FC Kufstein

FC Kufstein
Basic data
Surname	Kufstein football club
Seat	Kufstein , Tyrol
founding	1987 1919 (SV Kufstein) 1948 (ESV Kufstein)
Colours	Blue-black
president	Johannes Rauch
ZVR number	504873917
Website	fc-kufstein.at
First soccer team
Head coach	Ognjen Zaric
Venue	Kufstein Arena (formerly Grenzlandstadion)
Places	5,000
league	Regionalliga Tirol
2018/19	4th place ( Regionalliga West )
home Away

The FC Kufstein is an Austrian football club from the municipality of Kufstein in the district of Kufstein in Tyrol and was founded in the 1987th The club was founded in 1987 through the merger of the two clubs SC Kufstein and ESV Kufstein . The club colors of the two fusion clubs (SC Kufstein blue-white, ESV Kufstein black-white) were combined to blue-white-black. In 1987 the Unterinntaler were represented in the 2nd division. The fighting team plays in the Regionalliga West , the third highest division in Austria.

history

SV Kufstein

1929-1945
season	Place (particip.)	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
Tyrolean B-Class
1929/30	02.	not complete data
Tyrolean A class
1930/31	07. (7)	12	02	01	09	09:28	05
Class Unterland
1931/32	not complete data
1932/33	not complete data
1933/34	01. (6)	not complete data
1934/35	not complete data
1935/36	not complete data
1936/37	not complete data
1937/38	not complete data
Tyrolean District League Unterland
1938/39 K1 K2	not complete data
1939/40 K2	Cancellation of the championship
1940/41 K2	not complete data
1941/42 K2	not complete data
1942/43 K2	not complete data
1944	not participated
1945	not carried out
Legend
	Tyrolean master or advancement
	descent
K1 Change of championship mode and renaming of the league. K2 Championship was canceled.

The Kufstein sports club was founded in 1919. The operator of the first founding of a football club in Kufstein was the German Arthur Lamche , who had settled here and was active in German football clubs that were well known at the time. The Kufsteiner founding team consisted of players Arthur Lamche, Emmerich book Auer, Karl Link, Rudolf Monitzer, Hermann Schlüter, Anton Schmid, Hans Schwaiger, Peter Zott, Josef Höhne, Robert Huttig, Friedl Issing, Alois Schmid, King, Bamberger and Kremmel together . The Kufsteiners had to wait until 1925 for the Grenzlandstadion to open. In the 1929/30 season, SV Kufstein entered the Tyrolean championship in what was then the B-class and came in second. In 1930/31 he was the first club from the Tyrolean "province" to play in the A-class, which was the highest level for Tyrolean clubs at the time. In the A class, the Kufsteiners competed against the clubs Innsbrucker AC , FC Veldidena Innsbruck , FC Wacker Innsbruck , SV Hötting , SV Innsbruck and SC Lichtwerke Innsbruck. The SV Kufstein could not assert itself against the overwhelming opponents and finished last with five points. After relegation, the Kufsteiners played in the Unterland district until 1937. Despite several championship honors in this class, promotion was no longer sought. During the war years, SV Kufstein stopped playing.

