SK Sturm Graz

The club was founded on 1 May 1909. It was founded by teenagers between 16 and 18. The official foundation of the club was in 1912. From 1921 to 1949 Sturm won the styrian championship 11 times. During German occupation the club played his first season in the highest division, the Gauliga Ostmark, but was relegated the same year. 1949 Sturm entered the national league as first team which came not from Vienna. In 1981 the team had the first success, it finished second in the league and reached the quarterfinals of tne UEFA Cup.

With the new president Hannes Kartnig a new successful era started. In 1994 Ivica Osim became coach of the team. 1995 they finished second in the league and 1996 they reached their first title, the Austrian Cup beating Admira Wacker. In 1998 they reached the first title. In 1999 they also won the league.

The first time they played for the Champions League, they only got one point against Spartak Moscow of Russia. The second time they played there they reached the 3rd place in the group. In the 1999/2000 season of the Champions League they won the Group D versus Galatasaray Glasgow Rangers and AS Monaco.

After this success some key players left the club and also coach Ivica Osim. Since 2005 Sturm has had financial problems. Therefore Sturm was forced to play with young players. Under Franco Foda this way was successful, and now Sturm is one of the top four teams in the league. In 2010 they reached the third title and played in the qualification for the Champions League but lost in the play off round against BATE Borisov.

In the 2010-11 season Sturm Graz reached their third championship. And 2017 and 2023mthey won the Cup.[1]

As of 8 August 2022

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 4 DF  Slovenia Jon Gorenc Stanković 5 DF  Switzerland Gregory Wüthrich 6 DF  Austria Aleksandar Borković (on loan from Hoffenheim) 8 MF  Austria Alexander Prass 9 FW  Denmark Rasmus Højlund 10 MF  Georgia Otar Kiteishvili 11 MF  Austria Manprit Sarkaria 13 FW  Austria Jakob Jantscher 14 DF  Austria Paul Komposch 16 MF  Austria Sandro Schendl 17 MF  Austria Vesel Demaku 18 DF  Austria Alois Oroz 19 MF  Slovenia Tomi Horvat 21 MF  Austria Samuel Stückler 22 DF  Bosnia and Herzegovina Jusuf Gazibegović 23 FW  Austria Luca Kronberger 24 DF  Austria Sandro Ingolitsch 25 MF  Austria Stefan Hierländer

No. Pos. Nation Player 26 MF  Austria Christoph Lang 27 GK  Austria Jörg Siebenhandl 28 DF  Austria David Schnegg 29 DF  Ghana Mohammed Fuseini 30 MF  Austria Ivan Ljubić 31 GK  Austria Luka Marić 32 GK  Austria Tobias Schützenauer 34 DF  Austria Simon Nelson 35 DF  Austria Niklas Geyrhofer 36 DF  Austria Vincent Trummer 37 DF  Austria Moritz Wels 41 GK  Austria Christopher Giuliani 42 DF  Austria David Affengruber 44 DF  Mali Amadou Dante — FW  Netherlands Emanuel Emegha

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• Austrian Football Bundesliga

• Champions (4): 1998,1999, 2011, 2024

• Austrian Cup

• Winners (6): 1996, 1997, 1999, 2010, 2018, 2023, 2024

• Austrian Supercup

• Winners (3): 1996, 1998, 1999

• Austrian Amateur Champions (1): 1934
• Styrian Regional Champions (11)
• Styrian Cup Winners (9)
• UEFA Champions League (3)

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• Q= Qualifying
• P= Preliminary
• PO = Play-off

