SV Ried U20

16 Feb 2027
Tuesday
Process
29 Edition

The SV Ried Herald

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at SV Ried

Andreas Leitner 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.

Squad

A row about effort at SV Ried

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luka Capan was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Michael Sollbauer gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Loan watch

Dejan Radonjić has seen enough of Rapid Wien

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at SV Ried, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

The dugout

Kingstone Mutandwa has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Kingstone Mutandwa has written the date down.

Market

Still no ink between SV Ried and Joel Medina

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at SV Ried, another week without a signature from Joel Medina.

In brief

Back issues
28 Edition

The SV Ried Herald

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Words exchanged at SV Ried

Andreas Leitner 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.

Squad

A move Edoardo Vascotto 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. Edoardo Vascotto is living that version at SV Ried, and it tends to show in the first month.

Transfer targets

Legia tell SV Ried: Rafał Adamski is not for sale

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.

Squad

Philipp Pomer falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Market

A long bet from SV Ried on Edoardo Vascotto

He is 20, and nobody at SV Ried signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Squad

Edoardo Vascotto signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Edoardo Vascotto and SV Ried agree another 3 years.

The dugout

No hiding place for Felix Wimmer

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Felix Wimmer, and the manager let it.

The dugout

A door opens for Michael Sollbauer

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

Market

Talks stall between SV Ried and Felipe Valencia

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief

27 Edition

The SV Ried Herald

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 10 signed and 2 gone

That is the business done at SV Ried until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Squad

Alan Duré gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Alan Duré has just signed for SV Ried, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

A falling-out at SV Ried

Andreas Leitner and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Yaya Sanogo

SV Ried asked and Bradford City said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Eyes on Anteo Fetahu again

The phone has started ringing about Anteo Fetahu again, and this time the name on the line is Westerlo. SV Ried are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Words at SV Ried training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Philipp Pomer 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.

Squad

9 new faces, and SV Ried 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 dugout

Martin Rasner gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Martin Rasner's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

In brief

26 Edition

The SV Ried Herald

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

SV Ried say no — this time

The offer from US Creteil for Saliou Sané was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

The dugout

Peter Kiedl says SV Ried went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Transfer targets

Emre Ünüvar will not be coming to SV Ried

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Ajax is saying, and nobody at SV Ried is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

A falling-out at SV Ried

Ante Bajić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Ramón Villalba

SV Ried asked and Ipswich Town said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

A row about effort at SV Ried

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jonas Mayer was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Nermin Mesić stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Nermin Mesić and SV Ried agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Transfer targets

SV Ried try to borrow Rafał Adamski

Legia have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

The dugout

Philipp Pomer is still paying for one afternoon at SV Ried

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

In brief

25 Edition

The SV Ried Herald

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

Emre Ünüvar due for a SV Ried medical

Everything agreed with Ajax, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Market

SV Ried turn down De Graafschap for Anteo Fetahu

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Tempers go at SV Ried

Andreas Leitner 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.

Market

US Creteil watching Saliou Sané

The interest is real enough to have reached print. SV Ried have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Ante Aralica

SV Ried asked and Lokomotiv Sofia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Philipp Pomer falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

Anteo Fetahu signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Anteo Fetahu commits to SV Ried for another 3 years.

Market

SV Ried sign Anthony Munda, one for the future

Anthony Munda is 20, and SV Ried have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Market

SV Ried and Esteban Buitrago are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief

24 Edition

The SV Ried Herald

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

SV Ried say no — this time

The offer from Red Bull Salzburg for Oliver Sorg was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market

SV Ried sign Anteo Fetahu for $430.0K

The paperwork is done: Anteo Fetahu joins from Altach in a deal worth $430.0K. Now comes the harder part.

Squad

Words exchanged at SV Ried

Andreas Leitner 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 targets

CSKA Moscow tell SV Ried: Alerrandro is not for sale

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.

Market

SV Ried promote Peter Alaba from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Peter Alaba 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.

Squad

Philipp Pomer falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

The dugout

Andreas Leitner knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at SV Ried, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad

Esteban Buitrago still has not settled

A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at SV Ried would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.

Squad

A pay cut and a fresh start for Anteo Fetahu

Not every move is upward. Anteo Fetahu has accepted terms at SV Ried that are worse than the ones he left, and the only question that matters now is whether the football makes up for it.

In brief

23 Edition

The SV Ried Herald

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Marlon Mustapha is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. SV Ried will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Squad

A falling-out at SV Ried

Andreas Leitner and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Rapid Wien tell SV Ried: Yusuf Demir is not for sale

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.

