FC St. Gallen

Fussballclub St. Gallen 1879, commonly known as St. Gallen, is a Swiss professional football club based in the city of St. Gallen, Canton of St. Gallen. As of the 2022–23 season, the team competes in the Swiss Super League.

St. Gallen

Full name	Fussballclub St. Gallen 1879
Nickname(s)	Espen
Founded	19 April 1879 (1879-04-19)
Ground	Kybunpark, St. Gallen
Capacity	19,694
President	Matthias Hüppi
Head coach	Peter Zeidler
League	Swiss Super League
2021–22	Swiss Super League, 5th of 10
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

History

Chart of FC St. Gallen table positions in the Swiss football league system

Founded on 19 April 1879, FC St. Gallen is the oldest club still in existence in Swiss football. However, the team has had relatively little success in comparison to other clubs. Despite the fact that St. Gallen won the Swiss championship twice in the 1903–04 and 1999–2000 seasons, the team has mostly been a mid-table side. During the last decade, the strength of the club continually declined and this eventually resulted in the transformation to a yo-yo club. St. Gallen were relegated to the second-tier Challenge League twice at the end of the 2007–08 and the 2010–11 seasons.

In 2016 FC St. Gallen, became a member of the exclusive Club of Pioneers, as the oldest football club of Switzerland.

Stadium

FC St. Gallen play their home games at the Kybunpark. The stadium has a capacity of 19,694 and it is on the west side of town. The stadium replaced the former Espenmoos stadium in the east.

Honours

Domestic

League

• Swiss Super League
  • Winners: 1903–04, 1999–2000
  • Runners-up: 2019–20
• Swiss Challenge League
  • Winners: 1970–71, 2008–09, 2011–12
  • Runners-up: 1967–68

Cup

• Swiss Cup
  • Winners: 1968–69
  • Runners-up: 1944–45, 1976–77, 1997–98, 2020–21, 2021–22
• Swiss League Cup
  • Winners: 1977–78
  • Runners-up: 1981–82

Others

• Anglo Cup
  • Runners-up: 1910

European record

Overall record

Accurate as of 30 July 2018

Competition	Played	Won	Drew	Lost	GF	GA	GD	Win%
European Cup / Champions League	2	0	1	1	3	4	−1	000.00
Cup Winners' Cup	4	1	1	2	2	6	−4	025.00
UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League	23	8	4	11	28	40	−12	034.78
UEFA Intertoto Cup	10	6	1	3	24	10	+14	060.00
Total	39	15	7	17	57	60	−3	038.46

Legend: GF = Goals For. GA = Goals Against. GD = Goal Difference.

St. Gallen 2013

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Aggregate
1969–70	European Cup Winners' Cup	First round	BK Frem	1–0	1–2	2–2 (a)
		Second round	Levski Sofia	0–0	0–4	0–4
1983–84	UEFA Cup	First round	Radnički Niš	1–2	0–3	1–5
1985–86	UEFA Cup	First round	Inter Milan	0–0	1–5	1–5
1998	UEFA Intertoto Cup	First round	Viljandi JK Tulevik	3–2	6–1	9–3
		Second round	Austria Salzburg	1–0	1–3	2–3
2000–01	UEFA Champions League	Third qualifying round	Galatasaray	1–2	2–2	3–4
	UEFA Cup	First round	Chelsea	2–0	0–1	2–1
		Second round	Club Brugge	1–1	1–2	2–3
2001–02	UEFA Cup	Qualifying round	Pelister	2–3	2–0	4–3
		First round	Steaua București	2–1	1–1	3–2
		Second round	Freiburg	1–4	1–0	2–4
2002	UEFA Intertoto Cup	First round	B68 Toftir	5–1	6–0	11–1
		Second round	Willem II	1–1 (aet)	0–1	1–2
2007	UEFA Intertoto Cup	Second round	Dacia Chişinău	0–1 (aet)	1–0	1–1 (0–3p)
2013–14	UEFA Europa League	Play-off	Spartak Moscow	1–1	4–2	5–3
		Group A	Valencia	2–3	1–5	4th place
			Swansea City	1–0	0–1
			Kuban Krasnodar	2–0	0–4
2018–19	UEFA Europa League	Second qualifying round	Sarpsborg 08	2–1	0–1	2–2 (a)
2020–21	UEFA Europa League	Third qualifying round	AEK Athens	0–1	—	—

