With your donation, you can save up to three lives! SV Darmstadt 98 and the German Red Cross Blood Donation Service are hosting a blood drive on Thursday, July 10, from 3pm to 8pm at the Merck Stadium at Böllenfalltor. This is the first time such a drive has been held in a football stadium in Hesse. You can find all the information here.
SV Darmstadt 98 is seeking four youth teams up to and including U15 to participate in the Lilies' Heinerfest game show. This event will take place on Saturday (July 5th from 12pm to 3pm and offers a unique opportunity for youth football teams to win tickets to an SV 98 home game in the upcoming 2025/26 season.
The first round of the DFB Cup has been drawn: SV Darmstadt 98 will face VfB Lübeck from the Regionalliga Nord away in the opening match of the new 2025/26 cup season. This was revealed by the draw at the German Football Museum with draw fairy Owen Ansah and DFB Vice President Peter Frymuth live on ZDF on Sunday (June 15th).
Gold Cup 2025! And a Lily is there. Jean-Paul Boëtius will be participating in the continental championship for North, Central America, and the Caribbean with Suriname—the birthplace of his parents. We spoke with him before the first group match against Costa Rica (June 16th, 5am German time) about this very match, the tournament, and a football-mad Suriname.
With a 4-2 win against Arminia Bielefeld, VfB Stuttgart secured the DFB-Pokal title for the 2024/25 season. But the new cup season is already looming. SV Darmstadt 98 will begin the first round of this competition in mid-August. SV Darmstadt 98's opponent in the first round of the cup will be decided next Sunday (June 15th, 5:15pm) at the German Football Museum in Dortmund. The draw will be broadcast live on free TV on ZDF. The Lilies are listed in the professional pool and will be drawn against a club from the amateur pool. You can read about the teams Darmstadt could face here.
This is pure tradition at the Merck Stadium at Böllenfalltor! SV Darmstadt 98 will play a friendly match on Wednesday (July 9th) against the world's oldest professional football club: the traditional English club Notts County FC, founded in 1862, will be the visitors at Bölle. Kickoff for the friendly is at 6:30pm. This post provides all the information about advance ticket sales.
A joint start into the new decade: SV Darmstadt 98 will be outfitted by CRAFT at least until the end of the 2029/30 season. The Lilies and the Swedish functional clothing specialist have prematurely extended their collaboration for another four years. CRAFT will continue to provide the match and training kit for the Lilies' professional and youth teams. The fan support team and the eFootball players will also wear CRAFT gear. Furthermore, both parties will cooperate closely in merchandising and release joint fanwear.
While most of the SV Darmstadt 98 players are on vacation, two Lilies are still in full action. Two friendlies were scheduled for the Bulgarian national team and Fabian Nürnberger. Jean-Paul Boëtius played for Suriname in World Cup qualifying and still has the CONCACAF Gold Cup to look forward to. We report on these and other topics related to SV Darmstadt 98 in our weekly column "Lilien Across the Board."
SV 98 maintains a special relationship with two American clubs, US second-division side San Antonio FC and Texas-based SVD Beaumont, through official partnerships. Football is naturally the unifying factor, and both sides are particularly committed to developing young talent. As part of these partnerships, SV 98 has now held its first soccer camps in the USA under the guidance of coaches from the Lilies.
SV 98's first preparation dates for the 2025/26 second-division season have been set: On June 20th, the first team will return to the Merck Stadium at Böllenfalltor to undergo various medical tests and performance assessments. The first team training session will take place on June 22, kicking off at 2pm.