SK Rapid Wien

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S.K. Rapid Wien is an Austrian football club. Rapid Wien was founded in 1898 and is one of the major clubs in Austria. The club plays in Vienna. Rapid is Austria's most successful team with 32 championships wins. Rapid also won a German title in 1941 when the country was part of Germany.

Rapid Wien
Full nameSportklub Rapid Wien
Founded1899
GroundAllianz Stadion
(capacity: 28,345)
ChairmanMartin Bruckner
ManagerFerdinand Feldhofer
LeagueAustrian Bundesliga
2022-234th

History

 
The 1. Arbeiter FC in 1898

The club was founded in 1898 as First Workers' Football Club of Vienna but was renamed in S(port) K(lub) Rapid Wien on 8 January 1899. The first coulors were red and white. The teams uses these colours in away matches today.

During the years before World War II, Rapid was one of the most successful clubs in Europe. Before the Second World War, Rapid won the Viennese championship 16 times. In these years there was no nationwide championship because professional football teams only played in Vienna. In 1930 Rapid won the Mitropacup against Sparta Praha (2:0; 3:2) (La Coupe de l'Europe Centrale), one of the first international competitions in Europe.[1] Around this time, the rivalry with the other great club of Vienna, FK Austria, started and continues today. Rapid was the club of the working class, while supporters of FK Austria were more middle class. After the annexation of Austria through Nazi-Germany in 1938 Rapid played in the Gauliga Ostmark. Rapid won the Tschammerpokal (Cup) in 1938 with a 3–1 victory over FSV Frankfurt. 1941 they won the Championship versus Schalke 04 (4-3).

 
Supporters of SK Rapid during an awaymatch in Salzburg

Almost since the beginning of the club's history, the fans announce the last 15 minutes with clapping of their hands, the "Rapidviertelstunde".

 
Hanappi-Stadium, named after the architect and former player of Rapid Gerhard Hanappi- former homeground of SK Rapid
 
Allianz Stadion new homeground of SK Rapid build 2014-16 on the ground of the Hanappistadion

SK Rapid only won the Austrian championship twice since 2000. The greatest success in recent years was the victory over the Premier League club Aston Villa in the last qualifying round for the UEFA Europa League 2009 and 2010. They played in the group stage twice, but they did not reach the next round. Rapid last reached the group stage of the UEFA Champions League in 2005–06. They finished last in their group and lost all their matches. [2]

Current squad

As of 28 October 2023
No. Position Player
4   MF Patrick Greil
5   MF Roman Kerschbaum
6   DF Neraysho Kasanwirjo
7   FW Oliver Strunz
8   MF Lukas Grgic
9   FW Guido Burgstaller
10   FW Nicolas Kühn
13   DF Thorsten Schick
14   DF Aleksa Pejic
15   DF Terence Kongolo
16   FW Thierry Gale
17   FW Fally Mayulu
18   MF Matthias Seidl
19   DF Michael Sollbauer
20   DF Maximilian Hofmann
No. Position Player
21   GK Bernhard Unger
23   DF Jonas Auer
24   MF Dennis Kaygin
25   GK Paul Gartler
26   DF Martin Moormann
27   FW Marco Grüll
28   MF Moritz Oswald
29   FW Ante Bajic
30   MF Nicolas Bajlicz
34   MF Nicolas Sattlberger
43   DF Leopold Querfeld
45   GK Niclas Hedl
49   FW Jovan Zivkovic
50   GK Laurenz Orgler
55   DF Nenad Cvetkovic

Out on loan

No. Position Player
  FW Ferdy Druijf (at PEC Zwolle until 30 June 2024)
  FW Bernhard Zimmermann (at Wolfsberger AC until 30 June 2024)
  DF Pascal Fallmann (at SC Freiburg II until 30 June 2024)

Coaching history (21st century)

[3]

Start End Coach
4/1998 5/2000   Heribert Weber
5/2000 8/2001   Ernst Dokupil
8/2001 9/2001   Peter Persidis
9/2001 5/2002   Lothar Matthäus
7/2002 12/2005   Josef Hickersberger
1/2006 8/2006   Georg Zellhofer
8/2006 9/2009   Roman Pivarník
9/2006 4/2011   Peter Pacult
4/2011 6/2011   Zoran Barisic
7/2011 4/2013   Peter Schöttel
4/2013 6/2016   Zoran Barisic
7/2016 11/2016   Mike Büskens
11/2016 11/2016   Thomas Hickersberger
11/2016 4/2017   Damir Canadi
4/2017 9/2018   Goran Djuricin
10/2018 11/2020   Dietmar Kühbauer
11/2020 11/2020   Manfred Nastl
11/2020 11/2021   Dietmar Kühbauer
11/2021 11/2021   Thomas Hickersberger
11/2021 10/22   Ferdinand Feldhofer
10/22   Zoran Barisic

Famous players

Honours

  • Viennese Championship (16): 1912, 1913, 1916, 1917, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1923, 1929, 1930, 1935, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1946, 1948 [10]

Gallery

SK Rapid Wien Media


References

  1. IFFHS Mitropacup 1930
  2. UEFA:Championsleague 2005/06
  3. [1] weltfussball.de. Retrieved 8 February 2022 (in German)
  4. later playing in the American Footbal League
  5. later architect, he designed the homeground of Rapid which is named after him
  6. later coach of the dutch national footballteam
  7. best scorer of Europe, later playing for CF Barcelona
  8. introduced the International Football Cup (now UEFA Intertoto Cup)
  9. later manager of Croatia (2004-2006) and Montenegro (2010- )
  10. Before the Second World war professional football was only played in Vienna.