Continental Austria, which is Semperit GmbH, is partner and top sponsor of FC Superrfund Pasching since January 2004. Beside of boardings at the home games of the team we can use tickets available for game visits together with business customers. Further more Continental is cooperating from time to time with some players of the team, the coach and the management for trade fairs and promotions.

Austrian football history has centred primarily on Vienna and its three clubs, Rapid, Austria and Admira. But in the meantime football “Made in Austria” has taken on a new definition. Fans out in the sticks have made a “super find” in the past few years. FC Superfund Pasching got its name, which can be roughly translated as “FC Super Find Pasching”, from a sponsor and the club now belongs to the nation’s football establishment.

A journey through the club’s chronicles reveals the dynamic development from a provincial team to that of a top club in the Alpine country. Just 27 people attended the inaugural meeting on 15 June 1946 where a senior local council member, Georg Böhm, was elected chairman. 

Back in the days when ATSV Pasching was being founded in the "Emhofer" inn, the Pasching community numbered just 1700, lots of farmers and farm workers and a few small and middle sized businesses.

The club had to start by leasing a field as it needed its own pitch. As the playing area was on the small side, it was immediately feared by many of the visiting teams. The local council added a 6 x 2.5 m garden hut, which served as the changing rooms.

The first friendly game was played on 31 March 1946 against Leonding and ended in a 6:4 home win. A 11,000m² plot of land next to the school in Langholzfeld was rented by the council only in 1960 as the site for a proper stadium, which ultimately took three years to build.

Footballwise, there were some ups and downs in the years between playing in the district league – the so-called “Bezirksliga” – in 1976 and the Regionalliga in 1999 or rather  promotion two years later to Division 1. But, the general direction was upwards.

Proof of the continual upward progress: the new stadium – the “Waldstadion” – was built between 1988 and 1990 and then officially opened on 27 Mai 1990. Floodlights were installed at a later date. There were now seats for 8000 fans at domestic games and about 5000 for international competitions. The club was increasingly becoming a part of the national spotlight.

The dream was slowly becoming reality: the small suburban club coached by Georg Zellhofer gained promotion to Austria’s premier division. Going up as champions from Division 1, SV PlusCity Pasching hopes were basically concerned with staying in the T-Mobile-Bundesliga. In fact, they were second for the most part of the season and finally landed up fifth. It was some achievement for the team from the outskirts of Linz.

Selected by the national coach, Hans Krankl, the pros Volkan Kahraman (went later to Austria Vienna), Helmut Riegler and Bozo Kovacevic were the first Pasching players to be called up for international duty. In addition, the club bought the goal-getters Christian Mayrleb and Markus Kiesenebner from Austria Vienna.

At the same time as the club was being given a new name they were also reaching a higher plane. On 21 July 2003, SV PlusCity Pasching under the President Franz Grad was turned into FC Superfund. The explanation: Superfund is the name of a range of products belonging to the hedge fund investment company, Quadriga.

The premiere on the European stage followed in summer 2003 in the UI-Cup (UEFA-Intertoto-Cup). The club started off by beating Wit Georgia, Pobeda and Tobol, all unknown clubs from Eastern Europe. But when winning 4-0 and drawing 1-1 against the German Bundesliga team Werder Bremen, the Austrians made the team from the far north of Germany look fools and they made themselves instantly known all over the continent.

An impressive 0-0 and 0-2 against the German Bundesliga team Schalke 04 in the next UI Cup round brought FC Superfund even more attention. Pasching’s forward, Eduard “Edi” Glieder, gained special fame. So much so that he joined Schalke after the two encounters. However, the striker did not have much luck there under the then coach, Jupp Heynckes, and returned disappointed to the team in the province after just over a year.

In the meantime, the team coached by Georg Zellhofer, Leo Lainer and Maximilian Eisenböck is one of the three leading clubs in Austria’s top league. Zellhofer deserves special mention after guiding the club from the depths of amateur football right up to the Bundesliga. The manager now has a handshake agreement until 2007. “The president has assured me that I’ll be free to leave if I get a lucrative offer either from abroad or from a top club in Austria. They won’t put any obstacles in my way should Real Madrid get in touch with me,” said Zellhofer when explaining he had a contractual clause allowing him to move.

After all, Toni Polster, the executive manager at Austria Vienna, has already tried once in January 2005 to tempt the coach away from the “black and greens”. What’s also remarkable about the third placed team in the 2003/4 championship is the fact that the club has only four foreign players in the squad – defenders Tomasz Wisio from Poland and Fausto Budicin (Croatia), the Czech midfielder Patrik Jezek plus the striker, Nino Bule (Croatia). Pasching pins its faith first and foremost in players from their own country.

FCS were knocked out in the early stages of the 2004/2005 UEFA Cup, albeit somewhat unluckily. In the second qualifying round Pasching lost on the away goals rule to Zenit Petersburg (3:1, 0:2). But it’s just a small blot on their reputation. One thing’s for certain: Rapid and Austria from Vienna still have to be afraid of the “super finders” from Pasching. The suburban club now has its sights set on winning the championship.