The Grodig Courier
Match8 Aug 2026
Chastening afternoon for Grodig
A 0‑6 beating by Mattersburg was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Grodig count the cost of losing Alexander Schwaighofer
47 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Elias Lorenz turns down Grodig
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Sturm Graz keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Alexander Schwaighofer in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Grodig this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match8 Aug 2026
6 goals as Grodig and Mattersburg go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Grodig and Mattersburg, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Thomas Wober
Grodig asked and Mattersburg said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Wrong net for Benedek Simon
A touch he did not mean and a goal that goes in the book with his name against it. Grodig will not blame him tonight and he will not need them to.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Peter Ilsanker joins the Grodig first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Peter Ilsanker is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Peter Baumgartner steps up from the Grodig academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Peter Baumgartner has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market Sebastian Alaba steps up from the Grodig academy
- Market One of our own: Gernot Sabitzer joins the Grodig first team
- Player ratings Sebastian Hölzl was unplayable