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 name	Sportklub Rapid Wien
Founded	1899
Ground	Allianz Stadion
Capacity	28,345
Chairman	Martin Bruckner
Manager	Ferdinand Feldhofer
League	Austrian Bundesliga
2022-23	4th

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

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 4 MF  Austria Patrick Greil 5 MF  Austria Roman Kerschbaum 6 DF  Netherlands Neraysho Kasanwirjo 7 FW  Austria Oliver Strunz 8 MF  Austria Lukas Grgic 9 FW  Austria Guido Burgstaller 10 FW  Germany Nicolas Kühn 13 DF  Austria Thorsten Schick 14 DF  Serbia Aleksa Pejic 15 DF  Netherlands Terence Kongolo 16 FW  Barbados Thierry Gale 17 FW  France Fally Mayulu 18 MF  Austria Matthias Seidl 19 DF  Austria Michael Sollbauer 20 DF  Austria Maximilian Hofmann

No. Pos. Nation Player 21 GK  Austria Bernhard Unger 23 DF  Austria Jonas Auer 24 MF  Germany Dennis Kaygin 25 GK  Austria Paul Gartler 26 DF  Austria Martin Moormann 27 FW  Austria Marco Grüll 28 MF  Austria Moritz Oswald 29 FW  Austria Ante Bajic 30 MF  Austria Nicolas Bajlicz 34 MF  Austria Nicolas Sattlberger 43 DF  Austria Leopold Querfeld 45 GK  Austria Niclas Hedl 49 FW  Austria Jovan Zivkovic 50 GK  Austria Laurenz Orgler 55 DF  Serbia Nenad Cvetkovic

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  Netherlands Ferdy Druijf (at PEC Zwolle until 30 June 2024) — FW  Austria Bernhard Zimmermann (at Wolfsberger AC until 30 June 2024) — DF  Austria Pascal Fallmann (at SC Freiburg II until 30 June 2024)

Coaching history (21st century)

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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

• Josef Bican
• Franz Binder
• Robert Dienst
• Ernst Dokupil
• Toni Fritsch ^[4]
• Gerhard Hanappi^[5]
• Ernst Happel ^[6]
• Andreas Herzog
• Josef Hickersberger
• Alfred Körner
• Robert Körner
• Hans Krankl^[7]
• Max Merkel
• Erich Probst
• Karl Rappan^[8]
• Josef Uridil
• Walter Zeman
• Zlatko Kranjčar^[9]
• Antonín Panenka

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

• Austrian Supercup: 1986, 1987, 1988, 2008 (Unofficial edition)

• 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

Gallery

• 
  First Squad 2010/11
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  Steffen Hofmann celebrating the last championship 2008
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  Supporters of SK Rapid
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  Rudolf Edlinger former chairman