SKN St. Pölten

**Sportklub Niederösterreich St. Pölten** is a football club from St. Pölten the capital of the Austrian federal state Lower Austria. St. Poelten plays in the Austrian Football First League, the second division in the Austrian football league system.

## History

SKN St. Poelten was founded in June 2000.  The new club took over all belongings of the predecessor, FCN St. Poelten .Most important was the ownership  of the Bundesliga junior center.  Through this the club did not enter in the lowest class but was allowed in the 2nd League West, the fifth level of Austrian football.

The next two seasons they won the championships and reached the Regionalliga Ost(3rd division).In the 2003/04 season the club reached the 4th place. The following season the club reached sixth place in the league reached in the Austrian Cup the quarter-finals. They won over SV Wörgl (3-0), SW Bregenz (2–1) and a sensational 5-1 victory overAustria Salzburg in the third round.  In the quarter-finals, St. Poelten, was beaten by Austria Wien 6-0.
In autumn 2009 the club could present the plans for the new stadium which is currently built in the Ratzersdorf district of St.Pölten.

In the 2007/08 season they won the Regionalliga and were promoted to the First League. In the summer of 2016, they were promoted to the Bundesliga. In the 2020/21 season they were relegated to the 2. Liga.

## Coaching history (21st century)

|Start|End|Coach|
| --- | --- | --- |
|7/2000|6/2002|Karl Daxbacher|
|7/2002|6/2003|Horst Kirasitsch|
|7/2003|11/2004|Frenkie Schinkels|
|1/2005|4/2006|Günther Wessely|
|4/2006|6/2006|Peter Benes|
|4/2006|6/2006|Markus Kernal|
|7/2006|1/2007|Walter Hörmann|
|1/2007|9/2013|Martin Scherb|
|9/2013|9/2013|Thomas Nentwich|
|9/2013|5/2014|Gerald Baumgartner|
|6/2014|10/2014|Herbert Gager|
|10/2014|3/2015|Michael Steiner|
|3/2015|6/2015|Jochen Fallmann|
|6/2015|10/2016|Karl Daxbacher|
|10/2016|9/2017|Jochen Fallmann|
|9/2017|9/2017|Marcel Ketelaer|
|9/2017|4/2018|Oliver Lederer|
|4/2018|10/2018|Dietmar Kühbauer|
|10/2018|10/2018|Marcel Ketelaer|
|10/2018|6/2019|Ranko Popovic|
|6/2019|3/2020|Alexander Schmidt|
|3/2020|4/2021|Robert Ibertsberger|
|4/2021|4/2021|Georg Zellhofer|
|4/2021|6/2021|Gerald Baumgartner|
|7/2021|10/2023|Stephan Helm|
|8/2023|10/2023|Emanuel Pogatetz|
|10/2023|12/2023|Jan Schlaudraff|
|1 /2024|5/2024|Philipp Semlic|
|5/2024|6/2024|Christoph Witamwas|
|7/2024||Aleksandar Gitsov|

## Notable players

- Zlatko Kranjcar (1990)
- Frank Schinkels (2002–04)

## Youth work

The SKN St. Poelten currently has ten youth teams for children from the age of 7 to 15, with a total of 150 children and youths. In addition to the junior teams, the club has a second team (SKN II), which plays their games in the Mid Western League, with the squad mostly consisting of squad players under the age of 18.

## Infobox (football club)

- **clubname**: SKN St. Pölten
- **image**: Skn logo farbe web.png
- **fullname**: Sportklub Niederösterreich St. Pölten
- **founded**: June 2000
- **ground**: NV Arena
- **capacity**: 10,000
- **chairman**: Gottfried Tröstl
- **manager**: Aleksandar Gitsov
- **homepage**: [http://www.skn-stpoelten.at/ SKN St. Pölten]
- **league**: 2. Liga, Second League
- **season**: 2023-24
- **position**: 8th
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