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 liability insurance fund and SV Darmstadt 98 will continue their cooperation in the future: Both partners have agreed to extend the partnership, which has existed since July 2022, until the end of June 2027. The property and casualty insurer from Roßdorf, which has been active as Lilien's top partner for the past two years, will act as a premium partner of SV 98 in the future.
Team spirit, joy of playing and fair play – that was the motto of the “Football Meets Culture” (FtK) final tournament in 2024. Around 600 participants in the integrative educational program “Football Meets Culture” traveled from all over Germany to Darmstadt to compete in the U10 and U14 age groups to fight for coveted trophies. The SV 98 welcomed school classes from 23 cities to the Bürgerparkstadion.
SV Darmstadt 98 has secured the services of Sergio López. The player trained at Real Madrid passed the medical check on Friday (June 7th) and then signed a contract with the Lilies. Lopéz, who most recently played for FC Basel, can be used on either side of defence and as a wingback.
Reinforcement in the goalkeeper position: Karol Niemczycki is moving from Fortuna Düsseldorf to SV Darmstadt 98. It was agreed not to disclose the details of the move.
“My connection to SV Darmstadt actually started with my father, who still played field handball here in the old stadium,” says current board member Wolfgang Arnold, recalling his first contacts with the Lilies: “But I only really got involved when when our two sons started playing football here. There was no coach for the F youth, but I wanted the two boys to be able to play here. That’s why I said that I was ready to take over the F-Youth.”
In collaboration between the “Lernort Stadion e.V. – Bölle makes education” and SV Darmstadt 98, the “Stadion Europa Youth Festival” took place on May 29th in the Merck Stadium at the Böllenfalltor. In the run-up to the European Football Championship in Germany, it was important to both partners to get young people from Darmstadt and the surrounding area excited about a diverse and democratic Europe in a youth-friendly and fun way and to get them in the right mood for the European Championship in Germany.
The third newcomer for the 2024/25 season is defensive midfielder Paul Will. The 25-year-old brings a big fighting heart, a small collection of titles and a lot of anticipation to the Merck Stadium. We took a closer look at our new defensive midfielder and would like to introduce you to Paul.
The second newcomer for the 2024/25 season is the offensive player Luca Marseiler. The 27-year-old has probably had the best season of his career to date, and now the Bavarian would like to build on these achievements in Darmstadt. We have taken a closer look at our new offensive player and would like to introduce you to Luca.
The first newcomer for the 2024/25 season is striker Fynn Lakenmacher. The 24-year-old comes from a very successful handball family and played in the defensive midfield in the U19. We took a closer look at our new attacker and would like to introduce you to Fynn.
The first round of the DFB Cup has been drawn: SV Darmstadt 98 will face FC Teutonia 05 Ottensen away at the start of the new 2024/25 cup season. This was the result of the drawing in the German Football Museum with Nils Petersen and DFB Vice President Peter Frymuth on Saturday (June 1) as part of the ARD sports show.
After the final is before the first round of the cup. Last Saturday (May 25th) Bayer Leverkusen secured the 2023/24 DFB Cup title. And the new cup season continues on Saturday evening (June 1st): The first round of the 2024/25 DFB Cup will be drawn from 6pm as part of the ARD Sportschau. In the following report we will give you all the information about the draw. Which teams are taking part? Which teams could the Lilies face? And when does which cup round take place?
The SV Darmstadt 98 fan team also has a summer break! The “Zwote” played their last game of the season at FC Ober-Ramstadt II on Tuesday evening (May 28th), which they unfortunately lost 2-4. Nevertheless, the Lilien fan team finished in a good third place in the district league C Darmstadt. After the duel, we took the opportunity to talk to coach Andreas Degenhardt and look at the past and future season with him. He also explains why he is particularly proud to be able to train the second team.
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.
