SK Austria Klagenfurt (2007)

SK Austria Klagenfurt is an Austrian football club from the Carinthian capital Klagenfurt. They play in the Austrian Bundesliga.

Austria Klagenfurt

Full name	Sportklub Austria Klagenfurt
Founded	1920 (1920) 2007 (2007)
Ground	Wörthersee Stadion
Capacity	32,000
President	Herbert Matschek
Manager	Harald Gärtner
Head coach	Peter Pacult
League	Austrian Bundesliga
2022–23	6th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

History

The club was founded on January 9th, 2007 and began to play 2010. A lot of fans see the club as follower of the old Austria Klagenfurt (since 1999 FC Kärnten) who was folded in 2009.

In the 2020-21 season Klagenfurt was 3rd in Second League. The Champion Blau Weiß Linz did´nt want to play in the Bundesliga and the 2. FC Liefering (Farmteam of FC Red Bull Salzburg) is not allowed to promote. So Klagenfurt played two relegation matches versus SKN St. Pölten the 12th of the Bundesliga. They won 4:0 and 1:0 and were promoted to the Austrian Bundesliga.

In the 2021-22 season the reached the upper play off.

Current squad

As of 26 September 2022

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK Austria Marco Knaller 2 DF Netherlands Solomon Bonnah 4 DF Serbia Nikola Đorić 5 DF Austria Michael Blauensteiner 6 DF Uruguay Maximiliano Moreira 7 MF Austria Florian Jaritz 8 DF Greece Kosmas Gezos 9 MF Germany Sinan Karweina 11 FW United States Sebastian Soto 13 GK Germany Phillip Menzel 14 MF Austria Christopher Cvetko 17 DF Italy Simon Straudi 18 MF Germany Moritz Berg 19 MF Scotland Andy Irving

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 MF Germany Rico Benatelli 23 MF Austria Florian Rieder 24 MF Austria Christopher Wernitznig 28 MF Austria Emilian Metu (on loan from Bayern Munich II) 29 GK China Liu Shaoziyang (on loan from Bayern Munich II) 30 GK Austria David Puntigam 31 DF Austria Thorsten Mahrer 32 FW Austria Markus Pink 33 DF Germany Till Schumacher 37 DF Austria Nicolas Wimmer 39 FW Germany Jonas Arweiler 70 MF Austria Fabian Miesenböck 77 FW Canada Gloire Amanda 92 MF Austria Fabio Markelic

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 FW Austria Patrick Hasenhüttl (at VfB Oldenburg) 81 MF Turkey Turgay Gemicibaşi (at Kasımpaşa)

Staff

As of 22 October 2021

Head coach	Peter Pacult
Assistant coach	Martin Lassnig
Assistant coach	Wolfgang Schellenberg
Goalkeeper coach	Thomas Lenuweit
Athletics coach	Manuel Trattnig
Team manager	Sandro Zakany
Club doctor	Dr. Christiane Loinig
Kit manager	Peter Kostolansky
Manager	Harald Gärtner
Manager	Matthias Imhof

Leagues (in brackets level)

• 2010- 2015: Regionalliga Mitte (3)
• 2015/16: Erste Liga (2)
• 2016-2018:Regionalliga Mitte (2)
• 2018-2021:Zweite Liga (2)
• 2021- Bundesliga (1)

Honours

• Austrian Regionalliga Central: 2015