Kraiger women's football: promotion to the Bundesliga and move to Guttaring!

Kraiger women's football: promotion to the Bundesliga and move to Guttaring!

Guttaring, Österreich - The SV Kraig celebrates a remarkable climb, but not everything is vain. The club's women's team made the leap into the 2nd Bundesliga, which was duly celebrated in front of 600 enthusiastic fans in the acidic arena. Nevertheless, internal conflicts shape the association that leads to the team to move after Guttaring. Without clear reasons, some board members decided not to want to see the team of women in Kraig anymore.

Chairman Harald Jannach and section manager Manuel Knapp are committed to the players and try to prevent worse things. In the future, the women's team will play in the KM-Bau Arena Guttaring, where the local fans are already waiting for the Bundesliga return.

perspectives and challenges

Those responsible in Guttaring hope for high numbers of spectators and want to break the previous record of 500 fans in the arena. But despite the sporting success, the association faces challenges. The history of the Kraiger football women begins as SC St. Veit before they switched to Kraig and celebrated success there. Those responsible have thrown a special eye to the newcomers to Simone Hader (from Austria Klagenfurt) and Julia Mak (from Ferlach) to strengthen the squad.

relegation in the new season is the declared goal of the team, while title favorites such as Fac, Wacker Innsbruck and GAK and promoted Rapid Vienna are waiting for the next opponent. For the 2nd Bundesliga this means a remarkable departure, even if there is still room for improvement.

Development in women's football

At the same time, it can be seen how great the development of women's football has been in recent years. A current record in the audience area underlines how many new fans come to the games. Recently, the 1st FC Köln has a impressive viewer record of 32,500 for a game against Eintracht Frankfurt, while the audience average in the Bundesliga has now risen to 2,400, which has been a doubling since 2020, as the Deutschlandfunk reported.

spectator records in women's football are not new. Most of the ten most visited games took place after 2020, an impressive event took place in the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona when over 91,000 fans followed a champions League game between Barcelona and Wolfsburg. These developments show that more and more families and young spectators are interested in women's football.

All of these events about SV Kraig and the other clubs illustrate an exciting time for women's football in both Austria and worldwide. It remains to be seen how the league will develop and whether Kraig has grown to the challenges and the viewers can carry in Guttaring.