# 2024–25 SK Sturm Graz season

The 2024–25 season is the 116th season in the history of SK Sturm Graz, and the club's 59th consecutive season in Austrian Football Bundesliga. In addition to the domestic league, the team is scheduled to participate in the Austrian Cup and the UEFA Champions League.

## Transfers
### In

| Pos. | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date |
| MF | Tochi Chukwuani | Lyngby | Undisclosed | 1 July 2024 |
| MF | Youba Koïta | ATS Koro | | 1 July 2024 |
| MF | Martin Kern | Puskás AFC II | | 1 July 2024 |
| DF | Emir Karić | SV Darmstadt 98 | Free | 1 July 2024 |
| DF | Arjan Malić | SV Ried | €500,000 | 1 July 2024 |
| GK | Kjell Scherpen | Brighton & Hove Albion | Loan | 2 July 2024 |
| MF | Lovro Zvonarek | Bayern Munich | Loan | 4 July 2024 |
| FW | Mika Biereth | Arsenal FC U21 | €4,000,000 | 8 July 2024 |
| DF | Emanuel Aiwu | Cremonese | Undisclosed | 10 July 2024 |
| GK | Daniil Khudyakov | Lokomotiv Moscow | €340,000 | 22 July 2024 |

### Out

| Pos. | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date | Source |
| DF | David Schnegg | D.C. United | €1,850,000 | 1 July 2024 | |
| DF | Jusuf Gazibegović | 1. FC Köln | €2,000,000 | 1 January 2025 | |

## Competitions
### Overall record

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Austrian Football Bundesliga | 4 August 2024 | | Matchday 1 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 29 | 15 | +14 | 069.23 |
| Austrian Cup | 27 July 2024 | | First round | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 100.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | 16 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 38 | 19 | +19 | 075.00 |
Last updated: 9 November 2024 Source: Soccerway

### Austrian Football Bundesliga
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Sturm Graz (Q) | 21 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 47 | 26 | +21 | 43 | Qualification for the Championship round |
| 2 | Austria Wien (Q) | 21 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 34 | 19 | +15 | 43 | Qualification for the Championship round |
| 3 | Wolfsberg (Q) | 21 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 44 | 29 | +15 | 36 | Qualification for the Championship round |
| 4 | Red Bull Salzburg (Q) | 21 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 32 | 22 | +10 | 35 | Qualification for the Championship round |
| 5 | LASK | 21 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 30 | 29 | +1 | 31 | Qualification for the Championship round |
* ↑ Head to head points: LASK 4, Rapid 1.
| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | STU | AWI | WAC | RBS | 5th |
| 1 | Sturm Graz | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification for the Champions League play-off round | — | | | | |
| 2 | Austria Wien | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round | | — | | | |
| 3 | Wolfsberg | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification for the Conference League second qualifying round | | | — | | |
| 4 | Red Bull Salzburg | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification for the Conference League play-offs | | | | — | |
| 5 | 5th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | — |
* ↑ The 2024–25 Austrian Cup winners qualify for the Europa League third qualifying round. If the cup winners finish in the top three, the Conference League berth will be passed to the fourth place team.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 9 March 2025. Source: ADMIRAL Bundesliga

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
| Ground | A | H | A | H | H | H | A | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | A | H |
| Result | L | W | W | W | W | L | D | W | W | W | W | D | W | W | D | W | D | L | W | L | W | |
| Position | 10 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Points | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 25 | 26 | 29 | 32 | 33 | 36 | 37 | 37 | 40 | 40 | 43 | |

#### Matches
### UEFA Champions League
#### League phase

The league phase draw was held on 29 August 2024. Sturm Graz will play their home matches at Wörthersee Stadion, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, instead of their regular stadium, Liebenauer Stadium, Graz, which does not meet UEFA requirements.
| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 28 | Bologna | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 9 | −5 | 6 |
| 29 | Red Star Belgrade | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 13 | 22 | −9 | 6 |
| 30 | Sturm Graz | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 14 | −9 | 6 |
| 31 | Sparta Prague | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 21 | −14 | 4 |
| 32 | RB Leipzig | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 15 | −7 | 3 |
| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| Ground | A | H | H | A | H | A | A | H |
| Result | L | L | L | L | W | L | L | |
| Position | 22 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 29 | 29 | | |
| Points | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | |
Win  Draw  Loss  Fixtures