Graz AK
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Grazer Athletiksport-Klub-Stammverein in short: GAK-Stammverein |
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| Club colors | Red White |
| Founded | July 14, 1902 Reconstruction: November 3, 1945 |
| Association headquarters | Graz |
| Departments | Football, tennis, diving, basketball |
| Chairman | Michael Ruckenstuhl |
| Umbrella organization | General Sports Association of Austria (ASVÖ) |
| ZVR number | 768300052 |
| Homepage | gak-stammverein.at |
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GAK 1902, Graz Athletic Sports Club Football for short: GAK 1902 |
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| Seat | Graz , Austria | ||
| founding | August 18, 1902 1st football training October 30, 2012 Game operations ceased December 20, 2012 Re-establishment |
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| Colours | Red White | ||
| Board | René Ziesler | ||
| ZVR number | 805567199 | ||
| Website | grazerak.at | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Gernot Plassnegger | ||
| Venue | Mercury Arena | ||
| Places | 16,364 | ||
| league | 2nd league | ||
| 2019/20 | 15th place | ||
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Grazer Athletiksport-Klub Juniors in short: GAK-Juniors |
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| Club colors | Red White |
| Founded | October 29, 2012 2012 Admission to the parent club |
| Venue | Sports center Graz-Weinzödl |
| Association headquarters | Graz , Austria |
| Chairman | Andrea Ohersthaller |
| ZVR number | 153434814 |
| Homepage | gak-juniors.at |
The Grazer Athletiksport-Klub ( GAK for short ) is a Graz sports club . It was founded in 1902 as a football club . Through this sport, he gained international and, above all, national recognition in tennis, athletics and swimming. With the football club, an all-round sports club quickly emerged through further sections , which in the course of its history had championship successes in a total of 12 sports.
Current club structure
Until 1975/77 all sections were managed directly by the parent club. Then they were spun off into individual associations; Since then, the parent club has only had an administrative function and bears the naming rights.
“ The club is a branch of the Grazer Athletiksport-Klub-Stammverein with its own legal personality. The statutes of the GAK parent association are the basis of the statutes of the branch association. [...] The members are also members of the GAK parent association. "
“ [The] branch clubs are incorporated into the club, but legally independent. [...] Ordinary members, that is automatically the full members of the affiliated branch associations, which have the name GAK in their association name. "
At the moment there are the following clubs that are allowed to use the name GAK on the basis of license agreements of the parent club:
- Graz athletic sports club tennis, GAK tennis for short
- (ZVR number: 390954616, July 16, 1975), tennis has been practiced since 1902/03
- GAK 1902, Grazer Athletiksport-Klub-Fußball, GAK 1902 for short
- (ZVR number: 805567199, December 20, 2012), incorporated into the parent club on March 14, 2014
- Graz Athletics Sports Club Juniors, GAK Juniors for short
- (ZVR number: 153434814, October 29, 2012), integrated into the parent club in 2012
- Grazer Athletiksport-Klub Kangaroos-Klub, GAK-Kangaroos for short or GAK-Basketball
- (ZVR number: 431747526, March 23, 1977), basketball has been practiced since 1950
- Grazer Athletic Sports Club Diving shortly GAK-Diving or GAK-Diving
- (ZVR number: 957751564, March 2, 1994 - until then apparently the only active section of the parent association), operated since 1911
The GAK, Grazer Athletiksport-Klub-Fußball , GAK for short or GAK-Fußbal l (ZVR number: 467034528, March 7, 1977), whose game operations have ceased due to bankruptcy since October 30, 2012, will have the status of an independent branch club in 2020 of the parent club lost.
History of the GAK football section or the football branch clubs
1902–1944: Background, founding myth, series champion & first national title
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In 1893, the medical student Georg-August Wagner brought football from Prague to Graz . A group of all-round athletes (gymnasts, cyclists and mountaineers) from the Techniker Alpenklub , who studied in Graz, enjoyed football. In the course of this development, the first football game according to association rules in the area of today's Austria took place in Graz in March 1894 on the area of the state gymnasium in Graz city park , which still exists today (according to the latest findings, this date does not stand up to the source criticism, it should probably on July 7, 1895). Although the population showed little or no understanding of this new sport, football gradually found acceptance among middle school students and "street teams" formed. In order not to cause annoyance to the teachers, the middle school students even used aliases for the newspaper reports.
When in 1902 a group of middle school students around Carl Markel wanted to join the Academic Sports Club (ASV) as football players, there were disagreements on the part of the academics. A comparison game followed, which the students most likely won 4-1 against an ASV junior team. As a result, the students wanted to join the ASV. However, the statutes of the ASV only allowed students or academics to join. Therefore, the establishment of its own club - the Graz Athletics Sports Club - was tackled. The first statutes for an all-round sports club were formulated as early as Easter 1902 and submitted to the Lieutenancy by a proponent committee on June 20, 1902. On August 18, 1902 - on the birthday of Emperor Franz Joseph I , the highest holiday of the time - the first official training of the new club took place. The model for naming the Graz Athletic Sports Club (the “K” was still spelled as a “C” at the time) was the Vienna Athletic Sports Club .
“ In 1902, on August 9th, the foundation stone for the Graz all-round sports club was laid, with the Viennese athletic sports club, which was the leading all-round club in Austria at the time, served as a model. That is why we have chosen the name Grazer Athletiksportklub. [...] When a large meadow was found in Körösistraße, the negotiations for the acquisition of this space for the expansion of our sports facility soon came to a favorable conclusion, whereby my mother, Anna Markel, showed herself as a noble godmother and took down the lease continued to support us financially. The first soccer game against a foreign opponent on our pitch in the Körösistraße we played against the soccer club Ödenburg, which was defeated 4: 1. The well-known Graz cyclist Franz Seeger founded a cycling section, later followed by sections for athletics, swimming, fencing and winter sports, but the first ping-pong tournament in Graz was also held in 1903 by the GAK. We were far superior to all Styrian clubs at the time, and it wasn't until after the First World War that an equal rival in football emerged in the Sturm sports club. "
The constituent meeting took place on July 21st and the non-prohibition by the Imperial and Royal Lieutenancy took place on July 14th, 1902. August 18th, 1902 thus remains a myth, which of course for decades, mainly due to the anniversary publication “25 Years of GAK “1927, until the present day it is popular.
| The club founders: |
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| Anton Blaschek |
| Robert Brodner |
| Rudolf Brodner |
| Franz Egger |
| Cornelius Hoffer |
| Fritz Koehler |
| August Maggi |
| Albert Maresch |
| Carl Ludwig Markel |
| Raimund Novak |
| Max Pfeiffer |
| Franz Seeger |
| Fritz Schmiderer |
| Franz Schreiner |
| Julius Stanger |
| Rudolf Stanger |
| Fritz Starkel |
An area between Körösistraße and Mur in the Geidorf district (the “Hauptmühlwiese”) was chosen as the club's place , which was to be home for the next 103 years. The owner was the Older Grazer Bäcker-Mühlenkonsortium. The GAK-Platz (later GAK Casino Stadium ) was found. The game was initially against the opponents from ASV. The first international comparison match took place at their own home ground against FC Ödenburg (GAK 4-1 success). In 1905 and 1906, the London Pilgrims were the first to be visited by the football motherland. The course was adapted over time for the athletic competitions; u. a. In 1913 an electrical timekeeping system was installed, and a wooden stand was also built on the eastern part of the square, which was only replaced by a new building in 1969. The facilities for the tennis section were also built during this time. Today the traditional area of the tennis section, which has been expanded to include a tennis hall since 1986, is still in use.
In 1911 the GAK was one of the founding members of the German-Alpine Football Association (today's Styrian Football Association ) and, with Eduard Krodemansch, also appointed the first chairman, later a. a. Albert Gaischegg, Hermann Krauth and Franz Ircher (1934–1938, 1949–1951). The first major test of the club was the First World War, as a result of which the sports operations were largely suspended and it was feared that their own sports facility would also be used for other purposes. Roman Posch later reported anecdotally on the events of the 25th anniversary of the association:
" [...] I was pleased with the positive success that our returnees found their old, beloved place of peaceful sports fighting almost unchanged. But I was even more delighted with the upswing in football after the war, which brought thousands of spectators to the field that had never been seen before and only dreamed of in the peace years. "
Initially, the Graz (Autumn) Fair Cup (1906–1911, 1913, 1914, 1924, 1925), which the athletes won four times, was the most important competition. Championship operation in today's sense only existed for second-class clubs (1912 to 1914 and 1919) before the first Styrian championship (usually referred to as 1st class) was introduced in 1920/21 , whereby the first three events were still unofficial and the teams came more or less from Graz and the surrounding area. Only from 1923/24 there was a championship for all of Styria (1925 to 1928 as an annual championship).
| The Graz (Autumn) Fair Cup 1906 to 1914, 1924, 1925: | ||
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| 1906 | 1. | Final against GAK II 8: 1 |
| 1907 | 2. | Final against Wr. Sports club II 2: 5 |
| 1908 | 2. | Final against Germania Schwechat 0-2 |
| 1909 | 3. | Semifinals against GSV 2: 3 |
| 1910 | 2. | Final against GSV 1: 2 |
| 1911 | 1. | Final against DAC Eiche Cilli 5-0 |
| 1912 | - | no event |
| 1913 | 1. | Final against 1. SC Wr. Neustadt 14: 1 - the GAK received the trophy donated by the fair after their 3rd victory |
| 1914 | ? | possibly canceled due to the outbreak of World War I. |
| 1924 | 3. | |
| 1925 | 1. | Final against SK Sturm Graz 2: 1 |
In the years 1922, 1924 and between 1926 and 1933 the GAK was each Styrian champion. With the national league title 2017/18, the GAK is the record champion with 11 championships ex aequo. In 1929, 1932 and 1933, the Austrian amateur state champion brought the first national title to Styria and is the record champion of this first Austria-wide soccer competition. The club received national attention from the young goalkeeper Rudi Hiden . In 1927 he moved from GAK to the former namesake and former top club Wiener AC . He became the first ÖFB national player from Styria and shortly afterwards the goalkeeper of the wonder team .
| The finals for the Austrian amateur state championship in 1929, 1931 to 1933: | |||||
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| year | Austrian amateur champion | Vice amateur champion or finalist | Game 1 | Game 2 | |
| 1929 | GAK | - | FC Lustenau 07 | 2: 2 | 3-0 |
| 1931 | LASK | - | GAK | 1: 1 | 2: 1 |
| 1932 | GAK | - | LASK | 2-0 | 4: 2 |
| 1933 | GAK | - | FC Lustenau 07 | 3: 1 | 4: 2 |
The Rotjacken were a welcome guest abroad very early on, and in total there were a good 150 friendly matches up to 1945, but there were also repeated foreign tours in the post-war period. This era only came to an end in the 1970s. Already in 1914 the first big trip led to Split , in the 1920s and 30s a. a. to Italy, the Balkans, North Africa, Poland. In 1954 there was a big tour of the Far East, albeit with the drop of value of the serious injury to Stefan Kölly , who then had to end his career. Other goals included a. the British Isles, Israel, Algeria or Sudan. In 1927 four GAK players - Franz Nemschak, Otmar Keckstein, Konrad Reinthaler and Fritz Sartory - took part in the 2nd place of the Austrian team at the Universiade in Rome. Sartory, who had to retire due to a knee injury in the tournament, scored 4 goals in the game against Switzerland.
