Salzburg AK 1914
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| Surname | Salzburg Athletic Sports Club 1914 |
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| Seat | Salzburg | ||
| founding | June 24, 1914 | ||
| president | Christian Schwaiger | ||
| Website | sak1914.at | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Andreas Fötschl | ||
| Venue | HCS arena | ||
| Places | nb | ||
| league | Eliteliga Salzburg | ||
| 2018/19 | 1st place ( Salzburg League ) | ||
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The Salzburger Athletiksport-Klub 1914 is an all-round sports club from Salzburg in Austria and runs the football , fencing , figure skating , fitness and roller skating sections . The now disbanded handball section became Austrian men's championship in 1971 .
history
The sports club, usually just called SAK by the fans , was founded as a football club on June 24, 1914 , making it the oldest football club in the state of Salzburg . The club colors were set as red and white when it was founded and changed to blue and yellow in 1919. The club's home facility has always been the SAK sports field in the Nonntal district , where all the blue-yellow home games are still played today.
In the 1921/22 season, the Nonntaler entered the Salzburg championship, which was held for the first time, and immediately took second place in 1st class. From 1924 to 1938, the Salzburg AK won the title of Salzburg State Champion for fifteen consecutive years. Until the introduction of the all-Austrian championship in 1949, the state championship title was the highest distinction that a federal state club could achieve and in the federal states it had the status of a later Austrian championship title. It was not until the 1950s, when Salzburg football was also represented in the Austrian state league for the first time, that the Salzburg state championship gradually lost its status and degenerated into an almost insignificant regional title. To date, the SAK has entered the list of winners a total of thirty times in 1914, making it Salzburg's record champions.
Amateur State Championship Finals
The traditional Nonntaler Club had its best time before the Second World War in the 1930s, when it was able to attract attention as a six-time national cup winner and subscription champion, as well as being the only Salzburg club in the Austria-wide amateur state championship. In 1934 the SAK 1914 reached the final for the first time, but lost in two games with 1: 2 and 0: 2 against the Styrian champions SK Sturm Graz . In 1935 the athletic athletes again reached the final but lost against the Lower Austrian representative Badener AC . At home the first leg was won 4-1, the second leg ended 0-3, so the referee whistled for extra time. The SAK 1914 shot the supposedly decisive 1: 3, but the Badeners successfully protested against the verification of the game, as an extension was not provided in the rules. Baden finally won the third play-off game 3-2. The final game of 1937 was lost to Post SV Wien , which despite being a member of the first division as an amateur club, lost 4-0 and 2-2.
Many of the Blue-Yellow players were called up to join the Austrian amateur national team, the best-known being Edi Kainberger, Karl Kainberger, Ernst Bacher and Adolf Laudon. These were also part of the core team of the legendary Austrian Olympic team that won the silver medal for Austria at the Berlin Olympic Games in 1936. After the war, the Salzburg team provided Langgruber, another player for the Austrian amateur team, which won the first ever European amateur championship in 1967.
Between amateur and professional football
From the 1940s, the air at the top for the Nonntaler became increasingly thin and with the emergence of the fusion club SV Austria Salzburg and the then strong SK Bischofshofen from Pongau, the SAK even fell back into the third member at times in 1914. But the SAK 1914 could again be connected to the tip and rose in 1952 even as the first club Salzburg in Austria's top division, the State League A in. However, Salzburg could not compete with the big clubs from Vienna, Linz and Graz and only won four points in 26 championship games with one win and two draws, which meant that Salzburg had to return to the Tauern League immediately. The SAK gave its second guest appearance in the top league in 1914 in the 1961/62 season when it was possible to move up to the National League as champions of the Regionalliga West. This time Salzburg won eight points, but were the last to say goodbye to the top division. After all, the athletic athletes reached the quarter-finals in the ÖFB Cup for the first time this year with a sensational 1-0 win over Vienna AC in the second round , where they then had to admit defeat to Linz ASK with 1: 3.
As champions of the third-class Salzburg league , the Nonntaler rose to the second division in 1975 and was able to hold onto there until 1977. In 1980 the club celebrated its comeback in the 2nd division and with the championship title in 1985 even made it to the 1st division of the Bundesliga . As a coach in the promotion season acted 1984/85 of Schönauer Kurt Wiebach, who later became managing director of Red Bull Salzburg . In the cup competition they caused a sensation when they reached the quarter-finals with victories over WSG Wattens and FC Admira / Wacker. However, there was a 4-0 away defeat against FK Austria Wien . With only seven points and without a single victory, Salzburg only finished 12th and last in the autumn championship and had to fight to stay in the middle play-off in spring 1986. But even there the SAK was only last among eight teams in 1914 (four each from the first and second division) and was thus again second class. The sporting highlights were then limited to the derbies against SV Austria Salzburg. In 1986 those in charge of the Nonntaler clearly refused to allow the debt-laden Salzburger Austria to join the SAK 1914 and thus brought the "Casino-SAK" project run by the fiefdoms of the time to failure.
