30.08.2012 When nothing happens for a reason In case anybody thought I was dead – I’m not. The daftest question I’ve heard in a while was ‘Did you know, you haven’t written anything for the website since May?’ Yes, I did know that I...

20.05.2012 Another scheduling treat After timetabling the previous game to make it almost impossible for anyone to attend it, this one was cleverly planned to take place on a cold, wet Wednesday evening ahead of a bank holiday. After...

20.05.2012 Taking a step back to make a great leap forward The rescheduling of the Anif game to a Sunday at 10.30 on what in these parts is ‘Mothers’ Day’, was never going be a decision met with any stronger emotion than ‘oh well’. Austria might...

07.05.2012 Where’s your Octocopter? This was supposed to be a game to dread against FC Pinzgau (Saalfelden), another one of those teams that let you run at them until your raggedy defence dissolves into its own holes. It was also...

07.05.2012 Altach info blackout Apparently about 400 of our lot made the journey to Altach on the Mayday public holiday. When God was designing the western half of Austria he didn’t prioritise the logistics; in fact the fastest...

29.04.2012 Masochists of the Serengeti Let’s just say this was a good day for good weather. With a number of our players injured, including Marko ‘The Cobra’ Vujic, our limitations going forward threatened to be revealed against a...

22.04.2012 The Will to Draw An away game for masochists, this one. 1050 entered the Seekirchen arena of gifted points expecting a follow-on performance from the lovely 4-0 against St Johann. As it turned out, Seekirchen played...

17.04.2012 On the Fifth Day Well, who’d’ve thought it? Despite the cold weather around 1150 fans came to Maxglan to see the first home game of the remaining part of a slap-in-the-face season. Wasn’t it Mark Twain who...

10.04.2012 Life Ticks By Like last season, the Union Innsbruck vs Austria Salzburg match was the game the home club didn’t want the away fans to see; ultimately because their facilities weren’t up to third division...

03.04.2012 Hall and the Oberndorf Headache Saturday 31st March around a thousand Austrianer made the 20 minute trip from Salzburg to a new part of Tyrol known as Oberndorf for the away game against Hall. On a pitch made for hosting...

26.03.2012 Stand up for the Austria! In a nutshell, that’s what yesterday, Sunday 25th March, was all about. The story has been told a thousand times, but that’s because there’s a story to tell.

24.11.2011 Hard Hard is the word, and looking back on the way we were looking forward to the winter break it was going to be a long, cold, hard and trainerless winter as a crowd of 1200 came to enjoy the prospect of...

24.11.2011 Another Day – Another Excuse Sounds like we mustered something like 500 fans for the journey to the capital city of Tyrol. Hard to believe the official crowd figure of 1500 as Innsbruck has a digital, electronic ticketing...

29.10.2011 Hardly the end of the world! The short version is... Dornbirn came to our place and beat us 1-0 in front of a crowd of around 1000 – because they were more efficient.

24.10.2011 The Winter Palace Who’d’ve thought it. Last spring we couldn’t even beat a Neumarkt team that had been decimated by refereeing extravagances to a total of eight players. So this time round, in view of...

17.10.2011 Swarowski Wattens and the Crystal Ball A sunny mid-October afternoon; warm in the sun – cold in the shade. An official gate of 1400 fans came to Maxglan to support an Austria Salzburg team that is blowing hot and cold at the moment....

10.10.2011 A Point Won! After four defeats on the trot the name of the game on Saturday was to come home without losing. A well-cared-for pitch, good – if somewhat expensive – catering, and a roofed stand were definite...

02.10.2011 Clouds over Hamburg Actually, there were no rain clouds over Hamburg at the weekend. We couldn’t have picked a better weekend to visit Hamburg than the one that ended yesterday. Sunny, warm and not at all windy. In...

26.09.2011 Freak Show On paper a sunny autumn afternoon trip out to Saalfelden in a spectacularly beautiful part of the county of Salzburg could be seen as a gift rather than a duty, but as Forrest Gump’s mum said:...

19.09.2011 Only Human After not having lost a league game at home for a year this sunny mid-September Saturday afternoon should have provided a picturesque backdrop for 1000 fans to roar Austria Salzburg on to another...

