0m |
Market values are approximate, drawn from public valuation data and rounded. They indicate squad structure rather than transfer fees paid or received.
No. The club has confirmed that only members may purchase the day tickets remaining this season, because the ground holds around ten thousand while the north stand is built. Resale is the only route for anyone outside the membership.
The German league granted a temporary exemption valid until spring 2027 while the club brings the stadium up to standard. The finished capacity will be around 15,000 at an estimated cost of €30 million to €40 million.
Not at the start. The club stated that the north stand's additional places would not be available when the campaign began, so the opening fixtures are played at the lower figure and any increase depends on how the building work progresses.
Use the Park and Ride facility of roughly a thousand spaces with shuttle buses, built specifically because a village road network cannot absorb a Bundesliga crowd. An additional car park of around 500 spaces exists at the ground but fills immediately.
Premium hospitality positions at pitch level with food and drink service, included in the stadium redevelopment. No other ground in the German top flight offers the format, which makes a village club the only place in the Bundesliga you can experience it.
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Sources: SV 07 Elversberg official club website (sv07elversberg.de) for season ticket pricing, renewal dates, membership sale rules and capacity notes, the Deutsche Fußball Liga and Bundesliga.
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