First Vienna FC

First Vienna
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Full name	First Vienna Football Club 1894
Founded	22 August 1894
Ground	Hohe Warte Stadium; (capacity: 5,000)
Manager	Alexander Zellhofer
League	Second league
2022-23	7th

First Vienna F.C. 1894 is a football club that plays in Austria. The club, which was founded in 1894, is the oldest one in Austria and played an important part in Austria's football history.^[1] To an Austrian, the club is usually just called Vienna.

History

First Vienna FC 1899

The club started with English and Austrian gardeners of Nathaniel Anselm von Rothschild who were playing on his grounds. To avoid damages, Rothschild gave them a ground and yellow-blue skirts. The yellow and blue colour is still used today.The team played its first match on 15 November 1894 against the Vienna Cricket and Football club, and lost 4-0. The great years of Vienna were the 1920´s and 1930´s. From 1938 to 1945, when Austria was occupied by Nazi Germany, Vienna was part of the Gauliga Ostmark and won the German Cup in 1943. In the 1940´s and 1950´s, Vienna was mainly in the middle area of the table.^[2] In the 1980´s, the club played in the first league sometimes, and sometimes in the second. In 1992 they were sent down.

The 2013/14 season was a disaster for Vienna, finishing last. The club's license for the 2014/15 season in professional football was also denied. From the 2014/15 season, Vienna had to play in the Regionalliga Ost again.

2017 Vienna was declared bankrupt due to the insolvency of the main sponsor Care-Energy. Altough they won the Regionalliga Ost in the same year promotion was denied. Vienna was transferred to the fifth division by court order. In the 2018/19 season, Vienna played in the 2. Landesliga Wien, the fifth level of the Austrian league system. 2018-19 Vienna finished top with 78 points from 30 games and was promoted to the fourth division, the Wiener Stadtliga. In the league they were on the top position when the league was stopped due to COVID 19 outbreak. In the 2020-21 season they finished top and were promoted to Regionalliga East (3rd level). In the 2021-22 season they won the Regionalliga Ost and came back to professional football. They were promoted to Second league.^[3]

Stadium

Hohe Warte (2005)

The home-ground of the Vienna is the Hohe Warte Stadium. Built in 1924, it is one of the oldest still in use. In the 1920´s and 1930´s it was where matches of the Austrian national team were played. 85,000 people visited the match against Italy in 1923. The ground is in Viennas Döbling district and is constructed on the side of a hill, which makes a natural amphitheatre.

Current squad

As of 4 August, 2023

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Andreas Lukse
4	MF	Daniel Luxbacher
5	DF	Noah Steiner
6	MF	Mohamed Sanogo
7	FW	Christoph Monschein
8	MF	Bernhard Luxbacher
9	FW	David Peham
10	MF	Philipp Ochs
11	MF	Čedomir Bumbić
12	MF	Marcel Tanzmayr
13	DF	Anes Omerovic
14	FW	Kelvin Boateng
15	DF	Thomas Kreuzhuber

No.	Position	Player
18	FW	Nicholas Wunsch
24	DF	Kerim Abazovic
25	DF	Jürgen Bauer
27	MF	Dalibor Velimirovic
28	MF	Kai Stratznig
29	DF	Raphael Strasser
31	DF	Razvan Boca
33	GK	Marcel Ecker
40	DF	Marvin Schuster
41	GK	Christopher Giuliani
70	FW	Nils Zatl
77	FW	Luca Edelhofer