After success in U16 and U20 – the Bundesliga story is starting
Our Bundesliga ladies’s group are to begin a brand new chapter once they return to coaching on Monday 14 July. Their preparations for the primary season in Austria’s prime flight mark one other vital step in our work in ladies’s soccer. After we competed final season with an U20 group (as a second group of FC Bergheim) within the Future League and an U16 group, we at the moment are bidding to make our mark on the very best doable stage in Austria.
Our head coach Dusan Pavlovic, whose assistants embody Isabella Schweighofer and goalkeeper coach Carolin Grössinger, will lead his fees for the primary time on Monday at 18:00 within the Rif coaching centre. On the query of what the main target ought to be on within the first pre-season earlier than top-flight soccer, the coach stated:
Our purpose is to ascertain ourselves as rapidly as doable at this stage – simply because the U16 and U20 groups managed. The pre-season gives an important foundation wherein it is going to be vital to organize as greatest as presumably bodily, tactically and technically. We need to develop collectively additional as a group. It is clear to us that it is going to be a really tough problem, and we’ve got quite a bit to do on all ranges.
Because of the superb growth in final season’s U20 league, there have been few adjustments wanted to the squad. Gamers like Alessia Pamminger, Sara Grabovac, Julia Grünwald and Valentina Akrap, who have been enjoying for the U16 not way back, stay as key gamers. Continuity within the squad is a key focus, as Bernd Winkler, the top of girls’s soccer on the Purple Bulls, defined:
Numerous gamers have made massive steps ahead, and we’ve got religion that they may carry out effectively within the Bundesliga too. We need to place our belief in them and solely get one or two new gamers, if we will.
For this season, Theresa D’Angelo, Lea Krinzinger, Emily Schimm and Lara Ritter (all from Blau-Weiß Linz) and Katja Wienerroither (RB Leipzig) are new to the group.
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Pleasant matches
As a part of their pre-season coaching, there will likely be a number of pleasant matches in opposition to difficult opponents:
19 July 2025, 13:00 (Munich)FC Purple Bull Salzburg v Wacker Munich
26 July 2025, 13:00 Uhr (Ingolstadt)FC Purple Bull Salzburg v FC Ingolstadt
2 August 2025, 16:00 Uhr (Vienna)FC Purple Bull Salzburg v SK Fast
In relation to aggressive matches, Pavlovic’s facet face an ÖFB Cup tie on 9 or 10 August (draw on 17 July) in addition to their Girls’s Bundesliga opener on 16 August away at FC Blau-Weiß Linz/Kleinmünchen (kick-off at 13:30). Residence matches will likely be performed on the Purple Bull Soccer Academy in Liefering.
Beneath the Bundesliga ladies there are at present two different groups which are additionally in motion on the Rif coaching centre.
The U20w coached by Lukas Hiermann begin the Future League on 16 August on the Purple Bull Soccer Academy. They’ll put together in opposition to Younger Violets Austria Vienna (26 July, Vienna), SK Fast Girls II (2 August, Vienna), in opposition to Radomlje Girls from Slovenia (9 August, Salzburg) and an American ladies’s group (13 August, Bergheim).
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For the U16w coached by Lisa-Marie Zmek, there’s a novelty. As a consequence of a change in format within the U14 boys’ Sparkassenliga (9v9 with small objectives) they’ve left the league and can be part of ten others in an U16 lady’s league, which is able to function on a non-competitive foundation initially in settlement with the ÖFB.
The U16w will play pal matches in opposition to Austria Wien U16w (26 July, Vienna), Radomlje U16w from Slovenia (9 August, Bergheim) and FC Bayern Munich U15w (16 August, Bayern Campus). They’re to begin the league on 6/7 September in opposition to SV Hartberg U16w (in Bergheim).