Market

Eyes on Dejan Radonjić again

The phone has started ringing about Dejan Radonjić again, and this time the name on the line is Rapid Wien. SV Ried are listening politely and promising nothing.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Alerrandro is in the works

SV Ried have made the call to CSKA Moscow. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Squad

Camilo Tapasco stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Camilo Tapasco and SV Ried agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

SV Ried sign Camilo Tapasco, one for the future

Camilo Tapasco is 20, and SV Ried have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

The dugout

Andreas Leitner asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Squad

Nevio Zotz falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief

22 Edition

The SV Ried Herald

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Andreas Leitner 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 SV Ried this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at SV Ried training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Philipp Pomer 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Michael Sollbauer

“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.

The dugout

Philipp Pomer is still paying for one afternoon at SV Ried

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

The dugout

When it matters, Fabian Rossdorfer plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

Kingstone Mutandwa asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

21 Edition

The SV Ried Herald

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Jussef Nasrawe says SV Ried went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Words exchanged at SV Ried

Evan Eghosa 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.

Squad

Philipp Pomer falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

Dejan Radonjić signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dejan Radonjić and SV Ried agree another 4 years.

Market

The Marlon Mustapha question follows SV Ried around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Marlon Mustapha’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout

Martin Rasner has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Martin Rasner has written the date down.

In brief

20 Edition

The SV Ried Herald

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Nevio Zotz: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” SV Ried have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Words exchanged at SV Ried

Luka Capan 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.

Market

Stefan Ulmer steps up from the SV Ried academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Stefan Ulmer 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.

Market

Alexander Kalajdzic steps up from the SV Ried academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Alexander Kalajdzic 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.

The dugout

Jonas Mayer gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Words at SV Ried training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nevio Zotz 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.

In brief

19 Edition

The SV Ried Herald

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Ante Bajić 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 SV Ried this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Philipp Pomer falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

Kingstone Mutandwa slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Kingstone Mutandwa is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Oliver Sorg

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Oliver Sorg has come out of that comparison in the side, and SV Ried have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

The dugout

Martin Rasner is still paying for one afternoon at SV Ried

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

The dugout

No hiding place for Dominik Stöger

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dominik Stöger, and the manager let it.

In brief

18 Edition

The SV Ried Herald

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The small margins put SV Ried out

Out, 0‑1 to Rapid Wien, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Squad

A falling-out at SV Ried

Ante Bajić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at SV Ried

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Philipp Pomer was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Michael Sollbauer gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

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 Christoph Schlager left the room before anybody could ask which.

The dugout

Philipp Pomer is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

Player ratings

Martin Rasner never got going

4.81 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.

Squad

Oliver Sorg is the weekend's best young player

At 19 he is being measured against the rest of the division's kids and coming out in front. The senior version of this award is where the club would like this to lead.

The dugout

Fabian Rossdorfer gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Fabian Rossdorfer is on it.

In brief

17 Edition

The SV Ried Herald

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at SV Ried

Andreas Leitner 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.

Match

Marlon Mustapha sends SV Ried past Admira Wacker

It finished 1‑0, and it was Marlon Mustapha’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to SV Ried.

Squad

Words at SV Ried training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dejan Radonjić 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.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Marlon Mustapha at his very best

Marked 8.05. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at SV Ried.

The dugout

Kingstone Mutandwa left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Kingstone Mutandwa will call it something else in private.

The dugout

Kingstone Mutandwa dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Christoph Schlager kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Jonas Mayer

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. SV Ried told Jonas Mayer something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Player ratings

Ante Bajić was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 14. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

In brief

16 Edition

The SV Ried Herald

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

4 matches without a win for SV Ried

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around SV Ried are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Words exchanged at SV Ried

Andreas Leitner 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Marlon Mustapha

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Words at SV Ried training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Philipp Pomer 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.

Squad

Fabian Rossdorfer signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Fabian Rossdorfer commits to SV Ried for another 5 years.

Match

Marlon Mustapha rescues a point for SV Ried

It needed Marlon Mustapha to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Wolfsberger AC, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout

Andreas Leitner asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Christoph Schlager chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.

Squad

Oliver Steurer suspended

One booking too many, and Oliver Steurer sits out. SV Ried lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.

In brief

15 Edition

The SV Ried Herald

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Andreas Leitner keeps SV Ried in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

A falling-out at SV Ried

Andreas Leitner and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

SV Ried come up short against Sturm Graz

Sturm Graz left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market

SV Ried promote Michael Lazaro from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Michael Lazaro 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.

Squad

Philipp Pomer falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

The dugout

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 1‑3 Christoph Schlager left the room before anybody could ask which.

The dugout

Michael Sollbauer left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Michael Sollbauer will call it something else in private.

The dugout

Kingstone Mutandwa knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Kingstone Mutandwa trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

The form table has caught Christopher Wernitznig

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.

