The deep crash of a Bundesliga club – Diepresse.com
The Carinthians lose 0-1 against Hartberg. So do the lights go out in the Wörthersee stadium? Why did Carsten Jancker take over from Peter Pacult?
Was for three years Austria Klagenfurt The surprise team of the Bundesliga. Coach Peter Pacult led the Carinthian to the master group three times, but in the fourth year after the ascent the deep fall followed. Problems with the license accompanied the crash back into the second class, which the new coach Carsten Jancker, which had only been in office since the end of April, could not avert. Under the former Bayern striker there were only two points in four games.
The descent is the next low in the changeable history of the traditional club from the state capital, whose recent high -altitude flight was closely linked to Pacult. The Viennese took over the second division club at the time in December 2020, in third place in the 2nd league behind two clubs who are not entitled to promotion and led to the Bundesliga about the relegation (4: 0 and 1: 0 against St. Pölten).
Why a change of coach?
Instead of the expected fight for relegation, the Austria surprised in the upper house and made the leap into the master group. This also succeeded in the two subsequent years before going downhill this season. At the end of April, those responsible pulled the ripcord, released Pacult despite a contract that was only extended in December to 2027 and rely on Jancer.
A few days earlier, investor Helmut Kaltenegger and his company TGI had entered Austria with his Gold trade. Thanks to the new main sponsor, the Carinthians also received the license for the coming season in the second instance. It should be athletically directed. The former storm tank, previously coach of the DSV Leoben, when Kaltenegger was a donor there, did not make the turn.
With the change of coach, Pacult saved that he had to see the relegation of the club from Klagenfurt on the sidelines for the second time. Preliminary club FC Carinthia had to go to the second division under Pacult in 2004.
The current Klagenfurter Austria was registered with the authority on January 19, 2007 by sympathizers of the old Austria. On June 14, 2010, the club returned to the regional league Mitte in the course of a cooperation with the regional leagueist St. Stefan, in summer 2018 they rose to the second highest division for the second time. Thanks to the promotion in 2021, Klagenfurt was represented again with a club in the upper house after the competitions of Austria Carinthia and FC Carinthia, so it is over again. The WAC has now established itself as number one in Carinthia.