SC Kufstein

1946-1987
season	Place (particip.)	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
Class Unterland
1946 K1	02. (7)	06th	05	00	01	37: 40	10
Tyrolean regional league
1946/47 K1	06. (10)	18th	06th	05	07th	38:39	17th
1947/48	2. (10)	18th	11	04th	03	45:21	26th
1948/49 K2	1. (10)	18th	14th	02	02	53:16	30th
1949/50	4. (8)	14th	08th	00	06th	40:28	16
Arlbergliga
1950/51 K1	7. (12)	22nd	11	01	10	46:41	23
1951/52	10. (12)	22nd	06th	04th	12	34:44	16
1952/53	10. (12)	22nd	06th	04th	12	30:55	00
1953/54	12. (12)	Championship exit
Tyrolean regional league
1954/55	7. (9)	16	06th	02	08th	37:44	14th
1955/56	5. (10)	18th	06th	04th	08th	28:41	16
1956/57	3. (10)	18th	11	03	06th	42:24	25th
1957/58	4. (10)	18th	07th	03	08th	48:40	17th
1958/59	not complete data
1959/60	1.	not complete data
Regionalliga West
1960/61 K1	7. (12)	22nd	09	06th	07th	27:27	24
1961/62	7. (12)	22nd	08th	05	09	27:39	21st
1962/63	5. (12)	22nd	06th	10	06th	41:27	22nd
1963/64	3. (12)	22nd	11	04th	07th	42:32	26th
1964/65	6. (12)	22nd	07th	06th	09	34:45	20th
1965/66	10. (12)	22nd	07th	04th	11	20:33	18th
Tyrolean regional league
1966/67	1.	not complete data
Regionalliga West
1967/68	5. (14)	26th	12	05	09	45:35	29
1968/69	6. (14)	26th	11	07th	08th	52:35	29
1969/70	12. (14)	26th	08th	08th	10	39:45	24
Tyrolean regional league
1970/71	not complete data
1971/72	not complete data
1972/73	1.	not complete data
Regionalliga West
1973/74	7. (14)	26th	09	06th	11	28:33	24
Tyrolean regional league
1974/75	2. (12)	not complete data
1975/76	3. (12)	not complete data
1976/77	11. (12)	not complete data
1977/78	not complete data
1978/79	not complete data
1979/80	not complete data
1980/81	1.	not complete data
Regionalliga West
1981/82	5. (14)	26th	11	05	10	43:27	27
1982/83	1. (13)	24	13	08th	03	50:22	34
2nd division
1983/84	15. (16)	30th	06th	09	15th	26:50	21st
1984/85	7. (16)	30th	12	07th	11	34:33	31
Regionalliga West
1985/86 K1	1. (14)	26th	20th	05	01	64:12	45
2nd Division / Lower Playoff
1986/87	8. (12)	22nd	09	03	10	29:33	21st
	4. (8)	36	13	10	13	45:48	36
Legend
	Ascent
	descent
K1 Change of championship mode and renaming of the league. K2 The remaining games were no longer played after the championship was decided.

Logo of SC Kufstein (1946–1987)

After the Second World War , the club was reactivated as the Kufstein sports club as the first sports club in Tyrol. In the media, SC Kufstein was often referred to as "SK" Kufstein. The club invited well-known national and foreign teams to the Grenzlandstadion at Fischergries and experienced an upswing. Former national player Franz “Bimbo” Binder , who ended up in Kufstein during the chaos of war, played a major role in this . The former striker of SK Rapid Wien let his great career as a player come to an end here and then supported SC Kufstein as a coach and also as an advisor. The club started the championship in 1946 as runner-up in the Unterland class, played in the regional league from 1946/47 and in 1949 was the first team to win the Tyrolean championship title outside of Innsbruck. From 1950/51 onwards, SC Kufstein played for the first time nationally in the Arlbergliga for four seasons , organized by clubs from Tyrol and Vorarlberg. In the fall of 1953, however, the Kufsteiners resigned from the current championship as a protest against alleged wrong decisions by referees and from then on played again in the national league. As their champions in 1960, SC Kufstein was there with the founding of the Regionalliga West in 1960/61 - as the country's second highest division at the time - and held the league until 1966 (best placement: 3rd place in the 1963/64 season) and after the immediate resurgence again until 1970. In the last year of this league as the second highest division (1973/74), the Kufsteiners played with and reached rank 7. In between and up to promotion to the Regionalliga West as the third highest division in 1981, the SC Kufstein played with varying success in the Tyrolean Landesliga (later called Tyrolean League). In the new league, SC Kufstein was able to establish itself immediately and celebrate the championship title for the first time in the second season 1982/83; so he played for the first time in a national league, the 2nd division . After a lucky league (the sports club remained penultimate due to the dissolution of the league), the club had to relegate in the second year just as unhappily after rank 7 among 16 teams due to a league reform. However, SC Kufstein succeeded in 1985/86 with the renewed championship title in the Regionalliga West, the immediate promotion to the 2nd division and he managed to stay there.