In brief

14 Edition

The SV Ried Herald

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Whatever happens, SV Ried do not lose

7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad

A falling-out at SV Ried

Evan Eghosa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at SV Ried

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dejan Radonjić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Michael Sollbauer gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

A promise honoured at SV Ried

Something was said to Marlon Mustapha and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

The dugout

The team sheet said everything about Dejan Radonjić

Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Dejan Radonjić.

Squad

Philipp Pomer makes the team of the month

Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

Squad

SV Ried take the armband off Andreas Leitner

It will be explained as a change for the team and it may even be one. Nobody who has worn one believes that, and neither does the man who has just had it taken away.

The dugout

Christoph Schlager: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

In brief

13 Edition

The SV Ried Herald

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Ante Bajić beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 35. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

Whatever happens, SV Ried do not lose

6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad

Words exchanged at SV Ried

Evan Eghosa 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.

Squad

A row about effort at SV Ried

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Philipp Pomer was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Nevio Zotz signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nevio Zotz and SV Ried agree another 4 years.

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Justin Möbius

7.89, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. SV Ried had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

The dugout

No hiding place for Martin Rasner

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Martin Rasner, and the manager let it.

Match

SV Ried share the spoils with Mattersburg

A 1‑1 draw with Mattersburg leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Christoph Schlager on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

In brief

12 Edition

The SV Ried Herald

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Marlon Mustapha takes the match ball home

5 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Match

Marlon Mustapha leads the rout of Grodig

6‑0, and Marlon Mustapha took the headlines on an afternoon when everything SV Ried tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Squad

Words exchanged at SV Ried

Andreas Leitner 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.

Player ratings

Marlon Mustapha was on a different afternoon to everybody else

9.99. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Match

Marlon Mustapha among the goals in a wild afternoon

6 goals in one match, Marlon Mustapha on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of SV Ried and Grodig.

Match

Another one collected away from home

3 on the bounce on the road for SV Ried. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.

Player ratings

Ante Bajić was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.45. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad

A row about effort at SV Ried

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Philipp Pomer was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

One of those days for Philipp Pomer

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.03, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief

11 Edition

The SV Ried Herald

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Ante Bajić 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 SV Ried this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

SV Ried promote Lukas Sabitzer from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Lukas Sabitzer 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.

Market

Guido Sabitzer steps up from the SV Ried academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Guido Sabitzer 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.

Match

Rapid Wien snatch it back from SV Ried

A goal on 89 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.

Match

SV Ried and Rapid Wien take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Christoph Schlager chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.

Looking ahead

Martin Rasner goes back to face Grodig

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Martin Rasner’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and SV Ried needing him to play as if none of it matters.

The dugout

Conrad Scholl gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Conrad Scholl is on it.

The dugout

Michael Sollbauer does not fit this one

Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.

In brief

10 Edition

The SV Ried Herald

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Andreas Leitner stands alone

6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Match

SV Ried make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now SV Ried have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad

Andreas Leitner 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 SV Ried this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Marlon Mustapha sends SV Ried past Red Bull Salzburg

It finished 1‑0, and it was Marlon Mustapha’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to SV Ried.

Squad

Philipp Pomer falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

The dugout

No hiding place for Dejan Radonjić

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dejan Radonjić, and the manager let it.

Squad

SV Ried are still strangers to each other

9 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout

SV Ried pick somebody else ahead of Kingstone Mutandwa

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 dugout

Christoph Schlager: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.

In brief

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The SV Ried Herald

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Ante Bajić beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 31. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Tempers go at SV Ried

Andreas Leitner 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.

The dugout

Kingstone Mutandwa gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match

SV Ried get the job done against Altach

A 1‑0 win over Altach, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Philipp Pomer falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

SV Ried at the halfway mark

Half the programme played, position 6, 14 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.

Player ratings

Marlon Mustapha was the difference for SV Ried

Marked 7.82. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

The dugout

Kingstone Mutandwa dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

The dugout

Christoph Schlager has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Christoph Schlager on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

In brief

8 Edition

The SV Ried Herald

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Fabian Rossdorfer, 20, steals the show — 7.89

Marked 7.89 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Player ratings

Marlon Mustapha was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 26. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

Words exchanged at SV Ried

Andreas Leitner 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.

The terraces

SV Ried supporters have found a favourite in Fabian Rossdorfer

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Fabian Rossdorfer has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

Fabian Rossdorfer sends SV Ried past Admira Wacker

It finished 1‑0, and it was Fabian Rossdorfer’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to SV Ried.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Kingstone Mutandwa

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

The dugout

A satisfied Christoph Schlager

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Christoph Schlager could afford to be generous.

The dugout

Kingstone Mutandwa knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Kingstone Mutandwa trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad

Fabian Rossdorfer, 20, is the weekend’s best young player

Measured against every other kid in the division and first among them. The senior award is where SV Ried would like this to lead.

