FC St. Gallen

FC St. Gallen 1879 (Fussballclub St. Gallen 1879) is a Swiss football club based in St. Gallen. The club is currently playing in the 2018-2019 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
2017–18	Swiss Super League, 5th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Contents

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 and in Continental Europe. 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

• Swiss Super League
  • Champions: 1903–04, 1999–2000
• Swiss Cup
  • Champions: 1968–69
  • Runner-up: 1944–45, 1976–77, 1997–98
• Swiss League Cup
  • Champions: 1978
  • Runner-up: 1982
• Anglo Cup
  • Runner-up: 1910
• Swiss Challenge League
  • Champions: 2008–09, 2011–12

European record

Overall record

Accurate as of July 30, 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
2000–2001	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
2001–2002	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)

Players

Current squad

St. Gallen squad in 1881

As of 28 January, 2019

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

No. Position Player 2 DF Philippe Koch 3 DF Sliman Kchouk 4 DF Majeed Ashimeru (on loan from RB Salzburg) 5 DF Leonel Mosevich (on loan from Argentinos Juniors) 6 MF Alain Wiss 7 FW Víctor Ruiz 8 MF Jordi Quintillà 10 MF Tranquillo Barnetta 11 FW Yannis Tafer 13 FW Cedric Itten 14 MF Vincent Sierro (on loan from Freiburg) 15 DF Milan Vilotić 16 DF Andreas Wittwer

No. Position Player 21 MF Miro Muheim 25 FW Nassim Ben Khalifa 27 FW Simone Rapp 29 MF Alessandro Kräuchi 30 GK Gianluca Tolino 32 GK Dejan Stojanović 33 DF Musah Nuhu 36 DF Silvan Hefti 43 FW Jérémy Guillemenot 44 MF Dereck Kutesa 50 DF Nicolas Lüchinger 52 FW Angelo Campos 59 DF Leonidas Stergiou 93 MF Axel Bakayoko (on loan from Inter Milan)

Out on loan

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

No. Position Player – FW Boris Babić (on loan at FC Vaduz until 30 June 2019)

Retired numbers

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

No. Position Player 17 DF 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 Oct 1991)
• Uwe Rapolder (1 July 1993 – 10 April 1996)
• Werner Zünd (interim) (11 April 1996 – 25 April 1996)

• Roger Hegi (26 April 1996 – 31 Dec 1998)
• Marcel Koller (1 Jan 1999 – 31 Dec 2001)
• Gérard Castella (20 Feb 2002 – 15 Sept 2002)
• Thomas Staub (interim) (20 Sept 2002 – 9 Dec 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 Oct 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–)

External links

• Official Website (in German)