SC Kufstein played a total of 15 times in the Austrian Football Cup . A first high point was the 1963/64 season, when the Kufsteiners were eliminated after a 2-0 win against WAC in the round of 16 with 1: 2 against SK Rapid Wien . In 1964/65 they also failed only in the second round with 2: 4 away at ATSV Ranshofen. In 1973/74 SC Kufstein lost in the 1/16 final to the second major Viennese club, Wiener Austria 0-1. In 1986/87, the last year of the club, the Tyroleans finally reached the round of 16 again, losing 1-0 after extra time to Austria Salzburg .

ESV Kufstein

1948-1987
season	Place (particip.)	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
Class Unterland
1948/49 K2	not complete data
1949/50	not complete data
1950/51 K1	not complete data
1951/52	not complete data
1952/53	not complete data
1953/54	not complete data
1st class Innsbruck
1954/55	not complete data
	1. (3)	not complete data
Tyrolean regional league
1955/56	9. (10)	18th	05	03	10	38:58	13
Class Unterland
1956/57	not complete data
1957/58	not complete data
1958/59	not complete data
1959/60	not complete data
1960/61 K1	not complete data
1961/62	not complete data
Tyrolean regional league
1962/63	6. (12)	not complete data
1963/64	12. (12)	not complete data
Class Unterland
1964/65	not complete data
1965/66	not complete data
1966/67	not complete data
1967/68	not complete data
1968/69	not complete data
1969/70	not complete data
1970/71	not complete data
1971/72	not complete data
1972/73	not complete data
1973/74	not complete data
1974/75	not complete data
Tyrolean Regional League (ascent unknown)
1975/76	not complete data
1976/77	not complete data
1977/78	not complete data
1978/79	not complete data
1979/80	not complete data
1980/81	4. (14)	not complete data
1981/82	11. (14)	not complete data
1982/83	13. (14)	not complete data
1983/84	13. (14)	not complete data
Regional League East
1984/85	not complete data
1985/86 K1	not complete data
1986/87	not complete data
Legend
	Ascent
	descent
K1 Change of championship mode and renaming of the league. K2 The remaining games were no longer played after the championship was decided.

The football section of the Kufstein Railway Sports Club was founded in 1948 and existed until the merger with SC Kufstein in 1987. The club played in the top Tyrolean league in the 1950s and 1970s until the 1983/84 season. The sporting climax was reached in the 1980/81 season when ESV Kufstein finished the Tyrolean regional league in 4th place. The remaining three seasons played the ESV Kufstein in the fifth-class Landesliga Ost.

One of the club's greatest successes was the U13 team's participation in the finals (loss to Austria Wien ) at the Austrian junior championships in 1976/77. In the last few years of the club's activity, the cooperation with SC Kufstein has already intensified in the junior division, which ultimately prepared the merger of the combat teams.

FC Kufstein

1987 - today
season	Place (particip.)	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
2nd Division / Lower Playoff
1987/88	6. (12)	22nd	07th	08th	07th	30:25	22nd
	5. (8)	36	11	12	13	43:41	34
2nd division / middle playoff
1988/89	3. (12)	22nd	08th	09	05	37:34	25th
	8. (8)	14th	01	01	12	12:28	03
2nd Division / Lower Playoff
1989/90	12. (12)	22nd	01	04th	17th	18:46	06th
	8. (8)	36	02	11	23	33:70	12
Regionalliga West
1990/91	6. (14)	26th	11	09	06th	42:35	31
1991/92	4. (14)	26th	13	04th	09	43:29	30th
Regionalliga West / Promotion Group West
1992/93 K1	not complete data
	1. (8)	14th	10	02	02	40: 80	22nd
2nd division
1993/94	11. (16)	30th	10	08th	12	31:38	28
1994/95	9. (16)	30th	10	09	11	32:44	29
1995/96 K2	12. (16)	30th	09	08th	13	33:42	35
1996/97	10. (16)	30th	12	05	13	29:42	41
1997/98	13. (15)	28	05	13	10	22:37	28
Regionalliga West
1998/99	6. (16)	30th	15th	08th	07th	42:27	53
1999/2000	5. (16)	30th	13	06th	11	46:46	45
2000/01	3. (16)	30th	19th	05	06th	67:34	62
2001/02	5. (16)	30th	14th	09	07th	50:38	51
2002/03	4. (16)	30th	14th	10	06th	71:36	52
2003/04	6. (16)	30th	15th	02	13	55:44	47
2004/05	1. (16)	30th	17th	07th	06th	68:35	58
2nd division
2005/06	10. (10)	36	04th	04th	28	23:93	16
Regionalliga West
2006/07	4. (16)	30th	13	12	05	48:27	51
2007/08	2. (16)	30th	17th	03	10	73:49	54
2008/09	6. (16)	30th	13	10	07th	66:46	49
2009/10	5. (16)	30th	15th	06th	09	69:51	51
2010/11	4. (16)	30th	16	07th	07th	67:45	55
2011/12	5. (16)	30th	14th	04th	12	58:44	46
2012/13	4. (16)	30th	16	06th	08th	70:41	54
2013/14	8. (16)	30th	09	09	12	49:58	36
2014/15	8. (16)	30th	12	05	13	56:59	41
2015/16	11. (16)	30th	10	07th	13	43:45	37
2016/17	7. (16)	30th	12	05	13	53:51	41
2017/18	10. (16)	30th	11	05	14th	56:53	38
2018/19	4. (16)	30th	16	07th	07th	55:31	00
Regionalliga Tirol
2019/20 K1	0. (10)	0	0	0	0	0:0	0
Legend
	Ascent
	descent
K1 Change of championship mode and renaming of the league. K11995/96: Introduction of the three-point rule .