Descent into insignificance
The club had to accept the goodbye to professional football in 1988 when it was relegated from the 2nd division. In the meantime, in addition to Salzburg Austria, USV Salzburg (later FC Salzburg ) had emerged and in 1914 displaced the SAK into sporting insignificance. The best-known player who played for SAK in the 1980s was the later national team player and former coach of Wiener Austria , Frenk Schinkels .
In their long history, the Nonntaler played a total of three seasons in the top Austrian league and spent nine years in the professional second division. In addition, the Salzburg team played for years in the second performance level operated on an amateur basis (regional league, alpine league), which were replaced in 1975 by the 2nd division of the Bundesliga. From the 1990s, he was relegated to the Salzburg State League (5th level). After winning the title in the 2004/05 season , the blue-yellow athletes are now playing in the third level, the Regionalliga West . In the summer of 2006, he was again relegated to the 1st Salzburg State League (now 4th level).
This 2006/2007 season was also the last season of the SAK 1914 on its traditional facility on Mühlbacherhofweg. The square was demolished to make room for the Sportzentrum Mitte (SZM). During the construction work, the SAK switched to the USK gneiss system in 1914. On June 27, 2009, the Sportzentrum Mitte was opened with the game against FC Red Bull Salzburg , the game ended 8-0 for the Bundesliga club . From the 2010/11 season, the team started in the newly founded Salzburg League (4th level).
After avoiding a further decline in 2017, the SAK 1914 was initially on the road to success. They were promoted to the Salzburg Regionalliga, where the SAK, as a superior autumn champion, was a hot contender for promotion to the second division. In January 2020, however, President Christian Schwaiger surprisingly declared that the ascent was not feasible due to the lack of infrastructure and immediately offered to resign.
Divisions
- 1922–1933: 1st class Salzburg (regional)
- 1934–1935: League Upper Austria-Salzburg (regional)
- 1936–1938: 1st class Salzburg (regional)
- 1939: District class West (II)
- 1940–1943: 1st class Salzburg (II)
- 1944: League Upper Danube-Salzburg (II)
- 1946–1949: 1st class Salzburg (regional)
- 1950–1952: Tauern League (II)
- 1953: State League A (I)
- 1954–1955: Tauern League (II)
- 1956–1960: Tauern League North (II)
- 1961: Regionalliga West (II)
- 1962: State League A (I)
- 1963–1964: Regionalliga West (II)
- 1965–1966: Regional League (III)
- 1967–1974: Regionalliga West (II)
- 1975: Salzburg League (III)
- 1976–1977: Bundesliga 2nd Division (II)
- 1978–1980: Alpine League (III)
- 1981–1985: Bundesliga 2nd Division (II)
- 1986: Bundesliga 1st Division (I)
- 1987–1988: Bundesliga 2nd Division (II)
- 1989–1991: Regionalliga West (III)
- 1992: Salzburg League (IV)
- 1994–1995: 1st regional league (V)
- 1996: Salzburg League (IV)
- 1997-2004: Regionalliga West (III)
- 2005: 1st regional league (IV)
- 2006: Regionalliga West (III)
- 2007-2010: 1st regional league (IV)
- 2010–2016: Salzburg League (IV)
- 2016: Regionalliga West (III)
- since 2017 Salzburg League (IV)
The number in brackets indicates the level of play. Regional championships were self-contained championships in one or more federal states without the right to promotion to the top division across Austria.
Known players
titles and achievements
- 3 first division seasons : 1953, 1962, 1986
- 3 x Austrian Vice-Amateur State Champion : 1934, 1935, 1937
- 2 × quarter-finals in the ÖFB Cup : 1962, 1985
- 30 × Salzburg champions : 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1942, 1946, 1947, 1952, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1972 , 1979, 1980, 1991, 1998.
- 6 × Salzburg State Cup winners : 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934
- 3 × Salzburg state cup finalists : 1937, 1947, 1948
- 2 × champions of the Upper Austria-Salzburg League: 1934, 1935.
- 4 × champions of the second level: 1952, 1960 (Tauern League), 1961 (Regionalliga West), 1985 (Bundesliga 2nd Division)
- 3 × champions third level: 1966 (regional league), 1975 (Salzburg league), 1980 (alpine league)
- 1 × champion fourth level: 2005 (1st national league)
- 1 × champion fifth level: 1995 (1st national league)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Well boom! 2nd league no longer an issue for the SAK , Ligaportal.at from January 20, 2020