The Graz athletes, who’ve been confirmed as promoted to the Bundesliga for 3 weeks, gained 4:2 (2:1) at dwelling towards Kapfenberger SV within the final spherical on Saturday and began celebrating. Over 7,000 followers in Liebenau cheered the presentation of the championship trophy following which went to the championship get together on Freiheitsplatz.
The Graz Reds confidently returned to the highest division 17 years following being relegated and left nothing to likelihood on the finish. Thorsten Schriebl (thirty seventh) and Marco Gantschnig (forty second) gave GAK a 2-0 lead, Niklas Szerencsi diminished the deficit shortly earlier than half-time (forty fifth). After Daniel Maderner’s 3-1 objective (forty sixth) and David Heindl’s objective (56th), a assorted match developed during which the house group primarily pushed Maderner.
Nonetheless, the striker, who was voted one of the best participant of the season, didn’t rating once more and ended up with 15 targets within the record of goalscorers behind Dario Tadic (St. Pölten) and Deni Alar (DSV Leoben), who every scored 16 targets.
Leoben and Dornbirn mentioned goodbye
DSV Leoben and FC Dornbirn additionally needed to say goodbye to the league, however to the underside. The 2 golf equipment weren’t granted a license and need to go to the Regionalliga. Since no membership from the Regionalliga West meets the promotion standards, there are not any relegations from a sporting perspective.
Leoben defeated Sturm Graz II 2-1 (1-0) and completed the season in fourth place. Dornbirn misplaced 0-1 (0-0) to SV Ried and, as 14th within the desk, would have been relegated. The match for the second-placed group was additionally a farewell. Marcel Ziegl is asking it quits following 16 seasons with the Innviertel group, and the Ried captain was changed following 4 minutes, in step with his shirt quantity 4.
Whereas FAC Vienna solely managed a 2:2 (1:2) draw towards SV Stripfing, Vienna took third place with a 4:1 (3:1) win towards backside of the desk Amstetten.