12.09.2011 Death or Dishonour! Right. Last year we got stuffed in Bregenz at the end of the Austrian pan handle: 5-1. This year we were going to do it differently. Of course, I had a 40th birthday party to attend, so I managed to...

03.09.2011 The Name of the Game Just over 1000 fans came to Maxglan on a gloriously sunny afternoon to watch the ritual sacrifice of the lambs of Seekirchen, my no.2 candidates for the drop this year – after Hall. However, anyone...

30.08.2011 Raining in my Heart On Friday evening I told anybody who was prepared to listen to me at Tchibo’s 40th birthday party in Abtenau that I would be driving out to St. Johann the following day. That’s my...

23.08.2011 Serve you right, sir! A hot and muggy late Saturday afternoon in Maxglan. An official gate of 1010 came to see an Austria Salzburg team changed in a number of positions give Union Innsbruck a laboured but well-deserved thr

22.08.2011 Update on the games I missed... As usual, I’m well behind on reporting on the games played so far this season. Be assured, I have a rock solid excuse for missing every one of the games listed below:

31.07.2011 The Meaning of Grateful! First day of the new season at home to Wacker Innsbruck Amateurs, and after beating Anif in the cup with just ten men the previous week, we were looking forward to shedloads of goals, stunning...

30.05.2011 None so blind... Nice weather in Maxglan and an official crowd of 1350 Austria fans and 0.000 Innsbruck fans. After a bad day at the office (3-1 away defeat) in Innsbruck earlier in the season it was always going to...

14.05.2011 The ‘Austria’ Royal Family Despite the chilly weather, the rain in the morning and the meaninglessness of the game in terms of targets already reached weeks ago, an ‘official’ crowd of 1200 came to see the home game...

09.05.2011 Neumarkt and the secret garden One of the oddest games of the year at one of the oddest venues. A crowd of 1200 people, fine weather and a synthetic pitch. Without being overly aggressive, this game finished with just 18 players...

09.05.2011 The pitch, the weather and other excuses A cool Tuesday evening in Seekirchen and an official crowd of 800 fans saw a hard-fought but ultimately scrappy 1-1 draw.

09.05.2011 Wattens and where the light goes Because I have shitloads of work to do at the moment the next few match reports won’t be much more than this: An official gate of 1300 fans came to Maxglan to see Anif’s main rivals for promotion...

26.04.2011 A Waste of Time and Money! An official crowd of somewhere between 2000 and 2500 spectators came to enjoy a sunny Friday afternoon of derby-day football in Anif. As the leaders of the division, Red Bull Juniors, can’t be...

25.04.2011 Fish Always Start to Stink Head First A fittingly tasteless end to a ridiculous saga of false agendas, storms in teacups and amateur politics. After months of waiting and revised judgements Union Innsbruck finally got round to staging a...

19.04.2011 Welcome to Hell! On Saturday an official crowd of 1300, whatever that means, enjoyed a sunny late afternoon of football in Maxglan against the beasts of Dornbirn – the b******s that gave us such a bad thrashing at...

11.04.2011 No rest for the wicked! After consulting the Austria Salzburg website and trying to work out whether the game was on Saturday or Sunday, I had to admit defeat to my own sloth. I didn’t buy a ticket and ended up going for...

02.04.2011 Bregenz nil! A brilliant summery afternoon in Maxglan, a couple of beers and a 2-0 revenge win against Bregenz made good for the crappy game last week in St Johann. This week the victory was well deserved with...

30.03.2011 St Johann and the Arena of Doom An hour’s drive to an away game in Pongau in below average temperatures, blustery and cloudy conditions, in front of an official crowd of 1350 fans with a bad view of a bad game, minimal catering...

20.03.2011 Raphael’s Ears On one of those days that could easily have been mistaken for the end of November an official gate of 1300 came to Maxglan to witness Austria Salzburg whoop the hides of the evil forces of Tyrol in...

13.11.2010 Don’t believe the hype! First the facts as raw data: Austria Salzburg’s last game in the Westliga before the winter break was a 2-2 away draw against the Red Bull Juniors. Normally, I’d write a longer introductory...

09.11.2010 Home and Away The second half of our first Westliga (3rd division) started with a visit from Altach. In the away game we battled out a last-minute 2-2 draw. On Saturday an official crowd of 1050 attended the...

