SSV Jahn Regensburg

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SSV Jahn Regensburg

Full name	Sport- und Schwimmverein Jahn Regensburg e. V.
Nickname(s)	"Die Jahnelf" (the Jahn Eleven)[citation needed] "Die Rothosen" (the Red Shorts)[citation needed]
Founded	4 October 1907; 117 years ago (1907-10-04)
Ground	Jahnstadion Regensburg
Capacity	15,210[1]
Chairman	Hans Rothammer[2]
Coach	Andreas Patz (interim)[3]
League	2. Bundesliga
2023–24	3. Liga, 3rd of 20 (promoted)
Website	ssv-jahn.de
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

Sport- und Schwimmverein Jahn Regensburg e. V., commonly known as SSV Jahn Regensburg, Jahn Regensburg, SSV Jahn or simply Jahn, is a German football club based in Regensburg, Bavaria.

The club plays their home games at Jahnstadion Regensburg since 2015. The club colours are white and red, the team's most common nicknames 'Rothosen' (Red Shorts) and 'Jahnelf' (Jahn Eleven). Jahn currently plays in the 2. Bundesliga the German second division, having been promoted from the 3. Liga in the 2023–24 season.

The club is based on a gymnastics club founded in 1886 as Turnerbund Jahn Regensburg which took its name from Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, whose ideas of gymnastics greatly influenced German sport in the 19th century. The football department was created in 1907.

The footballers left their parent club in 1924 to form Sportbund Jahn Regensburg. In 1934, they joined Sportverein 1889 Regensburg and Schwimmverein 1920 Regensburg to form SSV which has departments for athletics, boxing, futsal, gymnastics, handball, kendo and nine-pin bowling. The football department separated in 2000 as SSV Jahn Regensburg.

Despite the 1934 merger of the football section into the wider sports club, the footballing side's best finish in the Bezirksliga Bayern was a second-place finish in 1930. In the Gauliga Bayern, one of sixteen top flight divisions formed in the re-organization of German football under the Third Reich in 1933, Jahn lasted for only two seasons before being relegated in 1935. It returned in 1937 and their best performances were consecutive third-place finishes in 1938 and 1939 after which they became a less competitive mid-to-lower table side.

The club spent most of the period between the end of World War II and the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963 as a "yo-yo team" oscillating between the Oberliga Süd and the second division. Regensburg played the early 1960s in the third division before making their way back to the Regionalliga Süd (II).^{[citation needed]} By the mid-1970s, the team's results worsened and by the end of the decade had become a team mostly playing in the third and fourth divisions, as well as playing three years in the Landesliga Bayern-Mitte, the fifth tier, in the late 1990s.

In 2000 the football team left to become an independent club and were joined by players from SG Post/Süd Regensburg in 2002.^{[citation needed]} Regensburg played in the Regionalliga Süd, the third tier since with a single season in the 2. Bundesliga in 2003–04. However, the club faced financial difficulties and narrowly avoided bankruptcy in 2005.^{[citation needed]} After being relegated to the fourth division, the Oberliga Bayern in 2005–06, Jahn achieved first place in the following season and were promoted back to the Regionalliga Süd. Due to a reorganisation of the leagues, Jahn had to finish in tenth place or higher in order to stay in the third division, which is now the new 3. Liga. Jahn struggled to do so but finished ninth in the end and gained entry to the new league.

The club played its first two seasons in the 3. Liga close to the relegation zone but then improved and came third in 2011–12, qualifying to play against the Karlsruher SC in the promotion round to the 2. Bundesliga. They drew 1–1 at Regensburg and 2–2 at Karlsruhe, which meant Jahn returned to second level after eight years thanks to the away goal rule.

The Jahn finished last in the 2. Bundesliga in 2012–13 and were relegated back to the 3. Liga, finishing eleventh in 2013–14. In 2014–15 they also finished last in the 3. Liga and were relegated back to the Regionalliga. In the following season, they won the Regionalliga Bayern and faced the Regionalliga Nord champions VfL Wolfsburg II in the play-offs. The club defeated Wolfsburg II 2–1 on aggregate and immediately returned to third level for the 2015–16 season.^[4] The following season Jahn finished third in the 3. Liga. As in 2012, they were subsequently promoted to the second tier via the play-off, defeating 1860 Munich 3–1 on aggregate.

