# 2021–22 SK Sturm Graz season

The 2021–22 season was the 113th season in the existence of SK Sturm Graz and the club's 56th consecutive season in the top flight of Austrian football. In addition to the domestic league, Sturm Graz participated in this season's edition of the Austrian Cup and the UEFA Europa League.

## Players
### First-team squad

    As of 29 January 2022
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 4 | DF | SVN | Jon Gorenc Stanković |
| 5 | DF | SUI | Gregory Wüthrich |
| 6 | DF | AUT | Aleksandar Borković (on loan from Hoffenheim) |
| 8 | MF | AUT | Alexander Prass |
| 9 | FW | DEN | Rasmus Højlund |
| 10 | MF | GEO | Otar Kiteishvili |
| 11 | MF | AUT | Manprit Sarkaria |
| 13 | FW | AUT | Jakob Jantscher |
| 14 | DF | AUT | Paul Komposch |
| 15 | FW | CIV | Anderson Niangbo (on loan from Gent) |
| 16 | MF | AUT | Sandro Schendl |
| 17 | MF | AUT | Lukas Jäger |
| 18 | MF | AUT | Philipp Huspek |
| 19 | MF | AUT | Andreas Kuen |
| 20 | FW | AUT | Martin Krienzer |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 21 | MF | AUT | Samuel Stückler |
| 22 | DF | BIH | Jusuf Gazibegović |
| 23 | FW | AUT | Luca Kronberger |
| 24 | DF | AUT | Sandro Ingolitsch |
| 25 | MF | AUT | Stefan Hierländer |
| 26 | MF | AUT | Christoph Lang |
| 27 | GK | AUT | Jörg Siebenhandl |
| 29 | FW | ZAM | Francisco Mwepu |
| 30 | MF | AUT | Ivan Ljubić |
| 32 | GK | AUT | Tobias Schützenauer |
| 35 | DF | AUT | Niklas Geyrhofer |
| 36 | DF | AUT | Vincent Trummer |
| 42 | DF | AUT | David Affengruber |
| 44 | DF | MLI | Amadou Dante |

### Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | GK | AUT | Christopher Giuliani (at Kapfenberg until 30 June 2022) |
| — | DF | AUT | Florian Weiler (at Hartberg until 30 June 2022) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | AUT | Dardan Shabanhaxhaj (at Kapfenberg until 30 June 2022) |

## Transfers
### Out

| No. | Pos. | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date | Source |
| 45 | FW | Kelvin Yeboah | Genoa | €6.5M | 8 January 2022 |

## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss  Fixtures

## Competitions
### Overall record

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Austrian Football Bundesliga | 23 July 2021 | May 2022 | Matchday 1 | | 28 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 55 | 36 | +19 | 050.00 |
| Austrian Cup | 17 July 2021 | 27 October 2021 | First round | Third round | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 2 | +12 | 066.67 |
| UEFA Europa League | 19 August 2021 | 9 December 2021 | Play-off round | Group stage | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 11 | −3 | 025.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 39 | 18 | 10 | 11 | 77 | 49 | +28 | 046.15 |
Last updated: 24 April 2022 Source: Soccerway

### Austrian Football Bundesliga
#### Regular stage

Austrian Bundesliga regular season table :
| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Red Bull Salzburg | 22 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 50 | 13 | +37 | 55 | Qualification for the Championship round |
| 2 | Sturm Graz | 22 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 46 | 32 | +14 | 37 | Qualification for the Championship round |
| 3 | Wolfsberger AC | 22 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 34 | 32 | +2 | 37 | Qualification for the Championship round |
| 4 | Austria Wien | 22 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 31 | 23 | +8 | 33 | Qualification for the Championship round |
| 5 | Rapid Wien | 22 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 35 | 31 | +4 | 31 | Qualification for the Championship round |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 15 May 2022. Source: Austrian Football Bundesliga

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 |
| Ground | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A |
| Result | L | W | W | W | D | D | W | W | W | L | W | L | L | D | L | W | D | W | D | D | W | D | L | W | W | W | W | D | W | W | L | |
| Position | 11 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |

#### Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 22 June 2021.

#### Championship round

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | RBS | STU | AWI | WOL | RWI | KLA |
| 1 | Red Bull Salzburg (C) | 32 | 25 | 5 | 2 | 77 | 19 | +58 | 52 | Qualification for the Champions League group stage | — | 1–0 | 5–0 | 4–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 |
| 2 | Sturm Graz | 32 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 62 | 46 | +16 | 37 | Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round | 2–1 | — | 1–0 | 1–4 | 2–1 | 3–1 |
| 3 | Austria Wien | 32 | 11 | 13 | 8 | 44 | 39 | +5 | 29 | Qualification for the Europa League play-off round | 1–2 | 4–2 | — | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 |
| 4 | Wolfsberger AC | 32 | 14 | 5 | 13 | 48 | 53 | −5 | 28 | Qualification for the Europa Conference League third qualifying round | 1–4 | 0–2 | 1–1 | — | 2–1 | 1–2 |
| 5 | Rapid Wien (O) | 32 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 48 | 45 | +3 | 25 | Qualification for the Europa Conference League play-offs | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | — | 2–2 |

### UEFA Europa League
#### Play-off round

The draw for the play-off round was held on 2 August 2021.

#### Group stage

The draw for the group stage was held on 27 August 2021.
| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Monaco | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 4 | +3 | 12 | Advance to round of 16 |
| 2 | Real Sociedad | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 6 | +3 | 9 | Advance to knockout round play-offs |
| 3 | PSV Eindhoven | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 8 | +1 | 8 | Transfer to Europa Conference League |
| 4 | Sturm Graz | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 10 | −7 | 2 | |