SK Schärding
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| Full name | Sportklub Waizenauer Schärding | ||
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| Founded | April 1, 1922 | ||
| Ground | Baunti Arena[1] | ||
| Chairman | Silvio Vitale | ||
| Coach | Bernhard Straif | ||
| League | Landesliga West | ||
| Website | Club website | ||
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SK Schärding (German: Sportklub Waizenauer Schärding) is an Austrian football club in Schärding, Upper Austria, Austria.
History[edit]
The club was founded in 1922 by a group of young adults as SK Sturm Schärding.[2] The club wore white and black their jerseys were made by their mothers. A farmer in St. Florian am Inn let the team use his fields as a temporary arena. The club switched to black and red in 1925, based on 1. FC Nürnberg.[2]
The club mainly played with Bavarian clubs, since the only Austrian clubs nearby were Ried and Braunau. The team became known as FC Schärding through 1925-1934 and officially became SK Schärding in 1934. There was a border blockade from 1933-1935 which meant the team could not play Bavarian teams and it prevented multiple Schärding players from being able to play with the team.[2]
In 1934, another sports club named ATSV Schärding was dissolved and the members of it joined SK Schärding.[2]
The club built momentum following World War II, winning the Austrian 5. Liga's Gruppe D in 1945-46, then winning the 2. Klasse F in 1946-47 and then coming in 2nd in the 2. Klasse D in 1947-48, which gained them promotion to the 4. Liga's 1. Klasse West. They finished in the top 3 of the 1. Klasse West most years between 1948-55 and started playing at a new stadium called Rennbahnstadion, which was a former racecourse. The team won the 1. Klasse West in the 1955-56 season and were promoted to the 3. Liga's Landesliga.
The team were not as successful in the Landesliga and were eventually demoted to the 4. Liga, Bezirksliga West in 1967-68. There were league structure changes and the team ended up in the 5. Liga's Bezirksliga West in 1970-71. The team won the 1973 Innviertler Cup[3] and won the Bezirksliga West in 1974-75 to earn promotion to the 4. Liga's 2. Landesliga West. The team had multiple finishes in the top 3 from 1976-77 to 1981-82 but starting struggling in the 1983-84 season.[2]
The team won the 2. Landesliga West in 1986-87 and were promoted to the 2. Landesliga in 1988-89. The club won the 2. Landesliga in 1993-94 and were promoted to a new regional version of the 1. Landesliga. The club was demoted from the 4. Liga's 1. Landesliga in 1998-99 and then were demoted from the 5. Liga's 2. Landesliga West in 1999-00. The club won the 6. Liga's Bezirksliga West in 2000-01. The club was neither promoted or demoted from 2001-2018 and had their 2019-20 and 2020-21 seasons partially cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2]
Notable personnel[edit]
- Heribert Trubrig - Played for the club and later played 10 games for the Austria national team.
- Andreas Michl - He played for the club from 1998-01 and later played for SC Rheindorf Altach in the Austrian Football Bundesliga.
- Edi Kirschner - He played for Bayern Munich and later coached Schärding from 1993-94.
- Valentin Grubeck - He played for the team and later made youth appearances for the Austria national team. He then played for SV Grödig in the Austrian Football Bundesliga.
- Fabian Grubeck - He played for the team from 2002-2010 then played for SV Grödig in the Austrian Football Bundesliga. He returned to Schärding in 2017.[4]
- Miroslav Štěpánek - He played for the club from 2016-17 and played for the Czech Republic national youth football team.
- Mijo Miletic - He started playing for the club in 2022 and previously had played for the Bosnia and Herzegovina national under-17 football team.
In popular culture[edit]
SK Schärding is featured in the video game series, Football Manager.[5]
Honors[edit]
- 2. Klasse D
- Champions: 1947-48
- 1. Klasse West
- Champions: 1955-56
- Champions: 1973
- Bezirksliga West
- Champions: 1974-75, 2000-01
- 2. Landesliga West
- Champions: 1986-87
- 2. Landesliga
- Champions: 1993-94
References[edit]
- ^ "SCHÄRDING SK".
- ^ a b c d e f "SKS Timeline".
- ^ "Innviertler Cup 1971".
- ^ "Fabian Grubeck".
- ^ Sports Interactive (February 2, 2023). Football Manager 2021 (PC) (21.4 ed.). Sega. Scene: SportsKlub Schärding.
SportsKlub Schärding