SK Sturm Graz is an Austrian association football club, based in Graz, Styria, playing in the Austrian Bundesliga. The club was founded in 1909. Its colours are black and white.
So far, Sturm Graz has won the Austrian Football Championship three times (1998, 1999 and 2011) and participated several times in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League.
SK Sturm Graz was founded in 1909, as a working men’s team (as opposed to its town neighbours Grazer AK, founded in 1902). From 1921 to 1949 Sturm won the Styrian championship 11 times. When Austria was a part of the German Reich, the club first appeared in top-flight competition in the Gauliga Ostmark in 1942–43, coming last and being relegated. In 1949, Sturm entered the national league as the first non-Vienna-based team.
The first great success came under manager Otto Baric, when the club finished runners-up in the league in the 1980/81 season. In the 1983/84 season, the club battled through to the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup, beaten only by Nottingham Forest through a penalty in extra-time.
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After a 4th rank in 2009, the Blackies qualified for the group stage of the Europe League 2009/2010. Their opponents were Galatasaray, Panathinaikos and Dinamo Bucureşti.2010 the Blackies won the ÖFB-Cup in Klagenfurt in front of 25,000 of its own fans against SC Wiener Neustadt. That was the highest number of fans ever travelling to a match in a different state.
2010/2011 Sturm won the Austrian Championship. A highlight of the season was a qualifying game against Juventus Turin in the Europe League.
2011/2012 Sturm played in the UEFA Champions League Qualification and managed to defeat Videoton FC and FC Zestafoni. In the play-off Sturm Graz lost against BATE Borisov and qualified for the group stage of the Europe League, where they played against RSC Anderlecht, Lokomotive Moskva an AEK Athens. At the end of the season Sturm was at the 5th rank of the Bundesliga and Coach Franco Foda was fired after six successful years. With the new coach Peter Hyballa Sturm played a good autumn, but a horrible spring and so he got dismissed within the season. Luckily Sturm managed to achieve the rank four in the end table of the 2012/2013 Season with the lowest amount of points, that ever sufficed for the fourth place. So Sturm Graz was entitled to play in the Europe League Qualification again. Darko Milanic, who won several titles with NK Maribor, is coaching the team in the season 2013/2014.
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