Marked for Sandro Ingolitsch
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad28 Sep 2026
Jomaine Consbruch and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match26 Sep 2026
0‑1 to St. Pölten, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Lukas Hinteregger left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Levan Eloshvili, and the manager let it.
Looking ahead28 Sep 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Sandro Ingolitsch’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager makes Lukas Wedl a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“If we are going to be beaten, let it not be because somebody in here could not be bothered.” He stood up and said it in front of everybody, which is a thing a squad remembers about a man for years.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad21 Sep 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market21 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Jomaine Consbruch was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Lukas Wedl
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match19 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad21 Sep 2026
7 new faces, and Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Lukas Hinteregger to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The form table has caught Lukas Wedl
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
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Upbeat
Squad17 Aug 2026
Sandro Ingolitsch arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Sandro Ingolitsch has, at Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Rapid Wien wanted more than $950.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Sebastian Dirnberger and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sigma Olomouc have kept their man, and Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match15 Aug 2026
1‑2 to Stripfing, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sandro Ingolitsch, and the manager let it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz know which stage they are at.
Squad17 Aug 2026
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Market17 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz, another week without a signature from Fabian Ehmann.