02.11.2010 Hard Week for Family Guy So another week of computer slog sees your intrepid reporter delivering another late report. The other Saturday’s game against Hard was watched by an official gate of just 700 fans, but I take such...

18.10.2010 This little piggy... So the game of shame came and went and delivered the promised shame. Several hundred Austria Salzburg supporters made the trip to Innsbruck for the Sunday game against Wacker Innsbruck Amateurs and a...

10.10.2010 High Time If the crowd figures on the SFV website are to be believed Höchst don’t have any fans whatsoever. Apparently 350 people attended the game against Austria Salzburg. If you assume 400 of the 350...

08.10.2010 Chances are chances and goals are goals On an overcast Saturday afternoon at the start of October 1200 fans came to Maxglan to watch Austria Salzburg beat Neumarkt, the team they kicked out of the cup at the start of the season – so of...

04.10.2010 Journalist Andy Hudson about his first SVAS-match Andy Hudson, a journalist from Britain, visited the Austria-Salzburg-game against USK Anif and wrote about his impressions.

26.09.2010 Need for Speed The away game against league leaders Wattens also truly proved to be the game against the best team in the division. Not having seen the Altach, Bregenz or Dornbirn games I can’t tell you how good...

19.09.2010 From Good to Great As the ‘Westliga’ is the division of endless hype almost everyone is considered to be ‘one of the top favourites’ for automatic promotion spot. Thus, on a pleasantly unspectacular day,...

11.09.2010 Dornbirn Flat Earth Society An estimated 400 Austria Salzburg once again made the interminable journey to Dornbirn at the edge of the earth where Magellan meets the advocates of flat earth theory. Once again, Vorarlberg proved...

09.09.2010 Austria vs Seekirchen vs The Man in Black On Wednesday night 1100 Austria Salzburg fans witnessed what can only be described as an absolute drubbing of the away team from Seekirchen. A cold and drizzly evening did nothing to dampen the...

06.09.2010 The Difference Between a Duck A relatively cool and autumnal late afternoon match attracted 1200 fans to a game in Maxglan against Reichenau which took nearly an hour to raise its head above the level of a Sunday kick-around in...

03.09.2010 Dani said... After a long, wet journey out to partly picturesque Bregenz at the most God-forsaken end of Austria the estimated 400+ travelling Austria Salzburg supporters contributed to a total crowd of 1400 and...

22.08.2010 Learning how to relax! Another busy week of football action saw Austria Salzburg nab a midweek away point from a 0-0 against league leaders Kufstein followed by an unexpectedly clear 3-1 home win against St Johann on Saturd

16.08.2010 Bulls with no horns! Cold, miserable, wet weather not worthy of the title ‘summer’, but - well, what a nice day! According to the SFV website an official crowd of 1800 saw what 99% of the crowd in Maxglan had been...

01.08.2010 Sound and Vision On a bright late July day around 500 Austria Salzburg fans made the trip to Altach at the far western end of Austria for the first game of the new season in the western section of Austria’s 3rd...

19.06.2010 Bears and Beers and Brothers The last four weeks in the life of the new Austria Salzburg have been a bit like emotional striptease. Everything that’s good and bad about us, on and off the field, has been put in the spotlight,...

31.05.2010 Let Sleeping Plods Lie After two weeks of soul-searching and finger-pointing following the SAK disaster it was good to get back to what it’s all about; getting together and having a beer and a sing song. 1150 fans game...

09.05.2010 Covered in ash – oida! Like the rest of the second half of the season so far, 1200 fans came to Maxglan in the expectation of seeing the first 10-0 of the season against Anthering, but ended up watching a four point...

02.05.2010 Fitzcarraldo’s revenge The final foretaste of the travelling to be done if the fourth promotion in a row comes to pass for Austria Salzburg was another tour out to the edge of civilisation as we know it. The place where...

25.04.2010 The Importance of Being Important After the stress and strain of the previous spring games and the psychological Achilles of playing the return game against Saalfelden, first team to have beaten us in the autumn, 1400 fans descended...

18.04.2010 A Day at the Lake After the miserable chilly wet home defeat last week against supposedly inferior opponents, what the travelling support and the team needed was a good solid away win against Zell am See without...

