SK Austria Carinthia

Austria Carinthia
Full name	SK Austria Kelag Carinthia
place
Founded	May 28, 1946 as ATSV Pasching June 1, 2007 move to Carinthia
Dissolved	June 14, 2010
Club colors	Black and white silver
Stadion	Hypo Group Arena
Top league	Bundesliga
successes	FC Superfund Pasching: 3rd place 2004 , 2006 SK Austria Kärnten: 6th place 2009
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The SK Austria Kärnten (officially SK Austria Kelag Kärnten ) was an Austrian football club that had its headquarters in the Carinthian capital Klagenfurt from 2007 to 2010 ; the club colors were black, white and silver.

history

→ The story before 2007 is discussed in more detail in the article ASKÖ Pasching .

In a general assembly on May 10, 2007, the then Bundesliga team ASKÖ Pasching decided to relocate its club headquarters to Carinthia on June 1, 2007. In a further general assembly on June 1st the name was changed to SK Austria Kärnten . This name was chosen based on the long-term first division club SK Austria Klagenfurt , which is now called FC Kärnten .

This was preceded by negotiations between the Carinthian Governor Jörg Haider , who was previously President of FC Carinthia, with Pasching President Franz Grad . The relocation of the club was compensated with three million euros, a new club called FC Pasching , which started again at the fifth highest Austrian level in a syndicate, was also founded. The first president of SKA Kärnten was Haider's BZÖ party colleague Mario Canori , a former vice mayor of Klagenfurt. The board was made up of numerous people from Haider's political environment.

SK Austria Kärnten took over several players from Pasching in its first season, mainly young players from FC Kärnten and veterans of the Bundesliga relegated GAK . In addition, Walter Schachner, an experienced coach, was hired who had already won the ÖFB Cup with FC Kärnten and was able to participate in the UEFA Cup and advance to the top division . The new team found it difficult to come together and soon found themselves in a relegation battle. After the club had slipped to last place in the table for the first time after 21 match days, the separation from coach Walter Schachner was announced.

For a short time, Klaus Schmidt was appointed as the new coach, Frenk Schinkels became the new sports director. On February 24, 2008 Schmidt was released from his coaching activities. According to President Canori, Schinkels himself took over as coach until the end of the season in personal union with his previous position as sports director. Schinkels managed to keep the league with a goalless draw against Ried in the penultimate round.

In the spring of 2008 Schinkels presented a concept that should better bind the association to the state. In addition to strong legionnaires, many Carinthians should wear the SK Austria Kärnten dress. But a large number of the talents of the second division relegated FC Kärnten signed with other clubs, while SKA Kärnten came away empty-handed. Schinkels increased the coaching team during this same transfer period and hired ex- Sturm Graz player Hannes Reinmayr as the second assistant coach alongside Roman Stary .

Schinkels resigned on November 21, 2009 after a 3-0 home defeat against Mattersburg , after which Roman Stary took on the role of coach on an interim basis. From November 26th, 2009 the Slovenian Jože Prelogar was the new coach. Nevertheless, the season was catastrophic for the Carinthians, who were already relegated four game days before the end. Subsequently, on May 28, 2010, the permanent neutral court of arbitration did not grant the club a Bundesliga license in the third and last instance, which is necessary for the first and second division. The SKA Kärnten therefore had to go into amateur football and immediately relegated to the third-class regional league middle .

On June 14, 2010, both the club and its wholly owned subsidiary, SK Austria Kelag Kärnten Wirtschaftsbetriebe GmbH , which was responsible for marketing the advertising space, players and perimeter advertising, filed for bankruptcy. The club stopped playing because neither the state of Carinthia nor the city of Klagenfurt wanted to support SK Austria Kärnten financially. The SK Austria Klagenfurt is considered by many fans as the unofficial successor club. The club, which was founded in 2007, started in the 2010 season with some players from the insolvent SK Austria Kärnten in the Regionalliga Mitte and also hosts its home games in the Hypo Group Arena in Klagenfurt.

