Austrian Football Season 2010/11 – Bundesliga/Cup/Internationals/NT *** Spoilers***

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Well, with the start of the new season only few days away, (Bundesliga starts on 17 July) I decided to create a thread about the Football Season in Austria.

This thread will cover the Bundesliga,
the ÖFB Cup,
the European Club fixtures and
the National Team( also the Youth teams like U21,U19, etc.)

So first of I´d like to introduce the clubs participating in the Bundesliga this season.

SV Ried (8th 2010)

FC Red Bull Salzburg (Champions of 2010 – participating in Champions League qualification)

FK Austria Wien(Runners Up 2010 - participating in Europa League qualification)

SK Rapid Wien (3rd 2010 - participating in Champions League qualification)

SK Sturm Graz( 4th and Cup Winners 2010- participating in Europa League qualification)

SC Wiener Neustadt (5th 2010)

SV Mattersburg( 6th 2010)

LASK(7th 2010)

Kapfenberger SV(9th 2010)

FC Wacker Innsbruck ( promoted )

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SV Ried is a club from the upper austrian town Ried im Innkreis.
Due to sponsorship reasons the clubs name is SV Josko Ried.( SV stands for Sportvereinigung,translates to sports association)

The club was founded in 1912 but until the late 80´s the club only played in the lower leagues, in 1991 under the regency of Klaus Roitinger, they sealed promotion to the 2nd tier of austrian football after missing out in 1988 and 1990 losing the play off.

After 4 years in the 2nd Bundesliga the club won the promotion play off sealing the biggest success so far, and the club got off to a dream start beating the record champions Rapid Wien on the very first fixture played in the highest tier of austrian football.

In 1998 the club won the ÖFB Cup after a 3-1 final win against Sturm Graz. Subsequently they played in the very last Cup Winners Cup competition and after eliminating MTK Budapest in the first round the club went out, despite a home win, against Maccabi Haifa.

In 2003 the club got relegated after a dismal campaign after the winter break where only 8 points out of 14 matches were gained resulting that the club occupied the last place of the table at the end of the season for the very first and only time in its history(up to that point).

In 2005 promotion back to the Bundesliga was achieved after a breathtaking match against Gratkorn( the team was 2-nil down after 53 minutes, but they fought back to win 3-2 with the winner only 5 minutes from time)

In the season 2006/07 the team found themselves at the end of the table but they started a furious comeback, resulting in the team earning 2nd place, the best table position in the Bundesliga in the clubs history

In 2008/09 the team conceded the fewest goals in the league and ended the season unbeaten at home, last season although wasn´t as good as before and the team didn`t play very well resulting in the 8th table position and for the first time in ten years they have been overtaken in the table by arch rivals LASK