In the mid-1930s, however, the dominance of the Reds in Styrian football was over and the club had to be content with places in the front midfield of the Styrian league. In 1944 the game and championship operations had to be stopped because of the turmoil of the war . On the subject of anti-Semitism, the “Aryan” paragraph, the role in the Third Reich and the problems arising from it in the re-establishment after the end of the war, there are documents here that try to shed some light on this dark part of the club's history. Overall, the situation at a multi-discipline club was probably ambivalent. It is known that z. B. the handball players and athletes were more loyal to the regime than other sections. The publication provides information about the behavior of the GAK soccer section, first the club, then the party .
→ Main article: Championship placements 1920-1945
1945–1974: new beginning, golden years & forced relegation
After the re-establishment of the club after the end of the war, the game was resumed and was quickly able to work its way up to the top Austrian league, the then League A, by 1951 . In the first season, the GAK was the sixth best national team behind the major Viennese clubs. In 1952, with Stefan Kölly and Paul Halla , the club was the first to play for the Austrian national football team after 1945. As a result, the club established itself in the top division. In 1962 the cup final was reached for the first time , but in which one was defeated by Vienna Austria . The reward, however, was for the first time as a club outside Vienna to be eligible to play in the Europa Cup. In the European Cup of Cup winners (Austria Wien was also champion and therefore competed in the championship cup ) you were kicked out of the competition in the first round by the Danish representative B 1909 Odense .
| The Cup finals 1962 and 1968: |
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Cup final 1962 : May 30, 1962, Vienna, Prater Stadium , 9,000 spectators
FK Austria Vienna - GAK 4: 1 |
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Cup final 1968 : May 23, 1968, Vienna, Praterstadion , 7,200 spectators
SK Rapid Vienna - GAK 2: 0 Rapid line-up : Gerald Fuchsbichler, Walter Gebhardt , Walter Glechner , Erich Fak, Walter Skocik , Ewald Ullmann, Anton Fritsch, List of GAK: Gerfried Hodschar, Gerald Erkinger, Erich Frisch, Johann Klug, Erwin Ninaus, Heinz Schilcher , Walter Koleznik , Goals: Fritsch, Kaltenbrunner (FE) |
In 1963 a “sensational transfer” was landed when the idol of Egyptian football, Saleh Selim , was signed for the spring season. In the same year, Wilhelm Huberts, a former athlete, was the first Austrian to take part in the German Bundesliga . When they first took part in the Messestädte-Cup , they were eliminated in 1965 against NK Zagreb . In 1968 the second entry into the cup final followed, in which there was a defeat against Rapid . As in 1962, the GAK was still entitled to participate in the cup winners' competition, in which it failed at the Dutch title holder ADO Den Haag with trainer Ernst Happel . In 1973, 3rd place in the top division, now known as the national league, was the best placement in the club's history and at the same time the UEFA Cup for the first time. There was a narrow first round elimination against Panachaiki Patras . In 1974 the forced relegation to the second division followed after the ÖFB had decided on the Bundesliga with ten participants, to which only one club from each federal state was admitted in addition to the two major Viennese clubs. The GAK rose as a second division champion immediately.
→ Main article: Championship placements 1946-1974
1975–1994: Bundesliga, first cup win, return to his own place and relegation again
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So in 1975 a new attempt was made in the House of Lords. In 1976 there was an initial, great success in another area. The GAK juniors became Austrian champions under the leadership of the legendary Alfred Kleissner (GAK youth trainer and manager since 1952) and Alfred Kutschera, head of the GAK youth department from 1964 to 1986. Incidentally, the match winner of the final was Werner Gregoritsch , later a successful GAK head coach and Austrian U21 team manager. In the squad was u. a. also Gerhard Steinkogler , who moved to Werder Bremen in 1979 and brought in the largest transfer proceeds in Austria to date with 5.5 million schillings. Steinkogler switched back to the Austrian Bundesliga ( Austria Wien , SSW Innsbruck , Vienna ) after a disappointing time in Bremen, and between 1983 and 1986 he played again for his parent club.
Based on the Viennese model, a Christmas indoor tournament was held in the ice rink in Graz-Liebenau in 1976 and then from 1978 to 2005 (the last two events then took place in the Graz city hall). The red jackets made it into the final 11 times and remained victorious five times. As early as 1964 there was a first tournament in the then new Union Hall that the GAK was also able to win. In 1984 the GAK came second at the Austrian Indoor Championships and in 1999 third at the Austrian Indoor Cup.
In the Bundesliga, after a few mixed years, they were right at the front at the end of 1979, and the runner-up title in 1980 was only just missed. The first big success in professional football followed in 1981: After defeating SV Chemie Linz , FK Austria Wien , SK Rapid Wien and FC Wacker Innsbruck in the cup competition, the GAK won the cup final against Austria Salzburg and was the first Styrian club to stand up was able to pin a national title in professional football on the flag. In the European Cup of Cup winners they took part for the first time as a “real” title holder, but the red jackets had no chance against the defending champion Dinamo Tbilisi (the away game was played in front of 70,000 spectators). In 1982 they reached a third place again, but were eliminated again in the first round against the Romanian representative from Hunedoara.
In 1986 they returned to their own seat, with a new clubhouse and a new south stand for 3,000 standing places and business boxes. For this purpose, the existing west stand (on the Mur side) was expanded to include a standing area and a training area was built behind the north gate. However, the chapter of the " Casino Stadium GAK " was already over in 1997.
In 1990 the GAK rose again from the upper house, this time they stayed in the second division for five seasons.
→ Main article: Championship placements 1975-1994
1995–2006: Promotion, youth work & great successes
In 1995, as champions of the 2nd Bundesliga, they took part in the 1st Bundesliga again, and as a climber they secured a UEFA Cup place with fourth place. This time they survived the first round (2nd qualifying round) for the first time and also threw their opponents out of the competition in the first main round in order to be confronted with a major European club football club and eventual finalist Inter Milan . The GAK was narrowly eliminated, but had caused a sensation and reported back with this event. In addition, the young goalkeeper Alexander Manninger was so convincing in the duels against the Italians that he succeeded in what Rudi Hiden , one of his predecessors, had failed in the early 1930s: a transfer to Arsenal FC and the first Austrian in the top English division. In 1997, the GAK was the first position as head coach for the 1990 world champion and previous assistant coach of FC Bayern Munich , Klaus Augenthaler . In 1998 and 1999, Augenthaler took third place. Participation in the European Cup became a regular occurrence. In 2000 the GAK was again cup winner (again against the then Austria Salzburg); for the first time you could also bring the Supercup (against the reigning champions FC Tirol ) to Graz.
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Cup final : May 16, 2000, Ernst Happel Stadium
GAK - SV Austria Salzburg 4: 3 (2: 1, 2: 2, 2: 2) i. E. Supercup finals : June 30, 2000, Innsbruck Tivoli , 5,600 spectators FC Tirol Innsbruck - GAK 0: 2 (0: 2) |
2001 was the club - besides Austria Wien and Admira Wacker - for its youth education (cooperation with the HIB Liebenau) the Academy status. Some well-known players, also active in the German Bundesliga, come from this cadre forge or the youth department, such as B. Zlatko Junuzović (1999–2007), Michael Gregoritsch (2000–2008), Marcel Sabitzer (2001–2008), Valentino Lazaro (2002–2011) and Sergej Milinkovic-Savic (2002–2006). Between 1989 and 1996 there was already a Federal Youth Center (BNZ) under the umbrella of the GAK. From its foundation in 1989 to 1996 and from 2000 to 2007 and 2009, the GAK was part of the ÖFB-Toto-Jugendliga (today: ÖFB-Jugendliga ). After the forced relegation to the 3rd division, the club lost its academy status. The academy itself was then continued as an independent association and today functions as the “Styrian Football Academy” under the leadership of SK Sturm. In addition, between 1995 and 2012 a second combat team, the GAK-Amateure, from 1997 to 2003 in cooperation with the Eggenberger Sportklub (ESK), was led. a. won two runner-up titles in the regional league (1997, 2006). Already in the 1973/74 season there was a second combat team in the fifth-class regional league, which immediately rose to the lower league (and played there for a year out of competition). Between 1985 and 1990 there was a cooperation team (regional league) with FC Graz and from 1991 to 1993 there was a cooperation with Flavia Solva . Since 2015/16 there has been a second combat team again and from 2020 for the first time a third combat team (led by the GAK Juniors ) in championship operations.
→ Overview: championship placements of the ÖFB youth league and other combat teams
On the 100th anniversary of the club in 2002, they were again cup and Supercup winners. Incidentally, it was celebrated with a friendly against Real Madrid . In the fall, Walter Schachner was hired as a trainer. The Upper Styrian led the team from last place into the upper table region and finally to the first runner-up title. In the third Champions League qualifying round for entry into the group stage in 2003, the red jackets only narrowly failed at Ajax Amsterdam .
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July 6, 2002 , Graz-Liebenau stadium , 12,500 spectators
SK Sturm Graz - GAK 0: 3 (0: 1) |
The GAK finally became Austrian football champions for the first time in 2004 . In addition, they won the Austrian Cup for the fourth time , so they also won the double. Roland Kollmann was also the top scorer this year with 27 goals, after Ronald Brunmayr won the top scorer with 27 goals the year before .
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Cup final : May 23, 2004, Wals-Siezenheim stadium , 7,900 spectators
GAK - FK Austria Wien 5: 4 i. E. (0: 1) (2: 2) (3: 3) |
| The final of the ÖFB Cup was held on May 23, 2004 in front of 7900 spectators in the Wals-Siezenheim stadium. The Graz athletes won after a dramatic 120 minutes of playing time (after 90 minutes 2: 2, after 120 minutes 3: 3) against Vienna Austria on penalties with 5: 4.
The goal sequence in the 120 minutes: 0: 1 Radoslav Gilewicz (28 min.), 1: 1 Mario Bazina (45 min.), 1: 2 Sean Dundee (64 min.), 2: 2 Roland Kollmann (86 min.) , 2: 3 Radoslav Gilewicz (99 min.), 3: 3 Renè Aufhauser (106 min.). On penalties, Samir Muratovic scores 1: 0, Frank Verlaat scores 1: 1, Joachim Standfest scores 2: 1, Thomas Flögel scores 2: 2, Emanuel Pogatetz scores 3: 3, Radoslav Gilewicz scores, 4: 3 Roland Kollmann scores, 4: 4 Vladimir Janocko scores, 5: 4 Nikola Milinković scores, 5: 4 Franz Almer can save Sean Dundee's penalty and the GAK wins the trophy for the fourth time |
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Supercup finals : September 7, 2004, Graz-Liebenau stadium , 7,100 spectators
GAK - FK Austria Wien 1: 1 (1: 0), 1: 1 n.V. , 2: 4 i. E. |
The redjackets achieved their greatest international success in their championship year qualifying for the 2004 UEFA Champions League at Anfield Road . After a 2-0 home defeat in Graz, the away game against Liverpool FC was won 1-0 by a goal from Mario Tokić . The GAK was the first and by summer 2010 (UEFA Cup, Aston Villa - Rapid Vienna 2: 3) also the only Austrian team to win an away game against an English team in a European competition. The away win at an English club is still unique for matches in the UEFA Champions League. It would also be the only home defeat for the eventual 2004/05 UEFA Champions League winners in that competition.
On January 9, 2006, successful coach Walter Schachner was given leave of absence by the then President Harald Sükar , and Schachner soon became the coach of TSV 1860 Munich . He was succeeded by the former coach of Austria Wien and SV Austria Salzburg , Lars Søndergaard . In the 2005/06 season you missed participation in one of the European competitions for the first time since 1996/97.