Players

St. Gallen squad in 1881

Current squad

As of 26 January 2023

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK GHA Lawrence Ati-Zigi 3 DF GHA Musah Nuhu 4 DF SUI Leonidas Stergiou 5 DF CRO Matej Maglica 6 MF SUI Basil Stillhart 7 FW AUT Fabian Schubert 8 MF ESP Jordi Quintillà 9 FW SUI Jérémy Guillemenot 10 FW COD Chadrac Akolo 11 FW SUI Julian von Moos 13 MF GER Leonhard Münst (on loan from Stuttgart II) 16 MF GER Lukas Görtler 20 DF AUT Albert Vallci 22 FW CIV Emmanuel Latte Lath (on loan from Atalanta) 23 MF SUI Gregory Karlen 24 DF PHI Michael Kempter

No. Pos. Nation Player 25 GK GER Lukas Watkowiak 27 MF SUI Randy Schneider 28 MF SUI Ricardo Azevedo Alves 29 DF SUI Alessandro Kräuchi 30 DF SUI Patrick Sutter 31 FW SUI Alessio Besio 32 MF SUI David Jacovic 33 DF SUI Isaac Schmidt 34 MF SUI Stefano Guidotti 35 GK GER Bela Dumrath 37 MF SUI Christian Witzig 50 FW SUI Fabrizio Cavegn 56 MF KOS Edis Bytyqi 69 FW FRA Willem Geubbels 77 FW GER Leon Dajaku (on loan from Sunderland) 93 FW FRA Noha Ndombasi

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF SUI Nicolas Lüchinger (at Thun until 30 June 2023)

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW FRA Élie Youan (at Hibernian until 30 June 2023)

Retired numbers

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 DF SUI Marc Zellweger (1994–2001, 2003–2010)

Club officials

As of 1 July 2018

Position	Staff
Chairman	Matthias Hüppi
Member	Peter Germann
Sporting Director	Alain Sutter
First-Team Manager	Peter Zeidler
First-Team Assistant Manager	Boro Kuzmanović
First-Team Coach	Orest Shala
First-Team Goalkeeper Coach	Stefano Razzetti
Fitness Coach	Thomas Wyss
Athletic Coach	Simon Storm
Chief Scout	Nnamdi Aghanya
Masseur	Stephan Oberli
Academy Goalkeeping Co-ordinator	Alex Nussbaumer
Team Manager	Ramin Pandji Adrian Zingg

Coaches

• Jack Reynolds (1912–14)
• William Townley (1920)
• Leopold Grundwald (1922)
• William Townley (1923–25)
• Jimmy Townley (1945–49)
• Robert Kelly (1949–51)
• Fritz Kerr (1952–54)
• Otto Pfister (1963–66)
• Virgil Popescu (1966–67)
• René Brodmann (1967–68)
• Albert Sing (1968–70)
• Željko Perušić (1970–74)
• Helmuth Johannsen (1 July 1981 – 30 June 1985)
• Werner Olk (1985–86)
• Uwe Klimaschefski (1 July 1986 – 1 March 1987)
• Kurt Jara (1 July 1988 – 1 October 1991)
• Uwe Rapolder (1 July 1993 – 10 April 1996)
• Werner Zünd (interim) (11 April 1996 – 25 April 1996)
• Roger Hegi (26 April 1996 – 31 December 1998)
• Marcel Koller (1 Jan 1999 – 31 December 2001)
• Gérard Castella (20 Feb 2002 – 15 September 2002)
• Thomas Staub (interim) (20 Sep 2002 – 9 December 2002)
• Heinz Peischl (1 March 2003 – 8 April 2005)
• Werner Zünd (interim) (29 April 2004 – 30 May 2005)
• René Weiler (interim) (13 April 2005 – 29 April 2005)
• Ralf Loose (1 July 2005 – 10 April 2006)
• Werner Zünd (interim) (10 April 2006 – 12 April 2006)
• Rolf Fringer (12 April 2006 – 8 October 2007)
• Krassimir Balakov (29 Oct 2007 – 30 June 2008)
• Uli Forte (1 July 2008 – 1 March 2011)
• Giorgio Contini / Roger Zürcher (interim) (1 March 2011 – 7 March 2011)
• Jeff Saibene (7 March 2011 –2015)
• Josef Zinnbauer (16 September 2015 – 4 May 2017)
• Giorgio Contini (4 May 2017 – 1 April 2018)
• Peter Zeidler (18 June 2018–)