GAK forward on Saturday night
The Bundesliga is again in Salzburg for the brand new season – and that must be trigger for celebration. This Saturday, 9 August 2025, there will likely be a vibrant programme of occasions for younger and previous alike, beginning at 16:30 CEST as a part of our official Bundesliga season-opening celebration. The intense enterprise begins at 19:30 when our Purple Bulls tackle GAK and the factors are up for grabs. It is clear that we won’t be glad with our newest outcomes and, after final week’s 2-2 attract Ried, we now must take all three factors at house.
GAK’s Bundesliga opening consequence was equivalent to ours. Of their league opener at house, the Styrians held Austria Vienna to a 2-2 draw after the Violets equalised late within the sport. Nevertheless, this was preceded by a bitter cup exit within the first spherical in opposition to FC Dornbirn – whom we face within the subsequent spherical – making for a lower than best begin to the brand new season.
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After GAK flirted with relegation final season, there have been adjustments to teach Ferdinand Feldhofer’s squad over the summer time. Tobias Koch was introduced in from Klagenfurt to Graz. Alexander Hofleitner from Kapfenberg and Ludwig Vraa from Bröndby IF are additionally strengthening the group, whereas Tim Paumgartner made the transfer from FC Liefering to the highest flight. Amongst those that have left the membership are Kevin-Prince Milla (FK Dukla Prague), Milos Jovicic and Laszlo Kleinheisler (each finish of contract).
The Purple Jackets will need to make life tough for us with a tricky battle, however we have to stand as much as that in entrance of our house crowd. Tickets for the Bundesliga season opener can be found . Particulars concerning the season-opening celebration, together with the Stiegl beer barometer and extra, may be present in our match day info article.
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Not out there for the match are Takumu Kawamura (knee), Karim Konate (knee), John Mellberg (knee), Karim Onisiwo (thigh), Valentin Sulzbacher (thigh) and Christian Zawieschitzky (calf).
Frans Krätzig is suspended.
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GAK are a group that play with a again three that tries to play expansive soccer with a 3-4-3 system. For us, it is the primary house sport on this yr’s Bundesliga. We began with a superb efficiency in Ried, however with too few factors. So it is clear that we need to play nicely, however we additionally completely need to get three factors in opposition to GAK. We now solely have two days till the sport in opposition to GAK. However that is what we would like, as everybody desires to play a lot of matches. This performs a task in our planning, in fact, and we now have to take the packed fixture listing under consideration, which is why there’ll in all probability be 4 or 5 adjustments on Saturday.
Thomas Letsch
It feels good to me that we now have the following job forward of us in a short time and haven’t got to consider it for lengthy. I am already actually trying ahead to the primary house sport within the Bundesliga. We positively need to begin with a win at house and take that constructive feeling into the following video games. It actually will not be a stroll within the park in opposition to GAK. That is why we have to recuperate nicely, put together as greatest we are able to with a superb ultimate coaching session after which tackle GAK with depth and freshness.
Stefan Lainer
Previous ten matches in opposition to GAK
02.11.2024 FC Purple Bull Salzburg 0–0 GAK 1902
02.08.2024 GAK 1902 2–3 FC Purple Bull Salzburg (H/T:2-3)
05.05.2007 GAK 1902 0–0 FC Purple Bull Salzburg
04.02.2007 FC Purple Bull Salzburg 2–1 GAK 1902 (0-1)
09.10.2006 GAK 1902 0–2 FC Purple Bull Salzburg (0-1)
05.08.2006 FC Purple Bull Salzburg 4–1 GAK 1902 (2-0)
02.04.2006 FC Purple Bull Salzburg 5–0 GAK 1902 (4-0)
20.11.2005 GAK 1902 3–1 FC Purple Bull Salzburg (2-1)
01.09.2005 FC Purple Bull Salzburg 1–0 GAK 1902 (1-0)
02.07.2005 GAK 1902 3–1 FC Purple Bull Salzburg (1-1)