10.04.2010 A Bird without Wings A home crowd of 1100 gathered in Maxglan on a Novembery sort of day in April to watch a grey day turn greyer, wetter and colder and completely burst the euphoria bubble. On a day mixed metaphors were...

04.04.2010 You Can’t Always Get What You Want An ‘official’ crowd of 1500 came to the pleasant grassy football ground in Hallwang to enjoy the first tentative rays of early summer sun and to watch Austria Salzburg stamp their class on the...

28.03.2010 Wuthering Heights A more or less bright and blustery afternoon saw an official gate of 1300 football starved Austria Salzburg fans gather in Maxglan to watch the expected ritual slaughtering of a Straßwalchen lamb...

07.11.2009 Party Time in Chicken Village With just 90 minutes to go before the winter break an away game at Henndorf was finally witnessed in glorious late autumn colours at a neat and tidy ground, designed and built in the best possible...

02.11.2009 Enough is enough! 1150 fans gathered in Maxglan for the last home game before the winter break on an autumn day better suited to cups of hot chocolate, log fires and putting the garden furniture back in the garage....

26.10.2009 We fought the law and we won! With winter on the way just 700 fans (officially) made the trip out to the posh end of town to watch Austria Salzburg crush a seriously average opponent on a seriously average playing surface and...

12.10.2009 Us and them! Yesterday was another one of those days when the plan to take home 3 points from a lowly Puch team dissolved in the rain as once again we ran ourselves ragged for a 2-2 draw that could easily have...

04.10.2009 Things are not always as bad as they seem Could have, should have, would have! It would have been a perfect day… home game, cool but sunny, 1600 spectators, great atmosphere, mid-table opponents with about 12 real fans of their own. All we...

27.09.2009 Austria Salzburg and the Great Wall of Anthering Apparently 1500 people came from far and wide to see this sunny autumn kick-about against a team promoted to this division a year before. On a small and bumpy practice pitch Austria Salzburg needed a...

20.09.2009 Maryfield and meaning of ‘we’ Subdued weather and a subdued home crowd saw Austria Salzburg take all three points in a home win that was never in doubt against relegation candidates Maria Alm. After tripping up last week in...

13.09.2009 E= MC² Around 600 Austria Salzburg fans made the trip to Saalfelden to contribute to an official total gate of 1600. On a cool autumn afternoon Austria Salzburg failed to take advantage of a supposedly...

06.09.2009 Dustbin men dumped in a lake On a cool but sunny day 1525 fans came to the Austria Salzburg ground in Maxglan to see another close rival for promotion, FC Zell am See, from a picturesque lakeside village, dumped back into...

30.08.2009 The shape of things to come A foretaste of things to come if all goes well as around 500 Austria fans made the long trip out to Piesendorf at the absolute back end of civilisation and the home of early winters to witness a 5-1...

22.08.2009 Don’t mess with the Austria A game billed as the top-of-the-table clash of the titans produced a fast, action-packed duel which ultimately saw Austria Salzburg barge past their nearest rivals, Hallwang, running out 5-2 winners....

15.08.2009 Seen it, done it, won it! As Strasswalchen doesn’t seem to have parking or traffic facilities to cope with around 800 Austria fans this game had to be moved to the neighbouring town of Oberhofen where around 1200 fans...

08.08.2009 Demi-gods and sacrificial chickens! Having made it to the fourth tier of Austrian football after 3 promotions in a row you might have thought some of the fans might have got a bit complacent and swapped the first couple of games at the...

02.08.2009 The Road to Eugene and Back First of August, first day of the soccer season for teams in the Salzburg regional version of the fourth division, late midsummer afternoon, a crowd of 1500 ascended upon Eugendorf (Eugene Village?)...

07.06.2009 Money can’t buy you love! A day of rain and clouds and – for the record – Austria Salzburg won their last home game 3-0 against this season’s closest rivals, Grünau, in front of the expected full house of 2250 fans....

25.05.2009 A Howler? A Stinker? Who cares? Well, what did we expect? Having already bagged promotion and the championship last weekend, and with nothing left in the division for Köstendorf to chase or to escape, 400 fans made the trip to...

16.05.2009 In My World With Austria Salzburg just needing one point from their last three games and Adnet due for a drubbing to pay them back for almost kicking our arses in their muddy bear pit; with the sun shining and...

