The St. Pölten Gazette
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
A brace, and Marco Djuricin takes the afternoon — 8.02
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Marco Djuricin provided it, and the 8.02 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move Jürgen Heil would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Jürgen Heil is living that version at St. Pölten, and it tends to show in the first month.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
St. Pölten make their move for Marco König
$4.2M on the table at Stripfing. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
St. Pölten rebuffed over Andrés Andrade
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. LASK have kept their man, and St. Pölten go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at St. Pölten
Marco Hausjell 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 targets10 Aug 2026
St. Pölten make their move for Markus Baumgartner
$60.0K on the table at Stripfing. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at St. Pölten training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jürgen Heil is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match8 Aug 2026
St. Pölten find a way past FAC Wien
FAC Wien made St. Pölten work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Christopher Knett
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Christopher Knett, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Market Peter Ulmer steps up from the St. Pölten academy
- Market Christoph Trimmel steps up from the St. Pölten academy
- Market St. Pölten promote Philipp Junuzovic from within