VSE St. Pölten
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| Full name | Voith-Schwarze Elf St. Pölten | ||
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| Founded | 1920 (date of foundation adopted) | ||
| Dissolved | 1998 (officially later) | ||
| Club colors | Black-blue | ||
| Stadion | Voithplatz | ||
| Top league | Bundesliga | ||
| successes | 6th in the Bundesliga | ||
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VSE St. Pölten ( Voith-Schwarze Elf St. Pölten ) was an Austrian football club from St. Pölten .
It was created in 1973 from the merger of two St. Pölten clubs and competed in various leagues from 1973 to 1998. From 1988 to 1994 they played for six seasons in the top Austrian league, where the best placement in the club's history was sixth.
For the entire history of the club, the home ground was Voithplatz , which was built from 1950 to 1951 .
history
| year | league |
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| 1973-1975 | Landesliga Lower Austria |
| 1975-1976 | Lower league West-Waldviertel |
| 1976-1982 | Oberliga West |
| 1982-1984 | West minor league |
| 1986-1987 | Regional League East |
| 1987-1988 | 2nd division |
| 1988-1993 | 1st division |
| 1993-1994 | Bundesliga |
| 1994-1998 | 2nd division |
The first ten years
On July 5, 1973, two of the then 13 St. Pölten merged clubs, namely the BSV Voith (company sports club of Voith ) and the SC Furthner Black Elf to the new VSE St. Pölten (Voith Black Elf St. Pölten). The new merger association was regarded as the legal successor to the Black Elf founded in 1920 and also led to its founding date. In the first season 1973/74 you got into the national league and finished 7th.
In the second season 1974/75, however, they finished last and rose to the lower league West-Waldviertel, where they were sixth in the table in the 1975/76 season. In the following season, the VSE entered the newly created Oberliga West and finished 6th. Between 1976 and 1982 they played a total of 6 seasons in the Oberliga West until the VSE was relegated again. In the 1982/83 season they only played in the Lower League West and came in ninth.
The athletic ascent
In 1983/84 the VSE won the Lower League West.
In the 1986/87 season, the club, meanwhile as VSE St. Pölten-Gablitz as the champions of the Regionalliga Ost, achieved promotion to the second highest division.
Already in the following championship in 1987/88 they fixed the promotion to the top division: As fourth of the basic round they qualified for the middle playoff, where they reached the third of the four promotion places.
In the highest Austrian league
| season | space |
spectator (Home games) |
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| 1988/89 |
Basic round: 4th of 12 (1st division) Master playoff: 8th of 8 Final rank: 8th |
7,091 (11) 4,086 (7) 5,922 (18) |
| 1989/90 |
Basic round: 8th of 12 (1st division) Master playoff: 7th of 8 Final rank: 7th |
5,073 (11) 4,186 (7) 4,728 (18) |
| 1990/91 |
Basic round: 12th of 12 (1st division) Middle playoff: 3rd of 8 Final rank: 11th |
2.291 (11) k. A. (7) k. A. (18) |
| 1991/92 |
Basic round: 7th of 12 (1st division) Master playoff: 8th of 8 Final rank: 8th |
3,300 (11) 3,329 (7) 3,311 (18) |
| 1992/93 |
Basic round: 7th of 12 (1st division) Master playoff: 6th of 8 Final rank: 6th |
3,209 (11) 2,214 (7) 2,822 (18) |
| 1993/94 |
9th of 10 (1st Bundesliga) In the relegation they lost with a total score of 3: 5 against FC Linz and were relegated to the 2nd division. |
2,494 (18) |
The first season in the 1st division
In the first season in the 1st division you reached 4th place after 22 games. After the game mode at that time, the VSE qualified for the master playoff, where they lost ten of 14 games and played four draws. In the end, they reached eighth place overall in the first season of a St. Pölten club in the top division. In terms of spectator numbers, after 22 match days, with an average of 7,091 visitors per game, they were sensationally in second place behind the eventual champions FC Swarovski Tirol . After all, an average of 4,086 visitors came to the championship playoff.
In the first game of a St. Pölten team in the 1st division, around 7,000 visitors saw a 1-0 home win against SK Rapid Wien . Mario Kempes scored the goal . The best-attended home games of the first season with around 10,000 spectators each were against FC Swarovski Tirol on September 10, 1988 and a few days later against FK Austria Wien . Probably up to 12,000 spectators were present at the game against Austria, which set the all-time visitor record at Voithplatz. The best goal scorers of the season were Franz Zach (10 goals), Mario Kempes (9), Slobodan Branković (8), Ernst Ogris (7) and Leopold Rotter (5).
Five years of the Bundesliga
In the following game year 1989/90 , the VSE improved to 7th place, before the team had to go to the middle playoff in the next season . There they managed to stay in third place with third place. In 1991, St. Pölten provided a team player for the first time, Leopold Rotter. A second was to follow later with Frenkie Schinkels . The seasons 1991/92 and 1992/93 brought the final ranks 8 and 6, with the latter being the best placement in the club's history.
Relegation, 2nd division and relegation again
descent
In the 1993/94 season it was enough in the newly created ten division only to 9th place, which meant relegation with the runner-up in the 2nd division. St. Pölten lost to FC Linz with 1: 2 and 2: 3 and had to relegate after 6 years from the top Austrian league.