09.05.2009 End of Chapter III? A summery 3-2 win away to Bergheim saw around a thousand fans witness a result which all but put promotion beyond our closest rivals, Grünau; and effectively put an end to the season. Unless the...

03.05.2009 Spitting Image There’s a saying in Austria: you always meet twice in life, which is more or less comparable with ‘what goes around – comes around’. Having experienced what it’s like to lose in Bürmoos it...

01.05.2009 A Bad Joke Normally at this juncture I would be writing a match report building a story around the facts, but this afternoon, Friday 1st May 2009, the story wrote the facts. What happened today in Plainfeld...

27.04.2009 Schafi and the Big Bad Wolf A breezy Sunday afternoon away to our closest rivals in the earlier part of the season, Kuchl, saw what may well have been a record crowd at this ground. 2200 fans, half of them from Salzburg, came...

18.04.2009 A Blast from the Past! After a hard season of slogging out unconvincing wins and hard-fought draws 1050 fans in our sunny corner of Maxglan saw Austria Salzburg win a game on Saturday in a manner not seen since the halcyon...

14.04.2009 Fight fire with fire On Easter Monday Austria Salzburg and an estimated 800 travelling fans came to Golling looking to extend their lead at the top of the first ‘Landesliga’. In view of the fact that Golling and...

11.04.2009 Ivar, Mersudin and the Berndorf Sausage Lady OK. So I said there would be no more excuses and late reports from me and then; what happens on Saturday? Your faithful scribe becomes mixed up in a never-ending shopping trip to IKEA and has to...

10.04.2009 No excuses! I won’t bore you with weak excuses for delivering this match report almost a week late, so I’ll just say sorry and get on with it: After one of the longest winters and winter breaks since the...

30.12.2008 Didi Emich succeeds Miro Bojceski as team manager The former Austria Salzburg player, Didi Emich, has now sealed a deal with Austria Salzburg to become the manager to lead the team to the regional fifth division title and possibly on to even greater...

25.10.2008 Emergency in Paradise On a sunny late autumn afternoon in the quiet lakeside village of Strobl around 600 Austria Salzburg fans (total crowd 850) made the trip out to the edge of the county to witness yet another...

18.10.2008 Rich and Poor A bright and chilly mid October afternoon in Wals Grünau saw 1550 spectators drawn to what had been billed as the game of the week by the football optimists. The realists saw Grünau battle out a...

05.10.2008 That’s Entertainment! Away game in Adnet. 650 fans. 8°C. Light rain. Small uneven pitch. Most forgettable game and jammiest away win of Austria Salzburg’s season so far. 4-3 for the Austria.

27.09.2008 Harry Potter and the Amazing Beam of Light On a bright but cool end of September afternoon in Maxglan 1100 fans saw a depleted Austria Salzburg battle out a 5-2 home victory against a similarly depleted Bergheim team to maintain their...

20.09.2008 The Black Hole of Bürmoos On a cold and heavily overcast Saturday afternoon in late September around 800 Austria Salzburg fans made the effort to visit a pitch worthy of its location at the edge of civilisation. On a day when...

14.09.2008 Smells like team spirit On a cool and cloudy Saturday afternoon 1600 fans came to Salzburg to watch a tense and hard-fought top-of-the-table clash between Austria Salzburg and second-placed Kuchl which ultimately finished...

07.09.2008 The Frankenstein Experiment! The new Oberhofen ground with a spanking new grandstand bathed in late summer sun, and the chance drink cheap beer and scare the wildlife down a hillside in the neighbouring county of Upper Austria,...

01.09.2008 Doing the Time Warp Having failed to get round to reporting on the unlucky midweek cup defeat on penalties against Hallwang due to business commitments I felt it was my duty to provide at least an outline of on-field...

24.08.2008 Space; the final frontier Yesterday in Thalgau 1000 spectators defied the summer rain to witness a dogged display from a home team that managed to shut out Austria Salzburg for two thirds of the game only to ultimately...

18.08.2008 Shaking the Tree As the Frequency rock festival is being held in Plainfeld just outside Salzburg this weekend, the guests agreed to swap their home fixture to avoid the inevitable parking chaos. 800 plus grateful...

09.08.2008 Sunglasses and Showers 1200 Austria fans were treated to the first home win of a season against Herbert Hofer’s Golling side that didn’t deserve to go down as heavily as they did. For a long period in the first half it...

