Holstein Kiel

This article is about the football club. For the German royal family, see Holstein-Kiel.

Holstein Kiel

Full name	Kieler Sportvereinigung Holstein von 1900 e.V.
Nickname(s)	Die Störche (The Storks)[ citation needed ]
Founded	7 October 1900;123 years ago (1900-10-07)
Ground	Holstein-Stadion
Capacity	15,034[ citation needed ]
Executive director	Wolfgang Schwenke[ citation needed ]
President	Steffen Schneekloth[ citation needed ]
Head coach	Marcel Rapp
League	2. Bundesliga
2023–24	2. Bundesliga, 2nd of 18 (promoted)
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Kieler Sportvereinigung Holstein von 1900 e.V., commonly known as Holstein Kiel (German pronunciation: [ˌhɔlʃtaɪnˈkiːl] ^ⓘ ) or KSV Holstein, is a German association football and sports club based in the city of Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein. From the 1900s through the 1960s, the club was one of the most dominant sides in northern Germany. Some notable honors from that period include the German football championship in 1912, and being vice-champions 1910 and 1930. Holstein also won six regional titles and finished as runners-up another nine times. They remained a first-division side until the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963. They will make their debut in the Bundesliga in the 2024–25 season after gaining promotion from the 2. Bundesliga in 2024.

History

Foundation to WWII

Holstein Kiel is the product of the merger of predecessor sides Kieler Fußball-Verein von 1900 and Kieler Fußball-Club Holstein. The earliest of these two sides was Kieler Fußball-Verein (later 1. KFV) established on 7 October 1900 out of the membership of the gymnastics club Kieler Männerturnvereins von 1844. Later the club concentrated on track and field athletics.

Kieler Fußball-Club Holstein was formed on 4 May 1902 and was renamed Fußball-Verein Holstein von 1902 (FV Holstein Kiel) sometime in 1908. ^[1] The club quickly became competitive and, in 1910, they reached the German championship final, where they lost 0–1 in extra time to Karlsruher FV. In 1912, they won the German championship with a 2–1 overtime semi-final victory over defending champions Viktoria 89 Berlin followed by a 1–0 win in the final over the previous year's champions, Karlsruher FV. ^[2] In 1914, the club renamed again after the new branches of hockey and athletics were added, becoming Sportverein Holstein von 1902.

On 7 June 1917, 1. Kieler Fussball Verein von 1900 and Sportverein Holstein von 1902, severely weakened by World War I, merged to form the current day club. The new association adopted the foundation date of the older club, while taking up the ground, kit, colours, logo and the name Holstein from SV Holstein Kiel.^{[ citation needed ]} Through the 1920s, the team made regular appearances in the national playoffs and in 1926 reached the semi-finals where they were eliminated 1–3 by SpVgg Greuther Fürth.^{[ citation needed ]} In 1930, they played their way to the final, losing 4–5 to Hertha BSC.^{[ citation needed ]} The following year they reached the semi-finals where they were eliminated 0–2 by TSV 1860 Munich.

Under the Third Reich, German football was re-organized into sixteen top flight divisions. Kiel played in the Gauliga Nordmark, but failed to attain a title. In 1942, the Gauliga Nordmark was broken up into the Gauliga Hamburg and Gauliga Schleswig-Holstein.^{[ citation needed ]} No longer in the company of Hamburger SV and other strong teams from the city, Kiel immediately won the title of the new division and defended it over the next two seasons until the end of World War II brought play to a halt across the country.

Those titles earned Kiel entry into the national playoff rounds. They made their best run in 1943 when they advanced as far as the semi-finals before losing to eventual champions Dresdner SC. The team secured third place by defeating FC Vienna Wien. The next year, they were eliminated early on and no final was played in 1945.

Postwar to 2000

Historical chart of Holstein Kiel league performance

Aerial view of the Holstein-Stadion (2019)

Since the end of the war, Kiel has primarily been a tier II and III club. After the conflict, football in the western half of the country was re-organized into five regional top flight divisions. Holstein Kiel played from 1947 until 1963 in the Oberliga Nord (I) and twice finished as runners-up (1953, 1957). In 1961 the reserve team won the German amateur championship. After the 1963 formation of a single national first division known as the Bundesliga, the club became a second division side and played in the Regionalliga Nord (II). Kiel did not advance to the Bundesliga after its 1965 Regionalliga Nord championship. German football was restructured in 1974 with the formation of a new second division known as the 2. Bundesliga and the team slipped to third division play in the Amateuroberliga Nord (III). Holstein Kiel won promotion to second-tier competition in 1978 as part of the 2. Bundesliga Nord and was relegated in 1981.

With the reunification of Germany in 1990, teams from the former East Germany became part of a combined national competition. German football was re-organized again in 1994 and Holstein Kiel qualified for the new tier three division Regionalliga Nord (III). In 1996, the club was relegated for the first time to the Oberliga Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein (IV) and returned to Regionalliga Nord (III) in 1998.

2000–2017: Regionalliga and 3. Liga

The club were relegated again to the Oberliga Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein (IV) in 2000–01, after failing to qualify for the restructured Regionalliga (III), which went from four divisions to two. They did advance the next year to Regionalliga North, then narrowly missed promotion to the 2. Bundesliga in the 2005–06 season. By 2007, they had slipped to the Oberliga Nord (IV), but earned two consecutive promotions to reach the new 3. Liga (III) in 2009. After one year in the third division, the club were relegated again in the Regionalliga Nord (IV). The team reached the quarter-finals of the 2011–12 DFB-Pokal, after beating FC Energie Cottbus, MSV Duisburg and 1. FSV Mainz 05. In the quarter-final they lost to Borussia Dortmund 4–0. Since 2013, the club played again in the third division, and, in 2017, they were promoted after 36 years to the second division.

2017–present: 2. Bundesliga and promotion to Bundesliga

In the 2017–18 2. Bundesliga, after Holstein Kiel finished in 3rd place as the highest-scoring team with 71 goals, they lost 4–1 on aggregate to Wolfsburg in the relegation play-offs. In 2019, the club entered an official partnership with American USL League Two club San Francisco Glens SC. The team reached the semi-finals of the 2020–21 DFB-Pokal after beating Bayern Munich in the second round.

In the 2020–21 2. Bundesliga, Holstein Kiel missed direct promotion to the Bundesliga by losing the last two matches in the league by the same score 3–2 against Karlsruher SC and SV Darmstadt 98, to finish in third place behind VfL Bochum and Greuther Fürth. In the promotion play-offs, they won the first leg away 1–0 against FC Köln, but lost the second leg at home 5–1 to miss another chance of promotion. ^[3]

On 11 May 2024, the club secured their inaugural promotion to the Bundesliga, clinching a top-two finish in the 2023–24 2. Bundesliga with a 1–1 draw against third-placed Fortuna Düsseldorf. ^[4]

Honours

Viktoria trophy awarded to the German champions from 1903 to 1944

National titles

• German Championship
  • Champions: 1912
  • Runners-up: 1910, 1930
• German Cup
  • Semi-finals: 1941, 2021
  • Quarter-finals: 1943, 2012
  • Round of 16: 1962, 1966, 1971, 1979, 2019

Regional

• Northern German football championship (I)
  • Champions: 1910, 1911, 1912, 1926, 1927, 1930^{[ citation needed ]}
  • Runners-up: 1914, 1922, 1923, 1928, 1929, 1931, 1932^{[ citation needed ]}
• Gauliga Nordmark (I)
  • Runners-up: 1937^{[ citation needed ]}
• Gauliga Schleswig-Holstein (I)
  • Champions: 1943, 1944^{[ citation needed ]}
• Regionalliga Nord (II)
  • Champions: 1965 ^{[ citation needed ]}
• Oberliga Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein (IV)
  • Champions: 1998, 2001^{[ citation needed ]}
• Oberliga Nord (IV)
  • Champions: 2008^{[ citation needed ]}
• Regionalliga Nord (IV)
  • Champions: 2009, 2013
• Schleswig-Holstein Cup (Tiers III-IV)
  • Winners: 1978, 1983, 1991, 1994, 1996, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2014, 2017

Reserve team

• German amateur championship
  • Champions: 1961^{[ citation needed ]}
• Schleswig-Holstein-Liga
  • Champions: 1961, 1994, 2002, 2008, 2009, 2010^{[ citation needed ]}
• Schleswig-Holstein Cup
  • Winners: 1961, 1962, 1966^{[ citation needed ]}

order: (league/achievement/tier/year)

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club: ^{[5] [6]}

Holstein Kiel Year Division Tier Position 2001–02 Regionalliga Nord III 13th 2002–03 Regionalliga Nord 13th 2003–04 Regionalliga Nord 12th 2004–05 Regionalliga Nord 10th 2005–06 Regionalliga Nord 4th 2006–07 Regionalliga Nord 15th ↓ 2007–08 Oberliga Nord IV 1st ↑ 2008–09 Regionalliga Nord 1st ↑ 2009–10 3. Liga III 19th ↓ 2010–11 Regionalliga Nord IV 6th 2011–12 Regionalliga Nord 2nd 2012–13 Regionalliga Nord 1st ↑ 2013–14 3. Liga III 16th 2014–15 3. Liga 3rd 2015–16 3. Liga 14th 2016–17 3. Liga 2nd ↑ 2017–18 2. Bundesliga II 3rd 2018–19 2. Bundesliga 6th 2019–20 2. Bundesliga 11th 2020–21 2. Bundesliga 3rd 2021–22 2. Bundesliga 9th 2022–23 2. Bundesliga 8th 2023–24 2. Bundesliga 2nd ↑ 2024–25 Bundesliga I

Holstein Kiel II Year Division Tier Position 2001–02 Verbandsliga Schleswig-Holstein V 1st ↑ 2002–03 Oberliga Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein IV 15th 2003–04 Oberliga Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein 1st 2004–05 Oberliga Nord 7th 2005–06 Oberliga Nord 6th 2006–07 Oberliga Nord 9th ↓ 2007–08 Verbandsliga Schleswig-Holstein V 1st 2008–09 Schleswig-Holstein-Liga 1st 2009–10 Schleswig-Holstein-Liga 1st 2010–11 Schleswig-Holstein-Liga 7th 2011–12 Schleswig-Holstein-Liga 3rd 2012–13 Schleswig-Holstein-Liga 2nd 2013–14 Schleswig-Holstein-Liga 4th 2014–15 Schleswig-Holstein-Liga 2nd 2015–16 Schleswig-Holstein-Liga 3rd 2016–17 Schleswig-Holstein-Liga 2nd 2017–18 Oberliga Schleswig-Holstein 1st ↑ 2018–19 Regionalliga Nord IV 10th 2019–20 Regionalliga Nord 7th 2020–21 Regionalliga Nord 9th 2021–22 Regionalliga Nord 1st 2022–23 Regionalliga Nord 12th 2023–24 Regionalliga Nord 2024–25 Regionalliga Nord

• 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.^{[ citation needed ]}

Key

↑ Promoted

↓ Relegated

League history

Since 1947

• 1947–63 Oberliga Nord (I)
• 1963–74 Regionalliga Nord (II)
• 1974–78 Amateuroberliga Nord/Oberliga Nord (III)
• 1978–81 2. Bundesliga Nord (II)
• 1981–94 Amateuroberliga Nord/Oberliga Nord (III)
• 1994–96 Regionalliga Nord (III)
• 1996–98 Oberliga Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein (IV)
• 1998–00 Regionalliga Nord (III)
• 2000–01 Oberliga Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein (IV)
• 2001–07 Regionalliga Nord (III)
• 2007–08 Oberliga Nord (IV)
• 2008–09 Regionalliga Nord (IV)
• 2009–10 3. Liga (III)
• 2010–13 Regionalliga Nord (IV)
• 2013–17 3. Liga (III)
• 2017–24 2. Bundesliga (II)
• 2024- Bundesliga (I)

Players

Current squad

As of 24 May 2024 ^[7]

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 Timon Weiner 2 DF   DEN Mikkel Kirkeskov 3 DF   GER Marco Komenda 4 DF   GER Patrick Erras 5 DF   SWE Carl Johansson 6 MF   SRB Marko Ivezić 7 MF   GER Steven Skrzybski 8 FW   GER Finn Porath 9 FW   AUT Benedikt Pichler 10 MF   GER Lewis Holtby 11 FW   SWE Alexander Bernhardsson 13 FW   JPN Shuto Machino 15 MF   GER Marvin Schulz 17 DF   GER Timo Becker