→ Main article: Championship placements 1995-2006
2007–2012: Existential crisis & forced relegation into the third class
On March 2, 2007, the GAK filed for bankruptcy with the Graz Commercial Court, the association put its total debt at 15.2 million euros.
With a penalty of 28 points due to violations of license rules and non-compliance with payment agreements during the 2006/07 spring season, the relegation to the 2nd level could not be averted, according to sporting criteria, FC Wacker Tirol would have been relegated. The club was economically saved from liquidation for the time being by accepting a compulsory compensation application with a 20 percent quota.
After the license application for the 2007/08 season in the second-rate first division was denied in all instances, the GAK was forced to compete in the third-rate regional league middle . This season you had to deny due to the tense economic season mainly with players from their own offspring; one reached the 3rd place with a strongly rejuvenated team.
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In spring 2008, the club had to file for bankruptcy again, which was closed again on September 19, 2008 with a compulsory settlement. In the 2008/09 season, the Reds were defeated by TSV Hartberg in the title race of the Regionalliga Mitte when they were tied with a goal difference two goals less. After remaining undefeated throughout the spring, they defeated the previous table leaders from Hartberg on the penultimate matchday. In front of 7,500 spectators, which means a record number of spectators in Austria's third division, the GAK won 2-0 to go into the last round with two goals ahead of the leaders. The title race was exciting until the end of the two games ( BW Linz - GAK and TSV Hartberg - SAK Klagenfurt ). Up to the 81st minute of the game, the Graz team were closer to winning the title when they led 2-0 in Linz, while TSV Hartberg also led 5-0 at home against Klagenfurt, but had a worse goal difference. The decision was made at the very end of both games, when Hartberger added one more goal and won 6-0, while Graz had to concede a goal shortly before the final whistle in the Upper Austrian capital.
After it became known in a general assembly on November 20, 2009 that the debts of the GAK amounted to 893,000 euros, the association was about to go bankrupt for the third time in three years. Four days later, on November 24, 2009, the Steiermärkischegebietskrankenkasse (GKK) filed for bankruptcy against the Grazer AK due to outstanding payments of around EUR 200,000; However, like the other two times before, the association was able to avoid liquidation by compulsory settlement.
As a result, many players left the club during the winter break and the squad was filled with young players from the second combat team. Still in the title fight in autumn, the significantly younger team reached 5th place at the end of the 2009/10 season. In the same table regions they were also in the first half of the 2010/11 season, until Peter Stöger was signed as the new coach in November . Under him, the team started a run and briefly sat at the top of the table. Only in the last laps did you lose your lead and the LASK Juniors became champions. The relegation place got the FC Blau-Weiß Linz , which also rose to the first division. In the following summer, the team was specifically strengthened and Aleš Čeh new coach. Right from the start, the Reds dominated the league and secured the championship title five rounds before the end: On matchday 25, they defeated Villacher SV 3-0 at home in front of 4,500 spectators to become champions with an 18-point lead. The GAK had thus qualified for the relegation and played on June 5th and 8th after the forced relegation of the LASK against the bottom of the table in the First League, TSV Hartberg , to return to Austrian professional football. At home, the UPC Arena, which was sold out with almost 15,000 spectators, was 0-0. Away they conceded the 0: 3 in the 76th minute, when supporters from the GAK sector stormed the field and caused the game to be abandoned. The game was rated 3-0 for Hartberg, so the promotion to Austrian professional football had failed.
→ Main article: Championship placements 2007 to 2012
Fourth bankruptcy petition and closure of gaming operations
On October 19, 2012, the association filed its fourth bankruptcy petition since 2007. The credit protection associations considered the chances of continuation to be low, the Alpenländischer Kreditorenverband (AKV) said that the GAK never had a structural adjustment to the requirements of a regional league club after the forced relegation to the regional league. Trustee Norbert Scherbaum, with the approval of the last GAK President Benedikt Bittman, submitted an application to the commercial court on October 30, 2012 after the second half of the continuing deposit was not paid. The professional operation had already been stopped the day before.
Eleven years after the start of the investigation, the Corruption Prosecutor's Office will decide in 2019 whether there will be charges against around 20 officials, including four ex-club presidents. The proceedings against four accused were dropped in November 2019. The bankruptcy proceedings against the "GAK, Grazer Athletiksport-Klub-Fußball" were concluded on November 5, 2019. On March 11, 2020 it will be announced that the proceedings against the former presidents Rudolf Roth , Harald Fischl and Stephan Sticher as well as against one of the auditors at the time have been discontinued. In a civil law proceeding, the tax office that had certified the association in 2006 as a positive continuation (which was a prerequisite for a state liability of 1.2 million euros), offered the state of Styria a settlement for 1.2 million euros at the beginning of 2020 accepted by the state government in April. At the time, liability became apparent in the bankruptcy proceedings that were initiated just four months later. According to the economic and corruption prosecutor's office, the criminal proceedings against Peter Svetits and a former employee are still pending.
2013-2018: New beginning as GAC & marching through from 8th to 3rd division
On December 20, 2012, in the course of the ongoing 4th insolvency proceedings over the "GAK, Grazer Athletiksport-Klub-Fußball", abbreviated to "GAK", the parallel club "GAK 2012, Grazer Athletiksport Klub für Fußball" (GAK 2012) for short Founding members Harald Fischl (at that time vice-president of GAK-Fußball), Piet Hoyos (then president of GAK-Fußball), Walter Koleznik and Martin Zwischenberger. At the GAK parent club, however, it was of the opinion that the branch clubs have been using the symbols "GAK" and / or "Grazer Athletiksport Klub" since their respective founding exclusively on the basis of licensing agreements, which is why the parent club had exclusive naming and trademark rights to the two before mentioned characters too. In addition, the parent club carried out trademark registrations for the "GAK" and "Grazer Athletiksport Klub" signs covering the area of activity planned by "GAK 2012".
The result was a cease and desist declaration sent by the lawyers of the GAK parent club, according to which the 4 founders Hoyos, Fischl, Koleznik and Zwischenberger undertake to refrain from using the symbols "GAK" and "Grazer Athletiksport Klub" with immediate effect. The "GAK Juniors", on the other hand, received the green light (more on this below).
The "GAK 2012" association was then renamed "GAC, Grazer Allgemeine Club für Fußball" (GAC) for short, and Piet Hoyos (President of GAK-Fußball) and Harald Rannegger (section head of GAK-Fußball in autumn 2008) at a general assembly ) elected to the stewards. On April 19, 2013, the application for admission to the Styrian regional association (StFV) was made; In a board meeting of the StFV on April 29, 2013, the decision to accept was made with the condition that a completed contract for a gaming venue must be submitted by June 20. When applying for admission, the GAC specified the sports center Körnerplatz as a possible venue.
After informal discussions between GAC officials with FC Gratkorn , Flavia Solva and SC Kalsdorf about a collaboration did not lead to any result, on April 30, 2013 Piet Hoyos, who announced several times, did not appoint a first class club chairman to want to be, his office as chairman of the GAC dormant and announced his resignation at the next general assembly. At the general assembly on June 4, 2013 Mag. Harald Rannegger took over the office of chairman of the GAC.
The GAC was finally accepted into the Styrian Football Association and played the championship in the 1st class middle A (8th league) in the 2013/14 season. After the end of the first half of the season, the club had just over 1,000 members (for comparison: there were around 600 members in 1997), 1,000 season tickets were sold and it was autumn champions. In an extraordinary general assembly on March 14, 2014, it was decided to include the GAC / GAK 1902 as an independent branch association in the GAK parent association.
As early as October 2012, committed parents and officials took an intermediate step to transfer the GAK youth to a new club: the Grazer Athletiksport-Klub-Juniors was incorporated into the parent club and in December 2012 was accepted into the Styrian Football Association. Thus, the young people could continue to participate in the championship. There is close cooperation between the GAK 1902 and the GAK Juniors; the GAK 1902 leads the youth teams from the U15 onwards.
On May 18, 2014, as GAK 1902, the championship title of 1st class middle A was finally fixed with a win in the away game in Mariatrost against SV Gemeinde Weinitzen . A year later, on May 16, 2015, in the 22nd round, four rounds before the end of the season, with a 5-1 home win against Tobelbad, the championship title in the regional league center and thus promotion to the lower league center was achieved. At the end of the 2015/16 season, the GAK 1902 rose to the fifth-class Oberliga Mitte-West. With the beginning of this season there is also a second combat team, which rose directly from the 1st class Middle A to the regional division middle and played there until the 2018/19 season.
On June 9, 2017, a 2-0 home game against SU Rebenland secured the championship title in the Oberliga Mitte-West and thus promotion to the Styrian regional league . This means that the GAK footballers have won at least one championship title in all possible divisions. In 2018 they won the national league championship, and with 11 titles ex aequo they are also record champions here. and returned after five years in the third division - the Regionalliga Mitte - back.
From 2019: return to the Austrian football business
In January 2019, with a view to the real chance of advancing to the 2nd league and meeting the relevant licensing provisions, Matthias Dielacher, a club manager, and Enrico Kulovits, a trainer with a pro license, were introduced. Kulovits officially holds the post of head coach, the previous head coach David Preiß becomes the "team coach". However, Kulovits's engagement was over at the end of the Regionalliga season: he was replaced by Alois Hödl. However, with the decision of the executive committee of the ÖFB, David Preiss may officially contest the second division season as head coach, as a corresponding coaching course will be offered again during the season. Alois Hödl is now assistant trainer and Ralph Spirk acts as individual trainer.
On April 12, 2019, the GAK 1902 received approval from the Bundesliga to participate in the 2nd division. Five laps before the end of the championship, the sixth title and promotion could be fixed en suite. This means that after 12 years of absence, a GAK soccer team is again in an Austria-wide championship competition. At the same time, the 2nd team became champions of the seventh-class regional league and rose to the sixth-class lower division.
In addition, the club was represented in the Austrian Cup for the first time since 2012 and was the last third-class and Graz representative in the semifinals in 2019, after two second division clubs with Vorwärts Steyr and KSV 1919 had been eliminated and on February 15, 2019 in the Liebenau stadium 12,295 spectators Austria Vienna was defeated 2-1. The semi-final game against Red Bull Salzburg on April 3, 2019 was lost this time (again in Graz-Liebenau in front of 13,300 spectators) 0: 6.
Harald Rannegger, chairman since June 14, 2013, resigns from office on November 21, 2019; board member René Ziesler will take over on an interim basis until the next general assembly. As a further step in professionalization and as a prerequisite for a first division license, the match operations of the combat team will be outsourced to a separate company in 2020. On February 25, 2020, after a 1: 2 home defeat against the FAC and the associated slipping to a relegation zone, the previous head coach David Preiss was on leave. On March 2, 2020, Gernot Plassnegger was introduced as the new head coach. Due to the cessation of match operations by the Bundesliga due to the corona pandemic in Austria on March 8, 2020, the club decided on March 19, 2020 to use a possible short-time working arrangement in order to minimize the economic consequences. According to the decision of the ÖFB of April 15, 2020, the current season will be canceled in all amateur leagues, which will affect the GAK amateurs in the middle lower league. On May 14, 2020, the club received not only the approval for the 2nd division but also the Bundesliga license for the 2020/21 season. On May 18, 2020, a club conference of the second division clubs will decide to continue the championship analogous to the Tipico Bundesliga with ghost games and a corresponding hygiene concept. The time frame for the remaining 11 rounds (including a "real" English round and a round on a weekday holiday) is from June 5 to July 31, 2020, with the GAK playing the home games without spectators in the Gleisdorf stadium for economic reasons. On July 31, 2020, the first Austria-wide championship participation since the 2006/07 season ended after a 2-2 draw in the last championship round against SV Lafnitz on 15th place in the table.
