SV Straelen

Full name	Sportverein 19 Straelen e.V.
Founded	1919; 105 years ago (1919)
Ground	Sportplatz Römerstraße
Capacity	2,300
Chairman	Hermann Tecklenburg
Manager	Sunday Oliseh[1]
League	Regionalliga West
2021–22	Regionalliga West, 15th
Website	https://svs19.com/
Home colours Away colours

Sportverein 19 Straelen e.V., commonly known as simply SV 19 Straelen or SV Straelen, is a German association football club from Straelen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club was established in 1919 and today has nearly 2,400 members with departments for athletics, badminton, basketball, gymnastics, handball, karate, swimming, and volleyball.

Long an unheralded local side, Sportverein Straelen first won promotion to the fourth tier Oberliga Nordrhein in 1996. The team finished just inside the relegation zone the following season, but avoided being sent down when the second team side of KFC Uerdingen, which had finished ahead of SV, folded due to the loss of the club's sponsor. After their retrieve, Straelen had a three-year stay at the Oberliga level that ended with a 17th-place finish in 2001. During this period the team earned an appearance in the opening round of the DFB-Pokal (German Cup) following a 1999 regional cup win.^[2]

SV returned to the Oberliga Nordrhein (IV) in 2006 on the strength of a Verbandsliga Niederrhein (V) title. In 2007–08, the club clearly missed the qualifying criteria for the new Oberliga Nordrhein-Westfalen, coming last in the league. In an odd twist, while the first team was relegated to the Verbandsliga, the reserve team achieved promotion from the Landesliga at the same time. For this reason, the club fields both teams in the same league in the 2008–09 season, a novelty at this level of play.^[3]

They were promoted to the Regionalliga West after winning the Oberliga Niederrhein in 2017–18, but were relegated the following season. They returned to the Regionalliga in 2020.

In February of 2024, the club reported financial difficulties and is set to be relegated from the Oberliga Niederrhein after the 2023-24 season ends.

The club's honours:

• Oberliga Niederrhein
  • Champions (V): 2017–18
  • Champions (V): 2019–20
• Verbandsliga Niederrhein
  • Champions (V): 1995–96, 2005–06
• Landesliga Niederrhein 2
  • Champions (V): 1982–83, 1993–94
• Lower Rhine Cup
  • Winners: 2022

SV Straelen play their home fixtures at Sportplatz Römerstraße, which has a seating area and general admission grandstand with a capacity of 2,300.

As of 29 September 2021^[4]

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 Julius Paris 2 DF  BEL Kino Delorge 3 DF  NED Jelle van Benthem 4 DF  NED Ferry de Regt (captain) 5 DF  GER Ole Päffgen 6 MF  GER Maximilian Funk 7 DF  GER Jannik Stevens 8 MF  GER Tobias Peitz 9 FW  KOS Arlind Shoshi 11 FW  GER Cagatay Kader 12 DF  KOR Jiha Yoo 13 MF  JPN Kanta Ishii 14 MF  JPN Toshiaki Miyamoto 15 DF  TUN Adli Lachheb

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 MF  ZIM Kelvin Lunga 17 MF  GER Kevin Wolze 18 MF  GER Timo Mehlich 19 FW  GER Gianluca Rizzo 20 MF  GER Irwin Pfeiffer 21 DF  GER Noah Holtschoppen 22 GK  GER Kevin Kratzsch 24 MF  POR Fabio Ribeiro 25 DF  GER Martin Gyameshie 26 DF  GHA Uzair Alhassan 27 GK  GER Robin Udegbe 28 MF  GER Glody Ngyombo 29 FW  AFG Amir Ahmadi 30 DF  CRO Vedran Berić

• Official team site
• Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables (in German)