In brief

7 Edition

The SV Ried Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

SV Ried turn down Red Bull Salzburg for Oliver Sorg

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

A falling-out at SV Ried

Justin Möbius and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Jonas Mayer’s goal not enough for SV Ried

Jonas Mayer scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Wolfsberger AC, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Market

Sebastian Onisiwo steps up from the SV Ried academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sebastian Onisiwo 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.

Market

Michael Schlager steps up from the SV Ried academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Michael Schlager 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.

Squad

Words at SV Ried training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Philipp Pomer 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.

The dugout

Christoph Schlager faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Christoph Schlager after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Saliou Sané

“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.

Player ratings

Yusuf Maart was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 14. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

In brief

6 Edition

The SV Ried Herald

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Andreas Leitner keeps SV Ried in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 17 in, 1 out at SV Ried

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 17 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Squad

A falling-out at SV Ried

Oliver Steurer and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Oliver Sorg attracts admirers

The name of Oliver Sorg has come up in conversations SV Ried were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

A row about effort at SV Ried

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Philipp Pomer was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

Philipp Pomer was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 18. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout

Michael Sollbauer gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

Justin Möbius did the work nobody counts — 6.85

9 combined actions and 6.85. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

Squad

9 new faces, and SV Ried 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.

In brief

5 Edition

The SV Ried Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Cup progress for SV Ried

A 2‑0 win over Grodig, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings

Ante Bajić was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 27. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Player ratings

Fabian Rossdorfer, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.64

A mark of 7.64 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Words exchanged at SV Ried

Ante Bajić 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for SV Ried against Austria Wien

0‑1 to Austria Wien, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

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 Christoph Schlager to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout

Dejan Radonjić gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

The one thing Saliou Sané could not do

Shots: 11, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

The dugout

Nikki Havenaar does not fit this one

Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.

In brief

4 Edition

The SV Ried Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Tempers go at SV Ried

Ante Bajić 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.

Squad

Evan Eghosa signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Evan Eghosa commits to SV Ried for another 4 years.

Transfer targets

Wolfsberger AC tell SV Ried: Ryan Ogam is not for sale

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 terraces

One of their own: Kingstone Mutandwa

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match

Ante Bajić the difference as SV Ried beat Mattersburg

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Ante Bajić. 1‑0 against Mattersburg, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Philipp Pomer falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Ante Bajić

Marked 8.04 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

The dugout

Christoph Schlager: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.

Looking ahead

The leaders are next for SV Ried

Austria Wien top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.

In brief

3 Edition

The SV Ried Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

SV Ried run riot against Grodig

4‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Market

Not going: Saliou Sané stays at SV Ried

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Vaduz had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Squad

3 goals for Marlon Mustapha

The match ball belongs to Marlon Mustapha, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Market

SV Ried turn down Wolfsberger AC for Jonas Mayer

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Player ratings

Joris Boguo, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 8.20

A mark of 8.20 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Transfer targets

No deal for Maurits Kjærgaard at that price

SV Ried offered $3.8M; Red Bull Salzburg said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Transfer targets

Rapid Wien tell SV Ried: Petter Nosa Dahl is not for sale

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.

Squad

A falling-out at SV Ried

Andreas Leitner and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

SV Ried sell Dominik Kirnbauer for $420.0K

Dominik Kirnbauer has left for Grodig in a $420.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

In brief

2 Edition

The SV Ried Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets

SV Ried make their move for Maurits Kjærgaard

$3.8M on the table at Red Bull Salzburg. 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 targets

Door shut on Yorbe Vertessen

SV Ried asked and Red Bull Salzburg said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Andreas Leitner signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Andreas Leitner commits to SV Ried for another 3 years.

Squad

Tempers go at SV Ried

Andreas Leitner 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.

Market

Saliou Sané attracts admirers

The name of Saliou Sané has come up in conversations SV Ried were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Match

Rapid Wien take the points off SV Ried

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Market

SV Ried promote Peter Prass from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Peter Prass 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.

Market

Julian Hinteregger steps up from the SV Ried academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Julian Hinteregger 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.

Market

One of our own: Konrad Onisiwo joins the SV Ried first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Konrad Onisiwo is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief

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  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • The dugout Andreas Leitner knocks on the manager’s door
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The SV Ried Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A move Marlon Mustapha 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. Marlon Mustapha is living that version at SV Ried, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Yusuf Maart stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Yusuf Maart and SV Ried agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Andreas Leitner 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 SV Ried this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

SV Ried rebuffed over Denys Tvardovskyi

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Shakhtar have kept their man, and SV Ried go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Dominik Kirnbauer attracts admirers

The name of Dominik Kirnbauer has come up in conversations SV Ried were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Words at SV Ried training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michael Sollbauer 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.

Market

36 months and counting on Yusuf Maart

Still no offer on the table, and Yusuf Maart’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Player ratings

Joris Boguo was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 15. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Market

SV Ried and Michael Sollbauer are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief