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Grazer Athletiksport Klub (Template:Lit; abbreviated as GAK), better known simply as Grazer AK, is an Austrian sports club based in the city of Graz in the federal state of Styria. The football section was once among Austria's most popular clubs, enjoying success in the decade between 1995 and 2005. The other sections are basketball, diving and tennis, which however all act as separate legal entities. The "GAK" football section folded during the 2012–13 Regionalliga Mitte Season in Autumn 2012. It has since been revived and returned to the Austrian Second League in 2019,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and four years later won promotion to the Austrian Bundesliga after a seventeen-year hiatus.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

HistoryEdit

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Historical chart of GAK league performance

The beginningEdit

The club arose from an informal association of local academics around the medical student Georg August Wagner from Prague, later a professor at Charles University and the Charité in Berlin. Acquainted with football from his hometown, he organised the first public match in present-day Austria on 18 March 1894 in the Graz municipal park. The Grazer Athletik-Sport-Club – modeled after the Wiener AC – was established eight years later on the 72nd birthday of Emperor Francis Joseph.

European football and the golden start to the new millenniumEdit

Between 1962 and 1983, GAK was involved in European competitions. Their first match was against Odense BK in the Cup Winners Cup in 1962. The club has made regular appearances in European cups ever since, with regular UEFA Cup appearances since the 1980s, but the highlight came on the domestic scene in 1981 when they won the Austrian Cup. The golden years arrived in the first half of the 2000s, when GAK won the Austrian Cup twice more, in 2000 and 2002. Their biggest success was in 2004 where they did the double – they managed to win the cup yet again along with the Austrian title, finishing the league season one point ahead of Austria Wien. Their last appearance in Europe was a disappointing 5–0 away defeat to RC Strasbourg in Round 1 of the UEFA Cup in the 2005–06 season.

Financial troubles and bankruptcyEdit

During the 2006–2007 season, 'Grazer AK' went into administration. The club was docked 28 points as a result. In the 2007–2008 season, the club was not allowed to participate in the professional leagues and was relegated to the Austrian Regional League Central.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> After a second bankruptcy, the club managed to achieve a settlement and accommodation with its creditors in September 2008, ensuring its survival. Soon after, the club started having difficulties again after it could not recover from its relegation to the Regional League and was eventually dissolved in 2012.

New startEdit

A phoenix club called Grazer AC was set up by the fans soon after the 2012 dissolution called and started from the bottom tier in the 2013–14 season. At an extraordinary meeting on 14 March 2014, Grazer AC was declared to be a continuation of the original "GAK" in agreement with its umbrella association. After winning every single championship, the club made its return to professional football in the 2019–20 season with promotion to the second tier.

SupportersEdit

{{ safesubst:#invoke:Unsubst||date=__DATE__ |$B= {{ safesubst:#invoke:Unsubst||date=__DATE__ |$B= Template:Ambox }} }} The Reds recorded their highest average attendance (9234) in 2003/2004. The average attendance since the forced relegations had settled at around 3500, but the quality of the organized support had risen. The "curve" was in sector 22, before relegation to the Regionalliga in sector 25. Despite relegation to the third tier, several hundred fans attended away games. The ultra fan groups are known as the Red Firm, the Graz Society, the Tifosi Rosso Bianco and the Everreds. Parts of the fan scene maintain friendships with KFC Uerdingen 05, NK Čelik Zenica and SV Austria Salzburg and FC Zlín.

Graz DerbyEdit

GAK have an important rivalry with cross-town rivals Sturm Graz, with whom they contest the Graz derby. In 1974, there was significant opposition from both sets of fans against a proposed merger to become FC Graz. Since 1920, excluding the friendly matches (especially before the first official Styrian Cup in 1920), 199 matches have been played between the two, of which there were: 185 encounters in the league (130 at the professional level and 55 at amateur level in the Styrian League); an additional seven encounters in Austrian Cup (including one final that was won by the GAK in 2002); 1 match in the Austrian Supercup; 2 meetings in the Tschammerpokal and 4 games in the Styrian Cup. The first derby took place in 1911 and the most recent on 2 November 2023. The Red Devils have the superior record in the rivalry. On 19 October 2022, a long period without a derby ended when the two clubs met in the last 16 of the ÖFB-Cup.

Past seasonsEdit

Positions since the team was re-founded at the end of 2012.

Season League Level Place MP W D L GF GA GD Pts Austrian Cup
2013–14 1. Klasse Mitte A (VIII) 8 1 22 20 2 0 124 12 112 62 not qualified
2014–15 Gebietsliga Mitte (VII) 7 1 26 23 1 2 107 29 78 70 not qualified
2015–16 Unterliga Mitte (VI) 6 1 26 22 3 1 88 19 69 69 not qualified
2016–17 Oberliga Mitte/West (V) 5 1 26 14 9 3 65 29 36 51 not qualified
2017–18 Landesliga Steiermark (IV) 4 1 30 21 5 4 61 24 37 68 not qualified
2018–19 Regionalliga Mitte (III) 3 1 30 21 5 4 70 28 42 68 Semi-finals
2019–20 First League (II) 2 15 30 7 10 13 40 50 -10 31 Second round
2020–21 First League (II) 2 6 30 13 7 10 46 42 4 46 First round
2021–22 First League (II) 2 7 30 13 7 10 47 39 8 46 First round
2022–23 First League (II) 2 2 30 17 9 4 52 29 23 60 Third round
2023–24 First League (II) 2 1 30 21 6 3 57 27 30 69 Third round
Green marks a season followed by promotion

European competitionEdit

ResultsEdit

Season Competition Round Opponent Aggregate 1st leg 2nd leg
1962–63 UEFA Cup Winners Cup Round 2 Template:Flagicon B 1909 Odense 4:6 1:1 (H) 3:5 (A)
1964–65 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Round 1 Template:Flagicon NK Zagreb 2:9 2:3 (A) 0:6 (H)
1968–69 UEFA Cup Winners Cup Round 1 Template:Flagicon ADO Den Haag 1:6 1:4 (A) 0:2 (H)
1973–74 UEFA Cup Round 1 Template:Flagicon Panachaiki 1:3 0:1 (H) 1:2 (A)
1981–82 UEFA Cup Winners Cup Round 1 Template:Flagicon Dinamo Tbilisi 2:4 0:2 (A) 2:2 (H)
1982–83 UEFA Cup Round 1 Template:Flagicon Corvinul Hunedoara 1:4 1:1 (H) 0:3 (A)
1996–97 UEFA Cup Qualification Template:Flagicon Vojvodina 7:1 2:0 (H) 5:1 (A)
Round 1 Template:Flagicon Germinal Ekeren (a) 3:3 1:3 (A) 2:0 (H)
Round 2 Template:Flagicon Inter Milan 1:1
(3:5 p) 		0:1 (A) 1:0 a.e.t.
(3:5 p) (H)
1997 UEFA Intertoto Cup Group stage Template:Flagicon Silkeborg IF 5:4 2:0 (H)
Template:Flagicon Ebbw Vale 0:0 (A)
Template:Flagicon NK Hrvatski Dragovoljac 1:3 (H)
Template:Flagicon SC Bastia 2:1 (A)
1998–99 UEFA Cup Qualifying Round 2 Template:Flagicon VPS 3:0 0:0 (A) 3:0 (H)
Round 1 Template:Flagicon Litex Lovech 3:1 1:1 (A) 2:0 (H)
Round 2 Template:Flagicon AS Monaco 3:7 3:3 (H) 0:4 (A)
1999–00 UEFA Cup Qualifying Round 2 Template:Flagicon KÍ Klaksvík 9:0 5:0 (A) 4:0 (H)
Round 1 Template:Flagicon FC Spartak Trnava 4:2 3:0 (H) 1:2 (A)
Round 2 Template:Flagicon Panathinaikos (a) 2:2 2:1 (H) 0:1 (A)
2000–01 UEFA Cup Round 1 Template:Flagicon 1. FC Košice 3:2 3:2 (A) 0:0 (H)
Round 2 Template:Flagicon Espanyol 1:4 0:4 (A) 1:0 (H)
2001–02 UEFA Cup Qualifikation Template:Flagicon HB Tórshavn 6:2 2:2 (A) 4:0 (H)
Round 2 Template:Flagicon FC Utrecht 3:6 0:3 (A) 3:3 (H)
2002–03 UEFA Champions League Qualifying Round 2 Template:Flagicon Sheriff Tiraspol 6:1 4:1 (A) 2:0 (H)
Qualifying Round 3 Template:Flagicon Lokomotiv Moscow 3:5 0:2 (H) 3:3 (A)
2002–03 UEFA Cup Round 1 Template:Flagicon APOEL 1:3 0:2 (A) 1:1 (H)
2003–04 UEFA Champions League Qualifying Round 2 Template:Flagicon Tirana 7:2 5:1 (A) 2:1 (H)
Qualifying Round 3 Template:Flagicon Ajax 2:3 1:1 (H) 1:2 (s.g.) (A)
2003–04 UEFA Cup Round 1 Template:Flagicon Vålerenga IF 1:1 (a) 0:0 (A) 1:1 (H)
2004–05 UEFA Champions League Qualifying Round 3 Template:Flagicon Liverpool 1:2 0:2 (H) 1:0 (A)
2004–05 UEFA Cup Round 1 Template:Flagicon Litex Lovech 5:1 5:0 (H) 0:1 (A)
Group stage Template:Flagicon AJ Auxerre 5:4 0:0 (A)
Template:Flagicon Amica Wronki 3:1 (H)
Template:Flagicon Rangers 0:3 (A)
Template:Flagicon AZ Alkmaar 2:0 (H)
1/16 finals Template:Flagicon Middlesbrough 3:4 2:2 (H) 1:2 (A)
2005–06 UEFA Cup Qualifying Round 2 Template:Flagicon Nistru Otaci 3:0 2:0 (A) 1:0 (H)
Round 1 Template:Flagicon Strasbourg 0:7 0:2 (H) 0:5 (A)

Derby statistics vs. SK Sturm GrazEdit

Total in Austrian first tier as of 23 August 2005:

  • 46 Won
  • 42 Drawn
  • 42 Lost

(Goals: 174:168)

Current squadEdit

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Out on loanEdit

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Managerial historyEdit

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HonoursEdit

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GAK celebrates its Austrian Championship 2004 at Hauptplatz in Graz.

ReferencesEdit

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External linksEdit

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