In the 2nd division
In the 1994/95 season the VSE started as a favorite, after the first rounds it lived up to this role. Financial difficulties led to a sell-off and the associated fall back to 6th place. The promotion was missed and in the following year the club even struggled with relegation to the third division. With a good finish, however, this could be averted, but only the 13th of 16 places could be fought. On March 27, 1995 bankruptcy was opened. The liabilities had amounted to around 20 million schillings, the 20% compulsory settlement was accepted on January 16, 1996 by the St. Pölten Regional Court.
In the following season , the club consolidated again. A good mix of old and young players formed around old star Lajos Détári . The result was a 6th place. The spring season in particular gave reason for hope.
Relegation from the 2nd division
The following year was characterized by the dissolution of the 16-league. For this reason, 7 teams had to be relegated this year, the 9th played relegation. The championship course was hard to beat in terms of dramaturgy. In autumn, an inferior St. Pöltner Elf under Walter Skocik was only classified in 13th place, far from the saving 8th place. In the spring, however, there was a completely different team that suddenly “hurried from victory to victory”. The turnaround seemed possible, but a defeat in the last round against Wattens (2: 3) only meant 9th place and thus relegation. As the best spring team, St. Pölten was able to confidently go into the games against Wörgl, but after a 0-1 away match, a “thriller” developed in the second leg on Voith-Platz, which culminated in a penalty shoot-out. Mišel Milovanović missed the decisive penalty. Wörgl won 6-5, St. Pölten had to be relegated from the 2nd Bundesliga.
FC Niederösterreich St. Pölten, Flash St. Pölten and dissolution
Just missed ascent
After the merger in 1998 with SV Gerasdorf playing in the 2nd division, the club started the new season under the name FCN St. Pölten . The club colors blue and black as well as the abbreviation VSE disappeared. The new club oriented itself upwards in its first season and fought for a long time with SW Bregenz for promotion to league 1. Better times seemed to be breaking out, but the club missed promotion with second place.
Flash St. Pölten
In November 1999 there was a short interlude in “Flash St. Pölten” .
The association was heavily in debt and in contrast to the first candidate LASK Linz , the board of directors around chairman Franz Hein and representatives of the city of St. Pölten fell for the impostor Benjamin Englisch (alias Benjamin Abramovici ), who received an offer from the US investment group "inFavorit" submitted.
According to the 42-year-old alleged great heir - against whom the police authorities had already repeatedly investigated, as it later turned out and who had already been imprisoned for fraud in Garsten in 1991 - there should be a pot in the 25 companies in the software and telecommunications industry $ 420 million (around 5.54 billion schillings) would have paid. He himself wants to bring in an additional 230 million schillings from his inheritance.
There was talk of the new name "Flash St. Pölten" - a huge stadium worth two billion schillings - and the UEFA Champions League .
The promised money never flowed, however, English disappeared and was arrested in Linz in December 1999 for serious commercial fraud at a Linz company. The FCN decided to sue inFavorit for contract compliance. Among other things, the settlement of the contaminated sites up to a sum of 26 million schillings had already been signed.
The end
In the following season it became clear that St. Pölten had taken over from chairman Franz Hain financially, the level could not be maintained, the squad was reduced. The initial ambitions for advancement were quickly gone. In autumn the team slipped to 7th place. The 3-0 win at WSG Wattens in the course of the 21st round on November 13, 1999 should have been the last game for the time being, because the club lost its license to play during the winter break.
In January, the FCN initially sought compulsory compensation and wanted to finish the championship with the U18 youth team. However, the players who were no longer receiving salaries filed for bankruptcy on January 12, 2000. On February 28, bankruptcy was opened and the FCN's license revoked. The players who previously announced that they wanted to lead the club themselves were automatically free and the remaining games were penalized with 0: 3.
After the dissolution of the FCN, an unofficial successor association was founded on July 6, 2000 with the SKN St. Pölten . He got into the 2nd Lower Austrian regional league and has been playing in the Bundesliga since the 2016/17 season .
Known players
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literature
- Erich Auer, Gerhard Weber, Helmut Lackinger: The wolves. A team with a bite , Niederösterreichisches Pressehaus, St. Pölten / Vienna 1989.
Footnotes
- ↑ All viewer numbers from www.weltfussball.at .
- ↑ Der Standard : Kehraus in St. Pölten , weltfussball.at: Kehraus am Voith-Platz with legends and the SKN ( memento of the original from March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. .
- ↑ a b News : All bankruptcies in Austrian football since 1983 ( 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. (June 6, 2002); The standard: bankruptcies, license refusals (May 8, 2007).
- ^ Die Presse : Sport Sponsoring: Die Luftschlösser rich uncles (December 4, 2008).
- ↑ 15 years no Disneyland in St. Pölten (February 10, 2015)
- ↑ a b Wirtschaftsblatt: St. Pölten: US billions for a new football center ( Memento from 23 August 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (9 November 1999).
- ↑ Curious investments in Austrian football (June 10, 2015)
- ↑ Wirtschaftsblatt : Excitement about football millions ( Memento from March 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (November 25, 1999)
- ↑ APA : "US major investor" for FCN-St. Pölten turns out to be a fairytale uncle: No large corporation, no billions (November 25, 1999).
- ↑ Wirtschaftsblatt: Mystery of St. Pölten's football miracle solved ( Memento from 23 August 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (19 November 1999).
- ↑ a b Wirtschaftsblatt: Fußball-Zampano English in custody ( Memento from August 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (December 11, 1999).
- ↑ See the extract from the association register under ZVR number 111641965, available at zvr.bmi.gv.at , last accessed on March 24, 2017.
