SK Bischofshofen
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| Basic data | |
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| Surname | Bischofshofen sports club |
| Seat | Bischofshofen , State of Salzburg |
| founding | 1933 |
| Colours | blue White |
| Board | Herbert Wagner (chairman) Patrick Reiter (chairman deputy) |
| Website | bsk.wearedos.at |
| First soccer team | |
| Head coach | Thomas Heissl |
| Venue | Bischofshofen sports field |
| Places | 1,000 |
| league | Eliteliga Salzburg |
| 2018/19 | 16th place ( Regionalliga West ) |
The Sportklub Bischofshofen is an Austrian sports club from the city of Bischofshofen in the state of Salzburg . The football section counted alongside Austria Salzburg and the Salzburger AK 1914 for over three decades to the best football clubs of the province of Salzburg and was in the 1971-72 season of the National Football League , the then highest Austrian play class.
history
Foundation and promotion to the Tauern League
The club was founded in 1933 under its current name and has the club colors blue and white. The Pongauers appeared for the first time when they participated as the first representative of "Innergebirge" ( Pongau , Pinzgau , Lungau ) in the Salzburg post-war championship in 1945/46. In the next few years, Bischofshofen only reached places in the lower third of the table, but was able to establish itself in the state class, the highest league for clubs in the state of Salzburg at the time.
In 1949, the sports club failed with ninth place in qualifying for the newly founded Tauern League . In the following season 1949/50, the Pongau won the championship title in the 1st (state) class and thus made their first promotion to the second division of Austria. After the immediate relegation, the Pongauer returned to the Tauern League after a year with the second championship title in the first class and from then on they were able to successfully establish themselves in the second division.
In the 1950s and 1960s, when the best Salzburg football clubs switched back and forth between amateur and professional football, the people of Pongau had their first major successes. In the 1955/56 season they won the championship of the Tauern League, which had now been divided, and were only the second "country club" after the Hallein AC (1939) to win the state championship. While the two qualifiers for the State League against the runner-up of the southern group, ASK Klagenfurt each with 0: lost 2, succeeded in the same game year as a consolation to the initial place in the final of the Salzburger Land Cup, which, however, short of 2: 3, the final opponents SV Bürmoos for decided. The following season 1956/57 the SK Bischofshofen finished again as champions of the Tauernliga Nord, but failed again in the promotion games, in which Salzburg won their home game against Wolfsberger AC 3-1, but away in Carinthia Lost 1: 5. In return, the Bischofshofener celebrated their only win of the state cup to date with a 3: 1 final victory over ASV Blau-Weiß Salzburg .
After top positions in the Tauern League, the Pongau were surprisingly relegated to the third division state division in 1962, but were immediately returned to the second division in the following year. In 1965, Bischofshofen reached the quarter-finals of the Austrian Cup competition with successes over SV Post Admira Linz (3: 1) and SC Marchegg (1: 0) and defied the 1. Wiener Neustädter SC at home with a well-deserved 0: 0 . In the replay that was forced by this - there was no penalty shoot-out yet - the Salzburg team lost out with 1: 6 in Wiener Neustadt against the eventual cup finalists.
As the third power of the state in the regional league
From 1967 to 1970, the SK Bischofshofen crowned themselves as the best representative of the federal state in the Regionalliga West, introduced in 1960, four times in a row as Salzburg champions. This title was very coveted at the time and was also highly valued in sport until the 1970s. The so-called "Landverein" from Bischofshofen had long been the third determining force behind Austria Salzburg, which had turned into a professional club, and its main rival for the SAK 1914 national championship title, although it was no longer surprising that the Pongauers were far more successful at that time than the team from the state capital. The importance of the BSK was also recognized by the fact that it was the third club in the state after Austria (Gerngroß) and SAK 1914 (Mirabella-Küchen) to present an association sponsor with "Tahiti".
On promotion to the national league , Bischofshofen failed in 1969 and 1970 for the time being as runner-up at the Vorarlberg clubs FC Dornbirn and Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz . At the end of the 1970/71 game year, the Pongauers were six points ahead of their first rival BW Feldkirch at the top of the Regionalliga West for the first time. With the promotion to the national league, as the third Salzburg club after Austria and the SAK in 1914, the amateur club from Bischofshofen celebrated its greatest success to this day. Another highlight of the season was the home game in the first round of the ÖFB Cup, in which the blue-whites wrested a draw from the first division club FK Austria Wien (2-2). In the second leg in Vienna that was forced to do so, Bischofshofen had no chance and was eliminated from the cup with 1: 5.
