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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)
ChairmanAlexander Wrabetz
ManagerPeter Stöger
LeagueAustrian Bundesliga
2024-255th

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

Out on loan

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

Coaching history (21st century)

[3]

Start End Coach
4/1998 5/2000 Austria Heribert Weber
5/2000 8/2001 Austria Ernst Dokupil
8/2001 9/2001 Austria Peter Persidis
9/2001 5/2002 Germany Lothar Matthäus
7/2002 12/2005 Austria Josef Hickersberger
1/2006 8/2006 Austria Georg Zellhofer
8/2006 9/2009 Slovakia Roman Pivarník
9/2006 4/2011 Austria Peter Pacult
4/2011 6/2011 Austria Zoran Barisic
7/2011 4/2013 Austria Peter Schöttel
4/2013 6/2016 Austria Zoran Barisic
7/2016 11/2016 Germany Mike Büskens
11/2016 11/2016 Austria Thomas Hickersberger
11/2016 4/2017 Austria Damir Canadi
4/2017 9/2018 Austria Goran Djuricin
10/2018 11/2020 Austria Dietmar Kühbauer
11/2020 11/2020 Austria Manfred Nastl
11/2020 11/2021 Austria Dietmar Kühbauer
11/2021 11/2021 Austria Thomas Hickersberger
11/2021 10/22 Austria Ferdinand Feldhofer
10/22 11/23 Austria Zoran Barisic
12/23 04/25 Germany Robert Klauß
04/25 06/25 Austria Stefan Kulovits
07/25 Austria Peter Stöger

Famous players

Honours

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

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Gallery

  • First Squad 2010/11

  • Steffen Hofmann celebrating the last championship 2008

  • Supporters of SK Rapid

  • Rudolf Edlinger former chairman

SK Rapid Wien Media

  • Historical chart of Rapid Wien league performance

  • Friendship corner in the Fan Shop of the 1. FC Nürnberg with trikots of Rapid Wien.

  • Allianz Stadion, Vienna, Austria

  • A 2010 Wien derby match between Rapid Wien and Austria Wien.


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.
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