SKN St. Pölten

For the basketball team, see SKN St. Pölten (basketball).

Not to be confused with SKN St. Pölten (women).

Sportklub Niederösterreich St. Pölten is an Austrian football club from Sankt Pölten, capital of the Austrian state of Lower Austria. St. Pölten currently play in the Austrian Football Second League, the second tier of the Austrian football league system.^[1]

SKN St. Pölten

Full name	Sportklub Niederösterreich St. Pölten
Founded	June 2000; 22 years ago (2000-06)
Ground	NV Arena
Capacity	8,000
Chairman	Helmut Schwarzl
Manager	Stephan Helm
League	Austrian Football Second League
2021–22	Austrian Football Second League, 8th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours
Current season

History

 

Historical chart of league performance of SKN St. Pölten and their predecessor

SKN St. Pölten were formed after the dissolution of their unofficial predecessor FCN St. Pölten (formerly VSE St. Pölten) in June 2000. The new club took over all FCN St. Pölten infrastructure, including the stadium and the Bundesliga junior center. Although the normal rules state that new clubs must start in the lowest possible division, due to the acquisition of the Academy system, SKN St. Pölten were allowed to participate in the 2nd League West, the fifth level of Austrian football.

In their first season in existence (the 2000–01 season), the team won the 2nd League championship, and were therefore promoted to the fourth tier. In the 2001–02 season, SKN St. Pölten won their second successive title and hence were promoted into the Regional League East. In the same year, they also appeared in the final of the Lower Austria Cup, but were beaten by Theresienfeld.

In the 2002–03 season, the team finished twelfth, but improved the following year to finish in fourth. In the 2004–05 season the club attained sixth place in the league and had a run in the ÖFB Cup which included victories over SV Wörgl (3–0), SW Bregenz (2–1) and a sensational 5–1 victory against Austria Salzburg in the third round. In the quarter-finals, St. Pölten, were soundly beaten by Austria Wien 6–0.

St. Pölten finally achieved their third promotion in the 2007–08 season, going 24 games unbeaten during one period of the season. They have since remained in the Austrian Football First League, finishing four times in 5th (2008–09, 2010–11, 2011–12 and 2014–15) and three times in 4th (2009–2010, 2012–13, 2013–14).

During the 2013–14 season the club reached the final of the Austrian Cup for the first time in their history. In the final, St. Pölten played Red Bull Salzburg but failed to repeat their stunning third round victory from 2002–03, losing 4–2. However, they qualified for the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League as Red Bull Salzburg had already qualified for the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League by virtue of winning the Austrian Football Bundesliga. In the second qualifying round they played Botev Plovdiv of Bulgaria, winning 3–2 on aggregate after losing the first leg 2–1. In the third qualifying round they played PSV Eindhoven, losing 2–4 on aggregate, thus ending their first foray into a continental competition.

St. Pölten achieved promotion into the Austrian Bundesliga by winning the First League in 2015–16.

Honours

Austrian Football First League

• Winners: 2015–16

Austrian Cup

• Runners-up: 2013–14

European record

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2014–15	UEFA Europa League	2Q	Botev Plovdiv	2–0	1–2	3–2
		3Q	PSV Eindhoven	2–3	0–1	2–4

Notes

• 2Q: Second qualifying round
• 3Q: Third qualifying round

Current squad

As of 4 February 2023

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF   AUT Filip Drljepan 3 DF   AUT Thomas Alexiev 5 DF   CIV Souleymane Kone 6 MF   GUI Karim Conté 7 FW   CGO Kévin Monzialo 8 MF   AUT Christoph Messerer 9 FW   AUT Bernd Gschweidl 10 FW   USA Ulysses Llanez (on loan from Wolfsburg) 12 GK   AUT Franz Stolz 14 FW   JPN Rio Nitta (on loan from Sagan Tosu) 15 DF   AUT Christian Ramsebner 16 MF   AUT Nicolas Wisak 17 FW   CIV Yacouba Silue

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 MF   AUT Benedict Scharner 19 DF   AUT David Riegler 20 MF   AUT Daniel Schütz 22 FW   NED Jaden Montnor 24 DF   GER Fadhel Morou 25 MF   AUT Thomas Salamon 26 GK   AUT Thomas Turner 27 GK   AUT Pirmin Strasser 28 FW   GER Luis Hartwig (on loan from Bochum) 37 DF   AUT Julian Keiblinger 47 FW   AUT Marcel Pemmer 66 DF   SUI Yannick Scheidegger 77 MF   AUT Din Barlov

Youth work

SKN St. Pölten currently has ten youth teams between for children from the age of 7 to 15, with a total of 150 children and youths. In addition to the junior teams, the club have a second team (SKN II), who play their games in the Mid Western League, with the squad mostly consisting of squad players under the age of 18.

Sponsors

Under the sponsorship of the furniture store Leiner, the club was known as Leiner SKN St. Pölten until 2005. With the introduction of staff24 GmbH, the club changed its name in 2006 to SKN staff24 St. Pölten.

Coaching staff

Position	Name
Manager	Stephan Helm
Assistant coaches	Emanuel Pogatetz
Goalkeeper coaches	Christoph Eglseer
Athletic coaches	Christian Balga

Manager history

As of 24 June 2020^[2]

•   Karl Daxbacher (2000–2002)
•   Horst Kirasitsch (2002–2003)
•   Frank Schinkels (2003–2004)
•   Günther Wessely (2005–2006)
•   Peter Benes (2006)
•   Walter Hörmann (2006–2007)
•   Martin Scherb (2007–2013)
•   Thomas Nentwich (2013)
•   Gerald Baumgartner (2013–2014)
•   Herbert Gager (2014)
•   Michael Steiner (2014–2015)
•   Jochen Fallmann (2015) interim
•   Karl Daxbacher (2015–2016)
•   Jochen Fallmann (2016–2018)
•   Ranko Popović (2018–2019)
•   Alexander Schmidt (2019–2020)
•   Robert Ibertsberger (2020–present)

References

1. SKN St Pölten – News, Squad, Results & Fixtures – Soccerway
2. "SKN St. Pölten » Manager history". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 27 May 2016.

External links

 

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• Official website (in German)