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.SKN St Pölten – News, Squad, Results & Fixtures – Soccerway

 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.

 Current squad 

Coaching history (21st century)
SKN St. Pölten  
 Start End Coach 7/20006/2002  Karl Daxbacher 7/2002 6/2003  Horst Kirasitsch 7/2003 11/2004  Frenkie Schinkels1/2005 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 Scherb9/20139/2013  Thomas Nentwich9/2013 5/2014  Gerald Baumgartner 6/2014 10/2014 Herbert Gager 10/2014 3/2015  Michael Steiner 3/2015 6/2015  Jochen Fallmann 6/201510/2016  Karl Daxbacher 10/2016 9/2017  Jochen Fallmann 9/2017 9/2017  Marcel Ketelaer9/20174/2018  	Oliver Lederer 4/2018 10/2018  Dietmar Kühbauer 10/2018 10/2018  Marcel Ketelaer 10/2018 6/2019  Ranko Popovic6/20193/2020  Alexander Schmidt3/20204/2021   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.

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 References 

Category:2000 establishments in Europe
Category:2000s establishments in Austria
Category:Austrian football clubs
Category:Football clubs of Lower Austria
Category:Sankt Pölten