Logo of FC Kufstein (1987–1993)

In 1987, the second division SC Kufstein merged with the city competitor ESV Kufstein (then Landesliga Ost, 5th division) to form FC Kufstein . The newly founded club played in the 2nd division from 1987/88 to 1989/90 and in 1989 reached the promotion play-off to the 1st Bundesliga. There the four worst-placed first division clubs competed with the four best clubs in the 2nd division. However, Kufstein could not intervene in the game for promotion and only finished eighth and last (as the sixteenth-best club in Austria, nevertheless, the best placement in the club's history). After relegation in 1990, the soccer club played three seasons in the Regionalliga West and in 1992/93 won promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga with the championship title. This time the club was able to hold its own for five seasons in the league and achieved ninth place in the 1994/95 season as the best result. At the end of the 1997/98 season, relegation to the regional league followed again with 13th place. There the club held in the years 1999-2004 in the top third of the table. In the 2002/03 game year, the Kufsteiners won the Tiroler Landespokal (TFV-Pokal) for the third time after a 2-2 and a 3-2 victory on penalties against SC Kundl (the two previous cups were won by the predecessor club SC Kufstein 1983 and the second team of FC Kufstein 1990). The finals of 2001, 2004 and 2005 were lost against SV Axams (or SPG Axams / Götzens). In 2004/05 the Tyroleans won the championship title of the Regionalliga West for the third time. In the 2005/06 season, FC Kufstein therefore played in the second-rate first division , but had to relegate back to the Regionalliga West after just one year. There, FC Kufstein established itself in the front half of the table (between places 2 and 6). In the seasons 2009/10, 2011/12 and 2012/13 three more victories in the Tyrolean State Cup with victories on penalties against SPG Reichenau / Union, SV Reutte and SC Schwaz.

FC Kufstein plays regularly in the Austrian Football Cup and only failed to qualify for the main competition four times. Already in the first year 1987/88 the club reached the round of 16, where it was not until the penalty shoot-out against VfB Mödling . There were no major successes, mostly the Kufsteiners failed early against lower-class opponents. Only in the 1991/92 season was another respectable success achieved with a 0: 1 in the 1/16 final against FC Tirol .

In 2018 FC Kufstein got a first-class addition. The 139-time Bundesliga player (27 goals), 164-time second division player (68 goals) and World Cup participant for Cameroon Mohamadou Idrissou now plays for FC Kufstein in Austria's third division. The 39-time national player was previously active in the Austrian fourth division ÖTSU Hallein in the Salzburg league . Idrissou had actually declared his career over after leaving KFC Uerdingen 05 in January 2017 - but celebrated his comeback in Austria around a year later. With the abolition of the Regionalliga West, the Kufsteiners will play in the Regionalliga Tirol from the 2019/20 season.

