It was only on Wednesday that LASK parted ways with the hapless Thomas Sageder and replaced them with the team of Thomas Darazs and Maximilian Ritscher. This meant that the people of Linz thought they were on the safe side when it came to licensing. Nevertheless, Senate 5, chaired by Thomas Hofer-Zeni, denied the Upper Austrians the right to play in the top league and only granted permission for the second level.
“We fully complied with all of the Bundesliga’s formal legal regulations at all times. After naming the new coaching team around Thomas Darazs and Maximilian Ritscher, Darazs, as holder of the UEFA Pro license, took over the position of head coach, which we immediately reported to the league,” said LASK managing director Radovan Vujanovic. The manager described the decision the league as “incomprehensible and arbitrary.” A protest against the verdict was also immediately announced.
GEPA/Manuel Binder The fact that Darasz, here on the right next to ex-coach Sageder, has the necessary coaching license seemed to leave the Senate unmoved
“Senate 5 obviously came to the conclusion not to grant LASK the license in the first instance, unlike in previous years due to the change of coach, solely due to the presence of Maximilian Ritscher at the press conference on Wednesday,” it continued.
“Different cases”
According to regulations, the clubs can lodge a written protest against the Senate 5 decision with the protest committee within eight days – the deadline this year is Monday, April 22nd. The protest committee’s decision will be made by Monday, April 29th this year. This ends the appeal process within the Bundesliga. A complaint can then be filed with the Permanent Neutral Arbitration Court within eight days.
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LASK coach Sageder has to go
The league did not address the refusal of the license for LASK in an initial broadcast. Only the note “personnel” was added. Hofer-Zeni said in the broadcast that the licensing and approval process was “characterized by a number of different cases,” which “didn’t make it easy” for him and his colleagues: “What is pleasing, however, is that on the one hand the clubs, through their preparatory work and On the other hand, the clarifications made in the regulations have ensured a higher quality of the application documents compared to previous years.”
Editions for quartet
Unlike LASK, Wiener Austria, which was one of the weak candidates due to its financial problems, was this time granted the license in the first instance. However, the Purples must submit “updated future information” and “monthly reporting on the economic situation” to the league. With Austria Klagenfurt (“updated future information and monthly liquidity reporting”) and Austria Lustenau and TSV Hartberg (each “strategy paper football and social responsibility”), three other Bundesliga clubs only received the license under conditions.
Among the twelve successful applicants for the 2nd league there are also two amateur teams from Bundesliga clubs: SK Sturm Graz II and Rapid II. On the other hand, the cup semi-finalists DSV Leoben, among others, were refused admission to the second level for financial reasons. Stripfing/Weiden also failed in the first instance due to the lack of infrastructure – the club plays its home games this season on the FAC pitch in Vienna.
2024-04-12 12:59:06
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