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FC Red Bull Salzburg is an Austrian football club, based in Wals-Siezenheim. Their home ground is the Red Bull Arena. The club was known as SV Austria Salzburg before being bought by the Red Bull company in 2005 who renamed the club and changed the club's colours from its traditional violet and white to red and white. The change resulted in some of the team's fans forming a new club, SV Austria Salzburg. The club has won the Austrian Bundesliga 6 times, and reached the final of the UEFA Cup in 1994.
History
FC Red Bull Salzburg was founded on 13 September 1933 as SV Austria Salzburg. In 1950, the club was dissolved but in the same year, it was re-founded for the first time. In 1978, the official name was changed to SV Casino Salzburg and in 1997, to SV Wüstenrot Salzburg, while the common calling name remained SV Austria Salzburg. The Red Bull company bought the club on 6 April 2005 and rebranded it.
The Red Bull takeover
After the takeover, Red Bull changed the club's name, management, and staff, declaring "this is a new club with no history." Red Bull initially claimed on the club website that the club was founded in 2005, but was ordered to remove this claim by the Austrian F.A. The new authority removed all trace of violet from the club logo and the team now play in the new colours of red and white, to the consternation of much of the club's traditional support.[citation needed] A small pair of wings form the motif of the new club crest, displayed on the team jersey, in accordance with Red Bull's commercial slogan at the time: "It gives you wings." This complete rebranding of the team proved very similar to Red Bull's treatment of its two Formula One racing teams, Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Toro Rosso. However, Red Bull would not completely follow this precedent when it acquired the MetroStars club in Major League Soccer in the United States; while it rebranded the team as the New York Red Bulls, it chose to recognise the MetroStars' history.
The traditional supporters tried to resist the radical changes and formed their own movement in order to regain some of the tradition. Several fan-clubs throughout Europe voiced their support in what they saw as a fight against the growing commercialisation of football. However, after five months of protests and talks between the club owners and traditional fans, no compromise was reached. On 15 September 2005, the "violet" supporters stated that the talks had irreversibly broken down and efforts to reach an agreement would be terminated.
This gave rise to two separate fan groups: the "Red-Whites", who support "Red Bull Salzburg" and the "Violet-Whites", who want to preserve the 72-year-old tradition and refuse to support the rebranded club. The Violet-Whites ultimately formed a new club, SV Austria Salzburg.
Recent history
In May 2006, Red Bull announced on its website that it had hired veteran coach Giovanni Trapattoni as new coach together with his ex-player Lothar Matthäus as co-trainer. The pair initially denied having reached a deal, but officially signed on 23 May 2006. Red Bull ultimately won the T-Mobile Bundesliga 2006-07 by a comfortable margin with five games still left in the season after drawing 2-2 with previous season's champions Austria Wien on 28 April 2007. Red Bull were beaten by Shakhtar Donetsk in the third qualifying round[1][2] of the UEFA Champions League 2007-08 and then knocked out of the UEFA Cup 2007-08 in the first round by AEK Athens. On 13 February 2008, Italian manager Giovanni Trappatoni confirmed that he would be taking over as the new Republic of Ireland manager in May. He was succeeded by Co Adriaanse. Currently, the team is managed by Huub Stevens. Stevens won his first major title as the manager of a country's highest league on May 14th, 2010, which led the team to the title of the season 2009/10. In UEFA competitions, the team is referred to as FC Salzburg so as not to interfere with the federation's corporate sponsorship rules.