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away
1970–71	UEFA Cup	1		Ilves	3–0	2–4
		2		Arsenal	1–0	0–2
1974–75	UEFA Cup	1		Royal Antwerp	2–1	0–1
1975–76	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1		Slavia Sofia	3–1	0–1
		2		Szombathelyi Haladás	2–0	1–1
		QF		Eintracht Frankfurt	0–2	0–1
1978–79	UEFA Cup	1R		Borussia Mönchengladbach	1–2	1–5
1981–82	UEFA Cup	1		CSKA Moscow	1–0	1–2
		2		IFK Göteborg	2–2	2–3
1983–84	UEFA Cup	1		Sportul Studențesc	0–0	2–1
		2		Hellas Verona	0–0	2–2
		3		Lokomotive Leipzig	2–0	0–1
		QF		Nottingham Forest	1–1 (AET)	0–1
1988–89	UEFA Cup	1		Servette	0–0	0–1
1991–92	UEFA Cup	1		Utrecht	0–1	1–3
1995–96	UEFA Cup	Q		Slavia Prague	0–1	1–1
1996–97	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1		Sparta Prague	2–2	1–1
1997–98	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1		APOEL	3–0	1–0
		2		AEK Athens	1–0	0–2
1998–99	UEFA Champions League	Q2		Újpest	4–0	3–2
		Group C – 4th		Spartak Moscow	0–2	0–0
				Internazionale	0–2	0–1
				Real Madrid	1–5	1–6
1999–00	UEFA Champions League	Q3		Servette	2–1	2–2
		Group D – 3rd, P		Marseille	3–2	0–2
				Manchester United	0–3	1–2
				Croatia Zagreb	1–0	0–3
1999–00	UEFA Cup	3		Parma	3–3 (AET)	1–2
2000–01	UEFA Champions League	Q2		Hapoel Tel Aviv	3–0	2–1
		Q3		Feyenoord	2–1	1–1
		Group D – 1st, P		Rangers	2–0	0–5
				Galatasaray	3–0	2–2
				Monaco	2–0	0–5
		Group A – 3rd		Valencia	0–5	0–2
				Manchester United	0–2	0–3
				Panathinaikos	2–0	2–1
2001	UEFA Intertoto Cup	2		Lausanne-Sport	0–1	3–3
2002–03	UEFA Champions League	Q3		Maccabi Haifa	3–3	0–2
2002–03	UEFA Cup	1		Livingston	5–2	3–4
		2		Levski Sofia	1–0	0–1 (p 8–7)
		3		Lazio	1–3	1–0
2005	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1		Rànger's	5–0	1–1
		2		VfL Wolfsburg	1–3	2–2
2008	UEFA Intertoto Cup	R		Shakhtyor Soligorsk	2–0	0–0
		3		Budapest Honvéd	0–0	2–1
2008–09	UEFA Cup	Q2		Zürich	1–1 (p 2–4)	1–1
2009–10	UEFA Europa League	Q2		Široki Brijeg	2–1	1–1
		Q3		Petrovac	5–0	2–1
		Play-off		Metalist Kharkiv	1–1	1–0
		Group F – 4th		Dinamo București	0–1	1–2
				Galatasaray	1–0	1–1
				Panathinaikos	0–1	0–1
2010–11	UEFA Europa League	Q3		Dinamo Tbilisi	2–0	1–1
		Play-off		Juventus	1–2	0–1
2011–12	UEFA Champions League	Q2		Videoton	2–0	2–3
		Q3		Zestafoni	1–0	1–1
		PO		BATE Borisov	0–2	1–1
	UEFA Europa League	Group L – 4th		Lokomotiv Moscow	1–2	1–3
				AEK Athens	1–3	2–1
				Anderlecht	0–2	0–3
2013–14	UEFA Europa League	Q2		Breiðablik	0–1	0–0
2015–16	UEFA Europa League	Q3		Rubin Kazan	2–3	1–1
2017–18	UEFA Europa League	Q2		Mladost Podgorica	0–1	3–0
		Q3		Fenerbahçe	1–2	1–1
2018–19	UEFA Champions League	Q2		Ajax	1–3	0–2
	UEFA Europa League	Q3		AEK Larnaca	0–2	0–5
2019–20	UEFA Europa League	Q2		Haugesund	2–1	0–2
2021–22	UEFA Europa League	Play-off		Mura	2–0	3–1
		Group B		AS Monaco	1–1	0–1
				PSV Eindhoven	1–4	0–2
				Real Sociedad	0–1	1–1

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