This is entry no. 9 of the “Where Are They Now?” series, a series of posts on this sub looking at clubs across various leagues who were relegated from that country’s top flight and never came back. This post will be covering the Austrian Bundesliga, formed in 1974.

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Every Team that was Relegated from the Austrian Bundesliga Once and Never Came Back: Where Are They Now? (Part 1)

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1. Simmeringer SC

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  • Full Name: 1. Simmeringer Sportclub
  • Founded: 1901
  • Time in the Ö. Bundesliga: 1982-1983 (One season)
  • Current Status: Wiener Stadtliga (4th Tier)

The fall of Nazi Germany in 1945 saw the end of Austria’s integration in the German football league system, an arrangement which had been in place since Germany’s annexation of Austria in 1938. Professionalism, which was outlawed by the Nazis in 1938, was reintroduced by the Austrian Football Association (ÖFB) in 1949, the same year that the Staatsliga A was created - a new top flight which replaced the short-lived Liga that saw only teams from the capital city of Vienna compete for the national championship. The creation of the Staatsliga early on had positive results for both Austrian clubs and the Austrian national team, but following the dissolution of the Staatsliga B in 1960 and the introduction of weaker teams into the top flight, those performances began to suffer, and the country’s failure to qualify for the 1966 World Cups led to calls for major reforms. The ÖFB took control of the top division from the Fußballstaatsliga Österreich in 1965 (renaming it to the Nationalliga) and the ban on Austrian players moving abroad was lifted. Then in April 1974 following a third failed World Cup qualifying campaign, the member associations voted to reform the league system, resulting in the introduction of the Bundesliga (then known as the 1. Division). The move was very controversial, however, with the Vorarlberg Football Association in particular being fierce opponents. The reforms saw the top division reduced from 17 teams to just 10 with the inaugural participants being one club from each of the regional associations (except Vienna, which got two) determined by their performances in the past five years, as well as the champion of the 1973-74 season. Additionally, the reform saw the creation of a professional national second division. The format remained like this until 1982 when the league expanded to 16 teams, with one of those teams being 1. Simmeringer Sportclub.

1, Simmeringer-Amateur Sportclub was founded in 1892, but changed their name to 1. Simmeringer SC in 1901 following the creation of a footballing section. The club was an inaugural member of the First Austrian Football Championship and played in the top division from 1911 until their relegation in 1928. Aside from a brief stint in the Nationalliga in the 1937-38 season, 1. SSC wouldn’t reappear in the top flight until 1951. The club spent twelve uninterrupted seasons in the Staatsliga A, even earning the right to compete in the 1960 edition of the Mitropa Cup - an international club competition for teams based in central Europe. After suffering relegation in 1963, Simmering more or less became a yo-yo club, having four separate stints in the top flight over the next decade. The club finished 11th in the 1973-74 Nationalliga, but were forcibly relegated to the now second-tier Nationalliga following the creation of the Bundesliga because they had an inferior five year record compared to FK Austria WAC Vienna and SK Rapid Vienna. Simmering spent eight seasons in the second tier, never finishing higher than 4th, but thanks to pressure from smaller clubs, it was decided in May 1982 that the Bundesliga would expand from 10 teams back to 16 ahead of the 1982-83 season (a move which was later deemed to be a mistake), with eight of the 10 Bundesliga clubs voting in favor. Therefore, six teams would earn promotion from the second division as opposed to just one. Simmeringer would be one of the beneficiaries of the expansion after finishing 5th in the 81/82 season, thereby earning entry into the Bundesliga after having missed out in 1974.

Simmeringer started the 1982-83 season off slowly with a loss to Sturm Graz and draws to Grazer AK and FC Union Wels before finally winning their first game with a 1-0 victory at home to Austria Salzburg. The club did suffer a 3-1 loss to fellow promotees Eisenstadt, but they closed out the month of September with another 1-0 home win, this time against SC Neuseidl am See. These results brought Simmeringer up to 8th in the table, but unfortunately for the Viennese club it would be all downhill from here, for that victory against Neusiedl was the last one the club would earn throughout the campaign. Eight losses (including three 4-1 losses to Rapid Vienna, FC Linz, and Wiener SC, and a 4-0 loss to Austria Klagenfurt) and three draws in their next 11 games saw Simmering fall into the relegation zone, and a subsequent draw to Union Wels saw them hit the bottom of the standings. The Rot-Schwarzen never rose above 16th for the rest of the season, as they went on an 11-match losing streak, and while a draw against relegation-threatened First Vienna on the penultimate matchday did break the streak, by that point it was too late as their relegation had already been confirmed two games prior in a 4-2 away loss to LASK. The club finished the season with a 2-3 home loss to Admira/Wacker despite taking the lead twice.