At the beginning of the 2020/21 season - in addition to the professional team in the 2nd division and the amateurs in the sixth-class Unterliga Mitte - for the first time there will be a third combat team (led by the GAK-Juniors youth club ), which will be in the 1st class Middle A ( 8th performance level) plays. Renè Ziesler was officially elected chairman of the association at a "virtual" general meeting on July 3, 2020, at which a crowdfunding campaign under the motto "main sponsor" was presented, which exceeded the 100,000 euro mark at the beginning of August. The stadium capacity for the new season will initially be max. 3,500 people.
→ Main article: Championship placements 2013 to 2021
The long way back: The Grazer AC team at the first test match on July 3, 2013 in Ligist
The Graz city club on the way back: The GAK celebrates the championship title in 1st class middle A in 2014
Friendly match against Aston Villa , July 9, 2016 - the additional grandstand built in 2014 can be clearly seen
View of the new home in Weinzödl during the national league game against USV Gnas on April 21, 2018
Successful as a player and coach with the Reds: Gernot Plassnegger , who rose en suite four times with the GAK 1902
A guarantor of the ascents from the 4th to the 2nd LIga: the new GAK captain Marco Perchtold
Has played for GAK again since the 2018/19 Regional League season: Dieter Elsneg , for whom he worked between 2004 and 2008
Has been part of the GAK team since 2016 and also plays in the second division for the club: Dominik Hackinger
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Combat team
Coaching team
As of March 2, 2020
| function | Surname | Date of birth | nationality | with the club since |
Last club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trainer | Gernot Plassnegger | 03/23/1978 |
|
03/2020 | SC Austria Lustenau |
| Assistant coach | Alois Hödl | 10/12/1962 |
|
07/2019 | Trainer SC Weiz |
| Individual trainer | Ralph Spirk | 10/26/1986 |
|
02/2018 | Player SV Lebring |
| Goalkeeping coach | Thomas Queder | 04/23/1992 |
|
Player FC Ligist | |
| Athletic trainer | Stefan Arvay | 08/18/1974 |
|
07/2019 | Kapfenberger SV |
Individual trainer: Ralph Spirk
Current squad
As of August 28, 2020
| Back number |
Surname | Date of birth | nationality | with the club since |
Last club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| goalkeeper | |||||
| 1 | Jakob Meierhofer | 11/06/1997 |
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08/2020 | SV Lafnitz |
| 26th | Christoph Not | 01/05/1994 |
|
01/2020 | SK Austria Klagenfurt |
| 77 | Chris Weigelt | 05/10/2002 |
|
07/2019 | AKA Admira Wacker Mödling |
| defense | |||||
| 2 | Thomas Zündel | 12/24/1987 |
|
01/2019 | without a club (previously Wolfsberger AC ) |
| 4th | Stephan Palla | 05/15/1989 |
|
08/2020 | without a club (previously Buriram United ) |
| 12 | Stefan Pfeifer | 01/16/1998 |
|
07/2018 | SK Rapid Vienna II |
| 15th | Lukas Graf | 08/12/1994 |
|
07/2016 | SV Thörl |
| 16 | Peter Kozissnik | 07/31/1990 |
|
07/2018 | UPS Mettersdorf |
| 19th | Marco Gantschnig | 10/08/1997 |
|
07/2019 | Kapfenberger SV |
| 21st | Josef Weberbauer | 03/13/1998 |
|
02/2020 | Salzburg AK 1914 |
| 23 | David Fritz | 07/11/1999 |
|
06/2020 | Grazer AK II |
| midfield | |||||
| 6th | Philipp Schellnegger | 08/13/1997 |
|
01/2019 | SC Weiz |
| 7th | Slobodan Mihajlovic | 03/15/1997 |
|
01/2020 | without a club (previously MTK Budapest FC ) |
| 8th | Gerald Nutz | 01/25/1994 |
|
07/2019 | Wolfsberger AC |
| 10 | Dominik Hackinger | 11/19/1988 |
|
07/2016 | SC Kalsdorf |
| 11 | Martin Harrer | 05/19/1992 |
|
01/2020 | FC Voluntari |
| 13 | Marco Perchtold | 09/21/1988 |
|
07/2017 | SKN St. Pölten |
| 18th | Dragan Smolyan | October 29, 2000 |
|
07/2019 | Grazer AK II |
| 20th | Thomas Fink | 06/09/1999 |
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08/2020 | SV Mattersburg II |
| 27 | Benjamin Rosenberger | 06/15/1996 |
|
07/2019 | Kapfenberger SV |
| 28 | Peter Tschernegg | 07/23/1992 |
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08/2020 | TSV Hartberg |
| 29 | Reality Asemota | 12/16/2002 |
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07/2019 | Grazer AK II |
| 31 | Florian Jessenitschnig | 10/11/2002 |
|
06/2020 | Grazer AK II |
| 32 | Markus Stenzel | 05/24/2002 |
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06/2020 | Grazer AK II |
| attack | |||||
| 9 | Dieter Elsneg | 02/04/1990 |
|
07/2018 | ASK Voitsberg |
| 14th | Petar Zubak | December 19, 1995 |
|
08/2020 | SK Austria Klagenfurt |
| 17th | Filip Smolyan | 02/18/1999 |
|
07/2018 | SV Feldbach |
| 21st | Lucas Barbosa | 04/01/1996 |
|
08/2019 | SC Austria Lustenau |
| 37 | Paul Kiedl | 10/02/2001 |
|
06/2020 | Grazer AK II |
Transfers
As of August 28, 2020
| Access: | Departures: |
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| Summer 2020 | |
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More combat teams
The second team of the GAK has played in the sixth class middle division since the 2019/20 season .
At the beginning of the 2020/21 season , a third combat team was integrated into the championship ( 1st class middle A , 8th level) , led by the youth sports club GAK-Juniors .
The former GAK training center , now the Graz-Weinzödl sports center, serves as the venue for both teams .
→ Overview: championship placements of the other combat teams
Further information and data about GAK football
Association law
In 1977 the football section was spun off from the parent club. After their fourth bankruptcy, the GAC (GAC, Grazer Allgemeine Club für Fußball, ZVR 805567199) was founded on December 20, 2012 as the successor club. On March 14, 2014, it was incorporated into the GAK parent club as an independent branch club, and from that point on officially called itself Grazer Athletiksport Klub 1902 , because due to the bankruptcy of the GAK, Grazer Athletiksport-Klub-Fußball, abbreviated GAK, (ZVR number 467034528) , the exact wording of which is still blocked by the police.
The bankruptcy proceedings against the GAK, Grazer Athletiksport-Klub-Fußball were concluded on November 5, 2019 and in 2020 the status as a branch club of the GAK parent club was revoked.
→ Overview: The chairmen or presidents of the football section or football branch clubs (selection)
Titles and successes in football
The GAK was represented in the highest Austrian soccer league for 50 seasons (1951–1974, 1975–1990, 1995–2007) :
- 1 × Austrian champion: 2004
- 4 × Austrian Cup winners : 1981 , 2000 , 2002 , 2004
- 2 × Supercup winners : 2000, 2002
- 3 × champions 2nd division : 1975 (national league ), 1993 (promotion playoff), 1995 (2nd division)
- 2 × champions of the Regionalliga Mitte (3rd division): 2012 , 2019
- 3 × Austrian amateur state champions : 1929, 1932, 1933 (record champions)
- 11 × Styrian national champion : 1922, 1924, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 2018 (record champions)
- 4 × winners of the Graz (autumn) trade fair cup: 1906, 1911, 1913, 1925 (record winner)
- 1 × (unofficial) Styrian State Cup winner : 1922, 1927?
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- 5 × winners of the Graz indoor tournament : 1979, 1982, 1986, 1995, 1998 (1964 winner of the 1st indoor tournament in Graz)
- 1 × Intertoto-Cup group winners : 1978 (Participations: 1977–1979, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1997)
Championship title since the re-establishment:
- 2 × champions 1st class middle A (8th division) 2013/14, 2015/16 (KM II) and promotion to regional league middle (7th division) 2014/15, 2016/17 (KM II)
- 2 × champions of the regional league middle (7th division) 2014/15, 2018/19 (KM II) and promotion to the lower league middle (6th division) 2015/16, 2019/20 (KM II)
- 1 × champion of the lower league mid 2015/16 (6th division) and promotion to the upper league middle-west 2016/17 (5th division)
- 1 × Champion of the Oberliga Mitte-West 2016/17 (5th division) and promotion to the Landesliga Styria 2017/18 (4th division)
- 1 × champion of the Styrian regional league 2017/18 (4th division) and promotion to the regional league mid 2018/19 (3rd division)
- 1 × champion of the regional league in mid-2018/19 (3rd division) and promotion to the 2nd division 2019/20 (2nd division)
Additional:
- 2 × Austrian runner-up : 2003 , 2005 (3rd place: 1973 , 1982 , 1998 , 1999 , 2001 , 2002 )
- 1 × runner-up in the 2nd division: 1951 (3rd place: 1994 )
- 1 × Austrian vice indoor champion : 1984
- 1 × Austrian Vice Amateur Champion : 1931
- 2 × Austrian Cup finalists : 1962, 1968 (semi-finalists: 1959, 1961, 1982 , 1992 , 1994 , 1996 , 2005 , 2019 )
- 1 × finalist Austrian Supercup : 2004
- 1 × runner-up of the Regionalliga Mitte (3rd division): 2009 (3rd place: 2008 , 2011 )
- 8 × Styrian runner-up : 1921, 1923, 1925, 1934, 1936 - 2nd team: 1997, 2006 (3rd place: 1941, 1944, 1949, 1950 - 2nd team: 2004, 2005)
- 5 × finalist of the Graz (autumn) trade fair cup: 1906 (2nd team), 1907, 1908, 1910, 1924 (semifinals: 1909)
- 5 × finalist of the Styrian State Cup : 1932, 1935, 1936, 1947, 1948 (semi-finalist: 1950, 2017, 2018)
- 6 × finalist of the Graz indoor tournament: 1984, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1999 (semi-finalist: 1976, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1985, 2001)
- 3 × Austrian junior titles: 1976 (Juniors), 1992 (BNZ), 2006 (AKA U15)
Top scorer:
- Ronald Brunmayr 2002
- Roland Kollmann 2004, both 27 goals each
→ Overview: The championship placements of the GAK
→ Overview: The GAK in the ÖFB-Cup
→ Overview: Further sporting successes of the GAK football
→ Overview: Successes in the youth field
Fans & "The Curve"
The first fan club of the GAK was the 1.AHC- GAK, which was established in 1985 (until 1977 there was a club -own fan club , which was then incorporated into the football branch), in addition to numerous fan clubs in Styria, there were or are also some in Germany , Liechtenstein and Sri Lanka .
The red jackets achieved the highest average number of spectators in the 2003/04 championship season. This season, an average of 9,234 spectators attended the home games of the Graz athletes. The average number of viewers since the forced relegation had leveled off at 3500. The “(fan) curve” was in sector 22 , before relegation to the regional league in sector 25. Despite the third division, hundreds of fans flocked to the away games.
Parts of the Graz fan scene are friends with the German club KFC Uerdingen 05 . There is a great rivalry with city rivals SK Sturm Graz . The most important associations are the Red Firm , Society Graz , 84er Jungs, Geidorfer Jungs and the Everreds .
