FC St. Gallen

 

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]

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.

• 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

• 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

• Anglo Cup
  • Runners-up: 1910

Accurate as of 1 September 2024

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)
		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	—	0–1
2024–25	UEFA Conference League	Second qualifying round	FC Tobol	4–1	1–0	5–1
		Third qualifying round	Śląsk Wrocław	2–0	2–3	4–3
		Play-off	Trabzonspor	0–0	1–1 (aet)	1–1 (5–4p)
		League phase	Fiorentina		—
			1. FC Heidenheim	—
			Vitória de Guimarães		—
			Cercle Brugge	—	6–2
			TSC		—
			Larne	—

As of 30 August 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   GHA Stephan Ambrosius 7 MF   SUI Christian Witzig 8 MF   ESP Jordi Quintillà 9 FW   FRA Willem Geubbels 10 FW   COD Chadrac Akolo 11 FW   GUI Moustapha Cissé (on loan from Atalanta) 13 MF   SUI Gregory Karlen 14 MF   CMR Noah Yannick 15 DF   MLI Abdoulaye Diaby 16 MF   GER Lukas Görtler (captain) 18 FW   SUI Felix Mambimbi

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 DF   AUT Albert Vallçi 22 DF   GER Konrad Faber 23 MF   KOS Betim Fazliji 24 MF   SUI Bastien Toma 25 GK   GER Lukas Watkowiak 28 DF   FRA Hugo Vandermersch 30 MF   ESP Víctor Ruiz 35 GK   GER Bela Dumrath 36 DF   GER Chima Okoroji 63 MF   SUI Corsin Konietzke 64 MF   SRB Mihailo Stevanović 66 MF   KOS Behar Neziri 77 FW   HUN Kevin Csoboth 90 FW   SRB Jovan Milošević (on loan from Stuttgart)

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)

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

•   Paul Friberg

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