Much of Simmering’s history was wrought with financial difficulties. Money troubles were largely responsible for their first relegation in 1928, and their relegation from the Nationalliga in 1966 hurt their finances so much that it brought the club into a legal dispute with the property owner of the site of the club’s stadium, the 50,000 seater Simmeringer Had (which for a time also served as the home stadium of the Austrian national team), which the club lost, forcing them to relocate to their current stadium in 1970 which only had a capacity of 5,000 (side note: Simmeringer in its history played in three different stadiums, each of which bore the name Simmeringer Had, or just Had for short). Additionally, a friendly match that was scheduled against Bayern Munich to commemorate the opening of their new stadium had to be cancelled because Simmering couldn’t afford the Bavarian’s financial demands. Additionally, after the conclusion of the 82/83 Bundesliga campaign, the ÖFB excluded Simmering from the league due to the club failing to pay a transfer fee to Admira/Wacker for defender Heinrich Strasser, but thanks to Simmering having already been relegated via their table position motion was largely symbolic in nature. That being said, relegation from the Bundesliga began the darkest period in the club’s history. After two seasons in the second division, a restructuring of the league format saw the Rot-Schwarzen relegated to the third tier Regionalliga, where they played just one season before falling down to the fourth tier Landesliga. 1. SSC by this point had effectively run out of money, and in the face of player strikes and poor attendances, the club was nearly driven to extinction, with talks of possible mergers with the likes of Schwechat or Ostbahn XI or potentially becoming a satellite club for Rapid Vienna circulating in the media. Ultimately, though, the club survived, and after 13 seasons they finally made a return to the Regionalliga in 1999. The next decade saw 1. SSC move between the third and fourth divisions, but in 2009 the club fell down to the then fifth-tier Wiener Oberliga for the first time. The club won promotion after just a season, but in 2017 they found themselves back in the fifth tier, and due to struggling finances Simmering had to rely on players from the youth team to form a competitive outfit. This, however, did pay dividends to the club, and after five seasons the club won promotion back to the Wiener Stadtliga in 2022, where they’ve been playing since.

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FC Union Wels

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  • Full Name: Fußballclub Union Wels
  • Founded: 1946
  • Time in the Ö. Bundesliga: 1982-1984 (Two seasons)
  • Current Status: Extinct

Another team which benefited from the 1982 Bundesliga expansion, FC Union Wels was founded in 1946, beginning play in the 3. Klasse Oberösterreich, the sixth tier of Austrian football at the time. Most of Union’s early history was spent languishing in the lower divisions. After spending nearly two decades moving between the sixth and fifth tiers, Union finally won promotion to the fourth tier Bezirksliga in 1968, later moving on to the 1. Landesliga Oberösterreich in 1973. The club won its first Upper Austrian league title in 1977, but in the promotion playoffs they lost to Landesliga Steiermark champions Kapfenberger SV in the first round. Another league title would come in 1978, but once again the club failed to secure promotion to the 2. Division, this time losing in the first round to Landesliga Kärnten champions Wolfsberger AC. After missing out on the promotion playoffs in 1979, they qualified once again in 1980, and this time they overcame Styrian side SV Flavia Solva and Carinthian side SV Spittal/Drau to finally win promotion to the second tier. Union impressed in their first season, finishing in 5th on 36 points. In the 1981-82 season, the club once again finished on 36 points, this time finishing in 6th behind previous entrants Simmering due to goal difference. Thanks to the Bundesliga’s expansion to 16 teams, however, it was Union with a squad mostly comprised of local talent who occupied the final promotion spot, earning them entry into the top flight.

