SV Lafnitz

The club, which is a part of the Styria Football Association, was founded in 1964 and played predominantly in the lower leagues within Styria. With the takeover of the chairmanship by Bernhard Loidl, who previously supported the club with his company Licht Loidl as a sponsor, in 2009, the club achieved great sporting success. At two-year intervals, championship titles were celebrated, with which, by 2013, the rise from the sixth to the third division in Austria, the Regionalliga Mitte, was achieved. At the same time, in 2011 and 2012, the old, dilapidated sports field was transformed into a new, smart football arena with a new clubhouse and new grandstand. Although the municipality has only 1,400 inhabitants, the capacity of the stadium holds about 2000 spectators. While an average of around 800 spectators visited the home matches in the national league, there are currently around 1000 visitors in the regional league, most of whom come from neighboring Burgenland. About 100 fans accompany the team to away games. The players of the team generally come from the region, which makes them popular with supporters. There are currently some former players from neighboring second division TSV Hartberg at SV Lafnitz. Two players made the leap into professional football via Lafnitz: the Croatian Domagoj Bešlić, who moved to the second division club Austria Klagenfurt in 2015 before returning to Lafnitz in January 2018, and Albert Vallci, who joined the second division club SV Horn in…

Austrian Regionalliga Mitte (III) Winners (1): 2017–18 Runner-ups (1): 2016–17 Landesliga Steiermark (IV) Winners (1): 2012–13 Oberliga Süd/Ost (V) Winners (1): 2010–11, 2017–18 ‡ Unterliga Ost (VI) Winners (1): 2008–09 Runner-ups (1): 2016–17 ‡ Gebietsliga Ost (VII) Winners (1): 2015–16 ‡ 1. Klasse Mitte A (VIII) Winners (1): 2014–15 ‡ ‡ Reserve team