After the re-establishment, the average attendance was around 1,300 visitors and rose to more than 2,000 visitors per game by the 2017/18 regional league season. In the autumn rounds of the Regionalliga season 2018/19, the average was more than 2,500 spectators (the small derby against the Sturm Amateure took place in the Liebenau stadium in front of more than 6,100 fans). During games in the Liebenau stadium, sector 22 (as well as the adjacent sectors 21 and 23) is traditionally occupied by the "curve". In the Weinzödl sports center, the standing area is also called "Sector 22".
Venues
→ Overview: spectator statistics at home games
The GAK played for the most part from 1902 to 1975 (individual games were also played on the home grounds of Grazer SC , ESV Austria Graz and in the federal stadium Graz-Liebenau ) in the club's own stadium in Körösistraße 57, located directly on the Mur the reds then play their games exclusively in the Liebenau stadium.
In 1986 there was a return to the traditional home ground, and thanks to the sponsorship of Casinos Austria, the GAK square was henceforth called the GAK Casino Stadium. In the 1996/97 season, the Graz athletes played most of their home games in the Kapfenberg Alpine Stadium . Since 1997 the two "big" Graz clubs GAK and SK Sturm Graz have played again in the Graz-Liebenau stadium, which has been called Merkur Arena since April 2016 . In 2004 the new GAK training center was opened in Graz-Andritz ; the casino stadium was demolished in 2005 and a residential complex was built on the site. The GAK tennis section is still based on the sports historical area in Körösistraße. The old football stadium served as a training facility until 2004. The very last match in the Casino Stadium was the farewell game of Ales Ceh against NK Maribor on July 2nd, 2003 as part of an open day; The old home had the last big appearance on the occasion of the championship celebration on May 22, 2004.
After relegation to the regional league, the GAK stayed in Graz-Liebenau, but played a few games in the former GAK training center , now the Weinzödl sports center . Since the restart in 1st class, the GAK 1902 home games have been held exclusively in the Weinzödl sports center. With the help of the fans, an additional grandstand (for 625 seats) was built. The project planned for summer / autumn 2019 for a new main grandstand with more than 1,000 seats and improved infrastructure (toilets, restaurants, VIP and press area) as well as the roofing of the standing area ("Sector 22") initially failed due to a cost overrun due to compliance with the space requirements. Regulations for the 2nd division. That is why the entire 2019/20 season will be played in the Liebenau stadium. The € 1.4 million project (co-financed by the club with € 300,000) was ultimately canceled in autumn 2019, so that matches will continue to take place in the Liebenau stadium. The remaining home games of the 2019/20 season (from round 20) will be played in the Gleisdorf Stadium due to the provision (ghost games without spectators) for economic reasons.
| The venues: | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Surname | Years | Max. capacity | Remarks |
| Stadium Körösistraße (GAK-Platz) | 1902-1975 | 12,000 | especially (international) floodlit games after 1955, weekday championship games 1971–1974 in the Liebenau stadium , individual games on the home grounds of the Grazer SC and ESV Austria Graz (SC Südbahn and Reichsbahn Graz) |
| Liebenau federal stadium | 1975-1986 | 22,000 | |
| Stadion Körösistraße (Casino Stadion GAK) | 1986-1996 | 9,000 | with additional grandstands max. Capacity 11,000 |
| Kapfenberg Alpine Stadium | 1996/97 | 10,000 | last home games again in the stadium Körösistraße (Casino Stadion GAK) |
| Liebenau stadium | 1997-2007 | 15,400 | |
| Liebenau stadium | 2007–2012 | 15,400 | individual games in the GAK training center (today: Sports Center Graz-Weinzödl ) |
| Sports center Graz-Weinzödl | 2013-2019 | 2,500 | Season 2018/19 individual games (Derby, ÖFB Cup) in Liebenau Stadium or Arena Gratkorn (friendly match against Austria Salzburg on March 3, 2018) |
| Liebenau stadium | from 2019/20 | 16,300 | 2019/20 season home games without spectators from the 20th round for economic reasons in the Gleisdorf stadium , maximum capacity for the 2020/21 season under Corona requirements initially 3,500 spectators |
Sponsors
After the association was founded, the components idealism and private initiative were used. Membership fees, donations and income from viewers brought the Grazer Athletiksport Klub over the first few years, sponsorship was still a foreign word at that time.
It was not until the late 1950s and early 1960s that real economic support began to emerge. The previous sponsors were still something of a patron. Grazer vegetable wholesalers Evaristo di Lenardo and Anton Herzl, in his capacity founder of the shoe company Stiefelkönig attacked for Athletiker into private pockets. Both gentlemen were therefore later honored with honorary membership of the association.
The GAK achieved its first major sponsorship deal in 1969, when the Swiss watch manufacturer Marvin supported the association with an annual sum of 500,000 schillings . The Marvin lettering was thus the first dress sponsor , in keeping with the times one spoke of a "patronage company". Like Marvin himself, some of the sponsors can no longer be found in the yellow pages, such as carpet land, the ATS-Bank (the GAK was almost carried away by its collapse in 1976 and the long-term chairman HR Konrad Reinthaler for the rescue of "his" GAK literally Moved through Graz "begging" for every schilling), or the electrical appliance manufacturer Körting TV , which helped the GAK out of its financial bottleneck after the ATS bankruptcy. The companies from this time did not support the football section, but were sponsors of the entire club.
In 1978, the window manufacturer Gaulhofer ensured an economic upturn in the football section. From 1980 to 1990 the Ringschuh purchasing cooperative was the main sponsor of the Grazer. Subsequently, after relegation to the second class, for the first time in many years, you had to do without a dress sponsor, before Tank Roth and then Trummer-Montagen filled the open spaces.
In the mid-1990s, Casinos Austria became the main sponsor (they gave the stadium its name), and from 1997 to 2007 the construction vehicle manufacturer Liebherr acted as the main and dress sponsor. In the Regionalliga season 2007/08 one had to do without a main sponsor again. From the 2011/12 season until the end of gaming operations in October 2012, the textile discount store Kik took on sponsorship.
After the re-establishment, the beverage manufacturer 2B [to be] and the specialist retail center Salto Dressensponsor for the 2016/17 season, and then the betting provider Lopocasport in the 2017/18 and 2018/19 seasons, which was replaced by HPYBET - also a betting provider - in summer 2019 has been.
But also many other sections or branch clubs had and still have financial support from the economy: the (former) ice hockey team played its only Bundesliga season 1970/71 and the second division season 1971/72 as GAK-Peterquelle , in the following league season was the Graz furniture store Loran dress sponsor. The basketball women played for many years in the state league and Bundesliga as GAK-PSK and around the millennium, GAK-Tennis had a prominent sponsor with Energie Steiermark (ESTAG) . The branch clubs that are still active today, in addition to football, have built up their necessary sponsor network in an increasingly professional environment.
The GAK coaches and players in retrospect
The most successful coach in GAK history is Walter Schachner (with a championship title and a cup win as a double and two runner-up titles), Vaclav "Wenzel" Halama (with the first cup title in 1981 ) and Werner Gregoritsch and Thijs Libregts as others Cup winners 2000 and 2002. Prominent names such as Zlatko "Tschik" Čajkovski or the world champion Klaus Augenthaler wielded the coaching scepter at the GAK.
Karl Mütsch took over the team at 10th rank in the regional league in 1948 and until 1951 ensured the march through the state league B to the state league A. The GAK then remained in the highest Austrian league for 23 years without interruption. With Ferdinand Fritsch (1962) and Fritz Kominek (1968) the club was in the cup final. In 1973, under Helmut Senekowitsch , the red jackets came third for the first time in the highest table regions of the championship. The "magician" Adi Pinter tried in the 1990s to save the GAK from relegation to the 2nd division and in 1995 the later coach of the century, Hans-Ulrich Thomale, managed to return to the upper house of football.
“ The GAK is comparable to my first great love. "
Between 2013 and 2017, Gernot Plassnegger, as a trainer of the newly founded GAC / GAK 1902, made four en suite ascents from the 8th (1st class) to the 4th division (Landesliga Steiermark) and took over the coaching position again in early 2020 2nd league.
The club's record national player for Austria is René Aufhauser with 25 appearances for the ÖFB team between 2002 and 2005. A total of 37 GAK players wore the Austrian team dress. For another national team, Aleš Čeh's 74 caps for Slovenia are the current record.
| The TOP 10 ÖFB national players: |
|---|
| René Aufhauser (25) |
| Joachim Standfest (16) |
| Anton Ehmann (13) |
| Roland Kollmann (11) |
| Emanuel Pogatetz (10) |
| Ronald Brunmayr (8) |
| Dieter Ramusch (7) |
| Martin Amerhauser (6) |
| Matthias Dollinger (6) |
| Andreas Schranz (6) |
| Status: January 2019 |
The clear record player for GAK first division games is Walter Koleznik , who played continuously for the athletes from 1961 to 1978, with 401 games and record goal scorer Wilhelm Sgerm with 118 goals between 1955 and 1967. Both are, u. a. In addition to goalkeeper legend Savo Ekmečić , Josef Stering or Željko Vuković , also part of the GAK team of the century, which was elected by the fans on the occasion of the club's centenary in 2002.
| The record players: | ||
|---|---|---|
| all after missions | ||
| Walter Koleznik | 1961-1978 | 401 |
| Mario Zuenelli | 1973-1987 | 344 |
| Erich Frisch | 1953-1969 | 340 |
| Werner Maier | 1969-1982 | 324 |
| Martin Amerhauser | 1995/96, 1999-2007 | 305 |
| Legionaries after missions | ||
| Savo Ekmečić | 1977-1985 | 269 |
| Ales Ceh | 1995-2003 | 230 |
| Boban Dmitrovic | 1996-2003 | 186 |
| Zelimir Vidovic | 1983-1989 | 167 |
| Zeljko Vukovic | 1995-1999 | 138 |
| all after gates | ||
| Wilhelm Sgerm | 1955-1967 | 118 |
| Walter Koleznik | 1961-1978 | 85 |
| Mario Zuenelli | 1973-1987 | 70 |
| Hannes Jank | 1958-1964 | 66 |
| Roland Kollmann | 2001-2007 | 63 |
| based on games in the highest league (as of January 2019) | ||
In the 2nd division (1950/51, 1974/75, 1990-1995, from 2019/20) Stojadin Rajkovic with 94 matches and Eduard Glieder with 39 goals (in 83 games) hold the best marks . For the Regionalliga (2007-2012, 2018/19) Christian Deutschmann with 142 games and Herbert Rauter with 69 goals (in 113 games - top scorer in 2011 and 2012) are the respective record players, in the Styrian leagues between 2013 and 2018 it is Gerald Säumel with 97 games (in 5 seasons and five championship titles) and Richard Wemmer with 76 goals (in three seasons). Stefan Kölly was the Styrian top scorer in 1950.
“ My job? Best goalie in Austria! "
2004 Austrian champion and top scorer: Roland "Rolligoal" Kollmann
Rene Aufhauser is the ÖFB record national player of the GAK and was part of the 2004 championship team
With 230 games one of the longest serving legionnaires among the athletes and later also head coach: the Slovenian Aleš Ceh
Alexander Manninger in Rudi Hiden's footsteps : from the GAK to the wide world of football. The first Austrian footballer on the island
The 2004 master coach, Walter Schachner , also stormed briefly for the red jackets in 1990
Between 1985 and 1989 scored 65 goals for the GAK: Ralph Hasenhüttl , who comes from his own youth work
From 1999 to 2007 with the Reds: the former Werder Bremen legionnaire Zlatko Junuzović
Joachim Standfest achieved six titles with the GAK from 1998 to 2007 and is the record scorer in the European Cup with three goals
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The 2004 championship team received the "Styrian Sports Team of the Year" award and came third in the Austrian election. Ronald Brunmayr was "Footballer of the Year" in 2001 and 2002, Mario Bazina in 2005 and Dieter Ramusch received the honorary award in the same year. Walter Schachner was named "Trainer of the Year" in 2002 and 2004. GAK 1902 was named "Amateur Team of the Year" and Laurenz Sacher was named "Amateur Player of the Year" in 2014.
