FC Wacker Innsbruck (2002)

This article is about the current football club. For the defunct club, see FC Wacker Innsbruck.

FC Wacker Innsbruck

Full name	Fußballclub Wacker Innsbruck
Founded	21 June 2002 (2002-06-21)
Ground	Tivoli-Neu, Innsbruck
Capacity	16,008
Chairman	Gerhard Stocker
Manager	Daniel Bierofka
League	2. Liga
2019–20	2. Liga, 6th
Home colours Away colours

FC Wacker Innsbruck is an Austrian association football club from Innsbruck. The club was formed in June 2002 as FC Wacker Tirol, and plays their home games at Tivoli-Neu. The club regard themselves as the spiritual continuation of the team FC Tirol Innsbruck, which went bankrupt in 2002 as well as the original FC Wacker Innsbruck which had been founded in 1913. In honour of this heritage, FC Wacker Tirol was renamed FC Wacker Innsbruck in 2007. However, legally it is a distinct and separate club, and is not entitled to claim the honours won by its predecessors.

History

Historical chart of FC Wacker Innsbruck league performance (incl. predecessor clubs)

The ascent of Wacker Tirol into the Bundesliga took only two years from formation, with promotion to the top division achieved in 2004. This was possible because the club made an alliance with 3rd league club Wattens and thus avoided starting in the bottom league. After finishing first in Regionalliga West (2002–03), Wacker advanced to Red Zac Erste Liga, and only a season later (2003–04) was promoted to Bundesliga.

FC Wacker Tirol finished 6th out of 10 in their first Bundesliga season (2004/05) and 7th in their second (2005/06). In 2006–07 the Tyroleans avoided relegation only because Grazer AK went into administration and was docked 28 points as a result. One year later (2008) the club, now named FC Wacker Innsbruck, finished last and was relegated to the Austrian Football Second League.

After finishing runner-up in the 2008–09 season, FC Wacker Innsbruck won promotion back to the Austrian Bundesliga in 2010 in a tight run. About 5000 Tyrolean supporters had travelled to the final away game on 28 May 2010 in Pasching against Red Bull Juniors, which FC Wacker Innsbruck won 2–0.

As in 2004–05, FC Wacker Innsbruck finished their first Bundesliga season (2010/11) again 6th and then 7th in 2011–12 when they had been close to the Europa League spots for much of the season. After a disastrous start into the 2012–13 season (ten losses in eleven matches) it seemed unlikely that the club could avoid relegation. In a dramatic season finale against relegation which involved four teams, FC Wacker Innsbruck on 26 May 2013 managed to turn a 0–2 against Wolfsberger AC into a 3–2 victory within 10 minutes and, thanks to this miracle of Wolfsberg stayed in the league. With one-year delay FC Wacker Innsbruck finishing last in 2013/14, 8 points behind FC Admira Wacker Mödling which even had been docked 5 points due to financial problems.

In 2014/15 Wacker Innsbruck played in the First League but failed to gain promotion. Consequently, FC Wacker Innsbruck start the 2015/16 season on the First League. FC Wacker Innsbruck start the 2018/19 season on the First League.

Current squad

As of 3 January 2021

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	Lukas Wedl
2	DF	AUT	Felix Köchl
3	DF	AUT	Markus Wostry
4	DF	AUT	Şefik Abalı
5	DF	AUT	Darijo Grujčić
6	MF	AUT	Robert Martić
7	FW	AUT	Florian Jamnig
8	MF	GUI	Karim Conté
9	MF	TUR	Okan Aydın
10	FW	AUT	Alexander Gründler
11	MF	AUT	Markus Wallner
13	GK	AUT	Alexander Eckmayr
14	DF	AUT	Lukas Hupfauf
16	DF	AUT	Alexander Joppich
17	MF	AUT	Raphael Gallé
18	DF	AUT	Stefan Meusburger

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
19	DF	AUT	Thomas Kofler
20	MF	GER	Fabio Viteritti
21	MF	AUT	Denizcan Cosgun
22	DF	AUT	Florian Kopp
23	MF	AUT	Rami Tekir
24	MF	JPN	Atsushi Zaizen
26	DF	GER	Merchas Doski
27	FW	AUT	Felix Mandl
28	MF	AUT	Clemens Hubmann
29	MF	AUT	Tizian-Valentino Scharmer
31	MF	GER	Marco Holz
35	MF	BIH	Anel Hadžić
37	FW	AUT	Lukas Fridrikas
77	MF	BRA	João Luiz
80	GK	AUT	Marco Knaller
99	FW	BRA	Ronivaldo

Staff

• Manager: Thomas Grumser
• Assistant coach: Thomas Perstaller
• Assistant coach: Daniel Wilson
• Conditioning coach: Elias Braunhofer
• Conditioning coach: Dario Müller
• Goalkeeper coach: Dominik Bichler

Seasons

Season	League	Place	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Notes
2002–03	Fußball-Regionalliga (III)	1	26	2	2	101	17	80	Alliance with WSG Wattens
2003–04	Erste Liga (II)	1	22	6	8	65	44	72
2004–05	Bundesliga (I)	6	11	11	14	48	48	44
2005–06	Bundesliga	7	10	12	14	44	55	42
2006–07	Bundesliga	9	8	10	18	40	64	34	avoided relegation only because of bankrupt GAK
2007–08	Bundesliga	10	6	11	19	32	63	29
2008–09	Erste Liga (II)	2	18	8	7	65	44	62
2009–10	Erste Liga	1	21	6	6	67	26	69
2010–11	Bundesliga (I)	6	13	11	12	43	42	50
2011–12	Bundesliga	7	10	15	11	36	45	45
2012–13	Bundesliga	8	11	3	22	41	75	36
2013–14	Bundesliga	10	5	14	17	42	70	29
2014–15	Erste Liga	6	11	10	15	32	43	43
2015–16	Erste Liga	3	17	8	11	61	47	59
Green marks a season followed by promotion, red a season followed by relegation.

Managers

Further information: FC Wacker Innsbruck § Managers

Further information: FC Swarovski Tirol § Manager history

Further information: FC Tirol Innsbruck § Manager history

• Michael Streiter (1 July 2002 – 30 June 2003)
• Helmut Kraft (1 June 2003 – 9 November 2004)
• Stanislav Cherchesov (10 Nov 2004 – 31 May 2006)
• František Straka (1 June 2006 – 19 April 2007)
• Klaus Vogler (interim) (20 April 2007 – 30 June 2007)
• Lars Søndergaard (1 July 2007 – 22 October 2007)
• Helmut Kraft (22 Oct 2007 – 30 April 2008)
• Walter Kogler (1 June 2008 – 10 October 2012)
• Werner Löberbauer (interim) (10 Oct 2012 – 16 October 2012)
• Roland Kirchler (16 Oct 2012 – 16 December 2013)
• Florian Klausner (interim) (16 Dec 2013 – 18 December 2013)
• Michael Streiter (27 Dec 2013 – 22 October 2014)
• Florian Klausner (interim) (22 Oct 2014 – 25 November 2014)
• Klaus Schmidt (25 Nov 2014 – 21 May 2016)
• Andreas Schrott (interim) (21 May 2016 – 26 June 2016)
• Maurizio Jacobacci (27 June 2016 –2017)

External links

• (in German) Official website