Union opened the 1982-93 season with a 3-1 win over First Vienna, though it wouldn’t be for another seven matchdays that the club would experience another victory. While not much was expected from Union sporting-wise, them being in the Bundesliga did provide an incredible opportunity for the biggest names in Austrian soccer to make the rounds in the city. When Austria Vienna came to play at Wels in September, the 9,000 seater Union-Platz was host to over 10,000 spectators, helping to soften the blow of Union’s 2-1 loss to Die Veilchen. Following a 2-0 win over Wiener SC in October, Union could only manage one more win before the winter break, that being a 1-0 win over SC Neusiedl in November. An impressive 0-0 draw against Austria Salzburg was the only other point the club earned in this timeframe. Even though the results weren’t always there for Union, they were by no means punching bags, managing to keep their margins of defeat fairly narrow for the most part. That being said, with the club coming into the spring season in 13th with just nine points to their name, results needed to improve lest the Upper Austrians risk relegation. After losing to First Vienna 2-1 followed by three consecutive draws to Grazer, Simmering, and Eisenstadt, a 3-0 win over Austria Klagenfurt kept Union steady over the relegation zone, but with just a win and two draws from their next ten games, Union fell into the relegation zone. Union needed to record a better result than First Vienna to stay up. Union upset LASK 3-1 at home, and Vienna capitulated as they were thrashed 7-0 away to Grazer AK. Thus, Union survived, finishing 14th on 20 points - one more than Vienna.

A 2-1 win over Favoritner AC at the start of the 83/84 campaign marked the first time Union won a Bundesliga game away from home. What followed was a thrilling home game against reigning champions Rapid Vienna. In front of a crowd of over 12,000, Union shocked the Austrian giants, leading 2-0 by the 80th minute and requiring the efforts of Reinhard Kienast and Antonín Panenka (yes, that Panenka) to see the Viennese escape with a point. That game did mark the start of a ten match winless run that brought Union once again in a relegation scrap. The streak was broken by a string of victories in November: 2-0 over Neusiedl, 2-1 over Austria Salzburg, and 3-1 over St. Veit. While the club lost its last two games of the fall season, those wins had brought them up to 10th with 14 points to their name. But even though on the field the club were doing fine, off the field trouble was brewing. There were rumors back in September that Union had become insolvent. Troubled by the news, supporters of the club began hoisting banners at home games pleading for donations. This came to no avail, however, and to add insult to injury, the club’s sponsor Raiffeisen ended its sponsorship and the club were unable to find a replacement. Out of options, club president and former member of Austria’s National Council Alois Gföllner filed the club for bankruptcy on January 31st, 1984 and announced its intention to withdraw from the league. With the bankruptcy, all of Union’s players were released, and the club opted to restart in the eighth-tier 2. Klasse for the 84/85 season. All of Union’s remaining fixtures were given as 3-0 forfeits, with the club ultimately finishing in 15th.

Much like how they started, Union once again languished in the lower divisions, never climbing higher than the sixth tier Bezirksliga from 1992 to 1995. While Union continued to struggle, another club from the city of Wels was enjoying relatively greater success. SK Eintracht Wels, founded just one year after Union, won promotion to the Regionalliga Mitte in 1995 and after just two years they had climbed up to the second division. Despite their massive spending, however, Eintracht were unable to gain a foothold in the league, relegating after just a season with multiple unsuccessful stints in the third tier to follow. Come the turn of the millennium, the desire to once again have a major club based in Wels grew more and more, and in 2003 the football clubs of Eintracht and Union, who had long been considered rivals due to the clubs’ political leanings (with Eintracht’s support largely coming from the center-left and Union’s from the center-right), agreed to merge to become a single club named FC Wels. Hopes of the new club becoming a major player were quickly dissipated, though, as in their first season of existence they finished 15th, which should have seen them relegated were it not for the withdrawal of TuS FC Arnfels from the league. Improvements were made in the next few seasons, though, and in 06/07 the club just narrowly missed out on promotion to the 1. Liga by a single point behind SV Bad Aussee. Wels wouldn’t ever come close to promotion again, and in the 2011-12 season the club were relegated to the OÖ Liga. The club won promotion back to the Regionalliga Mitte in 2018, only surviving thanks to the withdrawls of FC Lendorf and VST Völkermarkt. With the next two Regionalliga seasons being annulled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, FC Wels did not play another full season until 2021-22, where they were relegated back to the Landesliga. After the 22/23 season when they finished second from bottom, FC Wels entered into a syndicate (or Spielgemeinschaft) with fellow Wels club WSC Hertha (at the time playing in the Regionalliga Mitte). Under the banner of SGP Wels, city politicians hope that this arrangement can fulfill “Mission Bundesliga” as its called and bring top flight soccer back to the city once again.