Stadion

SK Austria Kärnten came into being at a time when there was no Bundesliga suitable stadium in Klagenfurt due to the Wörthersee Stadium, which was still under construction at the time. The first home game of the 2007/08 season against FC Red Bull Salzburg was played in the Paschinger Waldstadion . The following two home games were played in the Fischl sports center in Klagenfurt. On September 16, 2007, the first home game took place in the new Hypo Group Arena in Klagenfurt against FK Austria Wien , which SK Austria Kärnten won 2-1.

Last squad in spring 2010

goalkeeper
01	Andreas Schranz
22nd	Georg Blatnik
24	Heinz Weber

defender
02	Marco Salvatore
03	Fernando Troyansky
04th	Oliver Pusztai
07th	Luka Elsner
23	Daniel Gramann
26th	Michael Sollbauer

midfield player
06th	Thomas Riedl
11	Sandro
17th	Leonhard Kaufmann
18th	Thomas Hinum
19th	Matthias Dollinger
21st	Jocelyn Blanchard
25th	Stefan Hierländer
29	Peter Pucker
32	Mario Kroepfl

striker
09	Wolfgang Mair
08th	Admir Medjedović
20th	Goran Aleksic
31	Markus Pink

Best goalscorers by season since 2007/08

season	Surname	nationality	Gates
2007/08	Roland Kollmann		5
2008/09	Adi		10
2009/10	Stefan Hierländer , Thomas Hinum , Sandro	, ,	4th

Player since 2007/08

• Manuel Weber (64/4)
• Thierry Fidjeu-Tazemeta (17/1)
• Adam Ledwoń (30/0)
• Martin Hiden (11/1)
• Heinz Lienhart (0/0)
• Sandro Zakany (21/0)
• Gernot Plassnegger (18/0)
• Lukas Mössner (27/2)
• Roland Kollmann (26/5)
• Alexander Hauser (16/2)
• Péter Kabat (11/2)
• Joseph Ngwenya (1/0)
• Stephan Stückler (1/0)
• Aleksandar Šarić (0/0)
• Gerald Krajic (23/3)
• Adi (16/10)
• Gerhard Breitenberger (3/0)
• Marcel Ketelaer (6/0)
• Zlatko Junuzović (57/3)
• Thomas Riedl (2007-2010) (69/0)

Women's soccer

The women's fighting team continues despite the dissolution of the men's team. The team has been taken over by FC St. Veit in the meantime, re-incorporated into SK Austria Kärnten in 2009 under the name SK KELAG Kärnten and taken over again in 2011 by FC St. Veit. In 2013 the team was renamed Carinthians - Soccer Women . Under this name she still plays in the Austrian Women's Bundesliga and is considered the best women's team in Carinthia. The players play their home games on the Glanegg sports field.

Well-known players

• Bettina Bistroivčs (Austrian national player)
• Nicole Gatternig (Austrian national player)
• Marlies Hanschitz (Austrian national player)
• Anna-Carina Kristler (Austrian national player)
• Alja Krznarič (Slovenian national player)
• Anja Milenkovič (Slovenian national player)
• Melanie Schurgast
• Jasmina Skalič (Slovenian national player)
• Nike Winter (Austrian national player)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sportportal Klagenfurt  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ kaernten.orf.at
3. ↑ SK Austria Kärnten has filed for bankruptcy. In: kaernten.orf.at . June 14, 2010, accessed June 14, 2010 . 
4. ↑ Carinthia files for bankruptcy. In: orf.at . June 14, 2010, accessed on June 14, 2010 : "The Klagenfurt football club is broke." 
5. ↑ opener in the OFB-woman league (1/7/2009). (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 27, 2013 ; Retrieved October 8, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ The SK Kärnten becomes FC St. Veit (July 1st, 2011). Archived from the original on September 13, 2014 . 

Web links

• Interview with Mario Canori on Comvivo-TV