SV Morlautern

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SV Morlautern is a German football club from Morlautern, a suburb of Kaiserslautern in Rhineland-Palatinate. They play at Stadion Kieferberg. The club’s chairman is Reiner Engbarth and the head coach is Patrick Wittich. In 2024–25 they played in the Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar but finished last and were relegated to the Verbandsliga Südwest, the sixth tier of German football.

History
The club began on 15 July 1912 as SpVgg Morlautern. Later two more Morlautern clubs, FV-Germania and FC Bayern, joined with SpVgg Morlautern to form SV Morlautern 1912 on 9 September 1919. For most of its history, the team competed in local amateur leagues.

Notable facts
Werner Kohlmeyer, a member of West Germany’s 1954 World Cup-winning team, finished his playing career at SV Morlautern. The club runs the Werner-Kohlmeyer-Memorial-Tournament in his memory.

Rise through the leagues
From 2009, SV Morlautern climbed from the tenth-tier Kreisliga up to the sixth-tier Verbandsliga Südwest, winning four championships and promotions from 2010 to 2013. In 2014 and 2015 they finished 4th and 3rd in the Verbandsliga, and in 2015–16 they finished second, winning promotion in the promotion rounds to the Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar for the first time.