2025–26 SK Sturm Graz season

SK Sturm Graz
2024–25 season
Manager	Jürgen Säumel
Stadium	Liebenauer Stadium
Austrian Bundesliga	1st
Austrian Cup	Quarter-finals
UEFA Champions League	Play-off round
UEFA Europa League	League stage
Top goalscorer	League: ; Otar Kiteishvili; (12 goals); All: ; Otar Kiteishvili; (16 goals)
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The 2025–26 season is the 117th season in the history of SK Sturm Graz, and the club's 60th consecutive season in the Austrian Bundesliga. In addition to the domestic league, the team is participating in the Austrian Cup and the UEFA Europa League, having been eliminated in the play-off round of the UEFA Champions League.

ManagerJürgen Säumel

StadiumLiebenauer Stadium

Austrian Bundesliga1st

Austrian CupQuarter-finals

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Pos.	Player	Transferred from	Fee	Date	Source
FW	Axel Kayombo	Basel	Undisclosed	1 July 2025	^[1]^[2]
MF	Filip Rózga	Cracovia	Undisclosed	1 July 2025	^[3]
MF	Julius Beck	Esbjerg fB	Undisclosed	1 July 2025	^[4]^[5]
DF	Tim Oermann	Bayer Leverkusen	Loan	1 July 2025	^[6]
GK	Oliver Christensen	Fiorentina	Loan	2 August 2025	^[7]
FW	Maurice Malone	Austria Wien	Undisclosed	2 September 2025	^[8]
DF	Jeyland Mitchell	Feyenoord	Loan	2 September 2025	^[9]

Pos.	Player	Transferred to	Fee	Date	Source
MF	Gregory Wüthrich	Young Boys	Free	1 July 2025	^[10]
DF	Amadou Dante	Arouca	Undisclosed^[a]	1 July 2025	^[11]
MF	Martin Kern	Puskás Akadémia	Undisclosed	5 August 2025	^[12]
FW	Amady Camara	Nantes	Loan	9 August 2025	^[13]
FW	Szymon Włodarczyk	Excelsior	Loan	22 August 2025	^[14]
FW	William Bøving	Mainz 05	Undisclosed	1 September 2025	^[15]
DF	Emran Soglo	Zulte Waregem	Loan	8 September 2025	^[16]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sturm Graz	22	12	2	8	33	26	+7	38	Qualification for the Championship round
2	Red Bull Salzburg	22	10	7	5	42	26	+16	37
3	LASK	22	11	4	7	32	30	+2	37
4	Austria Wien	22	11	3	8	34	30	+4	36
5	SK Rapid	22	9	6	7	26	25	+1	33

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
7	5	0	2	12	4	+8	15	2	0	2	5	3	+2	3	0	0	7	1	+6

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Ground	A	H	A	A	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	H
Result	W	L	W	W	L	W	W
Position	2	5	5	3	5	2	2

2025–26 SK Sturm Graz season

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Competitions

Austrian Bundesliga

League table

Results summary

Results by round

Matches

Austrian Cup

UEFA Champions League

Play-off round

UEFA Europa League

League phase

Statistics

Goalscorers

Notes

References

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1 August 2024 1	LASK	0–2	Sturm	Linz
20:30		Report	Grgić 9' Kiteishvili 12' (pen.)	Stadium: Raiffeisen Arena Referee: Harald Lechner

10 August 2024 2	Sturm	1–2	Rapid	Graz
17:00	Marcelin 57' (o.g.)	Report	67' Dahl 70' Mbuyi	Stadium: Liebenauer Stadium Attendance: 16,250 Referee: Peter Altmann

16 August 2024 3	SV Ried	1–3	Sturm	Ried im Innkreis
19:30	Kiedl 13'	Report	Kiteishvili 16', 44' Johnston 31'	Stadium: Josko Arena Referee: Arnes Talic

30 August 2024 4	Grazer AK	0–3	Sturm	Graz
19:30	Koch 80'	Report	Jatta 41', 90+6' Horvat 64'	Stadium: Liebenauer Stadium Referee: Christian-Petru Ciochirca

14 September 2025 5	Sturm Graz	0–1	Austria Wien	Graz
17:00 CEST (UTC+2)		Report	Eggestein 22'	Stadium: Liebenauer Stadium Attendance: 16,856 Referee: Markus Hameter

20 September 2025 6	Red Bull Salzburg	0–2	Sturm Graz	Salzburg
17:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Diabate 22' Schlager 69'	Report	Karić 38' Horvat 41' Jatta 50' Malone 86'	Stadium: Red Bull Arena Attendance: 10,938 Referee: Stefan Ebner

28 September 2025 7	Sturm Graz	1–0	TSV Hartberg	Graz
14:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Vincze 90+5' (o.g.)	Report		Stadium: Liebenauer Stadium Referee: Arnes Talic

25 July 2025 First round	SK Bischofshofen	0–4	Sturm Graz	Bischofshofen
			Kiteishvili 9' Safonov 11' (o.g.) Jatta 13' Camara 86'	Stadium: Sportplatz Bischofshofen Attendance: 1,499 Referee: Daniel Pfister

17 September 2025 Second round	SC Röthis	0–2	Sturm Graz	Röthis
19:30 CEST (UTC+2)			Rózga 26' Malone 90'	Stadium: Sportplatz an der Ratz

