FC St. Gallen

FC St. Gallen 1879 (Fussballclub St. Gallen 1879) is a Swiss football club based in St. Gallen, in the Canton of St. Gallen. In the 2019–20 season the club plays 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
Chairman	Matthias Hüppi
Manager	Peter Zeidler
League	Swiss Super League
2019–20	Swiss Super League, 2nd 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. St. Gallen has recently seen a remarkable surge in performance over the last 2 years and now has solidified itself as one of Switzerland's better clubs.

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 (2): 1903–04, 1999–2000
  • Runners-up: 2019–20
• Swiss Challenge League
  • Winners (3): 1970–71, 2008–09, 2011–12
  • Runners-up: 1967–68

Cup

• Swiss Cup
  • Winners: 1968–69
  • Runners-up (3): 1944–45, 1976–77, 1997–98
• 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	N/A	N/A

Players

Current squad

St. Gallen squad in 1881

As of 17 September 2020

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK GHA Lawrence Ati-Zigi 3 DF GHA Musah Nuhu 4 DF SUI Leonidas Stergiou 6 MF SUI Basil Stillhart 7 FW ALB Florian Kamberi 8 MF ESP Jordi Quintillà 9 FW SUI Jérémy Guillemenot 10 MF ESP Víctor Ruiz 11 MF POR André Ribeiro 14 MF BRA Fabiano Alves 16 MF GER Lukas Görtler 18 GK GER Lukas Watkowiak 19 FW SUI Lorenzo González 20 FW FRA Élie Youan (on loan from Nantes) 21 MF SUI Miro Muheim

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 DF SUI Adonis Ajeti 23 DF KVX Betim Fazliji 24 MF SUI Kwadwo Duah 25 FW SEN Boubacar Traorè 26 MF SUI Tim Staubli 27 MF SUI Fabio Solimando 29 MF SUI Alessandro Kräuchi 34 FW SUI Boris Babic 40 GK SUI Nico Strübi 50 DF SUI Nicolas Lüchinger 52 FW SUI Angelo Campos 53 GK SUI Armin Abaz 55 MF BFA Salifou Diarrassouba 98 DF FRA Yannis Letard 99 DF SUI Vincent Rüfli

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 — FW SUI Patrick Sutter (at SC Brühl until 30 June 2020) — DF SUI Silvan Gönitzer (at FC Schaffhausen until 30 June 2020)

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 (1994–01, 2003–10)

Managers

• 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–)