Current trend shows:

Alarm! Many soccer clubs are running out of players

More and more amateur clubs have fewer and fewer players.(Bild: USC Flachau)

This development is worrying everyone in soccer: in the Upper Austrian amateur leagues, there will be seven more clubs from the summer than in the previous season - making a total of 33: and the trend is rising!

When soccer becomes a puzzle! Which Upper Austrian champions are we talking about that a major online platform has listed as "SPG W/K/L" at the top of the 2nd division North-Central table?

 The Weitersfelden/Kaltenberg/Liebenau playing community!

 "We are the oldest SPG in the whole of Upper Austria - the two-team combination of Weitersfelden/Kaltenberg has been around since 1992," says Klaus Preining, one of the three chairmen.

But abbreviations such as "SPG W/K/L" could become even more common: Starting in the fall, there will be seven more clubs in Upper Austria than in the spring - making a total of 33. Who are the new ones?

• Edelweiss Linz/ASKÖ Neue Heimat.

• Union Esternberg/St. Roman.

• Munderfing/Pfaffstätt.

• Peilstein/Oepping.

• Schalchen/Mattighofen.

• Stahl Linz/Ebelsberg.

• Windischgarsten/Spital.

"The trend is that there are more new clubs than ever before - but at least these syndicates offer the clubs the opportunity to continue playing," says OÖFV Director Raphael Oberndorfinger about the trend, which shows that football is slowly running out! Soccer is slowly running out of kickers!