As of 31 August 2024

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 Felix Gebhardt 3 DF  GER Bryan Hein 4 DF  GER Florian Ballas 5 MF  GER Rasim Bulić 6 DF  GER Benedikt Saller 7 FW  GER Oscar Schönfelder 8 MF  GER Andreas Geipl (captain) 9 FW  GER Eric Hottmann 10 MF  GER Christian Viet 11 DF  GER Nico Ochojski 12 GK  GER Leon Ćuk 13 DF  GER Alexander Bittroff 14 DF  GER Robin Ziegele 15 MF  GER Sebastian Ernst 16 DF  GER Louis Breunig

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 MF  GER Niclas Anspach 19 MF  GER Christian Schmidt 20 FW  GER Noah Ganaus 21 MF  GER Tobias Eisenhuth 23 GK  GER Julian Pollersbeck 25 FW  GER Jonas Bauer 27 MF  GER Dominik Kother 29 FW  GER Elias Huth 30 FW  GER Christian Kühlwetter 31 FW  GER Max Meyer 32 GK  GER Alexander Weidinger 33 FW  GER Kai Pröger 37 DF  GER Leopold Wurm 39 FW  GER Dejan Galjen 40 FW  TOG Mansour Ouro-Tagba (on loan from 1. FC Köln)

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  GER Jannik Graf (at SpVgg Bayreuth until 30 June 2025) — FW  GER Kelvin Onuigwe (at Barockstadt Fulda-Lehnerz until 30 June 2025)

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  GER Noel Eichinger (at Lokomotive Leipzig until 30 June 2025)

SSV Jahn Regensburg II (or SSV Jahn Regensburg Amateure) made a single season appearance in the southern division of the Amateurliga Bayern in 1962–63, the last year of the league being divided into two regional divisions. An eleventh place in the league that season was not enough to qualify for the new single-division league and the team also did not become part of the new Landesliga Bayern-Mitte.^[5]

A lengthy period^[quantify] in the lower amateur divisions followed until 2002, when the merger of the first team with SG Post/Süd Regensburg allowed the reserve side to take Post's place in the Bayernliga, where the team played from 2002 to 2006. In 2006, the first team's relegation meant, they had to move down one level even so they finished eleventh this season. After three average seasons,^{[according to whom?]} the side became a promotion contender again, finishing second in 2010–11, but losing to SpVgg Bayern Hof in the promotion round.

At the end of the 2011–12 season, the club qualified directly for the newly expanded Bayernliga after finishing third in the Landesliga.^[6]

Position	Name
Head Coach	Andreas Patz
Assistant Coach	Christoph Rezler
First-Team Coach & Opponent Analyst	Oliver Seitz
Goalkeeper Coach	Philipp Tschauner
Athletic Coach	Christoph Rezler
Chief Scout	Ilija Dzepina
Scout	Andreas Wagner Karl Müller
Doctor	Dr. Andreas Harlass-Neuking
Physiotherapist	Wolfgang Brummer Matthias Günther
Lead Academy Physiotherapist	Tobias Rutzinger
Head of Media and Communications	Johannes Liedl
Team official	Klaus-Dieter Schneider
Kit Manager	Reinhold Reisinger
Head of Finance and Human Resources	Simon Leser
Head of Private Customer Marketing	Cornelius Knappe
Head of Operations and Infrastructure	Andreas Hahn
Team Manager	Katja Schöppl
Academy Manager	Christian Martin

Recent managers of the club:^[7]

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The recent season-by-season performance of the club:^[9][10]

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• With the introduction of the Bezirksoberligas in 1988 as the new fifth tier, below the Landesligas, all leagues below dropped one tier. 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. With the establishment of the Regionalliga Bayern as the new fourth tier in Bavaria in 2012 the Bayernliga was split into a northern and a southern division, the number of Landesligas expanded from three to five and the Bezirksoberligas abolished. All leagues from the Bezirksligas onwards were elevated one tier.^{[citation needed]}

Key

• Under 19 Bayernliga
  • Winners: 2005, 2007^{[citation needed]}
  • Runners-up: 2013^{[citation needed]}
• Under 17 Bayernliga
  • Winners: 2007^{[citation needed]}
  • Runners-up: 2003^{[citation needed]}
• Under 15 Bayernliga
  • Winners: 2015^{[citation needed]}
  • Runners-up: 2005, 2012^{[citation needed]}
• ^‡ Reserve team^{[citation needed]}

Cited sources

Further reading

• Grüne, Hardy (2001). Vereinslexikon (in German). Kassel: AGON Sportverlag. ISBN 3-89784-147-9.
• Die Bayernliga 1945–97 (in German). DSFS. 1998.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to SSV Jahn Regensburg.

• Official website (in German)
• SSV Jahn Regensburg profile on Weltfussball.de