FC St. Gallen

St. Gallen
Full name	Fussballclub St. Gallen 1879
Nickname(s)	Espen
Founded	19 April 1879; 144 years ago
Ground	Kybunpark, St. Gallen
Capacity	19,694
President	Matthias Hüppi
Head coach	Peter Zeidler
League	Swiss Super League
2022–23	Swiss Super League, 6th of 10
Website	Club website
Home colours	Away colours
	Current season

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.

History[edit]

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 end of the 2000s, the strength of the club continually declined. St. Gallen were relegated to the second-tier Challenge League twice at the end of the 2007–08 and the 2010–11 seasons. Since promotion back to the Swiss Super League, they have been in the top division for the last ten years with the club finishing as runners up in the 2019–20 season. In 2016, FC St. Gallen, became a member of the exclusive Club of Pioneers, as the oldest football club of Switzerland.^[1]

Stadium[edit]

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[edit]

Domestic[edit]

League[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Anglo Cup
- Runners-up: 1910

European record[edit]

Overall record[edit]

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.

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Aggregate
1969–70	European Cup Winners' Cup	First round	BK Frem	1–0	1–2	2–2 (a)
1969–70	European Cup Winners' Cup	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
1998	UEFA Intertoto Cup	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
	UEFA Cup	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
2002	UEFA Intertoto Cup	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[edit]

Current squad[edit]

As of 14 February 2024^[2]

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	CRO	Jozo Stanić
5	DF	GER	Justin Janitzek (on loan from Bayern Munich II)
6	DF	SUI	Patrick Sutter
7	FW	AUT	Fabian Schubert
8	MF	ESP	Jordi Quintillà
9	FW	FRA	Willem Geubbels
10	FW	COD	Chadrac Akolo
11	FW	SUI	Julian von Moos
13	MF	SUI	Gregory Karlen
15	DF	MLI	Abdoulaye Diaby
16	MF	GER	Lukas Görtler
18	FW	SUI	Felix Mambimbi
19	FW	SWE	Nikolaj Möller


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
20	DF	AUT	Albert Vallci
23	DF	KOS	Betim Fazliji
24	MF	SUI	Bastien Toma
25	GK	GER	Lukas Watkowiak
30	MF	ESP	Víctor Ruiz
31	MF	NED	Richard van der Venne
33	DF	SUI	Isaac Schmidt
35	GK	GER	Bela Dumrath
36	DF	GER	Chima Okoroji
37	MF	SUI	Christian Witzig
46	DF	ITA	Mattia Zanotti (on loan from Inter)
61	FW	SUI	Albin Krasniqi
64	MF	SRB	Mihailo Stevanović
90	FW	SRB	Jovan Milošević (on loan from Stuttgart)

Out on loan[edit]

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	Leonidas Stergiou (at VfB Stuttgart until 30 June 2024)

Retired numbers[edit]

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[edit]

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	Frank Baumann
First-Team Coach	Moritz Fünfschmidt
First-Team Goalkeeper Coach	Rolf Neuhaus
Fitness Coach	Thomas Wyss
Athletic Coach	Alois Baumgartner
Chief scout	Manuel Kühn
Masseur	Stephan Oberli
Academy Goalkeeping Co-ordinator	Alex Nussbaumer
Team manager	Heinz Hofmann Adrian Zingg

Coaches[edit]

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–)

Former players[edit]

Paul Friberg

References[edit]

^ "Know About FC Saint Gallen". www.asmonaco.com.
^ "1. Mannschaft | Saison 2022/23" [First team | 2022/23 season] (in German). FC St. Gallen. 2 August 2022.

External links[edit]

Official website

[1] "Know About FC Saint Gallen". www.asmonaco.com.

[2] "1. Mannschaft | Saison 2022/23" [First team | 2022/23 season] (in German). FC St. Gallen. 2 August 2022.

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Associated competitions	Swiss Cup Swiss Challenge League Swiss Promotion League
Seasons	2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24

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