Champions: 2007, 2009, 2010

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Fußballklub Austria Wien is an Austrian football club from the Austrian capital city of Vienna. They were the champions of the 2005–06 Austrian Bundesliga. In English, they are commonly referred to as Austria Vienna.
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History
Foundation to World War II
Austria Wien were founded in Vienna on 12 March 1911 as the Wiener Amateur Sportvereinigung by players and officials of the Vienna Cricket- and Football- Club, taking violet and white as the new club's colours. The team claimed its first championship title in 1924. Amateure changed their name to Austria in 1926 as the former amateurs had become professionals.
The 1930s, one of Austria’s most successful eras brought two Mitropa Cup titles, a predecessor of today’s UEFA Champions League (1933, 1936). During this time world class players like Matthias Sindelar wore the violet jersey.
After the Anschluss and throughout the period of Nazi domination of the country (1938–1945) most of the club’s officials and some players with Jewish heritage, had to flee or were murdered by the Nazi regime. Star player Sindelar died under unresolved circumstances on January 23, 1939 of carbon monoxide poisoning in his apartment. Even though the team did not have any success in this period, playing in the Gauliga Ostmark, they managed a much more important victory in keeping the name "Austria" despite attempts by Nazi sports authorities to rename the club.] Post World War II
Post-World War II started a new successful era with Austria winning national championship titles in 1949, 1950, 1953 and 1961–1963 as well as 1969.
The 1960s marked the beginning of a golden period for Austria Wien, a run of 16 titles in 33 seasons between 1960 and 1993. The decade began with three titles in a row (1961, 1962, and 1963) and ended with two more (1969, 1970) under the management of Ernst Ocwirk. Stars of the 1960s included:
• Horst Nemec, a fine centre-forward rated by some at the time as one of Europe's best
• Ernst Fiala, another fine attacker and inspirational team leader
• Johann Geyer, a cultured yet hard-working midfield schemer
• Horst Hirnschrodt, who played mainly on the right flank
Glorious era in competition and European Cup
The 1970s saw the beginning of another glorious era. Between 1970 and 1975 the club was in a difficult phase. After a bad season 1974–75 (goal difference +7) with a somewhat ageing team, the Violets began to build a young squad with average age 23 years, season 1975–76. All squads in the 5 seasons 1975-1976 till 1979-1980 had an average age of about 23 years at the start of the seasons. The 11 seasons 1975–76 till 1985–86 Austria Wien won 8 national championship titles (1975–76; 1977–78, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81; 1983–84, 1984–85, 1985–86, respective goal differences: +48; +43, +44, +45, +31; +56, +68, +71). After winning the national Cup, season 1976–77, Austria Wien played the European Cup II-final (1977–78), which it lost 4–0 against Rob Rensenbrink's Anderlecht (3 May 1978), the semi-finals of the European Cup I (Champions Cup) were reached season 1978–79. On 7 August 1979, Ajax (with players Ruud Krol, Frank Arnesen, Dick Schoenaker, Soren Lerby, Tscheu La Ling, and Simon Tahamata) were beaten in a friendly match 5–1 (5–0 after 39 minutes). In a friendly match, Anderlecht was beaten this time by a score of 3–0 on 5 August 1980. Since the 1980–81 season, the average age of the successive squads went up to about 25 years at the start of the season.
In 1982–83, the semi-finals of the European Cup II (Cup Winners' Cup)-tournament was reached, in which Real Madrid proved to be too strong. During the next two seasons, Austria Wien were twice stranded in the quarter-finals , in respectively the European Cup III (UEFA-Cup)-tournament season 1983-1984 (goal difference +16 (25-9); Aris Bonnevoie (Luxemburg) was beaten 0-5 away and 10-0 at home (15-0 on aggregate) (1st round), after a 2-0 home win from Stade Laval, away being 3-0 behind in the return match Austria Wien drew 3-3. (2nd round), Internazionale was eliminated: 2-1 home win, 1-1 away draw) (3rd round), before Austria Wien stranded in the quarter finals: 2-0 away loss to Tottenham Hotspur, 2-2 home draw) and the European Cup I Champions Cup season 1984-1985. 3 Successive national championship titles were won, seasons 1983-1984, 1984-1985, 1985-1986 (goal differences +56, +68, +71). In these seasons friendly games against Hungary (5-2, August 31 1983) and Werder Bremen (3-0, August 10 1984) were won. Starting the 1985-1986 season 19 seasons without successes in the European Cup-tournaments followed, and from 1986 on also the championships results were declining and declining, with the lowest point in achievements between 1995 and 2002. Not earlier than the season 2004-2005 Austria Wien again reached the quarter finals in a European Cup-tournament (UEFA Cup-tournament). Some important players playing at Austria Wien in the successful era 1975-1976 till 1985-1986: Herbert "Schneckerl" Prohaska (1972-1980, 1983-1989), Felix Gasselich (1974-1983) who played afterwards at AFC Ajax Amsterdam July 1983 till November 1985, Thomas Parits (1964-1970, 1977-1979), Walter Schachner (1978-1981), Thomas Pfeiler (1978-1983), Gerhard Steinkogler (1980-1986), Alfred Drabits (1981-1988) (nowadays youth-coach at Austria Wien), Toni Polster (1982-1987), the Hungarian ex-international Tibor Nyilasi (1983-1988).
Afterwards also José Alberto Percudani (January 1988-1990), Peter Stoger (1988-1994) and Jewgenij Milewskij (1989-1991) wore the tricot of Austria Wien.
1990s
In the beginning of the '90s, FK Austria enjoyed its so far last successful era: three championship titles (seasons 1990-1991, 1991-1992, 1992-1993; but less brilliant goal differences (+39, +37, +46) than the seasons 1983-1984, 1984-1985, 1985-1986 (+56, +68, +71)), three cup titles (seasons 1989-1990, 1991-1992, 1993-1994) as well as four Super cup titles (Austrian national champion vs. Cup winner) (1991, 1992, 1993, 1994) were won. Internationally there were no successes. The era 1995-2002 in the championships Austria Wien finished at the midst of the table only. The 3 seasons 1996-1997, 1997-1998, 1998-1999 the goal differences had even been negative (-10, -15, -3). Apart from this there had been financial problems, which stopped the club from keeping star-players.
Frank Stronach and the new millennium


