Austria Klagenfurt

Full name	Sportklub Austria Klagenfurt
Founded	1920; 104 years ago (1920) 2007; 17 years ago (2007) (refounded)
Ground	28 Black Arena
Capacity	32,000
President	Herbert Matschek
Manager	Harald Gärtner
Head coach	Peter Pacult
League	Austrian Bundesliga
2022–23	Austrian Bundesliga, 6th of 12
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours
Current season

SK Austria Klagenfurt is an Austrian professional football club based in the Carinthian capital Klagenfurt, the club currently competing in the Austrian Bundesliga, the top tier in Austrian football.

History

The emergence of the club marked the end of all efforts to establish an all-Carinthian team to play in the Austrian Football Bundesliga, pushed by the state's government under Jörg Haider. Austria Klagenfurt was already founded in 2007 ahead of the formation of the SK Austria Kärnten football club, but began playing not before SK Austria was dissolved in 2010 ^[1] and it had merged with SC St. Stefan. ^[2] SK Austria Klagenfurt plays its home matches at the Hypo Group Arena. ^[3] The club adopts the tradition of the former SK Austria Klagenfurt founded in 1920, renamed FC Kärnten in 1999, which was dissolved in 2009.

In 2020–21, Austria Klagenfurt finished in third place and promotion to Austrian Bundesliga for the first time in history after defeat SKN St. Pölten with aggregate 5–0 in promotion relegation play-off, the club promotion to top tier since refounded in 2007 due to obtain a licence by ÖFB.

Honours

Domestic

League

• Austrian Regionalliga Central:
  • Winners (1): 2014–15

Players

First team squad

As of 8 February 2024 ^[4]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   AUT Marco Knaller 2 DF   NED Solomon Bonnah 3 DF   AUT Matthias Dollinger 4 DF   SRB Nikola Đorić 5 MF   AUT Bego Kujrakovic 6 MF   MAR Ali Loune (on loan from Nürnberg) 7 FW   AUT Florian Jaritz 8 MF   GRE Kosmas Gezos 9 FW   AUT Nicolas Binder 10 FW   GER Sinan Karweina 11 FW   USA Sebastian Soto 13 GK   GER Phillip Menzel 14 MF   AUT Christopher Cvetko 17 DF   ITA Simon Straudi

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 MF   SCO Andy Irving (on loan from West Ham United) 20 MF   GER Rico Benatelli 23 MF   GER Max Besuschkow (on loan from Hannover 96) 24 MF   AUT Christopher Wernitznig 30 GK   AUT David Puntigam 31 DF   AUT Thorsten Mahrer 33 DF   GER Till Schumacher 34 DF   AUT Jannik Robatsch 37 DF   AUT Nicolas Wimmer 39 FW   GER Jonas Arweiler 44 GK   AUT Marcel Köstenbauer 77 FW   AUT Aaron-Sky Schwarz (on loan from Rapid Wien) 92 MF   AUT Fabio Markelic 99 FW   CRO Anton Maglica

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF   GER Moritz Berg (at Viktoria 1889 Berlin until 30 June 2024) — MF   GER Laurenz Dehl (at Viktoria 1889 Berlin until 30 June 2024)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF   GER Iba May (at Viktoria 1889 Berlin until 30 June 2024) — FW   MKD David Toshevski (at Šibenik until 30 June 2024)

Staff

As of 22 October 2021 ^{[5] [6]}

Head coach	Peter Pacult
Assistant coach	Martin Lassnig
Assistant coach	Wolfgang Schellenberg
Goalkeeper coach	Thomas Lenuweit
Athletics coach	Manuel Trattnig
Team manager	Sandro Zakany
Club doctor	Christiane Loinig
Kit manager	Peter Kostolansky
Manager	Harald Gärtner
Manager	Matthias Imhof

Head coach history

As of 22 October 2021 ^[7]

References

External links

• Official website (in German)

This article about an Austrian football club is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e