WSG Radenthein

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WSG Radenthein
WSG Verins coat of arms
Basic data
Surname Factory sports club Raiffeisen
Radenthein of Magnesita
Veitsch-Radex GmbH & Co OG
Seat Radenthein , Carinthia
founding July 13, 1951
Colours green yellow
president Martin Kowatsch
ZVR number 914355909
Website wsg-radenthein.at
First soccer team
Head coach Bernhard Rekelj
Venue City stadium WSG Radenthein
Places 6000
league West minor league
2018/19 9th place
home
Away

The WSG Radenthein is an Austrian football club from the Carinthian town Radenthein . The team has been playing in the fifth-class West League since the 2011/12 season.

history

WSG Radenthein was founded in 1951 as the factory sports association of the Austro American Magnesit Company as the second football club alongside ATUS Radenthein in Radenthein. In its first season in 1951/52 , the club was promoted to the second-class Tauern League as the Carinthian vice national champion together with SK Austria Klagenfurt . In 1954 the WSG Radenthein was able to participate in the relegation to the A-League for the first time as Tauern Champion, but failed at SC Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz . Also in 1956, 1957, 1958 and 1959 the Carinthians failed four times in a row as Tauern champions in the promotion games.

In the 1959/60 season , the Central Regionalliga for Carinthia, Styria and Upper Austria was introduced as a new second level, which now had a direct promotion right for the winner. The WSG Radenthein, which was the only team from Carinthia to qualify for it in the first year, was able to prevail in 1966/67 in front of SK Vorwärts Steyr and thus advance to the highest Austrian league, now known as the National League. To this end, the sports facility was expanded from June 5, 1967; initially creation of 4,000 standing and 1,000 seats (previously 2,500 or 400), after the last home game also lawn renovation.

In the Radentheiner first division team were, among others, the former national players Rudolf Sabetzer , Erhard Wieger and Heinrich Büllwatsch , furthermore goalkeeper Gordan Irović (he was in the squad of the Yugoslav national team at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden), but the club rose again as bottom of the table in 1967/68 the regional league. Other well-known players among the Magnesit team were Rudolf Nuske, Slaven Zambata, Hans Neuwirth, Harald Rebernig, Milan Stilinovic, Herbert Sternig, Refic Muftic, Boris Sikic, Stefan Vasgyura, Heinz Singerl, Werner Reitbauer and Kurt Messner. The highlights were the 5: 1 home win against SK Sturm Graz (October 22, 1967) and the two Carinthian derbies against Austria Klagenfurt in front of up to 10,000 spectators (on November 26, 1967 with a 0: 1 home and on June 1 1968 an away 1: 1).

In the 1969/70 season , the Radentheiner rose as regional league champions before WSV Fohnsdorf back in the national league . This was accompanied by allegations of bribery because the decisive game against WSV Hönigsberg (June 28, 1970) was a supplementary game to May 16, 1970, which had to be added one week after the end of the championship. The fact that Hönigsberg did not have to be relegated to the state league with a win of 3 goals was more of a difficult task for the hosts, just as it hardly seemed possible that Radenthein could achieve the target of a victory with seven goals to win the title. But this happened. The last goal came with the final whistle of the FIFA referee Erich Linemayr, who was nominated for this match . Nevertheless, the anger at WSV Fohnsdorf was correspondingly great, as they would have made it through the regional league with a purely amateur team, which mostly worked in the coal mines during the week. There were various allegations of bribery, but the match was finally verified on July 19, 1970 in a presidium meeting of the ÖFB.

In the 1969/70 season in question (still as a regional league club), Radenthein was able to defeat Austria Wien 1-0 away in the ÖFB Cup on December 14, 1969, which was until May 3, 2003 (3-0 victory for FC Kärnten ) meant the only competitive win of a Carinthian club at the Wiener Violetten. This was followed by a bad first division year, because after 30 games the Carinthian club had only 12 points in their account. Two years the club won the Regionalliga 1972/73 in front of Kapfenberg by a clear margin and rose to the Austrian upper house. This third rise meant the sudden end of WSG Radenthein, because the club was relocated to the supposedly more popular Villach, where it became the new WSG / VSV gaming community . Villacher SV was playing in the regional league at that time and has now become first class in this way; first as a game community WSG Radenthein / VSV , but from 1975 Radenthein also dropped out of the club name. A second team VSV / Radenthein played out of competition in the Carinthian regional league.

The club continued to exist, officially ceasing to play on November 7, 1975, but started a fresh start in the Carinthian lower house in 1976, but has remained in the lower leagues to this day. For the time being, the team started out of competition in 1st Class B in 1976/77. 1977/78 succeeded the championship title and promotion to the lower league (West). As champions in 1982/83, a promotion to the Carinthian League was achieved, where one had to relegate after two years. After the 1989/90 season, the club won first class. From 1993 he played (after a merger with the neighboring club Untertweng) as a game community Umgebung Valley, with this name (as a climber) was played again from 1995/96 in the minor league. From 1996/97 the former name WSG Radenthein was used again. In 2006/07 the team had to return to 1st class again. In 2011, the club rose again to the Lower League West. In the 2014/15 season, the runner-up title was won.

From 1974/75 there was also a soccer club ASKÖ Radenthein, which played in the 2nd class (lowest division), became champions in 1976/77 and was promoted to 1st class (group B). There were derbies against WSG Radenthein in 1977/78 and 1978/79. For the 1981/82 season, however, the first team was divided into 1st class A, which meant quite long journeys. In view of this, the club signed off for good immediately after the association became aware of the division (July 4, 1981).

successes

Web links

Commons : WSG Radenthein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Radenthein: Only with subsidies ..." in "Kärntner Volkszeitung" No. 124 of June 6, 1967, page 9