# SK Austria Klagenfurt (2007)

SK Austria Klagenfurt is an Austrian professional football club based in the Carinthian capital Klagenfurt, the club currently competing in the Austrian Bundesliga, the top tier in Austrian football.

## History

The emergence of the club marked the end of all efforts to establish an all-Carinthian team to play in the Austrian Football Bundesliga, pushed by the state's government under Jörg Haider. Austria Klagenfurt was already founded in 2007 ahead of the formation of the SK Austria Kärnten football club, but began playing not before SK Austria was dissolved in 2010 and it had merged with SC St. Stefan. SK Austria Klagenfurt plays its home matches at the Hypo Group Arena. The club adopts the tradition of the former SK Austria Klagenfurt founded in 1920, renamed FC Kärnten in 1999, which was dissolved in 2009.
In 2020–21, Austria Klagenfurt finished in third place and promotion to Austrian Bundesliga for the first time in history after defeat SKN St. Pölten with aggregate 5–0 in promotion relegation play-off, the club promotion to top tier since refounded in 2007 due to obtain a licence by ÖFB.

## Honours
### Domestic
#### League

* Austrian Regionalliga Central:
** Winners (1): 2014–15

## Players
### First team squad

    As of 1 February 2025
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | AUT | Marco Knaller |
| 2 | DF | NED | Solomon Bonnah |
| 3 | DF | AUT | Matthias Dollinger |
| 4 | MF | NED | Denzel Owusu |
| 5 | MF | AUT | Bego Kujraković |
| 6 | MF | AUT | Tobias Koch |
| 7 | FW | AUT | Florian Jaritz |
| 8 | MF | GRE | Kosmas Gezos |
| 9 | FW | AUT | Nicolas Binder |
| 10 | FW | MKD | David Toshevski |
| 11 | MF | ENG | Keanan Bennetts |
| 13 | DF | AUT | Martin Hinteregger |
| 14 | MF | AUT | Christopher Cvetko |
| 15 | MF | TOG | Dikeni Salifou (on loan from Werder Bremen) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 16 | MF | GER | Iba May |
| 17 | DF | ITA | Simon Straudi |
| 19 | DF | AUT | Niklas Szerencsi |
| 24 | MF | AUT | Christopher Wernitznig |
| 27 | DF | GER | Jonas Kühn |
| 29 | FW | GER | Laurenz Dehl |
| 30 | GK | AUT | Simon Spari |
| 31 | DF | AUT | Thorsten Mahrer |
| 33 | MF | USA | Steven Juncaj |
| 34 | DF | AUT | Jannik Robatsch |
| 41 | GK | AUT | Alexander Turkin |
| 70 | FW | AUT | Aaron Sky Schwarz (on loan from Rapid Wien) |
| 77 | FW | GER | Ben Bobzien (on loan from Mainz 05) |
| 95 | MF | AUT | Philipp Wydra (on loan from Rapid Wien) |

### Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | GK | CRO | Ivan Kešina (at Viktoria Berlin until 30 June 2025) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | KOR | Lee Min-young (at Viktoria Berlin until 30 June 2025) |

#### Staff

    As of 22 October 2021
| Head coach | Peter Pacult |
| Assistant coach | Martin Lassnig |
| Assistant coach | Wolfgang Schellenberg |
| Goalkeeper coach | Thomas Lenuweit |
| Athletics coach | Manuel Trattnig |
| Team manager | Sandro Zakany |
| Club doctor | Christiane Loinig |
| Kit manager | Peter Kostolansky |
| Manager | Harald Gärtner |
| Manager | Matthias Imhof |

## Head coach history

    As of 22 October 2021
* Walter Schoppitsch (2010–2011)
* Rudolf Perz (2011)
* Dietmar Thuller (2011–2012)
* Günther Gorenzel-Simonitsch (2012)
* Bruno Friesenbichler (2012–2013)
* Heimo Vorderegger (2013)
* Jože Prelogar (2013–2014)
* Alexander Suppantschitsch (2014)
* Manfred Bender (2014–2016)
* Gerhard Fellner (2016–2017)
* Franz Polanz (2017–2018)
* Robert Micheu (2018–2020)
* Peter Pacult (2020–)