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Kraiger women's football: promotion to the Bundesliga and move to Guttaring!
SV Kraig women's team celebrates promotion to the Bundesliga in Guttaring, despite internal conflicts and relocation from St. Veit.
Kraiger women's football: promotion to the Bundesliga and move to Guttaring!
SV Kraig is celebrating a remarkable rise, but not everything is all joy. The club's women's team made it into the 2nd Bundesliga, which was duly celebrated in front of 600 enthusiastic fans in the Sauritschnig Arena. Nevertheless, internal conflicts characterize the club, which lead to the team having to move to Guttaring. Without clear reasons, some board members have decided that they no longer want to see the women's team in Kraig.
However, chairman Harald Jannach and section leader Manuel Knapp stand up for the players and try to prevent anything worse from happening. In the future, the women's team will play in the KM-Bau Arena Guttaring, where local fans are already looking forward to the return of the Bundesliga.
Perspectives and challenges
Those responsible in Guttaring are hoping for high numbers of spectators and would like to break the previous record of 500 fans in the arena. But despite the sporting success, the club faces challenges. The history of the Kraiger soccer women begins as SC St. Veit, before they moved to Kraig and celebrated success there. Those responsible are keeping a special eye on the new additions Simone Hader (from Austria Klagenfurt) and Julia Mak (from Ferlach), who are supposed to strengthen the squad.
Staying in the league in the new season is the team's declared goal, while title favorites such as FAC, Wacker Innsbruck and GAK as well as newly promoted Rapid Vienna are waiting for their next opponent. This represents a remarkable departure for the 2nd Bundesliga, even if there is still room for improvement.
The development in women's football
At the same time, it shows how great the development of women's football has been in recent years. A recent attendance record underlines how many new fans are coming to the games. Recently, 1. FC Cologne set an impressive attendance record of 32,500 for a game against Eintracht Frankfurt, while the average attendance in the Bundesliga has now risen to 2,400, doubling since 2020, according to the Deutschlandfunk reported.
Attendance records in women's football are not new. Most of the ten most attended games took place after 2020, with an impressive event already taking place at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, when over 91,000 fans watched a Champions League game between Barcelona and Wolfsburg. These developments show that more and more families and young spectators are becoming interested in women's football.
All of these events surrounding SV Kraig and the other clubs illustrate an exciting time for women's football both in Austria and worldwide. It remains to be seen how the league will develop and whether Kraig will be up to the challenges and can thrill the spectators in Guttaring.