After a period without any title (last title season 1992-1993), Austria Wien was taken over by billionaire Frank Stronach of the Magna concern in 1999, the name of the club changing into FK Austria Memphis Magna. He invested much money into the club, buying many top players, so they won the title again in the season 2002-2003 (36 matches, goal difference +31), after a very good start of the season (12 matches, goal difference +19). Despite this coach and ex-player Walter Schachner was fired. His successor Christoph Daum produced weaker results (24 matches, goal difference +12), yet Austria won the national Cup. Austria Wien had a three times higher budget than the average league club (as of 2007 Red Bull Salzburg has the highest budget in the Austrian Bundesliga).
In 2004 the name Memphis was deleted. Austria was known for their very fancy and creative style of playing football which on the downside has frequently led to unnecessary losses and unnecessary draws and makes the team somewhat unpredictable. In the spectacular 2004/05 season the team reached the quarter final of the UEFA Cup, in which the Italian team Parma FC proved to be the better club by eliminating Austria on away goals (1:1, 0:0); in the league Austria finished only 3rd, however, the team wasn't considered weak (goal difference +40 (64-24))! On the 21st of November 2005, Frank Stonach decided to resigne from his post. As a result several players like topscorer Roland Linz, Vladimír Janočko, Joey Didulica, Libor Sionko, Filip Šebo and Sigurd Rushfeldt were transferred or signed contracts for other teams in the summer 2006. The highly successful 2005-2006 season concluded with the league championship (although with a goal difference of +18 (51-33)), and the national Cup against Mattersburg (3-0) under Austria's belt!
The season 2006-2007 seemed to result in a small disaster as the team found it difficult to cope with their significantly reduced budget and resulting loss of most of their key players. After losing 1-4 on aggregate from Benfica in the preliminary round of the Champions League, the team managed to qualify (against Legia Warsaw winning 2-1 on aggregate) for the Group Phase of the UEFA Cup-tournament, but the 1st match was lost 1-4 at home to Zulte Waregem (Belgium). Thomas Parits (ex-player Austria Wien 1964-1970, 1977-1979 and ex-coach Austria Wien 1984-1985) became the new general manager and after losing 3 days later 4-0 away to Salzburg (firing of manager and ex-player Peter Stoger and Dutch coach and ex-football-player Frank Schinkels), Georg Zellhofer became the new coach. In the Group Phase of the UEFA Cup-tournament Austria Wien collected 0 points (goal difference -8 (1-9)), in the entire European Cup-tournament a goal difference of -10 (4-14)! In the league championship things also went completely wrong as the possibility existed that Austria could relegate for the 1st time in history (however, only through mid season). After 21 rounds the club ranked at the bottom of the table (10th, Budesliga). After the winter break Austria managed to finish 6th (midst of the table, goal difference 0 (43-43) in 36 rounds), yet they won the Austrian National Cup, the ÖFB-Stiegl-Cup.
The 1st half of the 2007-2008 season had been a good one as Austria was top of the Bundesliga in week 7 and from weeks 9 through 21. However, performances were not always impressive (round 10 till round 23: 14 rounds, goal difference 0) and Austria dropped to the 3rd position in the league table just before winter break (three-way tie for top at 36 points, goal differential +8). In the UEFA Cup-tournament Austria didn't perform much better than in the 2006-2007 season. Indeed the two qualification rounds (4 matches) had been successful: goal difference +3 (9-6), but in the Group Phase things went wrong again: 4 matches only yielded 1 point and a goal difference of -5 (1-6) (elimination). Total goal difference this tournament had not been that bad as in 2006-2007: -2 (10-12). In the end Austria finished 3rd in the 07/08 Bundesliga, succumbing only to Rapid Vienna and Red Bull Salzburg.
The summer of 2008 brought notable changes for Austria Vienna. Twelve players left the club, among them key players like Sanel Kuljic and Yüksel Sariyar, who went and joined Frank Stronach's newly founded team FC Magna in Austria's second division.
The Betriebsführervertrag with Stronach's company Magna expired, which gave the club a wholly new structure. On July 1, 2008 it was given back its original name FK Austria Wien, without any sponsor name included for the first time in 30 years.Austrian players like Michael Madl, who came back on loan from Wacker Innsbruck, or Lukas Mössner from SK Austria Kärnten joined the team. In addition to them Austria recruited Chinese international Sun Xiang, who became the first Chinese to play in Austria's Bundesliga.