29 October 2025 Third round	Admira Wacker	1–1 (a.e.t.) (9–10 p)	SK Sturm Graz	Maria Enzersdorf
18:00 CET (UTC+1)	Schmidt 11', 81' Olsa 79'	Report	Jatta 57' Meisl 73' (o.g.) Malić 102'	Stadium: Datenpol Arena Attendance: 4,500 Referee: Harald Lechner
	Penalties
	Gemicibaşi Malicsek Weberbauer Meisl Steiner Tambwe-Kasengele Schabauer Olsa Holzhacker Haudum Siebenhandl		Kiteishvili Grgić Horvat Kayombo Chukwuani Malić Lavalée , Gorenc Stanković Bignetti Geyrhofer Aiwu

1 February 2026 Quarter-final	SCR Altach	3–1 (a.e.t.)	SK Sturm Graz	Altach
17:30 CET (UTC+1)	Greil 51', 105' Ingolitsch 66' Milojević 90+1' Hrstić 102'	Report	Oermann 32' 78' Koller 63' Kayombo 71'	Stadium: CASHPOINT Arena Attendance: 4,154 Referee: Julian Weinberger

20 August 2025 (2025-08-20) First leg	Bodø/Glimt	5–0	Sturm Graz	Aspmyra Stadion, Bodø
21:00	Høgh 7' Bjørtuft 10' Saltnes 25' Evjen 54' Bøving 79' (o.g.)	Report^[18]		Attendance: 7,896^[19] Referee: Sandro Schärer (Switzerland)

26 August 2025 (2025-08-26) Second leg	Sturm Graz	2–1 (2–6 agg.)	Bodø/Glimt	Wörthersee Stadion, Klagenfurt^{[note 1]}
21:00	Jatta 30' Oermann 73'	Report^[20]	Jørgensen 15'	Attendance: 9,050^[21] Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Poland)

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
24	Brann	8	2	3	3	9	11	−2	9	Advance to knockout phase play-offs (unseeded)
25	Young Boys	8	3	0	5	10	16	−6	9
26	Sturm Graz	8	2	1	5	5	11	−6	7
27	FCSB	8	2	1	5	9	16	−7	7
28	Go Ahead Eagles	8	2	1	5	6	14	−8	7

24 September 2025 (2025-09-24) 1	Midtjylland	2–0	Sturm Graz	MCH Arena, Herning
18:45	Christensen 7' (o.g.) Diao 88'	Report^[23]		Attendance: 8,331^[24] Referee: Orel Grinfeld (Israel)

2 October 2025 (2025-10-02) 2	Sturm Graz	2–1	Rangers	Liebenauer Stadium, Graz
21:00	Horvat 7' Kiteishvili 35'	Report^[25]	Gassama 49'	Attendance: 15,532^[26] Referee: Halil Umut Meler (Turkey)

23 October 2025 (2025-10-23) 3	Celtic	2–1	Sturm Graz	Celtic Park, Glasgow
21:00 (20:00 UTC+1)		Report^[27]

6 November 2025 (2025-11-06) 4	Sturm Graz	0–0	Nottingham Forest	Liebenauer Stadium, Graz
18:45		Report^[28]		Attendance: 16,192^[29] Referee: Mykola Balakin (Ukraine)

27 November 2025 (2025-11-27) 5	Panathinaikos	2–1	Sturm Graz	Olympic Stadium, Athens
21:00 (22:00 UTC+2)	Świderski 18' Calabria 74'	Report^[30]	Kiteishvili 34'	Attendance: 21,013^[31] Referee: Simone Sozza (Italy)

11 December 2025 (2025-12-11) 6	Sturm Graz	0–1	Red Star Belgrade	Liebenauer Stadium, Graz
18:45		Report^[32]	Ivanić 55'	Attendance: 16,077^[33] Referee: Damian Sylwestrzak (Poland)

22 January 2026 (2026-01-22) 7	Feyenoord	3–0	Sturm Graz	De Kuip, Rotterdam
18:45	Watanabe 5' Hadj Moussa 68' Borges 90'	Report^[34]

29 January 2026 (2026-01-29) 8	Sturm Graz	1–0	Brann	Liebenauer Stadium, Graz
21:00	Kiteishvili 85'	Report^[35]

Rank	Pos.	Player	Austrian Bundesliga	Austrian Cup	Champions League	Europa League	Total
1	MF	Otar Kiteishvili	12	1	0	3	16
2	FW	Seedy Jatta	3	1	1	0	5
3	FW	Maurice Malone	3	1	0	0	4
3	MF	Tomi Horvat	2	0	0	2	4
5	FW	Leon Grgić	3	0	0	0	3
5	MF	Filip Rózga	2	1	0	0	3
7	MF	Jacob Hödl	2	0	0	0	2
7	MF	Jon Gorenc Stanković	2	0	0	0	2
9	MF	Ryan Fosso	1	0	0	0	1
	DF	Jeyland Mitchell	1	0	0	0	1
	DF	Max Johnston	1	0	0	0	1
	FW	Amady Camara	0	1	0	0	1
	FW	Axel Kayombo	0	1	0	0	1
	DF	Tim Oermann	0	0	1	0	1
Own goals			1	1	0	0	1
Totals			33	8	2	5	49