Editorial Reviews - Sk Sturm Graz From the Publisher Kapitel: Liste Der Spieler Des Sk Sturm Graz, Sk Sturm Graz/zahlen Und Fakten, Grazer Derby, Upc-Arena, Sk Sturm Graz/europacup-Statistik, Gruabn. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: SK Sturm Graz is an Austrian football club, based in Graz, Styria, playing in the Austrian Bundesliga. The club was founded in 1909 and the club colours are black and white. So far, Sturm Graz has won the Austrian Football Championship twice (1998 and 1999) and participated several times in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Cup under the management of Ivica Osim. SK Sturm Graz were founded in 1909, as a working men's team (as opposed to their town neighbours Grazer AK, founded in 1902). The club first appeared in top-flight competition in the Gauliga Ostmark in 1942-43, coming last and being relegated. The first great success of the club was celebrated under manager Otto Baric, when the club finished runners-up in the league in the 1982/3 season. A year later, the club battled through to the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup, beaten only by Nottingham Forest through a dubious penalty in extra-time. In December 1992, Hannes Kartnig was installed as President, naming his close friend Heinz Schilcher as new manager. At the time, Sturm were languishing under enormous debts, a chronic lack of money and a general sporting malaise. Sturm qualified for the newly-formed Zehnerliga, and Kartnig and Schilcher decided the best course of action would be to abstain from big-name signings, and opt instead for a new start using young players from the club's youth setup. In 1993 Milan Djuricic became manager, and together with his "kindergarten" team managed to stay up. In 1994, the Bosnian Ivica Osim took control of the up-to-now unsuccessful Sturm; this proved to be a crucial turning-point in the club's history. Osim succeeded in producing an effective and powerful team using the young and inexperienced players at his disposal, strengt