Austrian Bundesliga [23]: 1924, 1926, 1949, 1950, 1953, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1969, 1970, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1991, 1992, 1993, 2003, 2006
Austrian Cup [27]: 1921, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1948, 1949, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1967, 1971, 1974, 1977, 1980, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1992, 1994, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Austrian Supercup [6]: 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 2003, 2004

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The Sportklub Rapid Wien (English: Rapid Vienna) is an Austrian football club playing in the country's capital city of Vienna. Rapid is Austria's most successful side with 32 championships to its credit, as well as a German title captured when the country was part of Germany. It is one of the two best known sides in Vienna, the other being Rapid's eternal rival, FK Austria Wien. The Rapid squad is often known as the "Green-Whites" for its team colours or as Hütteldorfer for the location of the Gerhard Hanappi Stadium, which is in Hütteldorf, part of the city's 14th district, Penzing.
History
SK Rapid Wien was founded in 1898 (en:First Workers' Football Club of Vienna). The team's original colours were red and blue, which are still often used in away matches. On 8 January 1899 the club was re-named, taking on its present name of Sportklub Rapid Wien, following the example of Rapide Berlin. In 1904, the team colours were changed to green and white.
One of the best teams in early European football, Rapid became a dominant side during the years between the world wars, when Austria was one of the leading football nations on the continent. After the Anschluss of Austria to Germany in 1938, Rapid played in that country's Gauliga Ostmark along with clubs such as First Vienna and Admira Vienna (playing then as Wacker Wien and Admira Wien). Rapid would be the most successful of these clubs. They won the Tschammerpokal, predecessor of today's German Cup, in 1938 with a 3–1 victory over FSV Frankfurt, and topped that with a German Championship in 1941 by defeating Schalke 04, the most dominant German club of the era. The team was able to overcome a 3–0 Schalke lead to win the match by a final score of 4–3 through strength and endurance – the traditional virtues of Rapid players known as the Rapidgeist or "Rapid Spirit".
Almost since the club's beginnings, Rapid fans have announced the last fifteen minutes of the game by way of the legendary "Rapidviertelstunde" – rhythmic clapping at home or away no matter what the score. The first mention of the practise goes back to 1913, and in 1919 a newspaper wrote about the fans clapping at the beginning of the "Rapidviertelstunde". Over the decades, there were many instances where Rapid managed to turn around a seemingly hopeless situation by not giving up and, with their fans' support, fighting their way to a win just before the final whistle.
Although Rapid is by far the most popular club in Austria, other teams like Red Bull Salzburg or FK Magna are able to spend significantly more money every year as they are owned by investors/billionaires. Rapid is trying to compensate for this lack of financial funds by supporting young and talented players.
Rapid were involved in a controversial episode in 1984 when they eliminated Celtic from the European Cup Winners Cup last 16. Strikes from Brian McClair (32 mins) Murdo MacLeod (45+5 mins) put Celtic 2-0 ahead at half time. After the interval Tommy Burns (68 mins) scored a controversial third goal to put Celtic 4-3 up on aggregate. With 14 mins left of the match, Rapid conceded a penalty, after Reinhard Kienast punched Burns on the back of the head whilst a corner kick was being taken. Rapid players, opposing the decision, crowded around the referee and linesman, close to the Celtic fans. Rapid defender Rudolf Weinhofer then fell to the ground, and claimed to have been hit by a bottle thrown from the terracing. TV pictures showed clearly that the bottle which was thrown onto the pitch did not hit the player. After a delay of some 10 minutes, the penalty was taken by Peter Grant, and he struck it wide. The match finished 3–0, giving Celtic a 4–3 win on aggregate. However, Rapid appealed to UEFA for a replay, and both teams were fined. The replay appeal was turned down initially, but Rapid appealed for a second time. On this occasion, Rapid's fine was doubled but UEFA also stipulated that the game be replayed 100 miles away from Celtic Park. The game was held on 12 December 1984 at Old Trafford, Manchester and Rapid won 1–0 through a Peter Pacult strike.

