Some information about GAK in English from their website:
Founded in 1902, GAK (Grazer Athletic Sports Club) is one of the oldest Football Clubs in the province of Styria and, together with the Viennese clubs Rapid and Austria Vienna, SV Salzburg, Innsbruck, LASK and our local Rivals SK Sturm Graz, one of the traditional Clubs in Austria. In the 102nd year GAK has now reached the top level in the club's history by winning the Austrian Championship for the first and the Austrian Cup Trophy for the 4th time.
GAK was founded on August 18th 1902, the time soccer became popular in Austria even outside Vienna, by a group of students. Looking at the teams currently competing in the Austrian Bundesliga only Rapid Wien has got a longer club history. From the beginning the team colours were red and white. The club has always been located in the north of Graz where also the new training grounds are being built at the moment. At the beginning of the last century GAK was the leading team in Styria, and during this years also the rivalary with SK Sturm (founded 1909) emerged. GAK won the Styrian Championship 9 times in a row between 1924 and 1932. (There was no Austrian League before the second world war, but only leagues of the single provinces with the Viennese League as the only professional one.)
From 1951 on GAK was an important member of the Austrian League, winning the Austrian Cup Trophy in 1981, the first title won by a Styrian team. The club had to go down into second league two times: Relegated in 1974, when the league was reduced from 16 to 10 teams, the team with the club's current chairman Rudi Roth as goalkeeper, won promotion again immediately. The second time in League 2 lasted from 1990 to 1995. From then on, the club has been in permanent progress. Qualifying for the European Cups in 9 out of 10 seasons, celebrating the 100th anniversary with a game against Real Madrid, gaining respect in Europe with great performances against Inter Milano and Ajax Amsterdam, winning the Cup Title three more times in 2000, 2002 and 2004 - the last ten years were definitely the most successful ones in GAK's history. And this was all topped by the first Austrian Championship in 2004, the title so many people were waiting for years or even centuries.
The club is now led by styrian businessman and former goalkeeper Rudi Roth. Our home games are helt at Arnold-Schwarzenegger-Stadium. The average attendance reached more than 9.000 last season, which is second best in the league and the highest number in the club's history. Still the team is supported by people mostly from Graz and Styria, gaining more and more sympathy in other parts of Austria.
The team is now built by mostly Austrian players, many of them members of the national team, and some of the best foreigners currently playing in the Austrian league. Mario Tokic was a member of the Croatian team in the Euro 2004, goalkeeper Andreas Schranz, defenders Anton Ehmann, Joachim Standfest and Emanuel Pogatetz (on loan from Leverkusen), midfielders Rene Aufhauser, Martin Amerhauser and Matthias Dollinger as well as striker Roland Kollmann, the league's topscorer with 27 goals in 2003/04, have played for Austria in 2004. For the oncoming season the club signed Bosnian international Alen Skoro from FC Sarajevo and Austrian Gernot Plassnegger from Hansa Rostock. The team is coached by Walter Schachner, who has been one of the most successful Austrian players in the seventies and eighties, playing for several teams in Italian Serie A as well as for the National Team. He is now the highest rated Austrian coach, having already worked at FC Kärnten, where he won promotion to the first league, and Austria Vienna. There he had to leave when the club signed Christoph Daum as their new coach in autumn 2002. Schachner soon joined GAK, then in relegation struggle, and led the team to the second place in the league. In his second season in Graz GAK showed a great performance in the third qualification round of Champions League, losing against Ajax Amsterdam only in overtime. (Both games ended 1:1.) But the team recovered from this disappointment, just to get a new chance to qualify by winning the Double in 2003/04.