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FC Kärnten
Full name	FC Kelag Kärnten
Founded	1920
Dissolved	2009
Ground	Sportzentrum Fischl, Klagenfurt; (Capacity: 3,000)
Chairman	Josef Steindorfer
Manager	Slobodan Grubor
League	Austrian Regional League Central
2007-08	Red Zac 1st League, 10th
Home colours	Away colours

FC Kärnten was an Austrian football club based in Klagenfurt, Carinthia. It was founded in 1920 under the name of KSK Klagenfurt. They recently played their home games at the Sportzentrum Fischl.

[edit] History

In 1927 the team changed its name to SK Austria Klagenfurt. They played successfully in the Kärntner Liga and in 1960 were promoted to the Austrian Regional League Central where they won the championchip of the 1961-62 season. Then a member of the Austrian Football Bundesliga (Liga A), Austria Klagenfurt intermittently stayed in first league until their final relegation in 1989. In the 1992-93 season the club found itself back in the Kärntner Liga.

Though Austria Klagenfurt again gained the promotion to the Regional League Central in 1996, it seemed to the persons responsible that the Carinthian Clubs would have to join efforts in order to send a team to the Bundesliga. The consideration led to a cooperation of SK Austria with the Villacher SV, also playing in the Regional League and based in the nearby town of Villach. In 1997 they changed their name to FC Austria/VSV and indeed were promoted to the First League right away. In 1999 both clubs finally merged under the name FC Kärnten.

After the engagement of manager Walter Schachner the team in 2001 won the Austrian Cup, the Supercup and became champion in the First League to play in the Bundesliga from the following season. The club, meanwhile under the honorary presidency of Governor Jörg Haider, once again reached the finals of the Austrian Cup and the Supercup in 2003, which nevertheless they both lost against FK Austria Wien. FC Kärnten only played in the Bundesliga for three years until its relegation in 2004.

The decline continued, exacerbated by the resignation of Jörg Haider in 2006 and the foundation of the rivaling SK Austria Kärnten team in June 2007, which adopted the Bundesliga licence of the former ASKÖ Pasching club. The team had to cede their stadium, the present-day Hypo-Arena to Austria Kärnten and retire to the small Fischl ground. At the end of the 2007-08 season the FC Kärnten slipped to the Regional League, motivating several players to leave the team. In November 2008 the club went under administration, gaming discontinued on 21 January 2009.

[edit] European cup history

Q = Qualification

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2001/02	UEFA Cup	1	PAOK Thessaloniki	0-0	4-0	0-4
2002/03	UEFA Cup	Q1	HK Liepājas Metalurgs	4-2	0-2	6-2
		1	Hapoel Tel Aviv	0-4	1-0	0-5
2003/04	UEFA Cup	Q1	Grindavik	2-1	1-1	3-1
		1	Feyenoord	0-1	2-1	1-3