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SC Neusiedl am See

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  • Full Name: Sportclub Neusiedl am See 1919
  • Founded: 1919
  • Time in the Ö. Bundesliga: 1982-1984 (Two seasons)
  • Current Status: Regionalliga Ost (3rd Tier)

The last team to feature on this list that benefited from the 1982 expansion, Neusiedl am See were founded in 1919 as Neusiedler Sportclub 1919, and in the early years of its existence, the club was largely financed by the players themselves, often having to rely on events such as church festivals to help fundraise for games as women from the city help sew their uniforms. With the breakout of World War II, most of the players were drafted into the Wehrmacht, and most of the club’s play during this time was done by youth players. After the war, the club re-registered with the Burgenland Football Association in 1947, and after finishing runners-up in their group in the Burgenland championship in 1949 qualified for the Landesliga Burgenland, where the club played for the next 27 years. After nearly missing out on promotion to the Regionalliga in 1969, Neusiedl finally found itself in the national leagues in 1976, setting off the most successful period of the club’s history. The club’s first season in the Regionalliga Ost saw them finish in an impressive 3rd, improving to 2nd the following season. They weren’t able to go one better immediately, but finally in 1980 finished 1st on goal difference and won promotion to the 2. Division. Unlike their first season in the Regionalliga, NCS’s first season in the 2. Division saw them battling against relegation, and the nature of the division saw them having to travel distances much longer than they were accustomed to, straining their finances. Goal difference once again was the savior as the club finished 13th out of 16. The second season in the 2. Division saw a marked improvement. At the end of the season the team finished 4th on 38 points, and thanks to the Bundesliga expansion they earned access to the top flight of Austrian football for the first time.

For a team hailing from a city of just 3,500 inhabitants at the time that play in a stadium that seats just 4,000, staying up in the top flight would be a difficult task. After starting the 1982-83 campaign with a 0-0 draw away to FC Linz, Neusiedl earned their first win at home defeating Wiener Sport-Club 2-1. Neusiedl wouldn’t taste victory again for a while, however, as they went on to lose their next four games while failing to score themselves, already leaving them bottom of the table. Their next win wouldn’t come until the start of the Rückrunde in March, defeating Linz 3-1 on matchday 16. Results from this point on were more positive, picking up draws against Wiener SC and Admira/Wacker as well as an important win against relegation rivals 1. Simmeringer. The month of May saw Neusiedl (who were still in the relegation zone) pull off a massive upset by beating top of the table Rapid Vienna 2-1. While a 2-0 loss to LASK followed, an important 4-0 thumping against fellow relegation candidates First Vienna saw the Burgenland-based side finally pull out of the drop after having been there since September. One more win over a relegation-threatened side - this time Union Wels - followed by a draw to Eisenstadt and a 4-0 rout of then 6th-placed Austria Klagenfurt on the penultimate matchday guaranteed Neusiedl’s stay in the Bundesliga, something that not even an 8-0 demolition at the hands of Austria Vienna on the final day could take away from them as the lakeside club finished 13th.

Unfortunately, that 8-0 defeat at the end of the 82/83 season would be a sign to come. With the club’s finances pushed well beyond their limit, Neusiedl embarked on a disastrous 1983-84 campaign that would write them in Bundesliga history for all the wrong reasons. Things started off tame with a 2-0 home loss to Austria Vienna, but nothing could prepare the Neusiedl faithful for what they would witness. Not only did the club fail to earn a single win for the entirety of the Hinrunde, they couldn’t even secure a single point. The actual results weren’t much prettier: a 5-1 loss away to Sturm Graz in August, a 5-0 loss to St. Veit/Glan in September, 6-1 and 5-0 losses to Admira/Wacker and Grazer AK in October, and a 7-0 loss to SSW Innsbruck in November were the key lowlights during this time as Neusiedl were rooted to the table without a single point. NSC played out a 5-0 loss to Austria Vienna just before the winter break, but there would be no break to the misery upon the league’s resumption as they lost to Sturm Graz, Wiener SC, and Austria Salzburg by a combined 12-1. Finally, on March 31st, after having lost their first 19 games, NSC picked up their first point: a 0-0 draw at home to St. Veit/Glan. Unlike the previous season, however, this would not be the start of some grand comeback, as the club proceeded to lose their next three games, including an 8-0 thrashing away to Rapid Vienna. They did pick up a second point after drawing Admira/Wacker 0-0, and in May after a couple more heavy defeats, the team technically avoided going the entire season winless as they were awarded a 3-0 win away to Union Wels. However, this was due to Union having dissolved earlier in the season, making the rest of their results automatic forfeits. The team didn’t end the season strong, losing their last three games without scoring, and Neusiedl were relegated to the 2. Division having secured just four points - the lowest in the history of the Austrian Bundesliga even if accounting for 3 points for a win. They also had the worst goal difference in Bundesliga history, scoring just 10 themselves while conceding a record 102, making them the worst team in Bundesliga history.

