ASK Ybbs

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ASK Ybbs
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Basic data
Surname Ybbs General Sports Club
Seat Ybbs on the Danube
founding 1929
Colours Black-and-white
Website fussball.askybbs.at
First soccer team
Venue Wüsterstrom Arena
Places 3000
league 2nd State League West
2018/19 5th place
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The ASK Ybbs (General Sports Club Ybbs) is a sports club from the Lower Austrian town of Ybbs on the Danube , which has sections for football and tennis . The flagship has always been the soccer section, which was one of the leading soccer clubs in Lower Austria in the early 1990s. The team is currently playing in the 2. Landesliga West, the fifth highest division in Austria. From 1989 to 1994 the club played in the Regionalliga Ost, the third highest division in Austria.

history

ASK Ybbs was founded in 1929. In 1933 the club first took part in the championship of the Lower Austrian Football Association. Behind Pöchlarn , Ybbs immediately took second place. The ASK Ybbs became champions for the first time in the following season. Despite a 4-1 defeat in the last round against Waidhofen, the club won the Ybbstal class, but refrained from promotion for financial reasons. The second championship title followed in 1936/37, this time the club management decided to move up to 1st class west. There, ASK Ybbs finished last in its debut season without a win. After Austria was annexed to the German Reich , the ASK Ybbs was dissolved on September 11, 1938 and incorporated into the German gymnastics and sports community as a football group.

The association was re-established immediately after the end of the Second World War . In the first friendly game after the war, Ybbs won 14-0 against Grein . In the spring of 1946 , Ybbs started again in the championship, which was successfully concluded with the third championship title in the club's history. For seven years, the club played in the first class West, before the championship title was retracted in the 1952/53 season and the club rose to the II. League West for the first time. After six seasons in the II. League West, the club rose in 1959 in the 1st class Ybbstal. In the next ten years, ASK Ybbs played in the 1st class, until 1969/70 the promotion to the lower league West-Waldviertel followed. There, with the exception of the 1973/74 season, the black and whites always established themselves in the top field. In the 1975/76 season Ybbs fought with the ASK Amstetten for the championship title. Although Ybbs lost this fight, but due to a league reform, the ASK Ybbs played from the summer of 1976 in the newly created Oberliga West. In 1980 the ASK Ybbs landed one point behind Melk in second place and rose again through a league reform to the 2nd national league. In the summer of 1980 the Austrian national soccer team made a guest appearance in Ybbs and won 17-1 in front of 3,500 visitors. Star striker Hans Krankl scored seven goals. In 1983 ASK Ybbs rose together with SC Zwettl as runner-up in the 1st regional league, the third highest league in Austria at the time, and mutated into a crowd-puller. 1,000 visitors and more were not uncommon in the Danube Stadium. After finishing ninth in the first year, Ybbs landed in 1985 in 12th place due to a long list of injuries and barely escaped relegation. From then on it went up again. Ybbs was in the 1988/89 season champion in the 1st regional league and rose to the 1985 re-introduced Regionalliga Ost. Eight new signings followed, but the ASK was without a point after two rounds in the Regionalliga. With a 2-1 win against the Favoritner AC , Ybbs started his run of success, which brought the ASK to second place behind the Turf players Donaufeld . The Ybbs lost the championship title in the Danube Stadium at home. In front of 3,000 visitors, the ASK lost the direct duel 0: 3, making promotion to the 2nd division a long way off. A sixth place in the 1990/91 season was followed by fourth place in 1991/92. In 1991 ASK Ybbs defeated the Wiener Sport-Club in the ÖFB Cup with goals from Kurt Buschenreithner and Ernst Ursprunger 2-0. In the 1993/94 season, the soaring of ASK Ybbs came to an end and the club was relegated to the 1st regional league.

As a result of an extension at the clubhouse and the regional league adventure, ASK Ybbs had fallen into serious debt. In addition, the main sponsor Pegasus went bankrupt and the municipality of Ybbs was in increasingly poor financial position. The spiral began to turn faster and faster, just like the coaching carousel and the once feared Danube Stadium lost its horror more and more. In 1996/97 ASK Ybbs also had to say goodbye to the 1st regional league. In the 2nd regional league, the club was promptly passed down to the regional league in the first year. There, with a seventh place, some hope grew again. But this was already suffocated in the second season 1999/2000. Only five points and 100 goals were the result of numerous players leaving before the season. Ten years after the club had played for promotion to the second highest division, the ASK Ybbs saw themselves in the second lowest division, 1st class West. With the floods in 2002, which caused severe damage to the clubhouse and sports facilities, the financial collapse was finally given. In 2003 ASK Ybbs had hit rock bottom in terms of sport and economy - in 2nd class Mostviertel with a mountain of debt of almost 90,000 euros. With the purchase of the clubhouse in December 2003, the city of Ybbs paid off the debt and thus laid the foundation for a new beginning. After three years in the lowest division, he was promoted back to 1st class West in 2006 with player-coach Christian Haabs. Two years later, the club rose as champions in the regional league West, in which the new championship title was immediately achieved.

In the 2. Landesliga West, the grapes were a little too high for Ybbs. Only eight points were scored in the fall and the relegation was practically sealed. Third place in the spring table was no longer enough for the Ybbsern to stay up and the club had to compete in the regional league West again in the 2010/11 season, where ninth place was reached. After reaching the runner-up title in the 2011/12 season, the club only narrowly escaped relegation the following year. In 2015/2016 the ASK achieved something historic. The ASK Ybbs was with a record point and an unbeaten season of superior champions in the area league West. The following year the ASK was also in the 2nd LL West champion and the flight continued. The Ybbs are currently fighting in the spring season for the march through to the 1st regional league of Lower Austria.

Stadion

The club plays its home games in the Donaustadion in Ybbs. The club has been playing at this location since the club was founded. In 1938 the course was rebuilt for the first time and was given a running track and other athletics facilities. After the facility was devastated by the flood disaster in 1954, a new facility was built by the summer of 1955. In 1966, after two years of construction, which was interrupted by another severe flood, the expansion of the Danube Stadium was completed. The square was given a grandstand with seating for 500 spectators and a new clubhouse which, with an extension, still houses the secretariat, changing rooms, a canteen and dressing rooms and utensils. For the 50th anniversary in 1979, the Danube Stadium received a second, this time covered, seating grandstand. The Danube Stadium can now accommodate around 3,000 spectators. In 2017 the Danube Stadium was renamed and has been called Wüsterstrom Arena since then.

Umpires

  • 1929–1932: Erhard Lanner
  • 1933–1935: Josef Birglechner
  • 1936–1945: Karl Steiner
  • 1946: 2000Alfons Winkel
  • 1946–1949: Fritz Laber
  • 1950–1952: Josef Podrazil
  • 1953: 1954Alois Geyrecker
  • 1954–1957: Karl Schmatz
  • 1958–1964: Hans Satlberger
  • 1964–1988: Johann Edelmann
  • 1988-2004: Karl Sekanina
  • 2004 – today: Christian Eplinger

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successes

  • Lower Austrian regional champion : 1989
  • Vice champion of the Regionalliga Ost: 1989/90
  • Champion 2nd class Alpine foothills: 2005/06
  • Champion 1st class west: 2007/08
  • Champion Regional League West: 2008/09, 2015/16

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