Hello and welcome to the English part of the SV Darmstadt 98 website! This page is run on a volunteer basis but will be updated on a regular basis with news and features that you will also see on the German site. As time goes on, we will look to expand the content on the site and bring you more and more information.
The result this Sunday means that SV Darmstadt 98's Bundesliga journey is coming to an end. In the coming season, the Lilies will compete in the second Bundesliga. We have summarised here what the Darmstadt protagonists said in front of the microphones after the 0-1 defeat against 1. FC Heidenheim.
The Lilies lose their home game, so it's clear: SV 98 will play in the 2. Bundesliga again next season. The match against 1. FC Heidenheim ended 0-1 (0-0).
Torsten Lieberknecht has to change his starting lineup to four positions compared to the away win at 1. FC Köln. In addition to Aaron Seydel, Clemens Riedel and Klaus Gjasula, Matthias Bader is also out for the duel with 1. FC Heidenheim with a broken nose. Luca Pfeiffer, Christoph Zimmermann, Jannik Müller and Emir Karic move into the starting line-up to replace the injured quartet. Asaf Arania from the U19 is in the Lilies' competitive squad for the first time.
After the away win in Köln now comes our home game with Heidenheim. On Sunday evening (April 28th/7:30pm) the SVD finally wants to win again in front of their own crowd. It is clear that this will not be an easy task against 1. FC Heidenheim, but Torsten Lieberknecht's team still wants to give the lily fans their second win in a row. Before the Bölle gets down to business, we will provide you with all the information about the duel between the Lilies and the guests from Heidenheim.
Next Sunday (April 28th/7:30pm) SV Darmstadt 98 will face fellow promoted team 1. FC Heidenheim. After Torsten Lieberknecht's team finally celebrated another victory in the Rhineland last week, they should also be able to do it at home this week. With a win of their own and some help, the Heidenheimers could stay in the league three match days before the end. But before the Lilies meet Frank Schmidt and “his” Heidenheimers, you will find all the important facts about the game here. What gives hope for the second win in a row? What are the strengths of the people of Baden-Württemberg? And which lily became a professional in Heidenheim? You can find out in our top facts about the game.
About the success in Köln, the upcoming duel with 1. FC Heidenheim (April 28th/7:30pm) and the staff: Torsten Lieberknecht answered questions about these and other topics at the press conference on Friday (April 26th). We have put together the most important statements from the head coach for you.
On Sunday (April 28th/7:30pm) SV Darmstadt 98 welcomes 1. FC Heidenheim and asks you to pay attention to the following information.
Continuity in the Lilies' Youth Performance Centre: Björn Müller has extended his contract as sporting director of the youth performance center (NLZ) for the long term. The new contract is now valid until June 30, 2027. Müller has been working in this position since June 2022.
In February, SV 98 lodged an objection against a ruling by the DFB sports court due to the use of pyrotechnic material over 43,000 euros (away game in Stuttgart on September 22, 2023) for fundamental reasons. This objection was rejected at a hearing on April 5th. In addition, in another case, SV 98 was fined 2,000 euros for unauthorised entry onto the pitch by several people at the home game against Leipzig (October 21, 2023). The SV 98 had already communicated to the oral hearing that the implementation of a possible appeal procedure would be dependent on the written reasons for the judgment.
Together with our main and jersey partner HAIX, a special Lilien shoe was created with which you will cut a good figure both in the stadium and in everyday life. The shoe is now available exclusively at www.haix.de.
With over 13,000 season tickets, SV Darmstadt 98 enjoys a very high proportion of fans in the stadium who want to be there at the Bölle home game after home game to actively support the team. In order to be able to continue offering day tickets, the number of season tickets has been capped for many seasons. And yet we are pleased that new season ticket holders can be welcomed every summer. For the coming season, a change and waiting list is now available on the club's own homepage.
Off to Signal Iduna Park! On the 34th matchday, SV Darmstadt 98 visits Borussia Dortmund. The away game at BVB will kick off on May 18th at 3:30pm. This is how you can be there: From Friday (April 26th/12pm) we will start selling free tickets exclusively in the ticket shop at the Merck Stadium. You can find all further information here.
We are an association in the sense of German association law. Historically, the strength of us lilies is based on the connection between the world of work and university at the merger of the two clubs FK Olympia 1898 and Darmstädter SC. We live our appreciation for the diversity of people and their ways of life. Exclusion of any kind has no place with us.
We are aware of our roots of the founding family Ensgraber and their supporting persons as well as our club history which has had many ups and downs. We have always achieved our greatest sporting successes under special conditions, whether in disciplines such as athletics, field handball, judo or table tennis, whether as after-work professionals or as football prodigies – always as a close-knit community. After overcoming the threat of insolvency and starting over in 2008, we are successfully working towards the common goal of positioning and establishing ourselves in German professional football. Always with the aim of embodying a football club that is a role model for society, fights against discrimination and exclusion and stands up for Darmstadt and the region.
The mission statement that has now been developed will help us to consistently and ambitiously continue the path that SV Darmstadt 1898 e.V. has chosen in the future.
