SK St. Andrä
| SK St. Andrä | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Surname | St. Andrä sports club |
| Seat | Sankt Andrä , Carinthia |
| founding | 1946 |
| Colours | Red White |
| president | Rainer Hofmeister |
| ZVR number | 567620981 |
| First soccer team | |
| Head coach | Gundolf Stocker |
| Venue | St. Andrä sports field |
| Places | |
| league | Lower league east |
| 2018/19 | 7th place |
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The SK St. Andrae is an Austrian football club from the Carinthian St. Andrae . The club played in the Carinthian League (fourth highest division) and achieved popularity through the former cooperation with Wolfsberger AC . The two clubs played together between 2007 and 2012 in the Regionalliga Mitte and the First League. Since the 2015/16 season, the club has been playing in the fifth-class Eastern division .
history
The SK St. Andrä was founded in 1946 by soldiers returning from the war in the club colors violet and white. In 1964, on the initiative of Mayor Rudolf Kores and Eitweg Mayor Hannes Schweiger, the St. Andräer football pitch was bought from private ownership and leased to the club for 99 years. In 1990 an additional training area was built and later also equipped with floodlights. The sporting success came only recently.
In 2003, the club was able to become the Carinthian national champion for the first time and thus achieve the associated promotion to the third-class regional league middle . After two years at the latest, the club was able to establish itself in the top third of the table.
As early as the 2005/06 season, the WAC, which was at the time (since its relegation in 2003/04) in the Lower League East, formed a syndicate under the name "WAC / St. Andrä II", with rank 2 and with a qualification win (H 2: 1, A 2: 0) against the second of the Unterliga West SV meeting of the return to the Carinthian regional league. From the 2006/07 season St. Andrä played as "St. Andrä / WAC" in the regional league and as "WAC / St. Andrä II" in the Carinthian league. In June 2007 an even more intensive cooperation with the Wolfsberger AC was decided. The two clubs, which are only a few kilometers apart, worked closely together, but remained independent: “Central areas of both clubs such as administration, administration, business, marketing, gastronomy and the sporting area as the core (combat teams and youth center) will be centrally located by the newly created office of the WAC / St. Andrä directed from Wolfsberg. ". There were two combat teams, one of which continued to play in the Carinthian League under the additional designation "Amateurs", while the other was led with the aim of advancement to higher leagues and associated professional football. This goal was achieved. In 2009/10, the regional league was promoted to the first league , and in the 2012 season the WAC / St. Andrä master of the first division and made promotion to the Bundesliga . The cooperation between Wolfsberger AC and SK St. Andrä was then terminated (resolution at the WAC general meeting on June 12, 2012). Since then, the newcomer has appeared in the Bundesliga as Wolfsberger AC, which meant the temporary end for SK St. Andrä in professional football. Further consequences were that the Wolfsberger AC continued to play in the Carinthian League with an amateur team (there already fixed promotion to the regional league in the following year), while St. Andrä under new leadership in the 2nd class (thus the lowest division) New beginning took place. Already in the first year of the game the title succeeded, two years later (2014/15 season) the new title and thus promotion to the lower league (exactly Unterliga Ost).
Web links
- SK St. Andrä on Facebook
Individual evidence
- ^ Association website (accessed April 30, 2010)