SK Rapid Wien

austrian professional football club

football club
Sportklub Rapid Wien ( german pronunciation : [ ʁaˈpiːt ˈviːn ] ), normally known as Rapid Vienna, is an austrian football baseball club playing in the area ‘s capital city of Vienna. Rapid has won the most austrian backing titles ( 32 ), including the foremost title in the season 1911–12, ampere well as a german backing in 1941 during nazi govern. Rapid doubly reached the final examination of the european Cup Winners ‘ Cup in 1985 and 1996, losing on both occasions. The club is often known as Die Grün-Weißen ( The Green-Whites ) for its team colors or as Hütteldorfer, in address to the localization of the Gerhard Hanappi Stadium, which is in Hütteldorf, part of the city ‘s 14th zone in Penzing.

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history [edit ]

The 1. Arbeiter FC in 1898 The club was founded in 1897 as Erster Wiener Arbeiter-Fußball-Club ( First Viennese Workers ‘ Football Club ). The team ‘s original colours were bolshevik and blue, which are still frequently used in away matches. On 8 January 1899, the club was renamed, taking on its confront name of Sportklub Rapid Wien, following the case of Rapide Berlin. In 1904, the team discolor were changed to green and white. The club won Austria ‘s first ever home championship in 1911–12 by a unmarried orient, [ 1 ] and retained the championship the follow season. [ 2 ]
diachronic chart of Rapid Wien league operation

Between World Wars [edit ]

rapid became a dominant force during the years between the worldly concern wars, an earned run average in which Austria was one of the leading football nations on the continent. It won its first hat-trick of titles from 1919 to 1921. [ 3 ] After the annexation of Austria to Germany in 1938, Rapid joined the german football system, playing in the regional first part Gauliga Ostmark along with clubs such as Wacker Wien and Admira Vienna. Rapid would be the most successful of these clubs. They won the Tschammerpokal, predecessor of today ‘s DFB-Pokal, in 1938 with a 3–1 victory over FSV Frankfurt, and followed that with a german backing in 1941 by defeating Schalke 04, the most dominant german club of the era. The team was able to overcome a 3–0 Schalke lead to win the match 4–3 .

Post-World War II [edit ]

As the winners of the 1954–55 season, Rapid were Austria ‘s entrant for the inauguration european Cup in the succeed temper. They were drawn in the first gear polish against PSV and opened with a 6–1 home victory, with Alfred Körner scoring a hat-trick. Despite losing the away leg 1–0, the club still advanced to a quarter-final, where they started with a 1–1 home draw against Milan before being defeated 7–2 in the away match at the San Siro to lose 8–3 on aggregate. [ 4 ] Rapid ‘s best performance in the european Cup came in the 1960–61 season when they reached the semi-final before being eliminated by eventual winners Benfica, 4–1 on aggregate. previously, in the quarter-final the club required a play back to eliminate east german club Aue from the tournament after a 3–3 sum draw. The away goals rule would have seen Aue advance without needing the replay, held at the St Jakob Park in neutral Basel. [ 5 ] The clubhouse was involved in a controversial episode in 1984 when they eliminated Celtic from the last 16 of the european Cup Winners ‘ Cup. Celtic were leading 4–3 on aggregate with 14 minutes left in the match when Rapid conceded a penalty. As the Rapid players protested to the match officials, their defender Rudolf Weinhofer then fell to the ground and claimed to have been hit by a bottle throw from the stands. however, television images clearly showed that a bottle was thrown onto the pitch and did not hit Weinhofer. The match finished 4–3, but Rapid appealed to UEFA for a replay, and both teams were fined. The replay appeal was turned down initially, but Rapid appealed for a second meter. On this occasion, Rapid ‘s fine was doubled but UEFA besides stipulated the match be replayed 160 kilometres ( 100 nautical mile ) from Celtic ‘s crunch. The game was held on 12 December 1984 at Old Trafford, Manchester, and Rapid won 1–0 through a Peter Pacult mint. Rapid reached its first european final in 1985, losing 3–1 in the Cup Winners ‘ Cup Final to Everton in Rotterdam. Eleven years late, in the lapp tournament ‘s final examination in Brussels, Rapid lost 1–0 to Paris Saint-Germain. [ 6 ] Rapid last reached the group degree of the UEFA Champions League in 2005–06 after beating F91 Dudelange of Luxembourg 9–3 on aggregate and then defeating Lokomotiv Moscow 2–1 on aggregate in a play-off after a 1–0 victory in Russia. They finally finished concluding in their group after losing all of their matches against Bayern Munich, Juventus and Club Brugge. [ 7 ] In 2015, the Rapid youth team took partially [ 8 ] in the one-third season of the Football for Friendship international children ‘s sociable program, the final events of which were held in Berlin. [ 9 ]

club polish [edit ]

rapid Viertelstunde [edit ]

about since the club ‘s beginnings, Rapid fans have announced the last 15 minutes of the match by way of the traditional “ Rapid-Viertelstunde ” – rhythmical applaud at home or away careless of the score. The first mention of the practice goes back to 1913, and on 21 April 1918 a newspaper wrote about the fans clapping at the beginning of the “ Rapid-Viertelstunde ”. Over the decades, there have been many instances where the team managed to turn around a fall back position by not giving up and, with their fans ‘ subscribe, fighting their way to a succeed just before the final whistle .

Fans [edit ]

Friendship corner in the Fan Shop of the 1. FC Nürnberg with trikots of Rapid Wien. The biggest fan club is Ultras Rapid, which was founded in 1988. other crucial fan clubs are the ultras group Tornados Rapid and Spirits Rapid and the bully tauten Alte Garde Dritte Halbzeit. The active supporters are situated in the Block West stall, which has a capacity of 8,500 spectators. The old Block West in the immediately demolished Gerhard-Hanappi-Stadion had about 2,700 seats. The fan-base of Rapid is connected, in a friendly way, with the supporters of the german club Nürnberg, the croatian baseball club Dinamo Zagreb, the italian baseball club Venezia, the hungarian club Ferencváros and the greek club Panathinaikos. As Rapid, Ferencváros and Panathinaikos besides play in green the alliance is nicknamed the “ k Brothers ”

stadium [edit ]

rapid played at the Gerhard Hanappi Stadium – which was opened on 10 May 1977 with a Wiener bowler hat match against Austria Wien – until the 2013–14 temper. The stadium bore the mention of its architect Gerhard Hanappi, who besides played for Rapid from 1950 to 1965. Prior to 1980, when it was renamed in his award, it was known as the Weststadion ( Western Stadium ), due to its geographic placement in the city. In June 2014, it was announced that a new stadium, the Allianz Stadion, will be built in place of the old Gerhard Hanappi Stadium. [ 10 ] During its construction, Rapid played its home games in the Ernst Happel Stadion .

Wiener Derby [edit ]

A 2010 Wien bowler hat meet between Rapid Wien and Austria Wien

Honours [edit ]

domestic [edit ]

rapid Wien is Austria ‘s record titleholder, lifting the trophy a total of 32 times, and the club besides won a german backing and german Cup while partially of that state ‘s football contest from 1938 to 1945 following the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938. Austrian Championship
Austrian Cup
Austrian Supercup

Champions (3): 1986, 1987, 1988

German Championship
German Cup

Continental [edit ]

Mitropa Cup:

Champions (2): 1930, 1951

Cup Winners’ Cup

current team [edit ]

As of 31 August 2021

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

Out on loanword [edit ]