→ Main article: Statistics page with information about coaches and players
The GAK in the European Cup
→ Overview: GAK's European Cup balance sheet
After sporadic appearances in the Cup winners' Cup and trade fair cities or UEFA Cup in the period 1962–1983, the GAK was able to qualify for the main European competitions from 1996 to 2005 (in 1997 they were “only” qualified for the UI Cup).
The second round of the UEFA Cup was reached four times (1996, 1998–2001), they failed, sometimes only just barely, to attractive opponents such as Inter Milan (1996/97), AS Monaco (1998/99), Panathinaikos Athens (1999 / 2000) and Espanyol Barcelona (2000/01). In the 2001/02 season, the team was eliminated in the 1st round of the UEFA Cup against FC Utrecht .
The GAK failed three times in the 3rd round of the Champions League qualification. The opponents were Lokomotiv Moscow (2002/03), Ajax Amsterdam (2003/04) and Liverpool FC (2004/05). In the 2003/2004 season they were eliminated after two draws (0-0 away, 1-1 at home) against the Norwegian club Vålerenga Oslo in the first round of the UEFA Cup.
An internationally significant success was achieved in the 2004/05 season. After a sensational 1-0 away win against Liverpool FC, they were only just eliminated in the third qualifying round of the Champions League, as the home game was lost 2-0. In the UEFA Cup, the team rose to the first group stage of the UEFA Cup after a clear win against Litex Lovech from Bulgaria . In Group F there were two away games against AJ Auxerre (0-0) and against Glasgow Rangers (0-3) and two home games against Amica Wronki (3-1) and against AZ Alkmaar (2-0). Behind AZ Alkmaar and AJ Auxerre they finished 3rd in the group and moved up to the sixteenth finals, where two attractive games against FC Middlesbrough awaited. The first leg was played in Graz and after a good performance and some controversial situations they parted with a 2-2 draw. In the second leg, the Graz team lost 2-1 after an early 1-0 lead and thus dropped out of the competition, in which they had caused a sensation as a blatant outsider, especially in Great Britain.
The last European Cup participation so far was in the 2005/06 season, when they were eliminated from the 1st UEFA Cup round with a total of 0: 7 goals against Racing Strasbourg . Joachim Standfest holds the club's record of three goals in a European Cup match against KÍ Klaksvík (5-0).
The Graz Derby
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In 1910 there was the first meeting of the fighting teams of the two clubs, at that time, of course, outside of a championship operation. The red jackets clearly won 5-0. But even before World War I, the Blackies defied their city rivals in a draw. The athletes also won the first regular derby after the First World War in 1919 with 3: 2, in the second leg (1: 1) there was already a tumult in the stands, which describes the explosiveness of this duel. There is not even a regular championship operation ...
Since 1920, when the two clubs met in the Graz League for the first time, the city rivals have played a total of 197 hot games until 2007 ( Sturm won 5-1 and 1-0). In 1946 Sturm won the Styrian league 10: 1 over the GAK, which is still the highest derby victory today. Eleven years later, on November 25, 1956, already in the Austrian State League, the GAK turned the tables and won 6-1. In 1969 there was a record attendance in Liebenau, over 20,000 fans crowded into the stadium, the teams parted with a 1-1 draw. The reds won the only Graz derby in the final of the ÖFB Cup in 2002 3-2. The most successful GAK Derby goal scorers are Walter Koleznik with eight goals and Igor Pamić , Mario Zuenelli and Herbert Ninaus with seven goals .
" Better to lose against Sturm than win against Admira ... "
The last derby in the Arnold Schwarzenegger Stadium Graz-Liebenau took place on October 30, 2005 (2-0 for the GAK). The 125th Graz Derby (since the foundation of the State League) on February 18, 2006 was also the opening game of the stadium in Liebenau, which has now been renamed the UPC Arena , in which the teams parted with a 0-0 draw. In the last city derby, on March 18, 2007, SK Sturm won 1-0.
- Derby record 1920–1949 in the Styrian league (amateur championship)
- 55 games
- 19 GAK victories
- 7 draws
- 29 storm victories
(Goal difference 102: 136)
- Derby record since the introduction of the state league (professional championship) in 1949 until May 17, 2007
- 130 games
- 46 GAK victories
- 42 draw
- 42 storm victories
(Goal difference: 172: 167)
After the forced relegation to the Regionalliga Mitte , there were "small derbies" against the second representative of SK Sturm between 2007 and 2012 or after the promotion to third division in 2018/19 . At the moment the balance is 4: 4 (with three draws).
How great the rivalry between the two Graz soccer clubs and the interest still is almost 13 years after the last derby is also demonstrated by a project that was launched on February 28, 2020 in the Graz theater under the title "Are you GAK or STURM?" Premiered. The Graz director Ed. Hauswirth developed a theater evening with laypeople about "love, pride and being a fan".
→ Overview: Further information on the Graz city derby on the statistics page
Women's soccer
There is still a lot of catching up to do in women's football, due to the financial turbulence, the forced relegation and the new start from the bottom up.
After an agreement with FC Stattegg had previously failed at the city rivals, there was a tender plant in the 2011/12 season through the cooperation with the 1st DFC Leoben in the 2nd Austrian League East / South , that due to the dissolution of the club was immediately destroyed again in autumn 2012. At the moment, the youth soccer club GAK-Juniors is trying to establish the first girls' youth teams in the Styrian championship operation.
However, the current captain of the Austrian national soccer team, Viktoria Schnaderbeck , u. a. also trained in the GAK Academy .
Much more than just football - the GAK as an all-round sports club
The GAK was designed as a multi-discipline club from the start: tennis , cycling , athletics , swimming (swimming, water polo, water jumping), fencing , other ball games such as field handball and basketball as well as winter sports such as tobogganing , bobsleigh , ski jumping , cross-country skiing , figure skating and ice hockey developed in the Over the course of the club's history as highly successful sections. In 1903 there was already the first swimming and athletics meeting as well as the first successes in tennis.
Two field handball players from the GAK, Franz Brunner and Walter Reisp, were in the Austrian Olympic team when they won the silver medal in Berlin in 1936, and Hans Volckmar and his brakeman Anton Kaltenberger were bronze medalists at the two-man Bobsleigh World Championships in Oberhof in 1931 . Numerous championship titles and long-standing records e.g. B. the athletes, swimmers, cyclists or tobogganists testify to the diversification in the club as well as the national championship title in the tennis section or the national league title in ice hockey. A number of sections no longer exist, but tennis, basketball and diving have asserted themselves as independent sections and are now completely independent clubs.
| GAK athletes at major international events: |
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| Olympia |
| Ferdinand Friebe (athletics, 1924) |
| Ludovica Sölkner (diving, 1924) |
| Hans Volckmar / Anton Kaltenberger (two-man bobsleigh, 1936, 19th place) |
| Franz Brunner (handball, 1936, silver medal) |
| Walter Reisp (handball, 1936, silver medal) |
| Gert Kölli (swimming, 1960 and 1964) |
| Ursula Seitz (swimming, 1964) |
| World championships |
| Hans Volckmar / Anton Kaltenberger (two-man bobsleigh, 1931, bronze medal) |
| Hubert Pugl (winter sports, 1933) |
| Helga Dietz-Stepwieser (figure skating, 1935) |
| Erika Hösch, Grete Sulzbacher (field handball, 1949, silver medal) |
| European championships |
| Fritz Rödiger (swimming, 1927) |
| Ludmila Dunst (athletics, 1954) |
| Gert Kölli (swimming, 1958, 1962, 1966) |
| Ursula Seitz (swimming, 1962 and 1966) |
| Armin Lind (diving, 1966) |
| Harald Loidl, Silvio Castellani, Petritsch, Richard Tandl, Gert Kölli, Horst Kölli (water polo, 1970) |
| Dariush Lotfi (water jumping, 2019, 2020) |
| Universiade |
| Raimund Held (athletics, 1927, winner of the pole vault) |
| Spitzer (athletics, 1927) |
| Franz Nemschak, Otmar Keckstein, Konrad Reinthaler, Fritz Sartory (football, 1927, 2nd place) |
| Hubert Pugl (athletics, 1930 and winter sports, 1932, bronze medal combination) |
| Karl Glaser (athletics, 1930) |
| Adolf Kamputsch (athletics, 1935, 1937) |
| Ernst Zahlbruckner (athletics, 1937, final javelin throw) |
| Hütt (l) er (handball, 1937) |
| Armin Lind (diving, 1965, 1967) |
| H. u. Walter Habernigg, Ertl, Wickenhausen, Michael Nierhaus, Jochen Pildner-Steinburg (ice hockey, 1966) |
| Walter Habernigg, Wickenhausen, Martin Mähring, Jochen Pildner-Steinburg (ice hockey, 1968) |
| Bärbel Neubauer (water jumping, 1973) |
| Status: January 2020 |
Some sections, however, were only granted a short life or did not get beyond the founding status such as B. riding, field hockey, ice stock sport or roller skating. In 1972 they wanted to establish a fitness section, which ultimately failed.
Problems of an all-round sports club
In 1970 the GAK was for the last time represented in all active team sports in the highest Austrian league (soccer: national league, ice hockey: Bundesliga, tennis women and men: state league A, basketball: state league A, water polo: state league), plus the State championship title for water polo players (as the first club outside Vienna), in men's tennis doubles (Peter Böck / Herbert Holzer) and in art and high diving by Armin Lind. However, the ice hockey team dismounted immediately and got into financial difficulties, as did the tennis women and basketball players. And the following year, after the second national championship, the water polo players finally ended.
Ultimately, the financial and organizational problems led to the realization that an integrated all-round sports club could no longer continue in this form. The budget of the soccer section includes (e) e.g. B. a multiple of the smaller sections basketball and diving. Therefore, the individual sections were granted legal independence under the umbrella of the parent association, which took place with the amendment of the statutes in 1975/77 and which all active sections made use of (see also "Current Association Structure").
→ Main article: Statistics page with information on the sporting successes of the club
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Graz athletic sports club tennis for short: GAK tennis |
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| Club colors | Red White |
| Founded | 1902/03 independent branch association: July 16, 1975 |
| Venue | Graz , Körösistraße 57 (GAK tennis facilities) |
| Association headquarters | Graz , Austria |
| Chairman | Heinz Steinlechner |
| ZVR number | 390954616 |
| Homepage | gak-tennis.at |
Active branch clubs
Tennis / GAK tennis
With Gilbert Schaller and Thomas Muster , two of Austria's most famous individual players played for the GAK, the first Styrian tennis club.
