Heart-stopping finale for promotion: St. Pölten and Lustenau in a long-distance duel

The duel between LASK and Sturm will be one class below Lustenau – St. Pölten. On Thursday from 5 p.m. Lustenau welcomes the Amstettners, the SKN has Hertha Wels as guests as the last remaining pursuer. With the flaw that the SKN actually scored one point more than Vorarlberg, but is one point behind Austria (50 to 51).

Travel theme “Stripfing”

“Stripping” is the buzz word that raises the pulse of those responsible in St. Pölten. While the St. Pöltners were deducted three points for the win against Stripfing after the Weinviertel team went bankrupt, the league leaders only lost one point for a 3-3 draw.

“We’ve had it ourselves often enough. With seven clean sheets in the last nine games, we were only missing one or two goals at the front,” says SKN coach Cem Sekerlioglu.

The Viennese does not believe that a second, unexpected hurdle in the title fight will come from a Lower Austria club. Even if Amstetten could ensure that a regional derby against St. Pölten would take place next year with a defeat in the Ländle…

“I know Amstetten trainers Enengl: Even if it is his last game for the club, he will make sure that it is not a fun outing, but that Amstetten will be as unpleasant to play in as ever. Nobody really wants them as an opponent in a playoff,” says Sekerlioglu.

https://kurier.at/sport/fussball/trainer-cem-sekerlioglu-skn-st-poelten-spaetstarter- Success-nachwachsen/403093891And if the Mostviertel team actually scores points on Ascension Day, the big championship party could take place in the NV Arena just before 7 p.m. “We have to win against Wels, that’s all we’re looking at. And we want the stadium to be as full as possible,” hopes Sekerlioglu.

The Prophet Cem Sekerlioglu

By the way: After the outstanding start in his first position as head coach in professional football, the 47-year-old looked ahead to the final round in a KURIER interview in October 2025.

At the end of the season, Sekerlioglu wanted to be measured by whether the St. Pölten team “create recognition value” with their dominant possession football and predicted: “If 2,500 fans come to the last home game against Wels on May 14th, we will have done a lot right.”

Cem Sekerlioglu smiles, states that “I kept my word” and adds: “You should never write us off. We have often won games in the last minute. Maybe now we can achieve something big at the very end.”