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Full name	Sportklub Niederösterreich St. Pölten
Founded	June 2002
Ground	Voith-Platz (Capacity: 10,000)
Chairman	Sepp Hintermaier
Manager	Martin Scherb
League	Erste Liga
2007/2008	Austrian Regional League East, 2nd
Home colours Away colours

Sportklub Niederösterreich St. Poelten is an Austrian soccer club from the provincial capital of Austrian state of Lower Austria. St. Poelten currently plays (2008/09) in the Austrian Football First League, which is the second tier of the Austrian football league system.^[1]

Contents 1 History 2 Titles and successes 3 Notable players and coaches 4 Current squad 5 Offspring work 6 Sponsors 7 External links 8 References

[edit] History

The SKN St. Poelten was after dissolving its unofficial predecessor, the FCN St. Poelten and its predecessor the VSE St. Poelten in June 2000. The new club over all of FCN infrastructure, the stadium and also the patronage of the Bundesliga junior center. Through the acquisition of BNZ St. Poelten SKN was not as a newly founded association usual in the last game lima class, but was allowed in the 2nd Land League West, the fifth level.

Already in its first season made the team immediately to the championship in 2nd Land League, and thus the rise in the fourth level of performance. In the 1st Land League voted the club in the 2001/02 season succession with the next track profits to the state champion and managed so that the marching into the Regional League East. In the same year, the game SKN also in the finals of the Lower Austria Cup, but there had to surprise the team from Theresienfeld beaten.

In the regional league reached St. Poelten in the 2002/03 season premiere only the tenth table space, but increased the following year to the fourth Endrang. In the 2004/05 season the club won the sixth rank and came in ÖFB Cup over SV Wörgl (3:0), black-and-white Bregenz (2-1) and Austria Salzburg (5:1) sensationally in the quarter-finals. When surprise victory on Voith place on the Bundesligigsten from Salzburg did this mainly Prenner with three killer and with two gates. In the quarter-finals, St. Poelten, 27 April 2005 against Austria Wien no chance and resigned with a 0:6 defeat from the candidate.

In the game year 2005/06 the defeat Austrians fought to the last moment to move up to the first league, but had at the end of the season by one point this afternoon Look to the SC ESV Parndorf 1919. The stated goal in the 2006/07 season was the first rise in the league. After weak performance in the autumn of 2006 and some vereinsinternen quarrels, in the course of which the athletic director Markus Kernal was dismissed, but this goal was dropped. In the 2006/2007 winter break returned several players master the club back. The manager Raphael Landthaler joined believes differences with Anton pepper at the end of Novermber 2006. A few days before the start of training, and after 8 weeks of leave was also the trainer Walter Hörmann back to sports coordinator Sturm Graz. New coach Martin Scherb, work colleague of Supervisory Board member Anton Pfeffer. In the spring season was the SKN tapered with a strong team behind champion überrraschenderweise Schwadorf the second most team. Remarkably, the scandal game against the budding champions, SKN with three players after the highly controversial leadership matches for Schwadorf shortly before the end of play were excluded. It was the only yellow / red or red cards for SKN players throughout the 2006/2007 season.

At the end of June 2007, Chairman Christian WALTER entirely surprising his office and the Supervisory Board Chairman and former Chairman Sepp Hintermaier back over his office. Officially, it happened for professional reasons. We believe, however, rumours that the umpire exchange from the country NÖ wanted or was forced, because only a few days after the exchange is known Landesrätin Dr. Petra Bohuslav clearly SKN St. Poelten, and also announced the construction of a new football stadium by 2011.

The goal for the season 2007/2008 was originally a place among the top five since the attainment of the Masters title on the basis of the given conditions (very young and less experienced team), according to club management before the season as unrealistic and also represented some of the other teams, like Vienna Vienna sports club or a multiple of budget available. Over the entire 2007 autumn season has been very good performances and outstanding results which led to several rounds to even the round table of the East Regional League held. Ultimately, it managed by 27.4.2007 (1:2 against Schwadorf) until 9.11.2007 (0:1 at Vienna), a series of 24 unbeaten games (20 wins, 4 tie) Amateur Championship and Cup. Because of the defeat in the last game of the fall season, the autumn championship to the main competitors FAC team for Vienna, and we must now the spring season with 2 points at tackle.

[edit] Titles and successes

• 1 x Lower Austrian national champion: 2002
• 1 x country league champion Lower Austria: 2002
• 1 x 2nd Masters Land League West: 2001
• 1 x Landespokal Cup Finalist: 2002
• 1 x quarter finalist in ÖFB Cup: 2005

[edit] Notable players and coaches

• Frenk Schinkels (2002 2004)
• Karl Daxbacher (trainer in 2000 and 2002 - Champion League 2000/01 country 2nd, 1st Land League Championship 2001/02)
• Günter Wessely (trainer in 2005 until April 2006
• Walter Hörmann (2006)
• Martin Scherb (trainer; from 7 January 2007)^[2]

[edit] Current squad

No. Position Player 1 GK Thomas Vollhofer 2 DF Markus Speiser 3 DF Rilind Shemo (also holds Austrian citizenship) 4 MF Peter Brandl 5 DF Thomas Nentwich 6 MF Thomas Jusits 7 MF Jochen Fallmann 8 FW Michael Wojtanowicz 10 MF Ahmet Delić 12 MF Helmut Prenner 13 MF Lukas Thürauer 14 MF Mirnes Bećirović 15 MF Stefan Stiedl

No. Position Player 16 MF Marc-Andre Unterhuber 17 FW Florian Zellhofer 18 DF Christian Balga 19 FW Robert Gruberbauer 20 MF Stefan Schmircher 21 DF Ümit Derin 22 DF Michael Ambichl 23 DF Christian Schaller 24 FW Christopher Frank 25 DF Andreas Gradinger 26 MF Goran Zvijerac 31 GK Dominik Seiwald 32 GK David Kraft

[edit] Offspring work

The SKN St. Poelten currently has ten young teams of the ages U-7 to U15 with a total of 150 children and adolescents. The older youth, the AKA St. Poelten covered. In addition to the junior teams, the club have a second team (SKN II), their games in the mid-West 1st class contests and their cadres mostly from the players AKA U18LL, supported by players in the squad I SKN, is in place.

[edit] Sponsors

Under the sponsorship of the furniture store Leiner joined the club until 2005 under the name Leiner SKN St. Poelten in appearance. With the introduction of staff24 Personnel Management GmbH changed the association's name in 2006 SKN staff24 St. Poelten.

[edit] External links

• Official web site

[edit] References