Relegation spelled even more trouble for the club’s finances, and after a meeting amongst the board in June 1984 resulted in the club requesting to forego participation in the 2. Division and instead be administratively relegated to the Burgenland 2. Liga Nord - the fifth tier of the Austrian pyramid. The hope was a quick return to the Landesliga Burgenland, but with much of their first team squad having departed following their relegation from the Bundesliga and debts mounting even higher, NSC could only manage three seasons in the II. Liga Nord before suffering relegation to the sixth-tier 1. Klasse Nord in 1987. After narrowly avoiding another relegation in 1989, the club managed to earn promotion to the II. Liga Nord in 1992. From this point, the club would focus on improving their finances and promoting homegrown talent into the senior squad. Despite a setback in the 2001-02 season that saw NSC once again threatened with relegation and the entire club board resigning, the fruits of their labor would pay off, and in 2004 the club returned to the Landesliga Burgenland. In fact, they did one better, winning promotion to the Regionalliga Ost the very next season, spurred on by the goalscoring exploits of striker Norbert Pammer whom the club acquired on a free transfer in the summer. After seven seasons in the third division, NSC did suffer a relegation back to the Landesliga, but it took them just two years to make a return. Neusiedl have remained in the Regionalliga Ost since, though they did just narrowly avoid another relegation in the 2022-23 season, finishing just two points ahead of the dropzone.

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SV St. Veit/Glan

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  • Full Name: Sportverein St. Veit an der Glan
  • Founded: 1950
  • Time in the Ö. Bundesliga: 1983-1984 (One season)
  • Current Status: Extinct

Remember when I said that Neusiedl was the last team on this list that benefited from the 1982 Bundesliga expansion? Well, that was a lie. In fact this next entry on this list also benefited from the expansion, albeit not in the same way that the previous three clubs did. SV St. Veit/Glan, based in the town of St. Veit an der Glan in the state of Carinthia, was founded in 1950, and in just three years of existence they had already won promotion from the Landesliga Kärnten as state champions and qualified for the Tauernliga. The club stayed in the division for three seasons before getting relegated back to the Landesliga after losing a two-legged relegation playoff against Wolfsberger AC. Due to a restructuring of the league in 1959 that saw the Tauernliga abolished, SV found themselves dropped to the fourth-tier Unterliga, from which they wouldn’t return to the Landesliga until either 1962 or 1963 (records are not clear). After about ten seasons in the Landesliga, St. Veit/Glan finally made their return to the second tier, winning promotion to the Regionalliga Mitte in 1973. This didn’t last long, though, as the creation of the Bundesliga in 1974 saw the Carinthian club become a victim of another restructuring and dropping to the third tier, a stay which only lasted a season before they returned to the now unified second-tier Nationalliga. Over the next few years, SV established themselves in the second division, in the meantime going on an incredible run in the Austrian cup in the 1976-77 season that saw them reach the semi-finals, defeating Bundesliga sides Sturm Graz and Austria Salzburg en route before falling to Wiener Sport-Club. While SV had mostly midtable performances in their time in the second division, their 15th-place finish in the 81/82 season (which came largely as a result of losing the financial backing of Austrian industrialist Adolf Funder) should have seen them relegated to the Regionalliga. Because of the Bundesliga’s expansion that year, however, no forced relegations took place, and in the 1982-83 campaign, a much improved SV finished as champions of the 2. Division ahead of Favoritner AC on goal difference, earning them promotion to the Bundesliga

