WSG Tirol

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| current = 2024–25 WSG Tirol season

| fullname = Wattener Sportgemeinschaft Tirol

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| ground = Tivoli Stadion Tirol, Innsbruck

| capacity = 16,008

| chrtitle = President

| chairman = Diana Langes-Swarovski

| manager = Philipp Semlic

| league = Austrian Bundesliga

| season = 2024–25

| position = Austrian Bundesliga, 9th of 12

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Wattener Sportgemeinschaft Tirol ({{Literal translation|Wattens' Sports Community Tyrol}}), commonly known as WSG Tirol, is a professional association football club based in the town of Wattens, Tyrol, Austria, that competes in the Austrian Football Bundesliga, the top tier of the Austrian football league system. Founded in 1930, it is affiliated to the Tirol Football Association. The team plays its home matches at Tivoli Stadion Tirol, where it has been based since 2019. In the 1969–70 season they played in the Nationalliga, the highest division in Austrian football at this time.

History

The club was formed in 1930 and has been known as SC Wattens (1930–53), SV Wattens (1953–71), and WSG Wattens (1984–2019). Its most successful period was in 1968–71, when it competed in the Austrian Bundesliga. Between 1971 and 1984 it merged with FC Wacker Innsbruck to form SSW Innsbruck (the merged team went on to win the Bundesliga five times and reached the quarter-finals of the 1977-78 European Cup). In this period the club retained its identity with distinct youth teams. From 1984, WSG Wattens have played in the Austrian Regional League West and the second tier First League.{{cite news|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tableso/oosthist.html |title=Austria Final League Tables (First and Second Level) |access-date=24 June 2011 |publisher=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629112450/http://www.rsssf.com/tableso/oosthist.html |archive-date=29 June 2011 }}

In 2019, they were promoted to the Bundesliga.{{cite news |last1=Geiler |first1=Christoph |title=Aufsteiger Wattens: Eine graue Maus mit Potenzial |url=https://kurier.at/sport/fussball/aufsteiger-wattens-eine-graue-maus-mit-potenzial/400511938 |work=kurier.at |date=2 June 2019 |language=de}} After promotion, the club announced that their name would be changed to WSG Swarowski Tirol. In 2021 however, Swarovski ended its sponsorship and its name was removed from the club's name as well as from the business.{{cite web |url=https://www.wsg-fussball.at/de/aktuelles/meldungen/7401261892.php |title=Alles Logo bei der WSG |publisher=WSG Tirol |access-date=21 October 2021 |archive-date=20 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210620100824/https://www.wsg-fussball.at/de/aktuelles/meldungen/7401261892.php}}

File:Wattens Performance Graph.png

Stadium

WSG Tirol play their home matches in Gernot Langes Stadion, Wattens. The stadium's capacity is 5500.{{cite news|url= http://www.nor.worldfootball.net/teams/wsg-wattens/1/|title=WSG Wattens club profile|access-date=17 June 2011|publisher=worldfootball.net}} The team's average home attendance for the 2010–11 season was 289.{{cite news|url=http://www.regionalliga.at/west/saison/statistik/|title=Austrian Regional League West 2010–11 season attendance statistics|date=1 June 2011|access-date=16 June 2011|publisher=Regionalliga.at|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629185537/http://www.regionalliga.at/west/saison/statistik/|archive-date=29 June 2011|url-status=dead}} The stadium is also occasionally used for international matches, such as a 2010 friendly between Saudi Arabia and Nigeria.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/africa/8690932.stm|title=Nigeria World Cup warm-up venues confirmed|date=18 May 2010|access-date=16 June 2011|publisher=BBC Sport}}

In 2013 the stadium was renamed in Gernot Langes stadium in honour of the 70th birthday of the longtime president Gernot Langes.[http://www.wsg-fussball.at/de/verein/stadion/ Website of WSG Wattens (German)]

The stadium does not currently meet Bundesliga suitability criteria and therefore redevelopment work has been planned to create a modern, 6,000 capacity stadium by the summer of 2023. During this period, the club will use the Tivoli Stadium in Innsbruck.

Honours

Austrian Second Division:
Winners (1): 2018–19
Austrian Second Division (West):
Winners (1): 1968
Austrian Third Division (West):
Winners (4): 1989, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2016

Current squad

{{updated|7 January 2025|{{cite web|url=https://www.wsg-fussball.at/de/teams/km1/kader/|title=Kader|trans-title=Squad|access-date=26 August 2022|language=de|publisher=WSG Tirol}}}}

{{Fs player|no=25|nat=GER|name=Lennart Czyborra|other=on loan from Genoa|pos=DF}}

Club Officials

Position !Staff
class="wikitable"
Manager	{{flagicon\|AUT}} Philipp Semlic
Assistant Manager	{{flagicon\|CZE}} Martin Švejnoha {{flagicon\|AUT}} Manuel Ludwiger
Goalkeeper Coach	{{flagicon\|AUT}} Mischa Todeschini {{flagicon\|AUT}} Ferdinand Oswald
Athletic and Rehabilitation Coach	{{flagicon\|AUT}} Michael Öhlknecht
Video Analyst	{{flagicon\|AUT}} Sebastian Ungerank
Team Doctor	{{flagicon\|AUT}} Gregor Unterberger {{flagicon\|AUT}} Clemens Burgstaller
Physiotherapist	{{flagicon\|AUT}} Anja Pölzl {{flagicon\|AUT}} Patrick Grassnig
Team Manager	{{flagicon\|AUT}} Stefan Köck
Kitman	{{flagicon\|GER}} Matthias Peters
Busdriver	{{flagicon\|AUT}} Servet Sisman