Rapid Vienna is also Austria's record titleholder when including Vienna-only titles and titles won in Germany during the time of the Third Reich, winning the Austrian Championship title 32 times to date. Supporters of other teams sometimes argue that the 16 championship wins before the establishment of a nation wide all-Austrian league should not be counted. However, those titles are credited by most observers, since Viennese league play was virtually synonymous with Austrian football at that time. The wins of the German Championship and German Cup were possible due to Austria's annexation by Germany on March 12, 1938.
• Austrian Championship (32): 1912, 1913, 1916, 1917, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1923, 1929, 1930, 1935, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1946, 1948, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1964, 1967, 1968, 1981-82, 1982-83, 1986-87, 1987-88, 1995-96, 2004-05, 2007-08
• Austrian Cup (14): 1919, 1920, 1927, 1946, 1961, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1976, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1995
• Austrian Supercup: 1986, 1987, 1988, 2008

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SK Sturm Graz is an Austrian football club, based in Graz, Styria, playing in the Austrian Bundesliga. The club was founded in 1909 and the club colours are black and white.
So far, Sturm Graz has won the Austrian Football Championship twice (1998 and 1999) and participated several times in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Cup under the management of Ivica Osim.

History
Foundation
SK Sturm Graz were founded in 1909, as a working men's team (as opposed to their town neighbours Grazer AK, founded in 1902).
The club first appeared in top-flight competition in the Gauliga Ostmark in 1942-43, coming last and being relegated.
1982 - First Success
The first great success of the club was celebrated under manager Otto Baric, when the club finished runners-up in the league in the 1982/3 season. A year later, the club battled through to the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup, beaten only by Nottingham Forest through a dubious penalty in extra-time.
1992 - The Start of a new Era
In December 1992, Hannes Kartnig was installed as President, naming his close friend Heinz Schilcher as new manager. At the time, Sturm were languishing under enormous debts, a chronic lack of money and a general sporting malaise. Sturm qualified for the newly-formed Zehnerliga, and Kartnig and Schilcher decided the best course of action would be to abstain from big-name signings, and opt instead for a new start using young players from the club's youth setup. In 1993 Milan Djuricic became manager, and together with his "kindergarten" team managed to stay up.
1994 to 2002 - Osim and European Football
In 1994, the Bosnian Ivica Osim took control of the up-to-now unsuccessful Sturm; this proved to be a crucial turning-point in the club's history. Osim succeeded in producing an effective and powerful team using the young and inexperienced players at his disposal, strengthened with a few experienced leading players. The team's first success was as runners-up in the league in 1995; a year later, they won their first title, beating Admira Mödling in the cup-final, but wobbling in the league to finish runners-up yet again.
In 1998, SK Sturm Graz won their first Austrian Bundesliga title, pulling away from the field early on and winning the title with seven games in hand. Sturm set two records during this season; they remained unbeaten in their first twelve matches, and then for another nineteen matches later in the season. At the end of the season they amassed 81 points, an Austrian record total, winning the title with 19 points ahead of Rapid Vienna. This season also saw the development of the "magic triangle" of Mario Haas, Hannes Reinmayr and Ivica Vastic.
1999 saw SK Sturm Graz retain the title, securing the treble as they did so (league, cup and super cup), in addition to appearing in the qualification for the Champions League. Here, however, a scoreless draw with Spartak Moscow proved to be the only success. The 1999/2000 season saw Sturm in the Champions League for a second time, finishing third in their group. FC Tirol wrested the title from Sturm's grasp, but the runners-up spot achieved was sufficient for a third trip into the Champions League.
Sensationally, Sturm Graz won their Champions League Group D (against Galatasaray, Rangers and AS Monaco FC), reaching the second round for the first time. The league campaign was less successful - a fourth place finish, the worst under Osim.
After their Champions League exploits, several key players out of the twelve who later left were not suitably replaced. Worse still, this hasty squad redevelopment devoured almost all the profit made from the European campaign. Only a small fraction of the money was invested in youth development, to establish an academy. Despite this, the newly assembled team again finished in second place in the league, but failed at the qualification hurdle for the Champions League. This, together with increasing criticism from the President precipitated the departure of Osim after eight years at the helm.
2002 to Present Day - Consolidation
Franco Foda and Gilbert Gress (7 defeats in 9 games) both enjoyed short and fruitless stints as coach, before former striker Michael Petrovic took control in autumn 2003. He presided over a gradual introduction of young talent, securing the team's place in the top flight in both 2004 and 2005, finishing in seventh spot.
In the season 2005/6, Sturm Graz took part in the UEFA Intertoto Cup, but were knocked out in the second round by VfL Wolfsburg from the German Fußball-Bundesliga.
Since 2005 Sturm Graz has been facing financial problems and on September 1, 2006 a petition of bankruptcy was filed by the tax authorities.