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 DF   GER Tom Rothe (on loan from Borussia Dortmund) 19 FW   ISL Hólmbert Friðjónsson 20 FW   GER Fiete Arp 21 GK   GER Thomas Dähne 22 MF   GER Nicolai Remberg 23 DF   GER Lasse Rosenboom 26 MF   GER Lucas Wolf 27 FW   GER Joshua Mees 28 MF   GER Aurel Wagbe 29 MF   GER Niklas Niehoff 31 GK   GER Marcel Engelhardt 32 MF   GER Jonas Sterner 34 DF   GER Colin Kleine-Bekel 38 DF   USA Nico Carrera

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW   GHA Kwasi Okyere Wriedt (at VfL Osnabrück until 30 June 2024)

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW   GER Ba-Muaka Simakala (at 1. FC Kaiserslautern until 30 June 2024)

Notable famous or former players

Germany

• Adolf Werner (1902–1923)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Ernst Möller (1910–1916)^{[ citation needed ] [8]}
• Werner Baßler (1942–1944)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Ottmar Walter (1943–1944)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Alfred Kelbassa (1943–1944)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Henry Peper (1950–1962)^{[ citation needed ] [9]}
• Hans Peter Ehlers (1953–66)^{[ citation needed ] [10]}
• Gerd Koll (1959–1968)^{[ citation needed ] [11]}
• Gerd Saborowski (1963–1966)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Franz-Josef Hönig (1964–1967)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Andreas Köpke (1967–1983)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Francisco Copado (1989–1991)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Oliver Held (1993–1995)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Torben Hoffmann (1993–1995)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Daniel Jurgeleit (1999–2003)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Dirk Bremser (1999–2000)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Niels Hansen (2000–2005)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Marcus Marin (2001–2002)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Jens Dowe (2002–2004)^{[ citation needed ]}
• André Trulsen (2002–2004)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Sidney Sam (2002–2004)^{[ citation needed ]}
• André Breitenreiter (2003–2007)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Timo Schultz (2003–2005)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Simon Henzler (2004–2011)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Björn Lindemann (2004–2006)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Mike Rietpietsch (2005–2006)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Christian Jürgensen (2006–2013)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Stefan Schnoor (2006–2007)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Christian Mikolajczak (2006–2007)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Tim Siedschlag (2006–2011, 2012–2018)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Alexander Nouri (2008–2010)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Marc Heider (2009–2016)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Fiete Sykora (2009–2015)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Patrick Herrmann (2011–2018)
• Marcel Schied (2012–2014)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Patrick Kohlmann (2014–2017)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Manuel Schäffler (2014–2016)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Rafael Czichos (2015–2018)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Dominik Schmidt (2015–2020)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Dominick Drexler (2016–2018)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Dominic Peitz (2016–2019)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Marvin Ducksch (2017–2018)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Christopher Lenz (2017–2018)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Johannes van den Bergh (2017–2022)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Atakan Karazor (2017–2019)^{[ citation needed ]}
• David Kinsombi (2017–2019)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Jannik Dehm (2018–2021)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Jonas Meffert (2018–2021)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Phil Neumann (2019–2022)^{[ citation needed ]}

International

• Sophus Nielsen (1910–1911)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Gábor Obitz (1925–1926)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Dimitrios Daras (1980–1981)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Émerson Luiz Firmino (1994–1995)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Pavel Dochev (1994–1995)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Dmitrijus Guščinas (1999–2003, 2007–2010)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Marek Trejgis (2001–2004)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Daniel Teixeira (2003–2004)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Pavel Dobrý (2004–2007)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Ryan Coiner (2005–2006)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Michél Mazingu-Dinzey (2007–2008)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Kenneth Kronholm (2014–2019)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Kingsley Schindler (2016–2019)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Lee Jae-sung (2018–2021)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Masaya Okugawa (2018–2019)^{[ citation needed ]}
• László Bénes (2019)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Salih Özcan (2019–2020)^{[ citation needed ]}

Germany international footballers

Franz Esser (1 / 0 / 1922)[ citation needed ] Willi Fick (1 / 1 / 1910)[ citation needed ] Walter Krause (5 / 0 / 1921–1924)[ citation needed ] Georg Krogmann (3 / 0 / 1912)[ citation needed ] Johannes Ludwig (3 / 2 / 1930–1931)[ citation needed ] Ernst Möller (9 / 4 / 1911–1913)[ citation needed ] Hans Reese (1 / 0 / 1912)[ citation needed ]

