Football Season Guide

After several seasons in which they punched above their weight, Admira endured a rather difficult 2018/19 campaign and battled the drop in the majority of the season. Their autumn campaign was particularly difficult and they looked like likely travelers to the second tier going into the winter break, but Reiner Geyer eventually managed to pick them up and guide them to safety. The Modlingers have become a regular fixture in the Bundesliga over the recent years, which is an achievement in itself, given that the financial situation of the club is far from stellar and causes them to sell their best player pretty much every summer. Things were no different this time around, with three key men leaving for pastures new in Sasa Kalajdzic, Manuel Kuttin and Stephan Zwierschitz. Several rotation players have also left, while only three players have signed in Roman Kerschbaum, Christoph Haas and Fabian Menig, who sign as like-for-like replacements for the aforementioned departed key trio, but it is hard to see them as anything other than inferior replacements. While Admira have shown plenty of promise under Geyer, their squad is certainly weaker than it was last season. This further means that, in order for the Modlingers to stay up, the German boss needs to join a string of managers that got them to punch above their weight.