Union St. Pölten

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Sports Union St. Pölten
Full name SU Falkensteiner Katschberg St. Pölten
Nickname (s) The hawks
Founded 1945
Club colors blue White
Hall Sportwelt Lower Austria St. Pölten
Places 1000
president Christian Nagl
Trainer Ibish Thaqi (men)
Waltraud Wagner (women)
league HLA
2013/14
rank 3
Website www.diefalken.at
www.union-handball.at/

The Sportunion St. Pölten is an Austrian sports club whose handball department plays in the HLA , the highest handball league in Austria.

The club was founded on October 4, 1945, while the handball department formed the foundation of the club. In total, the club consists of 12 departments with around 3000 members, making it the largest sports club in Lower Austria. The department divided into competitive sports , mass sports , health sports and children's sports. Competitive sport is divided into handball , volleyball , athletics , gymnastics and much more.

Handball

Men

The men's team won their first national handball championship in 1949 under the direction of Sepp Stachelberger sen. win. In 1981/82 they became the Lower Austrian regional champion for the first time under section head Helmut Kocevar. In the 1983/84 season one rose under coach Manfred Goll in the State League B, the then second highest division in Austria. Two years later, for the 1986/87 season, you had to relegate again. Then you could win István Szilágyi as head coach, who managed the immediate promotion to the State League B together with the team.

For the 1992/93 season they played in the top Austrian league, the State League A, but rose again after only one season. 1994/95 they managed again to get promoted to that league. After a strong 1998/99 season , in which one could reach the fifth place in the playoffs in the Handball League Austria . After the voluntary relegation, the club played in the national league for almost ten years. In the 2007/08 season, the long-awaited promotion finally succeeded. With a sovereign performance, the team won the Regionalliga and rose to the Austrian Bundesliga. In the last three seasons the team has developed continuously and has already played twice in the play-off for promotion to the Handball League Austria.

In the 2013/14 season , the men's team made it to the handball league Austria by defeating medalp handball Tirol in the final of the handball Bundesliga Austria . In order to be prepared for the 2014/15 season in Austria's highest league, András Nagy and Christoph Svoboda brought two more players with HLA experience and moved for the home games from the Prandtauerhalle to the Lower Austria sports center, which should offer space for around 1,000 spectators. Relegation could not be achieved in the first season, so the Lower Austrians will take part in the Handball Bundesliga Austria again in 2015/16.

Well-known former players

Women

Women's team 2018

The women's handball team of Sportunion St. Pölten has been playing in Austria's second highest league, the Handball Bundesliga , since the 2010/11 season . The team has been playing in the highest Austrian women's handball league, WHA, since the 2015/16 season and achieved its greatest success to date with a second place in the final against UHC Stockerau as part of the 2017/18 ÖHB Cup.

volleyball

The club also has a volleyball department. The men play in the 2nd Austrian Bundesliga.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mission statement of the Sportunione St. Pölten , accessed on September 26, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b History - Our Association , accessed on September 26, 2014.
  3. ↑ Equipped for the top division. mein District.de, August 22, 2014, accessed September 26, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Stockerau OEHB Cup winners for the first time. April 1, 2018, accessed April 1, 2018 .