FC Kufstein amateurs

In succession to ESV Kufstein, since the merger in 1987, a second team from FC Kufstein has been taking part in the game (usually made up of young players), which in its second year of existence, 1989, achieved the championship title in the Landesliga Ost (5th division) and thus promotion . After the most successful club year in the 1989/90 season (6th place in the Tyrolean League and victory in the Tyrolean Cup), the team had to relegate back to the Landesliga Ost in 1991, where they have been since then (with the exception of the 2010/11 season when the amateurs became champions in the regional league east after relegation). The Kufsteiners were champions in 1998 and were promoted to promotion in 2006, but were not allowed to return to the Tyrolean league for regulatory reasons.

In the 1990/91 season, FC Kufstein played amateurs as Tyrolean Cup winners once in the Austrian Football Cup , they were drawn against their own professional team, of all places; the unequal "brother duel" was lost with 2:12.

Kufstein Arena (Grenzlandstadion)

The Grenzlandstadion was opened on September 13, 1925. The football field is a natural stadium, so it was characterized by its elevation on the east side and was especially feared by opposing teams for this reason for many years. The club recorded its historic record attendance on June 20, 1946, when around 7,000 visitors filled the stadium in a 4-2 defeat by a Tyrolean team against Upper Austria. Similar audience numbers were later only achieved at international friendly matches in the 1980s, when u. a. of FC Bayern München in Kufstein guested. The official capacity was eventually reduced to around 5,000 spectators. The stadium was practically "sold out" only once at a championship game: at the opening of the spring season in March 1989 against Austria Salzburg .

The border station was completely refurbished in 1999 and is still owned by the association today. With the opening of the new Kufstein Arena sports center in 2005, the stadium was incorporated into the area and officially renamed.

In addition to a few preparatory matches between international professional teams and youth matches, two friendly international matches took place in the Kufstein Arena in preparation for the 2010 World Cup : South Korea against Belarus (0: 1) on May 30, 2010 and Serbia against Poland (0: 0) on May 2 June 2010. This was repeated in the run-up to the European Football Championship 2012 , when even the co-hosts Ukraine (4-0 against Estonia on May 28, 2012) and participants Greece (1-0 against Armenia on May 31, 2012) in Kufstein made a guest appearance at the 2014 World Cup when Cameroon played two preparatory games against Macedonia (2: 0) on May 26, 2014 and Paraguay (1: 2) on May 29, 2014 and before the 2016 European Soccer Championship , when the Czech Republic played against Malta (6-0) on May 27, 2016.

titles and achievements

• 14 × second division participation: 1950/51 to 1953/54 ( Arlbergliga ), 1960/61 to 1965/66, 1967/68 to 1969/70 (Regionalliga West), 1986/87 ( 2nd division )
• 4 × Champion Regionalliga West : 1983, 1986 (SC), 1993, 2005 (FC)
• 5 × champions of the Tyrolean League : 1949, 1960, 1967, 1973, 1981 (SC)

• 4 × round of 16 in the Austrian Football Cup : 1963/64, 1964/65, 1986/87 (SC), 1987/88 (FC)
• 6 × Tyrolean regional cup winners : 1983 (SC), 1990 (amateurs), 2003, 2010, 2012, 2013 (FC)
• 4 × finalist of the Tyrolean Football Cup: 2001, 2004, 2005, 2008 (FC)

Web links

• Official homepage of FC Kufstein
• Website of FC Kufstein on fussballoesterreich.at

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tiroler Tageszeitung from October 12, 1953, p. 6
2. ↑ http://www.rsssf.com/tableso/oostcuphistfull.html
3. ↑ laola1.at: Mohamadou Idrissou mourns the move to Salzburg , accessed on November 23, 2018
4. ↑ bild.de: Ex-Bundesliga star Mo Idrissou plays for € 540 per month , accessed on November 23, 2018
5. ↑ transfermarkt.at: Idrissou plays in the 3rd division of Austria , accessed on November 23, 2018
6. ↑ sportbuzzer.de: Former 96 player Idrissou changes to the 3rd division of Austria , accessed on November 23, 2018
7. ↑ FC Kufstein, 2019/20, KM, tables. In: fussballoesterreich.at. Retrieved September 13, 2019 . 
8. ^ Graf, Karl: Tyrolean sports history: gymnastics and sport until 1955: developments, clubs, champions. Innsbruck: Haymon-Verlag, 1996, p. 193