SK Rapid Wien

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
Capacity28,345
ChairmanMartin Bruckner
ManagerFerdinand Feldhofer
LeagueAustrian Bundesliga
2020-21Austrian Bundesliga, 2nd

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 December 2021

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
5 MF  Austria Roman Kerschbaum
6 DF  Austria Kevin Wimmer
7 MF  Germany Nicolas Kühn
8 MF  Austria Christoph Knasmüllner
9 FW  Austria Guido Burgstaller
13 MF  Austria Thorsten Schick
14 MF  Serbia Aleksa Pejić
16 MF  Slovenia Dejan Petrovič
17 DF  Austria Christopher Dibon
18 FW  Austria Oliver Strunz
19 DF  Austria Michael Sollbauer
20 DF  Austria Maximilian Hofmann
21 GK  Austria Bernhard Unger
22 DF  Slovakia Martin Koscelník
23 MF  Austria Jonas Auer
24 MF  Austria Patrick Greil
25 GK  Austria Paul Gartler
26 DF  Austria Martin Moormann
No. Pos. Nation Player
27 FW  Austria Marco Grüll
28 MF  Austria Moritz Oswald
29 FW  Austria Ante Bajic
30 DF  Austria Leo Greiml
31 DF  Austria Maximilian Ullmann
33 DF  Austria Marko Dijakovic
34 MF  Austria Nicolas Sattlberger
35 FW  Austria Nicolas Binder
36 DF  Austria Aristot Tambwe-Kasengele
37 DF  Austria Pascal Fallmann
38 FW  Netherlands Ferdy Druijf
39 FW  Austria René Kriwak
41 FW  Austria Bernhard Zimmermann
42 FW  Austria Lion Schuster
43 DF  Austria Leopold Querfeld
45 GK  Austria Niclas Hedl
77 FW  Austria Dragoljub Savić

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— FW  Austria Paul Gobara (at SV Horn until 30 June 2022)

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 Ferdinand Feldhofer

Famous players

Honours
  • National Austrian Championship (16): 1951, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1964, 1967, 1968, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1986–87, 1987–88, 1995–96, 2004–05, 2007–08
  • Viennese Championship (16): 1912, 1913, 1916, 1917, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1923, 1929, 1930, 1935, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1946, 1948 [10]
  • Austrian Cup (14): 1919, 1920, 1927, 1946, 1961, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1976, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1995
  • German War-time Championship: 1941
  • German War-time Cup: 1938
  • Mitropa Cup: 1930, 1951
  • Intertoto Cup: 1992, 1993
  • Cup Winners' Cup Runners Up: 1985, 1996
  • First Squad 2010/11
  • Steffen Hofmann celebrating the last championship 2008
  • Supporters of SK Rapid
  • Rudolf Edlinger chairman

References
  1. IFFHS Mitropacup 1930
  2. UEFA:Championsleague 2005/06
  3. 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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