Back SV Darmstadt 98 Afrikaans دارمشتات 98 Arabic دارمشتات 98 ARZ دارمشتات ۹۸ فوتبال کولوبو AZB ФК Дармштат 98 Byelorussian Дармштат-98 (футбольны клюб) BE-X-OLD ШФ Дармщат 98 Bulgarian স্পোর্টস ক্লাব ডার্মস্টাট ৯৮ Bengali/Bangla SV Darmstadt 98 BS Sportverein Darmstadt 1898 Catalan
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| Full name | Sportverein Darmstadt 1898 e.V. | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Die Lilien (The Lilies) | |||
| Founded | 22 May 1898 | |||
| Ground | Merck-Stadion am Böllenfalltor | |||
| Capacity | 17,810[citation needed] | |||
| President | Klaus Rüdiger Fritsch | |||
| Manager | Florian Kohfeldt | |||
| League | 2. Bundesliga | |||
| 2023–24 | Bundesliga, 18th of 18 (relegated) | |||
| Website | http://www.sv98.de/ | |||
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Sportverein Darmstadt 1898 e.V., commonly known as Darmstadt 98 (German pronunciation: [ˌdaʁmʃtat ʔaxtʔʊntˈnɔɪ̯nt͡sɪç] ), is a German professional association football club based in Darmstadt, Hesse. The club was founded on 22 May 1898 as FC Olympia Darmstadt. Early in 1919, the association was briefly known as Rasen-Sportverein Olympia before merging with Darmstädter Sport Club 1905 on 11 November that year to become Sportverein Darmstadt 98. Merger partner SC was the product of a 1905 union between Viktoria 1900 Darmstadt and Germania 1903 Darmstadt. The footballers are today part of a sports club which also offers its over 13,500 members[1] basketball, hiking, futsal, judo, and table tennis.
The football department competed in the Bundesliga for the 2015–16 and 2016–17 seasons after a 33-year run in lower leagues. Darmstadt 98 were promoted again to the Bundesliga in 2023, however they did not avoid relegation the following season.
- ^ "Wir Lilien. Sind der Verein". WIR LILIEN (in German). SV Darmstadt 98. Archived from the original on 30 September 2023. Retrieved 29 July 2023.