FC St. Gallen

Fussballclub St. Gallen 1879, commonly known as St. Gallen, is a Swiss professional football club based in the city of St. Gallen, Canton of St. Gallen. As of the 2022–23 season, the team competes in the Swiss Super League.

St. Gallen

Full name	Fussballclub St. Gallen 1879
Nickname(s)	Espen
Founded	19 April 1879; 144 years ago (1879-04-19)
Ground	Kybunpark, St. Gallen
Capacity	19,694
President	Matthias Hüppi
Head coach	Peter Zeidler
League	Swiss Super League
2022–23	Swiss Super League, 6th of 10
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours
Current season

History

 

Chart of FC St. Gallen table positions in the Swiss football league system

Founded on 19 April 1879, FC St. Gallen is the oldest club still in existence in Swiss football. However, the team has had relatively little success in comparison to other clubs. Despite the fact that St. Gallen won the Swiss championship twice in the 1903–04 and 1999–2000 seasons, the team has mostly been a mid-table side. During the end of the 2000s, the strength of the club continually declined. St. Gallen were relegated to the second-tier Challenge League twice at the end of the 2007–08 and the 2010–11 seasons. Since promotion back to the Swiss Super League, they have been in the top division for the last ten years with the club finishing as runners up in the 2019–20 season. In 2016, FC St. Gallen, became a member of the exclusive Club of Pioneers, as the oldest football club of Switzerland.^[1]

Stadium

FC St. Gallen play their home games at the Kybunpark. The stadium has a capacity of 19,694 and it is on the west side of town. The stadium replaced the former Espenmoos stadium in the east.

Honours

Domestic

League

• Swiss Super League
  • Winners: 1903–04, 1999–2000
  • Runners-up: 2019–20
• Swiss Challenge League
  • Winners: 1970–71, 2008–09, 2011–12
  • Runners-up: 1967–68

Cup

• Swiss Cup
  • Winners: 1968–69
  • Runners-up: 1944–45, 1976–77, 1997–98, 2020–21, 2021–22
• Swiss League Cup
  • Winners: 1977–78
  • Runners-up: 1981–82

Others

• Anglo Cup
  • Runners-up: 1910

European record

Overall record

Accurate as of 30 July 2018

Competition	Played	Won	Drew	Lost	GF	GA	GD	Win%
European Cup / Champions League	2	0	1	1	3	4	−1	000.00
Cup Winners' Cup	4	1	1	2	2	6	−4	025.00
UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League	23	8	4	11	28	40	−12	034.78
UEFA Intertoto Cup	10	6	1	3	24	10	+14	060.00
Total	39	15	7	17	57	60	−3	038.46

Legend: GF = Goals For. GA = Goals Against. GD = Goal Difference.

 

St. Gallen 2013

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Aggregate
1969–70	European Cup Winners' Cup	First round	BK Frem	1–0	1–2	2–2 (a)
		Second round	Levski Sofia	0–0	0–4	0–4
1983–84	UEFA Cup	First round	Radnički Niš	1–2	0–3	1–5
1985–86	UEFA Cup	First round	Inter Milan	0–0	1–5	1–5
1998	UEFA Intertoto Cup	First round	Viljandi JK Tulevik	3–2	6–1	9–3
		Second round	Austria Salzburg	1–0	1–3	2–3
2000–01	UEFA Champions League	Third qualifying round	Galatasaray	1–2	2–2	3–4
	UEFA Cup	First round	Chelsea	2–0	0–1	2–1
		Second round	Club Brugge	1–1	1–2	2–3
2001–02	UEFA Cup	Qualifying round	Pelister	2–3	2–0	4–3
		First round	Steaua București	2–1	1–1	3–2
		Second round	Freiburg	1–4	1–0	2–4
2002	UEFA Intertoto Cup	First round	B68 Toftir	5–1	6–0	11–1
		Second round	Willem II	1–1 (aet)	0–1	1–2
2007	UEFA Intertoto Cup	Second round	Dacia Chişinău	0–1 (aet)	1–0	1–1 (0–3p)
2013–14	UEFA Europa League	Play-off	Spartak Moscow	1–1	4–2	5–3
		Group A	Valencia	2–3	1–5	4th place
			Swansea City	1–0	0–1
			Kuban Krasnodar	2–0	0–4
2018–19	UEFA Europa League	Second qualifying round	Sarpsborg 08	2–1	0–1	2–2 (a)
2020–21	UEFA Europa League	Third qualifying round	AEK Athens	0–1	—	—

Players

 

St. Gallen squad in 1881

Current squad

As of 14 February 2024^[2]