As an amateur club in the national league
As expected, the SK Bischofshofen could not hold their own in the professional league, despite high ambitions, but at least the Pongauers managed to attract attention with some results. After an opening defeat in Innsbruck , the club achieved a respectable 1-1 against Grazer AK in the first national league home game in front of 4,000 spectators . The only victory came in the ninth round with a goal by Fleissner on his own BSK pitch in front of 2,000 spectators against FC Admira / Wacker . The other highlights of the season, besides the success against the Südstadt team, were the only two Salzburg derbies that have taken place in the first division . On June 3, 1972, Bischofshofen led to goals by Gabriel and Hähn against the then current runner-up Austria Salzburg completely surprisingly 2-0 before they managed a draw with two goals from Grosser in the last quarter of an hour. In the Lehen stadium, however, Salzburg Austria celebrated an undisputed 3-1 success over the small country club on October 30, 1971.
In total, the Pongau team won only eight points from one win and six draws (2: 2 Vienna , 3: 3 LASK , 1: 1 Eisenstadt , 0: 0 Simmering ). Apart from the highest defeat of the season against Eisenstadt (0: 6), the defeats of the Pongauers against the big clubs were quite close (0: 1 away against the record champions Rapid Vienna and Grazer AK, 1: 2 against Austria Vienna, SK Sturm Graz and VÖEST Linz ).
The descent from the second to the fifth performance level
After relegation, he was runner-up in the second-rate regional league in 1974 (one point behind FC Dornbirn) and was the last to win the national championship title. Second place was also enough to qualify for the single-track second Bundesliga (then still known as the "National League"), which was newly introduced in the following game year 1974/75. There, Bischofshofen took tenth place and was relegated to the third level (Salzburg League) for the first time since 1963. In 1978 the Regionalliga (then Alpine League) was reintroduced, as a result of which the Salzburg League was relegated to the fourth division and Bischofshofen was therefore considered fourth class for the first time in the club's long history. From 1985 to 1988 the blue-whites played again for three years in the Regionalliga West, before after another four years of playing in the Salzburg League, they crashed into the first regional league, which at that time was only fifth-rate due to a reform. After the reinstallation of the year-round Regionalliga West, this league counted again as the fourth level from 1997. In 1999, the worst failure in the long history of the club followed with the relegation to the 2. Landesliga Süd. From now on, the Bischofshofener counted as a "real" fifth division. Instead of playing against Austria Salzburg, Rapid and Austria Vienna in the national league or SAK 1914, FC Dornbirn, WSG Wattens in the regional league, the Pongau players now played against clubs from Mühlbach am Hochkönig , Bramberg , Uttendorf , Stuhlfelden and Hüttschlag .
Since then, the SK Bischofshofen has been constantly moving between the first and second regional leagues. In the years from 2003 to 2005 it was only enough to be runner-up in the 2nd regional league behind TSV St. Johann , SC Mittersill and SG Saalfelden. The declared goal of the traditional club from Pongau is to return to the 1st regional league for the current 2006/07 season.
Highest league participation
- 1 × First level : 1972 (National League)
- 22 × Second level : 1951, 1953–1960 (Tauern League), 1961–1962, 1964–1971, 1973–1974 (Regionalliga West), 1975 (Nationalliga)
- 8 × third level: 1950 (regional class), 1952 (1st class), 1963 (regional league), 1976–1977 (Salzburg league), 1986–1988 (Regionalliga West)
- 4 × First regional level: 1946–1949 (Salzburg regional class)
titles and achievements
- 9 × Salzburg national champions : 1956, 1957, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974
- 1 × Salzburg State Cup winner : 1957
- 3 × champions 2nd division: 1956, 1957 (Tauernliga North), 1971 (Regionalliga West)
- 3 × champions 3rd division: 1950, 1952 (1st class Salzburg), 1963 (regional league),
- 1 × champion 4th division: 1985 (1st regional division)
- 1 × Champion 5th division: 2000 (2nd regional league south)
- 1 × Salzburg state cup finalist : 1956
- 1 × ÖFB Cup quarter-finalist: 1965
BSK Ravens
In 2018, the American football team, founded in 2012 as AFC Pongau Ravens, was added as an independent section. They have been playing their home games in Bischofshofen since the 2018 season. The BSK Ravens currently play in AFL Division 4.
Known players
- Franz Aigner (Former Austrian national player , UEFA Cup finalist and Bundesliga player for Austria Salzburg and Sturm Graz)
- Anton Aigner (Former Bundesliga player at Austria Salzburg)
- Peter Arzböck (11 international matches for the Austrian amateur national team)
- Erich Brezovsek (11 international matches for the Austrian amateur national team)
- Norbert Ebster
- Adi Macek (1973-1975)