The GAK was a good supplier of first-class players for the big Viennese clubs WAC and Parkclub , u. a. with Hermann von Artens (first Styrian in the Davis Cup team) or Erwin Mayer ("Bolzano"), even after the Second World War, Peter Böck quickly became a GAK player again in the Davis Cup team. Many (former) GAK players also succeeded in international tennis, in addition to the aforementioned Thomas Muster and Gilbert Schaller, and others. a. Oliver Marach (2018 No. 1 in the ATP ranking list in doubles), Alexander Peya or Oliver Fuchs (Davis Cup), who was also the Austrian national champion in men's singles in 1990.
| ÖTV Davis Cup players with a GAK past: |
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| Hermann von Artens |
| Erwin Mayer (Bolzano) |
| Peter Böck (1957-1959) |
| Herbert Holzer |
| Peter Pokorny |
| Gilbert Schaller |
| Oliver Fuchs |
| Thomas Muster |
| Oliver Marach |
| Dominic Thiem |
| Julian Knowle |
In addition to the successes in the team championship - already in the interwar period, the GAK was regularly among the top 5 in Austria (usually the best-placed federal state club) and was a founding member of the State Tennis League in 1947, to which the men's fighting team had belonged for 59 seasons up to 2005 ( the withdrawal to the regional league in 2006 was voluntary) - there were numerous Austrian national championships, especially in men's doubles. At the moment the GAK men play in the Styrian national league (including 2013/14 with the support of Dominic Thiem ) and are multiple team champions there.
| Team line-ups of Austrian national champions 1938 to 1940, 1989, 1991, 2002: |
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| Hans Payer, Harald Nierhaus, Hans Zahlbruckner, Fredi Eichholzer, Hans Ebner, Rudolf Grieß, Karl Peitler |
| 1989 |
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Karel Nováček , Gilbert Schaller , Oliver Fuchs, Alexander Pfann, Thomas Weindorfer, Thomas Prerovsky, Hans Prassl, Martin Lorenzoni |
| 1991 |
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Gilbert Schaller , Thomas Prerovsky, Tomáš Šmíd , Alexander Pfann, Thomas Weindorfer, Christof Raninger |
| 2002 ("Styrian Sports Team 2002") |
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Alexander Peya , Julian Knowle , Oliver Marach , Patrick Schmölzer, Ivan Vajda, David Sanchez , Werner Eschauer , Michael Kohlmann |
| German academic champion 1940 |
| Hans Payer, Harald Nierhaus, Wech, W. Pum |
After relegation from the 1st Bundesliga in 2018, the women's team belongs to the 2nd Austrian Bundesliga. The women have been represented in the state and later in the Bundesliga for many decades since 1951 and last played from 2003 to 2009 (voluntary retreat to the state league) and since 2015 in an Austria-wide team championship. In 2018, with Kerstin Peckl, Elena Griessner and Elisabeth Kölbl, three GAK players took the first three places in the Styrian ranking.
The most successful players at state level are Hans Payer with 19 titles (8 each in singles and doubles, 3 in mixed between 1945 and 1953) and Irene Deanino with 17 (singles) titles in the years 1927 to 1947.
With Peter Pokorny , who moved to the GAK in 1972 and was part of the national league team for many years, one of the world's most successful senior tennis players is in the service of the GAK. The GAK senior team (with Peter Pokorny) became Austrian champions en suite (!) For the 8th time in 2018. Ingrid Resch u. a. In addition to numerous European Championship titles, he also won the individual 55+ world championship title again in 2018 and is still playing competitively in one of the women's teams.
(International) tennis tournaments were also held regularly, for example in the interwar period. Sometimes a spring and autumn tournament (championship of the Austrian Alpine countries and / or the championship of Styria), after the Second World War there was still an international autumn tournament. However, this tradition ended in 2011.
- Successes of the tennis section (as of November 2018):
- 6 × Austrian team champions men (1938, 1939, 1940, 1989, 1991, 2002 - plus 11 runner-up titles: first in 1928, last in 2004)
- 1 × German Academic Master (1940)
- 4 × Austrian national champion men singles (1984, 1985, 1987: Thomas Muster , 1990: Oliver Fuchs)
- 14 × Austrian national champion men doubles (including 1958, 1960: Peter Böck, 1966: Herbert Holzer, 1970: Peter Böck / Herbert Holzer, 1974: Peter Pokorny , 1988: Oliver Fuchs , 2000: Oliver Marach / Gilbert Schaller , 2001: Oliver Marach , 2002, 2003: Alexander Peya, 2005: Maximilian Raditschnegg / Patrick Schmölzer)
- 1 × Austrian national champion women doubles (2016: Katharina Knöbl)
- 3 × Austrian master mixed (1958: Peter Böck, 1973, 1974: Peter Pokorny )
- 2 × Austrian indoor champion men singles (1978: Martin Lorenzoni, 1989: Oliver Fuchs)
- 7 × Austrian indoor champion men doubles (1927 Erwin Mayer (Bolzano) / Paul Rieckh, 1975, 1976: Peter Pokorny , 1979 Peter Pokorny / Martin Lorenzoni, 1989: Oliver Fuchs, 1991, 1994 Thomas Weindorfer / Alexander Pfann)
- 4 × Austrian vice national champion women singles (1971–1973: Ria Leyrer-Hollingsworth, 2011: Anna Bartenstein)
- numerous Austrian youth and junior championships (including 2005: team champion U18, 1936, 1938: Hans Payer, 1961: Ria Leyrer, 1963: Peter Rock, 1977, 1978: Martin Lorenzoni, 1981: Gilbert Schaller , 1982: Hans Prassl, 1983: Oliver Fuchs, 2012: Daniel Fabisch, 2015, 2018: Morris Kipcak / Filip Miscolic, 2017: Elena Grießner, 2018: Elisabeth Kölbl)
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Grazer Athletiksport-Klub Kangaroos-Klub for short: GAK-Basketball or GAK-Kangaroos |
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| Club colors | Red White |
| Founded | 1950 Independent branch association: March 23, 1977 |
| Venue |
Graz , ASVÖ hall or gym of the BRG Keplerstraße |
| Association headquarters | Graz , Austria |
| Chairman | Gerhard Brodnig |
| ZVR number | 431747526 |
| Homepage | gak-kangaroos.at |
→ Overview : Successes of the tennis section / GAK tennis
Basketball / GAK kangaroos
The section has existed since 1950 and is the first Styrian basketball club. The men were initially series winners in the Styrian championship, three times Austrian runner-up (1954, 1955, 1959) and 1959 founding member of the State League (as the only club outside Vienna!) And were able to compete in one until 1972 - except for a phase from 1962 to 1966 of the two highest Austrian leagues, but then had to start all over again for financial reasons. A return to an Austria-wide competition was no longer sought after. At the moment the men play in the Styrian national league (a second team in 1st class) and were last styrian cup winners in 2017. With 19 titles, the Kangaroos are Styrian record champions, plus 4 cup titles.
The women were far more successful across Austria. Initially, they were involved in the Styrian championship until 1981 (although there was no championship operation in Styria between 1969 and 1974 - the GAK won 16 Styrian titles in total) and then made it into the State League B and two years later into the State League A. The women spent a total of 30 seasons in the highest Austrian league (1983 to 1994, 1997 to 2002, the rest in the second-highest division ) until the championship had to be discontinued in 2010 for financial reasons. At the moment there are only junior teams in the women's division.
In 1989 they reached 3rd place in the state league championship, the greatest success of a Styrian team up to then. In 1992/93 the GAK women also played in the European Cup (Roncetti Cup). With Ute Bouvier, Elisabeth Ully, Gabriele Riedmüller and Brigitte Wiener-Pucher there were also national team players.
→ Overview: championship placements basketball under further information on the section / club
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Grazer Athletiksport-Klub -Diving in short: GAK water jumping or GAK diving |
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| Club colors | Red White |
| Founded | 1911 (as part of the swimming section, 1963 own section) independent branch association: March 2, 1994 |
| Venue | Graz , Sportbad Eggenberg ("Auster") |
| Association headquarters | Graz , Austria |
| Chairman | Hugo Schuster |
| ZVR number | 957751564 |
| Homepage | gak-wasserspringen.at |
Water jumping / GAK water jumping
Diving has been practiced at GAK since 1911. The driving force behind the founding of the company was Robert Köllner from Vienna, himself a two-time national champion, who worked for the GAK until the 1930s. a. with Ludovica Sölkner, also a two-time national champion and Olympic participant from 1924 (later wife of Rudolf M. Ditmar, who will be discussed in the section swimming) or Alfred Traninger, attracted great talents. Both were also successful in other sports, e.g. B. Sölkner u. a. in pool competitions in swimming and in athletics, traninger for example in handball and ice hockey.
After the Second World War, the era of Karl Helfrich came between 1957 and 1992, a swimmer and athlete at the GAK himself in the interwar period, who switched to the GAK with his jumping team built up at the ATG and, in these three and a half decades, the unbelievable number of 116 Austrian athletes Collected championship titles (16 Austrian national champions, 19 indoor champions, 6 academic champions, 70 junior championships), plus countless Styrian championship titles (the number is probably over 500 to this day).
At the head of these athletes are Inge and Gerda Pristolitsch, Bettina Bundschuh, Silvia Titze, Maria and Bärbel Neubauer, Armin Lind, Gerhard Werner, Rene and Paul Pachernegg, Josef Hiebler-Texer and many more. Armin Lind was z. B. 1966 and 1968 to 1970 each Austrian national champion in art and high diving. He won a total of 25 titles (9 Austrian state championship titles, 10 Austrian indoor championships, 6 academic champions). The "Golden Girls" with Silvia Titze, Bärbel Neubauer and Bettina Bundschuh were no less successful in the 1970s with 4 Austrian national championships and 10 indoor championships. It goes without saying that many of the jumpers also took part in international events (European Youth Championships, Universiade, European Cup).
After 2015, the GAK once again had Austrian top jumpers with Dariush Lotfi, Cara Albiez (she was also elected Styrian young athlete in 2020) and Regina Diensthuber, all three of whom are multiple national champions, Lofti participants in the 2019 European Championship and for the 2020 European Championship (which is expected to be held in 2021 is qualified. Hugo Schuster has been in charge of the association since 1993. Shahbaz Shahnazi has been the head coach for several years. In total, the GAK currently holds 31 national championship titles in diving.
The GAK water divers organize an international diving meeting in the Eggenberger Bad every year , and the Alpe-Adria-Tournament also stops in Graz every year.
→ Overview :: Sporting successes in diving and further information on the section / club
Former sections
ice Hockey
Already between 1925/26 and 1935 there was an ice hockey section - founded by Karl Arnoldi - that also took part in the championship. The main problem was finding a suitable ice surface for training and games. First of all, this was the Grazer Hilnteich, from 1930 the club's own tennis courts, but also the Teichhof area and the area in front of the state gym. The first ice hockey game between the GAK and the Academic Ice Skating Club took place on November 20, 1925.
The ice hockey section was re-established in 1953. The later section head Friedl Hauser moved with some ATSE players to the GAK in order to revive the sport in the club. First they played in the national league, which was played in two groups for many years. In 1962 they finally became Styrian champions and worked their way up to the second Austrian ice hockey league by 1967. Up until the opening of the artificial ice rink in Graz-Liebenau at the end of 1963, there was often the question of a suitable training and playing venue, e.g. Some of them were trained on the Reininghaus grounds or they drove to Klagenfurt to the ice rink there , which had existed since 1959. The GAK played the first game in the new Graz hall before the official opening.
The biggest success of the section was the league championship title in 1970 and the subsequent participation in the Bundesliga season 1970/71 . This season there were the only derbies in Graz in the highest Austrian ice hockey league, all of which were won by ATSE Graz with 2: 1, 5: 0, 3: 2 and 3: 0 . With the eighth and last place, the GAK immediately relegated from the Bundesliga. Nevertheless, in the following league season they managed to reach the promotion playoff with third place, but without a chance to move back into the upper house of Austrian ice hockey.
