SKU Amstetten

Sportklub Union Amstetten, commonly known as SKU Ertl Glas Amstetten for sponsorship reasons is a professional association football club based in the town of Amstetten, Lower Austria, that competes in the Austrian Regionalliga, the third tier of the Austrian football. Founded in 1997, it is affiliated to the Lower Austrian Football Association. The team plays its home matches at Union-Platz, where it has been based since its foundation.

SKU Amstetten
Full nameSportklub Union Amstetten
Nickname(s)Wir fürs Mostviertel (We for Mostviertel)[1]
Founded30 November 1997 (1997-11-30)
GroundErtl-Glas-Stadion
Capacity3,000
ChairmanHarald Vetter
Bernhard Reikersdorfer
Gerhard Reikersdorfer
Mario Holzer
Head coachPatrick Enengl
LeagueAustrian Regionalliga
2023–242. Liga, 16th of 16 (relegated)
WebsiteClub website

History

The club was formed in 1997 from a merger of two local clubs; former second division club ASK Amstetten, founded in 1932, and SC Union Amstetten, founded in 1946. Existing rivalries were pushed aside as a new board was founded by members of both clubs headed by chairman Rodolf Brunner.[2] In the 2007–08 season, the club was promoted to the third highest league, the Austrian Regionalliga before being directly relegated to the 1. Niederösterreichische Landesliga again.[2] In 2011, the club returned to the Regionalliga, where they established themselves until the 2017–18 season, where they managed to win promotion to the Austrian Football Second League for the first time.[3] They returned to the third tier Regionalliga in 2024, after suffering relegation as bottom of the table in the 2023–24 season.[4]

Cup performances

After their first successful performance in the Austrian Cup in the 2013–14 season as a Regionalliga side – a victory over the second division club SV Mattersburg and reaching the quarter-finals –[5] they managed to knock out Austria Lustenau in the 2016–17 Austrian Cup, a club playing at the professional level. After a 2–2 draw in regular time, they won the penalty shoot-out.[6] Before that, in the 2015–16 Austrian Cup season, Amstetten had narrowly lost to Rapid Wien on penalties in the second round.[7]

Stadium
Main article: Union-Platz

The club plays at the modernised Union-Platz stadium, which has a capacity of 3,000.[8]

Current squad
As of 3 February 2024

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  AUT Elias Scherf (on loan from TSV Hartberg)
4 DF  AUT Julian Tomka
5 DF  AUT Harald Hauser
6 DF  AUT Can Kurt
7 MF  AUT Dominik Starkl
8 MF  AUT Niels Hahn
9 FW  AUT Jürgen Lemmerer (on loan from TSV Hartberg)
10 MF  AUT Burak Yilmaz
11 DF  AUT Daniel Rosenbichler
12 DF  AUT Lukas Deinhofer
14 MF  AUT Daniel Scharner
15 MF  AUT Philipp Offenthaler
19 MF  AUT Fabian Palzer
20 MF  AUT Marcel Moschinger
22 DF  AUT Silvio Apollonio
No. Pos. Nation Player
23 FW  JPN Atsushi Zaizen (on loan from Grazer AK)
27 DF  AUT Sebastian Dirnberger
28 GK  AUT Dennis Verwüster
29 FW  AUT Marcel Monsberger
31 GK  AUT Thomas Willersberger
33 GK  AUT Kilian Scharner
36 DF  AUT Timo Weinberger
37 FW  AUT Jan-Sebastian Koppensteiner
39 FW  AUT Lukas Henikl
44 MF  AUT Marco Sulzner (on loan from LASK)
47 MF  AUT Dominik Weixelbraun (on loan from LASK)
66 MF  AUT Stefan Radulovic
74 FW  AUT Angelo Gattermayer (on loan from Waldhof Mannheim)
78 DF  GER Leon Fust (on loan from Bayern Munich II)

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
— MF  AUT Marco Kadlec (at SPG Hogo Wels until 30 June 2024)

Staff

Technical staff
Position Staff
Head coach Patrick Enengl
Assistant manager Thomas Gebauer
Goalkeeper coach Wolfgang Haunschmid
Fitness coach Patrick Schagerl
Club doctors Dr. Gerhard Bachner
Dr. Andreas Stadlbauer
Team manager Matthias Götz

Source: SKU Amstetten

Manager History
  • Siegfried Aigner (1998–99)
  • Erwin Höld (1999–2001)
  • Sandu Tăbârcă (2001–2006)
  • Erwin Spiegel (2006–07)
  • Andreas Gutlederer (2007–09)
  • Harald Vetter (2009)
  • Herbert Panholzer (2009–12)
  • Walter Huemer (2012)
  • Heinz Thonhofer (2012–17)
  • Robert Weinstabl (2017–18)
  • Peter Zeitlhofer (2018–19)
  • Jochen Fallmann (2019–20)
  • Joachim Standfest (2020–21)
  • Jochen Fallmann (2021–23)
  • Patrick Enengl (2023–)

References
  1. "Wir fürs Mostviertel". SKU Amstetten (in Austrian German). Archived from the original on 22 July 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  2. "Junges Amstetten". 2. Liga (in Austrian German). 10 September 2018. Archived from the original on 22 July 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  3. "Fußball: Die 16 Teams der neuen 2. Liga im Porträt". Profil (in German). 27 July 2018. Archived from the original on 20 April 2021. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  4. "Kein Sieger im NÖ-Derby: Amstetten fix Letzter". Laola1 (in German). 20 May 2024. Archived from the original on 22 May 2024. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
  5. "Mattersburg setzt Abwärtstrend in Amstetten fort". DER STANDARD (in Austrian German). 29 October 2013. Archived from the original on 22 July 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  6. "SKU Amstetten – Austria Lustenau 3:2 (ÖFB-Cup 2016/2017, 2. Runde)". weltfussball.at (in German). HEIM:SPIEL. Archived from the original on 5 August 2021. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  7. "Spielschema | SKU Amstetten – Rapid Wien 3:4 | 2. Runde | Samsung Cup 2015/16". kicker (in German). Archived from the original on 22 July 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  8. "SKU Ertl Glas Amstetten: Stadion". SKU Amstetten (in German). Archived from the original on 7 July 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
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