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FC Vaduz
Full name	Fußball Club Vaduz
Nickname(s)	?
Founded	1932
Ground	Rheinpark Stadion Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Capacity	6,127
Chairman	Hanspeter Negele
Manager	Mats Gren
League	Challenge League
2005-06	8th
Home colours 　 Away colours

FC Vaduz is a Liechtensteiner football team that plays in Vaduz. The club plays at the small Rheinpark Stadion, which has a capacity of 6,127. Vaduz also play in the Challenge League (formerly called Nationalliga B), the second tier of the Swiss league. In recent years Vaduz has been one of the best teams in the Challenge League and have given serious challenges towards promotion to the Axpo Super League. Vaduz came extremely close to promotion to the Axpo Super League in 2004 and 2005, playing two-leg play-offs in both cases. However, Vaduz finished in a disappointing 8th position in the Challenge League this season as a result of a very poor first half of the season.

Contents 1 History 2 Achievements 3 Current Squad 4 External link

Fußball Club Vaduz was founded on February 14, 1932 in Vaduz, and the club's first chairman was Johann Walser. In its first training match, which Vaduz played in Balzers on April 24 of that year, the newly-born team emerged as 2-1 winners. In 1933, Vaduz began playing in Switzerland. Over the years Vaduz struggled through the different tiers of Swiss football and won its first Liechtensteiner Cup in 1949. Vaduz enjoyed a lengthy stay in the Swiss first division from 1960 to 1973.

In 1992, Vaduz qualified for European football for the first time, entering the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup as Liechtenstein Cup winners but lost 1-12 on aggregate to FC Chornomorets Odesa of Ukraine. In 1996, Vaduz qualified for the next round with their first European victory, winning 5-3 on aggregate over FC Universitate Riga of Latvia, although Vaduz lost to Paris St-Germain of France 0-7 on aggregate in the next round. After the banishment of the Cup Winners' Cup, Vaduz regularly enter the UEFA Cup as a result of being the only fully professional side in Liechtenstein and therefore have won the Liechtenstein Cup 33 times. Vaduz's most recent Liechtensteiner Cup win came in 2006, when they beat FC Balzers 4-2 in the final, meaning Vaduz once again qualified for the UEFA Cup.

Vaduz literally came within less than one second of reaching the first round proper of the UEFA Cup in 2002. With the scores tied level at 0-0 and with opponents Livingston scheduled to go through on away goals, Vaduz won a late corner. The ball was sent into the box, and Marius Zarn hit a goal-bound shot. However, the referee blew the whistle for full-time before the ball crossed over the line, and Livingston progressed through in controversial circumstances.

In the last 3 years, FC Vaduz have been reaching the second qualifying round of the UEFA Cup. The most recent campaign saw them lose to their near-neighbours Basel, also from the Swiss league, on away goals, despite a 2-1 victory at home.

Vaduz's current head coach is the Swede Mats Gren. The current chairman of Vaduz is Hanspeter Negele. Vaduz's uniforms are all red, which is their home kit, and all white, which is the away kit. Vaduz used to have many players from the Liechtensteiner national team, but most of these players have moved abroad, and now the majority of the first team squad are foreign players from different areas of the world.

• Liechtenstein football Cup: 35

1949, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1980, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

as of 9th November, 2006.

No. Position Player 1 GK Gabriel Wüthrich 2 DF Miguel Portillo 4 DF Daniel Hasler 5 MF Luis Guillermo Alastra 6 DF Carlos Javier Lopez 7 MF Henrique Conrelio Bem 8 MF Christian Wieczorek 9 FW Odirlei De Souza Gaspar 11 FW Pape Omar Faye 26 MF Artim Sakiri 13 DF Thomas Reinmann

No. Position Player 15 MF Michele Maggeti 18 GK Carlos Alberto Silva 19 FW Benjamin Fischer 20 MF Yoann Langlet 21 MF Marco Ritzberger 23 DF Diren Akdemir 25 DF Florian Sturm 27 MF Michele Polverino 30 MF Bruno Sutter

• Official website (German)
• Vaduzfans on tour (German)
• erster offizieller Fanclub 04 (German)
• FCV-Forum (German)
• Vaduz Nord (German)

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