Champions (2): 1998 and 1999
Cup Winners (4): 1996, 1997, 1999 and 2010
Austrian Supercup Winners (3): 1996, 1998 and 1999
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SC Magna Wiener Neustadt is an Austrian football club based in Wiener Neustadt.
History
FC Magna Wiener Neustadt obtained the right to play in the First League due to the collapse of SC Schwanenstadt caused by financial problems. SC Schwanenstadt's playing licence was taken over by Magna, who took their place in the First League. On 19 May, Austrian-Canadian business man Frank Stronach, the founder of Magna International, was elected president of the club.
The club played their first ever league game on 12 July 2008 against relegated side FC Wacker Innsbruck and lost 0-3. The remaining season was a lot more successful, culminating in the Austrian First League championship and the promotion to the Austrian Bundesliga.
In late 2008 1. Wiener Neustädter SC decided to merge with FC Magna. In order to acknowledge the past of 1. SC, FC Magna were renamed SC Magna Wiener Neustadt, effective from 1 July 2009.

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SV Mattersburg is an Austrian football club from Mattersburg, Burgenland. For sponsorship reasons, the club is currently also known as SV Bauwelt Koch Mattersburg.
The club was formed in 1922 and currently plays its home games at the 17,100 capacity Pappelstadion. The club has played in the Bundesliga since the 2003-04 season. SV Mattersburg draw surprisingly large crowds, with the average crowd for the 2004-05 season being the second highest in Austria, even though the town of Mattersburg has only 6,300 inhabitants. In the 2006-07 season, Mattersburg finished third in the Bundesliga, the highest position in their history.

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Kapfenberger SV is a football club from Kapfenberg, Austria. In the 2007/08 Austrian Football First League season they became champion and advanced to Austrian Bundesliga. The club was founded in 1919 as Kapfenberger SC. In 1947 the club was renamed into Kapfenberger SV.

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FC Wacker Innsbruck is an Austrian football club from Innsbruck. The club was formed in June 2002, and plays their home games at Tivoli Neu. The club regard themselves as the spiritual continuation of the team FC Tirol Innsbruck, who went bankrupt in 2002. However, legally Wacker Tirol is a distinct and separate club, and is not entitled to claim the honours won by its predecessors.
The ascent of Wacker Tirol into the Bundesliga took only two years from formation, with promotion to the top division achieved in 2004. This was possible because the club made an alliance with 3rd league club Wattens. After finishing first in Regionalliga West, Wacker advanced to Red Zac Erste Liga. Wacker Tirol finished 6th in their first Bundesliga season.
In 2007 the club was renamed to FC Wacker Innsbruck. At the end of the 2007-08 season, FC Wacker Innsbruck finished last and was relegated to the Austrian Football First League (second tier). In 2010, Wacker won promotion back to the Austrian Bundesliga.