Oskar Ritter (1 / 0 / 1925)[ citation needed ] Karl Schulz (2 / 0 / 1925)[ citation needed ] Kurt Voß (2 / 2 / 1925)[ citation needed ] Adolf Werner (9 / 0 / 1909–1912)[ citation needed ] August Werner (2 / 0 / 1925)[ citation needed ] Werner Widmayer (2 / 0 / 1931)[ citation needed ]

Players which achieve during their active years at Holstein Kiel to become Germany international footballers. In parentheses (games / goals/ years).^{[ citation needed ]}

Coaching staff

Position	Name
Head Coach	Marcel Rapp
Assistant Head Coach	Dirk Bremser
Assistant Coach	Alexander Hahn
Goalkeeper Coach	Patrik Borger Niklas Jakusch
Fitness Coach	Timm Sörensen
Athletic Coach	Lasse Bork
Match Analyst	Alexander Rudies
Team Doctor	Andre Hönig Dr. Marco Diekmann
Head of Physiotherapy	Tim Höper
Physiotherapist	Timm Pflügler Tim Rosenthal Sebastian Süß Timo Syroka Lennart Schlegel
Organizational Leader	Jan Uphues
Team Manager	Sebastian Ermuth-von Petersdorff
Bus Driver	Tim Petersen Tim Brockmüller

Women's section

Since July 2004, the club has a women's football section as Wittenseer SV-TUS Felde dissolved their club to join Holstein Kiel.^{[ citation needed ]} The team play since 2005–06 in the 2. Bundesliga.^{[ clarification needed ][ citation needed ]} 2011 the team were relegated to the third division.

Recent seasons

Year	Division	Position
2004–05	Regionalliga Nord (III)	1st (promoted)
2005–06	2. Bundesliga (II)	6th
2006–07	2. Bundesliga (II)	7th
2007–08	2. Bundesliga (II)	6th
2008–09	2. Bundesliga (II)	7th
2009–10	2. Bundesliga (II)	10th
2010–11	2. Bundesliga (II)	12th (relegated)
2011–12	Regionalliga Nord (III)	1st (promoted)
2012–13	2. Bundesliga (II)	11th (relegated)
2013–14	Regionalliga Nord (III)	1st (promoted)
2014–15	2. Bundesliga (II)	10th
2015–16	2. Bundesliga (II)	12th (relegated)
2016–17	Regionalliga Nord (III)	4th
2017–18	Regionalliga Nord (III)	5th
2018–19	Regionalliga Nord (III)	4th
2019–20	Regionalliga Nord (III)	4th
2020–21	Regionalliga Nord (III)

Other departments

Other departments are team handball (men and women), tennis, and cheerleading.^{[ citation needed ]} The women's handball team won the 1971 German handball championship.

References

1. Grüne, Hardy (2001)Vereinslexikon. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag ISBN   3-89784-147-9
2. Grüne, Hardy (1996). Vom Kronprinzen bis zur Bundesliga. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag ISBN   3-928562-85-1
3. "Relegation 2021: 1. FC Köln mit Schützenfest zum Klassenerhalt – Das Spiel in der TICKER-Nachlese". Goal (website) (in German). 29 May 2021. Archived from the original on 29 May 2021. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
4. "Herzlich willkommen in der Bundesliga, Holstein Kiel!" (in German). Bundesliga. 11 May 2024.
5. "Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv" (in German). f-archiv.de. Archived from the original on 22 February 2018. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
6. "Ergebnisse" (in German). Fussball.de. Archived from the original on 23 September 2018. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
7. "Kader – Kieler Sportvereinigung Holstein von 1900 e. V." Archived from the original on 5 August 2019. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
8. scored the lone goal in 1912's championship match.^{[ citation needed ]}
9. record goalkeeper after WW2 with 271 appearances^{[ citation needed ]}
10. record for the most matches after WW2 with 368 appearances^{[ citation needed ]}
11. record goalscorer after WW2 with 141 goals^{[ citation needed ]}

External links

• Official website
• Abseits Guide to German Soccer

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