We want to establish ourselves in the top group of the 2nd Bundesliga with economic stability in the long term and challenge the top 20 in German professional football.
As a grassroots, contemporary club, we are committed to ensuring that sport, and especially football, lives up to its role model function in all areas as an integral part of our society.
We are one of the most successful German football clubs and want to establish ourselves in the top group of the 2nd Bundesliga in the long term. We look forward boldly and want to challenge the top 20 clubs in Germany in all areas.
We fight for maximum sporting success, but always while maintaining our economic stability and our social roots within our club life. This is and remains the guiding principle of our daily actions.
As an association, we stand for democratic participation, maintaining the 50+1 rule and maintaining standing room and socially acceptable ticket prices. We are all responsible for the success of our club.
That’s why we think and act in a team-oriented manner and contribute together to the success of our SV Darmstadt 1898 e.V. Our youth performance center is the contact point for the best youth players in our city and our region. We accompany you on your path to professional football and beyond in your personal development. We see ourselves as partners of the region’s clubs. Together with them, we form the basis for youth and young talent work in football.
We fight for social openness and tolerance and focus on the interests of our members and fans. Respect and respect are crucial factors for us when dealing with one another.
We as a club and our “Bölle” are an emotional home for our members, fans, active members, employees and for our coaching team as well as our partners, sponsors and of course for people from all walks of life – from Darmstadt, our region and all of Germany.
We are a multi-disciplinary association. Our amateur sports departments are successful regionally, nationally and internationally. In football, we are known throughout Germany as the “Lilies of the Böllenfalltor” and are developing into a nationally recognized and unique club that combines tradition with innovation and modernity.
In a social and ecological sense, we are committed to sustainable business practices. We do not understand sustainability in the context of special fields of action or individual disciplines, but rather see it as a meaningful networking of social, ecological and economic aspects with all our cross-departmental and cross-association activities.
We are an integral part of our hometown and our home region. We have had a symbiotic relationship with the city from the very beginning.
Just like our city, the digital city of Darmstadt, we see digitalization as an opportunity for us, our members, fans, partners and sponsors. Proximity to fans and the grassroots remains an integral part of our DNA.
We are aware of our origins and our values. Our maxim is the constant combination of tradition and modernity.
We mean what we say. We keep what we promise.
We are always approachable, friendly and open, because we act according to our philosophy: cosmopolitan, member-oriented, with social responsibility – and we live that.
We are looking for the challenge. With our football and our enthusiasm for our club, we want to create identification and be an emotional home.
We are proud of our independence as a club and, on this basis, present ourselves as an ambitious partner with an eye on the future. We always strive for the best for our club, on and off the pitch.
We want to inspire and inspire by resolutely living and communicating our sporting ambition, social responsibility and role model function.
In all our actions, as a close-knit community, we look forward courageously and passionately. Successes and defeats bring us together; setbacks do not deter us from our path.
Darmstadt sports club has been a registered association under German association law since 1898. The foundation of our club is its members, who have accompanied, guided and shaped it through well over 100 years of club history.
Membership not only offers the opportunity to best support the youth and the club’s social projects but is also an important building block for the healthy further development of our club. Be it as an active member in one of our popular sports departments, as a passive member with full voting rights at general meetings (98 euros annual fee) or as a supporting member without such voting rights (60 euros annual fee) – in total, SV 98 brings together over 11,000 members who support the club.
Members of SV Darmstadt 98 receive pre-purchase rights for tickets for home and away games, a wide range of information from club life and other exclusive benefits such as a voucher booklet, our member magazine “Der98er” or of course the official membership card for each new season. We also always try to include the opinions of our members when voting. Be it via surveys or the opportunity to help design things like jerseys and the like. Comprehensive support for our members is important to us and should be expanded further in the future.
Membership in SV 98 is not just a purely formal act, but a clear commitment and active support of our lilies as a grassroots, social and sporting sports club with many advantages and opportunities for participation.
Memberships can be taken out simply and easily via the homepage www.wirlilien.de. We ask that children and young people use the printed membership application.
Memberships can be taken out simply and easily via the homepage www.wirlilien.de. For children and young people, we ask you to use the printed membership application, which you can find as a PDF here.
Sam Donovan
My name is Sam and live in England. As previously mentioned, I maintain this page on a volunteer basis as I work full-time as a high school Maths teacher. I’ve loved football for as long as I can remember and still have memories of watching Euro 96 and attending my first game in the same year with my grandad.
I’ve been volunteering with the club since 2019 when I started to run the International Twitter account. However, I’ve supported the club since before that. On a trip to Germany in 2014, I met someone who was from Darmstadt, and they began to tell me about the club. As luck would have it, I was able to find a stream of the game of “The Miracle of Bielefeld” and I was hooked from that moment. I think what drew me to the club was the passion shown by the players and the supporters but also the spirit and being viewed as an underdog.
My first game seeing Darmstadt play live was in August 2015 when we drew away to Schalke. My first trip to the Böllenfalltor was in 2017 when we again played Schalke but won 2-1 with a stoppage time winner.
