SK Austria Klagenfurt (2007)

Austria Klagenfurt

Full name	Sportklub Austria Klagenfurt
Founded	1920 (1920) 2007 (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

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

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 and it had merged with SC St. Stefan. SK Austria Klagenfurt plays its home matches at the Hypo Group Arena. 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 7 July, 2023

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
7	MF	AUT	Florian Jaritz
8	MF	GRE	Kosmas Gezos
9	FW	AUT	Nicolas Binder
10	MF	GER	Sinan Karweina
11	FW	USA	Sebastian Soto
13	GK	GER	Phillip Menzel
14	MF	AUT	Christopher Cvetko
16	MF	GER	Iba May
17	DF	ITA	Simon Straudi
18	MF	GER	Moritz Berg

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
19	MF	SCO	Andy Irving
20	MF	GER	Rico Benatelli
24	MF	AUT	Christopher Wernitznig
26	FW	CAN	Matthew Durrans
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
45	FW	AUT	Patrick Hasenhüttl
81	MF	TUR	Turgay Gemicibaşi
92	MF	AUT	Fabio Markelic

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

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player

Staff

As of 22 October 2021

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

• Walter Schoppitsch (2010–2011)
• Rudolf Perz (2011)
• Dietmar Thuller (2011–2012)
• Günther Gorenzel-Simonitsch (2012)
• Bruno Friesenbichler (2012–2013)
• Heimo Vorderegger (2013)
• Jože Prelogar (2013–2014)
• Alexander Suppantschitsch (2014)
• Manfred Bender (2014–2016)
• Gerhard Fellner (2016–2017)
• Franz Polanz (2017–2018)
• Robert Micheu (2018–2020)
• Peter Pacult (2020–)

External links

• Official website (in German)