SK Austria Klagenfurt (2007)

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Austria Klagenfurt
SK Austria Klagenfurt 2007 Logo.svg
Full nameSportklub Austria Klagenfurt
Nickname(s)Die Violetten
Founded1920;104 years ago (1920)
2007;17 years ago (2007) (refounded)
Ground Wörthersee Stadion
Capacity32,000
PresidentHerbert Matschek
Manager Harald Gärtner
Head coach Peter Pacult
League Austrian Bundesliga
2023–24 Austrian Bundesliga, 6th of 12
Website http://www.skaustriaklagenfurt.at/
Soccerball current event.svg 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.

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History

Historical chart of league performance of Austria Klagenfurt and their predecessor clubs Austria klagenfurt Performance Graph.png
Historical chart of league performance of Austria Klagenfurt and their predecessor clubs

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

Players

First team squad

As of 26 August 2024 [4]

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

No.Pos.NationPlayer
1 GK Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Marco Knaller
2 DF Flag of the Netherlands.svg  NED Solomon Bonnah
3 DF Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Matthias Dollinger
5 MF Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Bego Kujraković
6 MF Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Tobias Koch
7 FW Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Florian Jaritz
8 MF Flag of Greece.svg  GRE Kosmas Gezos
9 FW Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Nicolas Binder
10 FW Flag of North Macedonia.svg  MKD David Toshevski
11 FW Flag of the United States.svg  USA Sebastian Soto
14 MF Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Christopher Cvetko
16 MF Flag of Germany.svg  GER Iba May
17 DF Flag of Italy.svg  ITA Simon Straudi
No.Pos.NationPlayer
15 MF Flag of Togo (3-2).svg  TOG Dikeni Salifou (on loan from Werder Bremen)
19 DF Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Niklas Szerencsi
24 MF Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Christopher Wernitznig
27 DF Flag of Germany.svg  GER Jonas Kühn
29 MF Flag of Germany.svg  GER Laurenz Dehl
30 GK Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Simon Spari
31 DF Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Thorsten Mahrer
34 DF Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Jannik Robatsch
41 GK Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Alexander Turkin
77 FW Flag of Germany.svg  GER Ben Bobzien (on loan from Mainz 05)
80 MF Flag of South Korea.svg  KOR Lee Min-young
95 MF Flag of Austria.svg  AUT Philipp Wydra(on loan from Rapid Wien)

Staff

As of 22 October 2021 [5] [6]
Head coach Flag of Austria.svg Peter Pacult
Assistant coach Flag of Austria.svg Martin Lassnig
Assistant coach Flag of Germany.svg Wolfgang Schellenberg
Goalkeeper coach Flag of Austria.svg Thomas Lenuweit
Athletics coach Flag of Austria.svg Manuel Trattnig
Team manager Flag of Austria.svg Sandro Zakany
Club doctor Flag of Austria.svg Christiane Loinig
Kit manager Flag of Slovakia.svg Peter Kostolansky
Manager Flag of Germany.svg Harald Gärtner
Manager Flag of Germany.svg Matthias Imhof

Head coach history

As of 22 October 2021 [7]

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