02.08.2008 Crime and Punishment The pleasant ride out to St Georgen to the north of Salzburg was rewarded with the first win of the season for Austria Salzburg. 850 spectators, most of them Austria fans, saw the team battle out a...

26.07.2008 Paul Scholes and Eskimo Rolls On a warm, cloudy and blustery day 905 spectators witnessed the first home game of the season for Austria Salzburg which threw up more questions than it answered, both on and off the field. I’m...

08.06.2008 The Human Factor! 2250 noisy and euphoric fans drove Austria Salzburg on to completion of the second phase of a long journey back up towards the Austrian Bundesliga. The visitors from Elixhausen were determined not to...

01.06.2008 All’s well that ends well On a sunny Saturday afternoon 350 fans got that Olympia Stadium feeling in Liefering as they were forced to watch the worst game of the season from behind a cordoned-off running track. Liefering...

25.05.2008 Stuck in the matrix With the title already in the bag Austria Salzburg were able to land a 1-0 home win against ASV Salzburg in front of a surprisingly large crowd of 1050 spectators in Maxglan without ever really...

19.05.2008 They think it’s all over – IT IS NOW! It’s official; Austria Salzburg have just won promotion to the Austrian 5th division as champions of the Erste Klasse Nord, the Austrian 6th division! Second placed Bergheim are 11 points back with...

08.05.2008 Unstoppable force 1 - immovable object 2 A record home crowd of 1700 witnessed a game that served as a valuable gauge for where Austria Salzburg are now and where they want to be. A hearts versus minds game showed what can be done with...

03.05.2008 Up where we belong – almost! Ideal football weather, a great atmosphere and real opponents. At half time Austria Salzburg were one-nil up against an excellent away team from Obertrum after a Mario Lenz goal in the 4th minute. In...

01.05.2008 Looking on the bright side On a luke warm spring Thursday, Austria took the opportunity provided by the 1st of May public holiday to complete one of the holes in their fixture list. Gerhard Stöger gambled on putting out a...

27.04.2008 A Battle in the Sun and the Soft Earth A warm and sunny day at bottom-of-the-table Lamprechtshausen and a shaggy-dog pitch provided the backdrop to a game which was probably as hard to watch as it was to play. 1200 spectators saw a game...

25.04.2008 The best things in life are worth waiting for! Wednesday’s postponed SFV-Stiegl Cup quarter final encounter against USV Hüttschlag was held last night on a cold and rainy evening in Maxglan, Salzburg in front of over 900 fans. Mario Schleindl...

19.04.2008 They came – we saw – Lenz and the Austria conquered Typically subdued Salzburg spring weather provided the backdrop for a convincing 4:0 home victory which put SV Austria almost within striking distance of the championship and promotion. A chilly and...

12.04.2008 Austria Salzburg thrash Abtenau 7:1 In Abtenau on Saturday a 7:1 away victory showed why SV Austria Salzburg can start planning for the next division. Although Abtenau worked hard, kept talking and never gave up, when Mario Lenz put a...

05.04.2008 4:0 victory against Hallein: A Tale of Two Halves. The first home game after the winter break saw Austria Salzburg continue their deep purple patch. Last week’s away victory over rivals, Bergheim, was followed this weekend by a 4:0 drubbing of...

29.03.2008 Austria Salzburg pulls away from Bergheim This year’s arch rivals Bergheim were all set to avenge the narrow defeat suffered in the autumn. The hard-working and disciplined hosts were an even match for Austria Salzburg. A well taken...

22.02.2008 Gustl Kofler resigns as manager of Austria Salzburg This Thursday evening Gustl Kofler handed in his resignation as manager of Austria Salzburg. Continued tensions between the team and the manager had led to an irreparable breakdown of communications....

10.02.2008 Gernot Blaikner is our newly elected chairman Yesterday’s general meeting threw up a number of changes. For one, Gernot Blaikner was voted in as the new chairman of the board, replacing Moritz Grobovschek who decided to stand down for personal...

22.01.2008 Welcome to the English version of austria-salzburg.at It’s taken a long time but now we are ready! From now on you can read all the facts, figures and the latest news about SV Austria Salzburg on our English website.