Wattener Sportgemeinschaft Tirol (), commonly known as WSG Tirol, is a professional

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

club based in the town of

Wattens Wattens is a market town of the Innsbruck-Land District in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It is chiefly known as home of the Swarovski crystal glass company. Geography Wattens is located in the Lower Inn Valley of North Tyrol, about east of Innsbr ...

Tyrol Tyrol (; historically the Tyrole; de-AT, Tirol ; it, Tirolo) is a historical region in the Alps - in Northern Italy and western Austria. The area was historically the core of the County of Tyrol, part of the Holy Roman Empire, Austrian Emp ...

, Austria, that competes in the

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, the top tier of the

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. Founded in 1930, it is affiliated to the

Tirol Football Association The Tirol Football Association (German: Tiroler Fussballerband; TFV) is an umbrella organization of the football clubs of the Austrian state Tyrol, Austria. The TFV was founded in 1919 and has its headquarters in Innsbruck. The TFV is one of 9 re ...

. The team plays its home matches at Tivoli Stadion Tirol, where it has been based since 2019. In the 1969–70 season they played in the Nationalliga, the highest division in Austrian football at this time.

History

The club was formed in 1930 and has been known as SC Wattens (1930–53), SV Wattens (1953–71), and WSG Wattens (1984–2019). Its most successful period was in 1968–71, when it competed in the

Austrian Bundesliga The Austrian Football Bundesliga (german: Österreichische Fußball-Bundesliga, italic=no , "Austrian Football Federal League"), also known as Admiral Bundesliga for sponsorship reasons, is the top level of the Austrian football league system. Th ...

. Between 1971 and 1984 it merged with

FC Wacker Innsbruck FC Wacker Innsbruck was an Austrian association football club from Innsbruck, Tyrol. History The ''Fußball-Club Wacker'' ("Valiant") ''Innsbruck'' was established in 1915 by Jakob Hanspeter, Benedikt Hosp, Josef Leitner, Josef Albrecht and o ...

to form SSW Innsbruck (the merged team went on to win the Bundesliga five times and reached the quarter finals of the 1977-78 European Cup). In this period the club retained its identity with distinct youth teams. From 1984, WSG Wattens have played in the

Austrian Regional League West The Austrian Regional League West (german: Regionalliga West) was a third-tier division of football in Austria, Austrian football introduced in the 1980–81 season as successor of the ''Alpenliga''. It covered the Austrian states of Salzburg (st ...

and the second tier First League. In 2019, they were promoted to the Bundesliga. After promotion, the club announced that their name would be changed to WSG Swarowski Tirol. In 2021 however,

Swarovski Swarovski (, ) is an Austrian producer of glass based in Wattens, Austria, and has existed as a family-owned business since its founding in 1895 by Daniel Swarovski. The company is split into three major industry areas: the Swarovski Crystal ...

ended its sponsorship and its name was removed from the club's name as well as from the business. Wattens Performance Graph

Stadium

WSG Tirol play their home matches in Gernot Langes Stadion, Wattens. The stadium's capacity is 5500. The team’s average home attendance for the 2010–11 season was 289. The stadium is also occasionally used for international matches, such as a 2010 friendly between Saudi Arabia and Nigeria. In 2013 the stadium was renamed in Gernot Langes stadium in honour of the 70th birthday of the longtime president Gernot Langes.Website of WSG Wattens (German)
/ref> The stadium does not currently meet Bundesliga suitability criteria and therefore redevelopment work has been planned to create a modern, 6,000 capacity stadium by the summer of 2021. During this period, the club will use the Tivoli Stadium in Innsbruck.

Achievements

* Austrian Second Division: ** Winners (1): 2018–19 * Austrian Second Division (West): ** Winners (1): 1968 * Austrian Third Division (West): ** Winners (4): 1989, 1995, 1999, 2003,

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Current squad

Club Officials

Manager history

* Fritz Pfister (1964–1970) *

Eduard Frühwirth Eduard "Edi" Frühwirth (17 November 1908 – 27 February 1973) was an Austrian football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally m ...

(1970–1971) * Hugo Perwein (1989–1990) * Günther Rinker (1991–1994) * Friedrich Peer (1994-1997) *

Wolfgang Schwarz Wolfgang Schwarz (born 14 September 1947, in Vienna) is an Austrian former figure skater. He is the 1968 Olympic gold medalist (one of the youngest male figure skating Olympic champions), a two-time (1967–1968) World silver medalist, and thre ...

(1997-2000) * Günther Steinlechner (2000–2001) * Fuad Đulić (2001) *

Michael Streiter Michael Streiter (born 19 January 1966 in Hall in Tirol) is a retired Austrian footballer. Club career A rather short sweeper, Streiter made his professional debut at 17 years of age with FC Wacker Innsbruck in the 1983/1984 season. He stayed in ...

(2001-2002) * Georg Saringer (2005) * Thomas Pfeiler (2006-2007) * Klaus Schuster (2007) * Robert Auer (2007-2008) *

Roland Kirchler Roland Kirchler (born 29 September 1970, in Innsbruck) is a retired Austrian football player. Club career Kirchler played for FC Tirol Innsbruck from 1990 through 2002 and then at 32 decided to move abroad. But he returned to Austria after playi ...

(2008-2012) * Robert Wazinger (2012-2013) * Thomas Silberberger (2013-)

References

External links

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