SC Austria Lustenau

Austria Lustenau

Full name	Sport Club Austria Lustenau
Founded	June 1914
Ground	Reichshofstadion Lustenau, Austria
Ground Capacity	8,800
Chairman	Hubert Nagel
Manager	Helgi Kolviðsson
League	Erste Liga
20010–11	Erste Liga, 3rd
Home colours Away colours

SC Austria Lustenau is a football club from Lustenau, Vorarlberg. The club is playing in the Erste Liga, the second division in Austria.

History

The club was founded in June 1914 as football department of Turnerbund Lustenau and was named FA Turnerbund Lustenau. This name had the club till 1936. For not having a football assosiation in Vorarlberg the club only played friendly matches. During the time of First World War there were no matches. In 1920 the club started in a regular championship. The first success was the Vorarlberg championship in the 1929/30 season. They were qualified for the Austrian Amateur Championship and reached the final versus Kremser SC.

In 1936 the club left the Turnerbund Lustenau and became a club of its own. The were renamed to SC Austria Lustenau. In the following years they reached several titels. In 1994 they won the Regionalliga West and were promoted to the First League, the second division in Austrian football. From 1997 to 2000 they played in the Bundesliga, the top division of Austrias football.

Cup final 20011

The biggest success so far was the Cup final in 2010/11. Austria Lustenau was the first club from Vorarlberg which ever reached a Cup final. The match was lost against SV Ried.

Current squad

As of 12 August 2011.

No. Position Player 1 GK Christian Mendes 3 DF Peter Pöllhuber 4 DF Toni Tipuric 5 DF Christoph Stückler 6 MF Pius Grabher 7 DF Jürgen Kampel 8 MF Harald Dürr 9 FW Dursun Karatay 10 MF Sidinei 11 FW Felix Roth 13 FW Gerald Krajić 14 MF Philipp Vorraber

No. Position Player 16 DF Mario Leitgeb 17 MF Danilo 18 DF Aaron Kircher 19 DF Jan Zwischenbrugger 20 FW Murat Cetinkaya 22 FW Manuel Honeck 23 FW Sascha Boller 24 FW Tobias Wirnsperger 25 MF Sabri Vural 26 MF Benedikt Zech 27 FW Marco Miesenböck 28 FW Dominik Rotter 31 GK Alexander Kofler

Honours

• Runner-up Austrian Amateur Championship: 1930 (FA Turnerbund)
• Champion 2nd division: 1997
• Champion Regionalliga West(3rd division): 1994
• Champion Tyrol/Vorarlberg: 1977
• 9 x Vorarlberger Champion: 1930 (FA Turnerbund), 1937, 1946, 1949, 1965, 1977, 1978, 1980 (Austria) , 2005 (Austria-Amateure)
• 6 x Vorarlberger Cup :1936, 1949, 1951, 1958, 1980 (Austria) 1999 (Austria-Amateure)