SV had a rough early schedule for the 83/84 season, with four of their first six matches being against SSW Innsbruck, Austria Vienna, Sturm Graz, and Austria Salzburg - teams that finished 2nd-5th in the previous Bundesliga standings. They lost all of those games aside from a 2-2 draw with Innsbruck, but their opening day win over FC Linz and a 5-0 thrashing of Neusiedl am See saw them finish September in 11th. This didn’t hold, however, and just one win (1-0 over Favoritner) and three draws out of their next ten games saw the Carinthians drop into the automatic relegation spots by the winter break. Upon the league’s resumption in March, SV once again had to face many of the leagues best side from the onset, but this time they were much improved. The club managed to get their unlikely revenge on both Sturm Graz and Austria Salzburg by one goal margins, held Innsbruck to a 1-1 draw, and only narrowly lost to Austria Vienna 2-1. This great form couldn’t be maintained, however, and a 2-0 loss to Wiener SC in April was followed by a 6-0 drubbing at the hands of LASK. A 2-1 win over relegation rivals Favoritner stemmed the tide for but a brief moment, as SV proceeded to lose their next four games, including a 4-0 loss to then league leaders Rapid. SV were awarded a 3-0 win over Union Wels due to the latter’s dissolution, but a 0-0 draw between Favoritner and Grazer on the penultimate matchday meant that SV were unable to finish higher than 14th, condemning them to a relegation playoff against third place 2. Division side Donawitzer SV (today DSV Leoben). SV went away to Leoben in the first leg, where they were upset 2-0, and despite their efforts could only manage a 1-1 draw at home. Having lost the tie 3-1 on aggregate, St. Veit/Glan were relegated to the 2. Division.

SV finished fourth in their first season back in the second division, but the conclusion of the 1984-85 season once again saw top two division of Austrian soccer undergo a radical format change. More detail on this format change will be given later, but regardless SV had no chance of winning promotion back to the top flight, and after two seasons the club were relegated down to the Landesliga Kärnten. By this point, it should be noted that SV were not the only club hailing from St. Veit an der Glan - the year 1966 saw the founding of SC Amateure St. Veit. SCA mostly spent their existence in the lower rungs of the Austrian pyramid, never winning promotion to the Bundesliga, though they did play as high as the 2. Division between 1976 and 1981, coinciding with SV’s stay in the division. SV were very much the better team at that time, with SCA only finishing above them once in the final standings in the 1978-79 season. Like SV, SCA were also bankrolled by Funder, but his retirement saw the club fall through the divisions. By the time SV were back in the Landesliga, SCA were playing right below them in the Unterliga Ost, but the 1988-89 season saw the latter relegated to the 1. Klasse.

In 1989, the two cross-town rivals decided to come together and merge to form FC St. Veit, taking SV’s place in the Landesliga. Sportingwise, the fusion didn’t go as planned, as after four years of existence, the club was relegated to the Unterliga Ost, though they did return to the fourth tier after just one season. Under the tutelage of Albert “Bertl” Parth (who would have some level of involvement with the club for the better part of two decades), the club found their footing and in 1998 they won promotion to the Regionalliga Mitte. St. Veit played in the third tier for five seasons before getting relegated in 2003, and didn’t return until 2008, where they played another two seasons before being relegated from the division for the final time. In June 2014, a general meeting saw the club change their name to FC Alpe Adria, named for the bio region that spans across Slovenia, southern Austria, and northern Italy. The story of Alpe Adria would be short-lived, however, as the 2014-15 season saw the club relegated to the Unterliga Ost, and after finishing 9th in the 15/16 season, the club folded due to a lack of both players and money. There had been two attempts to bring the club back into action, the first of which was during the 2017-18 season with the club (who changed its name back to FC St. Veit) starting out in the 2. Klasse D - the 7th tier of Austrian soccer. This was unsuccessful, however, and the club didn’t even last the season. The club came back once again in 2018, this time as SC St. Veit, restarting again in the 2. Klasse C. This attempt has been far more fruitful, and at time of posting the club currently sits atop the Carinthian Unterliga Ost standings.

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This concludes part one. Part two will be out shortly