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   GHA Lawrence Ati-Zigi 3 DF   GHA Musah Nuhu 4 DF   CRO Jozo Stanić 5 DF   GER Justin Janitzek (on loan from Bayern Munich II) 6 DF   SUI Patrick Sutter 7 FW   AUT Fabian Schubert 8 MF   ESP Jordi Quintillà 9 FW   FRA Willem Geubbels 10 FW   COD Chadrac Akolo 11 FW   SUI Julian von Moos 13 MF   SUI Gregory Karlen 15 DF   MLI Abdoulaye Diaby 16 MF   GER Lukas Görtler 18 FW   SUI Felix Mambimbi 19 FW   SWE Nikolaj Möller

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 DF   AUT Albert Vallci 23 DF   KOS Betim Fazliji 24 MF   SUI Bastien Toma 25 GK   GER Lukas Watkowiak 30 MF   ESP Víctor Ruiz 31 MF   NED Richard van der Venne 33 DF   SUI Isaac Schmidt 35 GK   GER Bela Dumrath 36 DF   GER Chima Okoroji 37 MF   SUI Christian Witzig 46 DF   ITA Mattia Zanotti (on loan from Inter) 61 FW   SUI Albin Krasniqi 64 MF   SRB Mihailo Stevanović 90 FW   SRB Jovan Milošević (on loan from Stuttgart)

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 — DF   SUI Leonidas Stergiou (at VfB Stuttgart until 30 June 2024)

Retired numbers

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 DF   SUI Marc Zellweger (1994–2001, 2003–2010)

Club officials

As of 1 July 2018

Position	Staff
Chairman	Matthias Hüppi
Member	Peter Germann
Sporting director	Alain Sutter
First-team manager	Peter Zeidler
First-Team Assistant Manager	Frank Baumann
First-Team Coach	Moritz Fünfschmidt
First-Team Goalkeeper Coach	Rolf Neuhaus
Fitness Coach	Thomas Wyss
Athletic Coach	Alois Baumgartner
Chief scout	Manuel Kühn
Masseur	Stephan Oberli
Academy Goalkeeping Co-ordinator	Alex Nussbaumer
Team manager	Heinz Hofmann   Adrian Zingg

Coaches

•   Jack Reynolds (1912–14)
•   William Townley (1920)
•   Leopold Grundwald (1922)
•   William Townley (1923–25)
•   Jimmy Townley (1945–49)
•   Robert Kelly (1949–51)
•   Fritz Kerr (1952–54)
•   Otto Pfister (1963–66)
•   Virgil Popescu (1966–67)
•   René Brodmann (1967–68)
•   Albert Sing (1968–70)
•   Željko Perušić (1970–74)
•   Helmuth Johannsen (1 July 1981 – 30 June 1985)
•   Werner Olk (1985–86)
•   Uwe Klimaschefski (1 July 1986 – 1 March 1987)
•   Kurt Jara (1 July 1988 – 1 October 1991)
•   Uwe Rapolder (1 July 1993 – 10 April 1996)
•   Werner Zünd (interim) (11 April 1996 – 25 April 1996)
•   Roger Hegi (26 April 1996 – 31 December 1998)
•   Marcel Koller (1 Jan 1999 – 31 December 2001)
•   Gérard Castella (20 Feb 2002 – 15 September 2002)
•   Thomas Staub (interim) (20 Sep 2002 – 9 December 2002)
•   Heinz Peischl (1 March 2003 – 8 April 2005)
•   Werner Zünd (interim) (29 April 2004 – 30 May 2005)
•   René Weiler (interim) (13 April 2005 – 29 April 2005)
•   Ralf Loose (1 July 2005 – 10 April 2006)
•   Werner Zünd (interim) (10 April 2006 – 12 April 2006)
•   Rolf Fringer (12 April 2006 – 8 October 2007)
•   Krassimir Balakov (29 Oct 2007 – 30 June 2008)
•   Uli Forte (1 July 2008 – 1 March 2011)
•   Giorgio Contini /   Roger Zürcher (interim) (1 March 2011 – 7 March 2011)
•   Jeff Saibene (7 March 2011 –2015)
•   Josef Zinnbauer (16 September 2015 – 4 May 2017)
•   Giorgio Contini (4 May 2017 – 1 April 2018)
•   Peter Zeidler (18 June 2018–)

Former players

•   Paul Friberg

References

1. "Know About FC Saint Gallen". www.asmonaco.com.
2. "1. Mannschaft | Saison 2022/23" [First team | 2022/23 season] (in German). FC St. Gallen. 2 August 2022.

External links

• Official website

 

Wikimedia Commons has media related to FC St. Gallen.