The Amstetten Post
Market10 Aug 2026
Austria Wien come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Amstetten did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Too dear: Amstetten walk away from Yusuf Demir
$1.1M was the most the club would pay and Rapid Wien were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Ernad Kupinić turns down Amstetten
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: FAC Wien keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Lan Piskule
Amstetten asked and FAC Wien said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match8 Aug 2026
David Peham sends Amstetten past Sturm Graz II
It finished 2‑0, and it was David Peham’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Amstetten.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Marko Ilsanker joins the Amstetten first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marko 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
Amstetten promote Andreas Baumgartner from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Andreas Baumgartner has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Marcel Grillitsch joins the Amstetten first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marcel Grillitsch is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Mirko Kos needs a bigger stage
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Amstetten know which stage they are at.
In brief
- Player ratings Anthony Schmid takes the honours
- Squad Tempers go at Amstetten
- Squad The formation has left Anthony Schmid behind