SV Elversberg is the surprise of the current season of the 2nd Bundesliga. After nine match days, the club is at the top of the table and has scored the most goals. The biggest contribution to this is played by a player who, in an important statistic, is on a par with Harry Kane from FC Bayern and Erling Haaland from Manchester City.
In SV Elversberg’s 6-0 demonstration of power against SpVgg Greuther Fürth, Younes Ebnoutalib scored the first hat-trick of his professional career.
But that’s not all: the 22-year-old also scored more than once in the league for the fourth time this season. Ebnoutalib, who leads the top scorers list with nine goals, did not even appear as a one-time goalscorer in 2025/26.
Impressive: In the five major leagues in Europe plus the respective 2nd division, only Erling Haaland and Harry Kane also have four multiple packs, none more than Ebnoutalib.
It is certainly to be expected that more will be added against Arminia Bielefeld (October 25th, 1:00 p.m. in the sport.de LIVE ticker/highlights directly afterwards on RTL+). The best offensive in the league with 22 goals (Elversberg) always meets the Arminen, who are third in the offensive ranking with 17 goals.
Further facts about the game SV Elversberg vs. Arminia Bielefeld:
- Premiere: Arminia Bielefeld and SV Elversberg meet in a competitive game for the first time.
- Arminia Bielefeld has only won two of its last 10 home games in the 2nd Bundesliga across the seasons (D4 L4).
- Strong away: After losing 2-0 in Bochum in their first away game of 2025/26, SV Elversberg recently won three away wins in a row – in SVE’s first two second division seasons there had never been more than two away wins in a row.
- Elversberg won its last four second division games (15:1 goals) and has 22 points and +16 goals (22:6), which is the club’s best goal difference in professional football at the time of comparison. In the third division promotion season 2022/23 there were also 22 points after 9 games, the goal difference was 24:9 but “only” +15.
- Arminia suffered its fourth defeat in a row with a 3-4 defeat in the East Westphalia derby against Paderborn. The last time something like this happened in the lower house for the DSC was at the start of the 2022/23 season, more bankruptcies in a row in autumn 2018, when they lost five times in a row in League 2.
- The Bielefeld team has already covered 1,121.4 kilometers over the course of the season, more than any other second division team. The Elversbergers are in 16th place with 1023.3 kilometers – almost 100 kilometers less.
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