A total of 12 Cup games

Scheduling chaos on Friday! Match schedule causes trouble

Scheduling chaos on the soccer pitches! An ill-conceived match schedule in Carinthia allows 13 cup games to be played in one evening. Now the local ÖFB Cup participants are even worried about spectator income. . . 

Carinthian soccer fans will be spoiled for choice tomorrow! The reason: an ill-conceived schedule! In addition to three ÖFB Cup matches, a total of nine (!) KFV Cup matches will also be played. "If I had known this earlier, I would have requested that we could play on Wednesday or Thursday," sighs Treibach's sports boss Stefan Weitensfelder. After all, there won't be a huge crowd in the spa town tomorrow for the home game against Kapfenberg. "I expect 400 to 500 fans. Every other match takes spectators away from us," complains Weitensfelder.

Velden was obliged to play on Friday
Treibach responded to the request of opponents Kapfenberg, who wanted to keep the Friday game rhythm. Debutants Velden were forced to do so in their home game against GAK. They actually wanted to play on Saturday, but have to play tomorrow due to the TV broadcast. Otherwise there would have been a 0:3 penalty. And Köttmannsdorf will be missing a number of players from Saturday, leaving only Friday against Horn. Only SG ASK/HSV will play against Mauer on Saturday.

What does the association say? "For the KFV Cup games, we specified Saturday as the main match day. If two teams want to play earlier, they make their own arrangements," explained match operations manager Hannes Krall.