SVA Bad Hersfeld

SVA Bad Hersfeld

Full name	Spielverein Asbach-Bad Hersfeld 1928 e.V.
Founded	5 August 1928; 95 years ago (5 August 1928)
Ground	Vereinsgelände Asbach
Capacity	4,000
Chairman	Frank Ullrich[1]
Trainer	Marco Hilpert
League	Gruppenliga (VII)
2015–16	Verbandsliga Hessen-Nord (VI), 14th (relegated)
Home colours

Spielverein Asbach-Bad Hersfeld is a German association football club based in Asbach, formerly a separate village, but now part of the town of Bad Hersfeld, Hesse.^[2]

The earliest football played in Asbach was in 1911 and prior to World War I two clubs emerged. Spielvereinigung Asbach and Sportverein Germania Asbach were youth clubs that disappeared as a consequence of the war. A number of short-lived sports and gymnastics clubs came and went between 1922 and the formation on 5 August 1928 of Sportverein Asbach. This club also struggled early on, but managed to persevere. By 1936 SV had a number of local honours to its credit and was finally able to establish its own ground.

SVA long played in the shadow of Hessen Hersfeld, but after a 1993 title in the Bezirksoberliga Fulda (V) has become a fixture in the Landesliga Hesse-Nord (V). Following a second-place finish in the Verbandsliga Hessen-Nord (VI) in 2008–09, SVA was promoted to the Hessenliga but lasted for only one season before going down again. Another relegation followed in 2015–16, now to the Gruppenliga.

The club's honours:

• Verbandsliga Hessen-Nord
  • Champions: 1998
  • Runners-up: 2001, 2003, 2009

• 1990–91 Bezirksoberliga Fulda (V) 6th
• 1991–92 Bezirksoberliga Fulda (V) 6th
• 1992–93 Bezirksoberliga Fulda (V) 1st ↑
• 1993–94 Landesliga Hesse-Nord (V) 3rd
• 1994–95 Landesliga Hesse-Nord (V) 7rd^{[clarification needed]}
• 1995–96 Landesliga Hesse-Nord (V) 6th
• 1996–97 Landesliga Hesse-Nord (V) 3rd
• 1997–98 Landesliga Hesse-Nord (V) 1st ↑
• 1998–99 Oberliga Hesse (IV) 11th
• 1999–00 Oberliga Hesse (IV) 16th ↓
• 2000–01 Landesliga Hesse-Nord (V) 2nd
• 2001–02 Landesliga Hesse-Nord (V) 6nd^{[clarification needed]}
• 2002–03 Landesliga Hesse-Nord (V) 2nd
• 2003–04 Landesliga Hesse-Nord (V) 5th
• 2004–05 Landesliga Hesse-Nord (V) 5th
• 2005–06 Landesliga Hesse-Nord (V) 7th
• 2006–07 Landesliga Hesse-Nord (V) 5th
• 2007–08 Landesliga Hesse-Nord (V) 4th
• 2008–09 Landesliga Hesse-Nord (V) 2nd ↑
• 2009–10 Oberliga Hesse (V) 19th ↓
• 2010–11 Verbandsliga Hessen-Nord (VI) 7th
• 2011–12 Verbandsliga Hessen-Nord (VI) 5th

• Official website (in German)
• Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (in German) historical German domestic league tables
• SVA Bad Hersfeld at Weltfussball.de (in German)