On December 9, 1972, the long-time GAK chairman Konrad Reinthaler announced the withdrawal of the fighting team from the current Oberliga championship due to financial difficulties, but the youth work continued. For the next two seasons, a syndicate with the Grazer Sportvereinigung (GSV) was agreed for the then third-class league , but this turned out to be unsustainable. In 1976 the section was finally closed.
In the early 1970s one was quite successful in youth work. a. GAK became Styrian youth champion in 1973 and won several tournaments (including youth tournament of the Styrian Ice Hockey Association in 1973 or the Graz Christmas tournament in 1975).
The GAK provided players for the Universiade in 1966 and 1968, including Jochen Pildner-Steinburg, ice hockey section leader in the last few years of its existence and later founder of the EC Graz 99ers .
→ Overview: championship placements in the ice hockey section 1928 to 1935 and 1953 to 1976
Water polo
Even before 1920, water polo was played at the GAK. From 1927 there were regular games again. The section achieved the greatest success in this sport in 1970 and 1971 with the Austrian championship title. It was the first state championship title for an association outside the federal capital Vienna. However, the section was dissolved after the 1971 season and the team of the reigning champions migrated to the ATSE Graz and then (after being promoted from the 2nd division in 1972) until 1982 a total of 9 national champions and 8 indoor champions. This association was then dissolved in 1992.
The trigger was not exclusively financial, but also the fact that there was no training time in the indoor swimming pools in Graz (especially ATG, BEA / HIB Liebenau). In the autumn of 1971 the entire GAK swimming operation (except for diving) was therefore "temporarily" suspended (source: GAK-Mitteilungen 10-1971). One had the hope of reviving the sections with the upcoming construction of the municipal bath in Graz-Eggenberg , but this failed.
In 1970 the GAK also played in the European Cup and numerous players have been appointed to the Austrian national team over the years (including Hans Radl, Horst Kölli, Gert Kölli, Sylvester Castellani, Harald Loidl, Richard Tandl, Günther Gangl). In 1969 the GAK water polo players had already become Austrian indoor champions. The section was also successful in the Styrian championship. a. The titles were won in 1953, 1961, 1966 to 1969.
→ Overview: Placements in the State Water Polo League 1959 to 1971
swim
The section was founded in 1908 and dominated Styrian and Austrian swimming in the inter-war period and in the 1960s. The section won more than 50 Austrian state championship titles and a large number of Austrian records and best performances, in addition to almost 200 Styrian championship titles.
After the First World War u. a. Fritz Rödiger an outstanding personality who u. a. between 1922 and 1931 he won the Austrian championship in 400 m freestyle 7 times, plus Hans Seitz and Rudolf M. Ditmar (husband of two-time national diving champion and Olympic participant Ludovica Sölkner from 1924 ) as top swimmers, who with Rödiger also did a large number of held Austrian records. But the GAK was also successful in the relay competitions before and after the Second World War (including 4 × 100 m freestyle state champions in 1926, 1962, 1964, 1967, 1968 or 4 × 200 m freestyle state champions in 1929 and 1968).
Probably the best-known GAK swimmer is Gert Kölli, who was the 1st Austrian to swim the 100 m freestyle under one minute (59.7 seconds on May 31, 1957 in the indoor pool of the BEA / HIB-Liebenau) and a total of 24 national championship titles (plus two more in water polo - later another nine were added for the ATSE) and has won 41 Styrian championship titles for the GAK. He was also an Olympic participant in 1960 and 1964 as well as a European Championship participant in 1958 , 1962 and 1966 and is the most successful (individual) athlete of the GAK. The second important athlete of the post-war period is Ursula ("Uschi") Seitz (later married Priller), who caused a sensation especially as a back swimmer and won a total of 8 Austrian national championships and 9 indoor championships, she was also a participant in the 1964 Olympic Games and the European championships 1962 and 1966 . These two swimmers alone swam more than 50 Austrian records or best performances!
Another special one of the many Austrian records was set in 1955 by the daughter of Ludovica Sölkner and Rudolf M. Ditmar, Susanne Schneeweiss, in a 100 m chest: the time of 1: 24.8 minutes lasted for an incredible 17 years!
From 1911 the GAK regularly organized swimming competitions, from 1919 also in connection with swimming "Quer durch Graz", as well as numerous Styrian and u. a. 1926 and 1929 the Austrian championships. The GAK leased the Margaretenbad from 1963 to 1971; other outdoor training facilities were the former military swimming school in Körösistraße (in the immediate vicinity of the GAK premises) and the Pammerbad in Graz-Waltendorf.
→ Overview: Austrian state championship swimming section
athletics
Probably the most successful section of the GAK, launched in the year it was founded, and an essential midwife of athletics in Styria and dominator of this sport in the state well into the 1940s with almost 70 state and more than 200 Styrian championship titles. After the Second World War, the reconstruction was difficult, the section was discontinued several times (e.g. because the track in the Körösistraße stadium was used for cycling competitions and was therefore unusable for athletics), finally the section was "temporarily closed" in 1963, as the saying goes.
The most famous personalities before 1945 include u. a. the 1924 Olympian Ferdinand Friebe, who was serial national champion in the middle distance (800 m, 1,500 m) in the 1910s and 1920s and later also section head (known is the Friebe electronics and music store in Grazer Sporgasse), as well as the pole vaulter and Universiade winner of 1927 Raimund Held (after the July putsch 1934 provisional Gauleiter of the NSDAP in Styria, later a building contractor), the two-time 1,500 m state champion Hubert Pugl (later a successful swimming trainer (!) at the ATG), the 100 m runner Karl Glaser, the sprinter, long jumper (and water jumper) Egon Karf (first Austrian over 7 m in the long jump and under 11 seconds on 100 m), the decathlete Hermann Tunner or Adolf Kamputsch, who participated in the Universiade in 1935 and 1937 participated. From the 1920s to the beginning of the 1930s, the GAK - as a so-called "Provincial Club" - was the strongest Austrian athletics club alongside the Viennese clubs WAC and WAF . The "three-club fight" of the clubs mentioned bears witness to this. In 1937 they also won the Austrian club championship (of the federal state clubs).
"I have not campaigned for the cause in vain and sacrificed my time, I have raised a capable offspring who will represent my position well in fierce competitions!"
After the Second World War, the successes became less and the women came to the fore (women's athletics were practiced from 1922): Ludmila Dunst was serial champion in the 800 m and cross-country run in the 1950s and Monika Kager in the early 1960s once champion in the 100 m and 200 m sprint.
There were also three relay state championships to celebrate, namely in 1922 (3 × 1,000 m), 1930 (4 × 1,500 m) and 1954 (4 × 100 m with the 100 m national champion from 1953, Manfred Sewera).
Of course, the GAK also acted as the organizer of athletics competitions, Styrian and Austrian championships from the very beginning, etc. a. there was the first Styrian athletics championships in 1921 at the GAK square. The most spectacular was probably the relay race “Around the Grazer Schlossberg”, which was held forty times between 1919 and 1969 (with 17 victories in the GAK relay by 1940).
→ Overview: Austrian state championship track and field athletics section
Further sections
A little more information about other sections:
- Field handball (1927 to 1963, two-time Austrian national champion, six-time runner-up, nine-time Styrian champion, numerous team players - the section then lost importance with the emergence of small-field handball and the new basketball section; the women also have Styrian championship titles and two runner-ups State championship titles, plus two national players, Erika Hösch and Grete Sulzbacher, who became vice world champions with the Austrian team in 1949)
- Table tennis (until the end of 1948, including 3rd place at the Austrian table tennis championships in 1906 by the founding member Julius Stanger or the Styrian team champion in 1947 and 1948, section dissolved for financial reasons and the player transferred to the Graz Police Sports Association , which then became Styrian champions in 1950 and promoted to the state league)
- Winter sports (great successes at sled and bobsleigh championships up to the 1930s, several national championship titles, e.g. eight by Carl Markel in the skeleton, natural track tobogganing, five-man bobsleigh or four by Hans Volckmar in the two-man bobsleigh, plus Olympic participant in 1936 and World Cup bronze in 1931 , Hubert Pugl ao World Cup participant in 1933 and multiple Styrian champion in special jumping and Nordic combined)
- Cycling (especially in the founding years numerous Styrian championship titles, e.g. Styrian national champion in road races in 1905 by Richard Baumgartner and in 1906 by Egon Schmitz or Styrian national champion in the 100 km race in 1907 Franz Seeger, track cycling competitions at the GAK after the Second World War -Space)
- Figure skating (1916–1921, 1932–1945, e.g. Austrian Vice State Champion 1943 in pair skating by Anneliese Wambera / Walter Hüttner or 5 bronze medals at the Austrian State Championships in 1932 , 1933 (each individual), 1937 to 1939 (pair skating with Pepo Jauernigg) as well as the participation in the figure skating world championship 1935 in Vienna with the women by Helga Dietz-Stepwieser)
→ Overview: Achievements and information on the other sections
General
GAK was of course whether his position as a pioneer in the Styrian and Austrian sports and sports politically active, in addition to the establishment of the German-Alpenländische Football Association in 1911 (now the Styrian Football Association ), it was u. a. Also involved in the founding of the Austrian Swimming Association in 1908 and the Styrian Tennis Association in 1945. The association's accession to the General Sports Association of Austria (ASVÖ) after the Second World War, whose long-standing (honorary) president Armin Arbeiter himself was a successful GAK athlete and functionary, was of particular importance . With the membership of the ASVÖ, the status of the sports facility in the Körösistraße was secured, the ASVÖ bought the land in 1952 and leased it to the club. To this day, the GAK branch clubs (like the parent club) are members of this sports association.
→ Overview: The executive chairmen of the entire association from 1902
literature
- Anton Egger, Kurt Kaiser: Austria's Bundesliga from A – Z. Chronicle from 1974 , Wasendorf, self-published, 1995, ISBN 3-9500332-1-1
- Anton Egger: Austria's Football Championship 1945–1974 , Wasendorf, self-published, 1998, ISBN 3-9500332-2-X
- Michael Pucher et al. a .: Bravo GAK! 100 years of top Austrian football with Styrian tradition , Graz, Steirische Verlagsgesellschaft, 2002, ISBN 3-85489-070-2
- Rudolf Amon: Balance of a success , Graz, self-published, 2004
- Wolfgang Kühnelt , Markus Mörth : Beloved Enemy: The History of the Graz City Derby SK Sturm Graz - GAK 1920–2007 . 1st edition. Leykam Buchverlag , Graz 2008, ISBN 978-3-7011-7643-4 , p. 264 .
- GAK-Mitteilungen (Ed. Grazer Athletiksport Klub [Red.] Konrad Reinthaler [Illustr.]) Born 1960–1977, Styrian Regional Library Graz (shelf mark: AX 3962 4 ° 263452 III)
- 100 years of GAK water jumping (Ed. GAK water jumping [Red.] Dr. Armin Lind) own publisher, undated
- ATSE Graz 1947–2017. Ice hockey for 70 years. Festschrift for the 70th anniversary of the ice hockey section of ATSE Graz (publisher / editor ATSE Graz - ice hockey section) self-published, undated
- Arbeiterzeitung with its online archive: www.arbeiter-zeitung.at
Web links
- Official website
- Soccer
- tennis
- Diving
- basketball
- GAK - Juniors
- Private homepage on GAK history: geschichtegak.jimdo.com
- Private homepage on GAK history: www.gakarchiv.at
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