SK Rapid Wien

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The Sportklub Rapid Wien is an Austrian football (soccer) :Category:Austrian football clubs playing in the country's capital city of Vienna. It is one of the two best known sides in Vienna, the other being Rapid's eternal rival, FK Austria Wien. The Rapid squad is often known as the "Green-Whites" for its team colours or as Hütteldorfer for the location of the Gerhard Hanappi Stadium, which is in Hütteldorf, part of the city's 14th district, Penzing (Vienna). In English language, they are referred to as Rapid Vienna.

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History

SK Rapid Wien was founded in 1898 as Erster Wiener Arbeiter-Fußball-Club (en:First Workers' Football Club of Vienna). The team's original colours were red and blue, which are still often used in away matches. On January 8 1899 SK Rapid Wien was re-named, taking on its present name of Sportklub Rapid Wien, following the example of SV Nord Wedding. In 1904, SK Rapid Wien colours were changed to green and white.
One of the best teams in early European football, Rapid became a dominant side during the years between the world wars, when Austria was one of the leading football nations on the continent. After the Anschluss of Austria to Germany in 1938, Rapid played in that country's Gauliga Ostmark along with clubs such as First Vienna FC and VfB Admira Wacker Mödling (playing then as Wacker Wien and Admira Wien). Rapid would be the most successful of these clubs. They won the Tschammerpokal, predecessor of today's German Cup, in 1938 with a 3–1 victory over FSV Frankfurt, and topped that with a German champions (football) 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 by a final score of 4–3 through strength and endurance – the traditional virtues of Rapid players known as the Rapidgeist or "Rapid Spirit".

Almost since SK Rapid Wien's beginnings, Rapid fans have announced the last fifteen minutes of the game by way of the legendary "Rapidviertelstunde" – rhythmic clapping at home or away no matter what the score. The first mention of the practise goes back to 1913, and in 1919 a newspaper wrote about the fans clapping at the beginning of the "Rapidviertelstunde". Over the decades, there were many instances where Rapid managed to turn around a seemingly hopeless situation by not giving up and, with their fans' support, fighting their way to a win just before the final whistle.

Although Rapid is by far the most popular club in Austria, other teams like Red Bull Salzburg or FC Magna Wiener Neustadt are able to spend significantly more money every year as they are owned by investors/billionaires. Rapid is trying to compensate for this lack of financial funds by supporting young and talented players.

Rapid were involved in a controversial episode in 1984 when they eliminated Celtic F.C. from the European Cup Winners Cup last 16. With 10 mins left of the second-leg, Rapid were 3–0 down and facing an 4–3 aggregate defeat. Rapid's composure had gone altogether after a first-half blitz from Celtic and for most of the second-half, they had resorted to crude play and fouls in order to disrupt Celtic's rhythm. Then, after Reinhard Kienast conceded a penalty, giving Celtic a chance to move 4–0 up, (which they later missed when Peter Grant (footballer) struck the kick wide) Rapid defender Rudolf Weinhofer fell to the ground claiming he had been hit by a bottle thrown from the terracing. The match finished 3–0 and Rapid were knocked out. Despite TV evidence proving that Weinhofer was cheating and had not been hit by anything, Rapid twice appealed to UEFA for a replay, and got their wish. The replay was held at Old Trafford, Manchester, and Rapid won 1–0 through a Peter Pacult strike, although their players were subjected to physical attacks by the Celtic fans during the game.

Stadium

Rapid Wien now plays at the Gerhard Hanappi Stadium which was opened on 10 May 1977 in a game against FK Austria.

Honours

Rapid Vienna is also Austria's record titleholder when including Vienna-only titles and titles won in Germany during the time of the Third Reich, winning the Austrian champions (football) 32 times to date. Supporters of other teams sometimes argue that the 16 championship wins before the establishment of a nation wide all-Austrian league should not be counted. However, those titles are credited by most observers, since Viennese league play was virtually synonymous with Austrian football at that time. The wins of the German Championship and German Cup were possible due to Austria's annexation by Germany on March 12, 1938.

- Austrian Championship (32): 1912, 1913, 1916, 1917, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1923, 1929, 1930, 1935, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1946, 1948, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1964, 1967, 1968, 1982, 1983, 1987, 1988, 1996, 2005, 2008

- 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 Championship: 1941

- German Cup: 1938

- Mitropa Cup: 1930, 1951

- Intertoto Cup: 1992, 1993

- Cup Winners' Cup Runners Up: 1985, 1996

European records

As of December, 2008.

- A third match was played in Madrid.
- - Milan won the third playoff match in Zürich.
- - - Rapid won 1–0 in the playoff match in Basel.

As of July 4, 2009

Out on loan

Retired numbers

5 – Peter Schöttel

Notable players

- Franz Binder
- Robert Dienst
- Ernst Dokupil
- Herbert Feurer
- Toni Fritsch
- György Garics
- Gerhard Hanappi
- Ernst Happel
- Andreas Heraf
- Andreas Herzog
- Josef Hickersberger
- Martin Hiden
- Andreas Ivanschitz
- Reinhard Kienast
- Michael Konsel
- Alfred Körner
- Robert Körner
- Hans Krankl
- Dietmar Kühbauer
- Jürgen Macho
- Sebastián Martínez
- Max Merkel
- Peter Pacult
- Helge Payer
- Peter Persidis
- Heimo Pfeifenberger
- Erich Probst
- Karl Rappan
- Andreas Reisinger
- Gerhard Rodax
- Peter Schöttel
- August Starek
- Josef Uridil
- Heribert Weber
- Arnold Wetl
- Walter Zeman
- Steffen Hofmann
- Carsten Jancker
- Hossein Sadaghiani
- Farhad Majidi
- Jan Åge Fjørtoft
- Sulejman Halilović
- Zlatko Kranjčar
- Branko Bošković
- Dejan Savićević
- Mario Bazina
- Mario Tokić
- Ladislav Maier
- Antonín Panenka
- René Wagner
- Peter Hlinka
- Jozef Valachovič
- Trifon Ivanov
- Krzysztof Ratajczyk
- Axel Lawarée
- Gaston Taument
- Andreas Lagonikakis
- Hugo Maradona
- Hernán Medford
- Erwin Hoffer
- Veli Kavlak
- Ümit Korkmaz
1910–1925
- Stanley Willmott 1925–1926
- Edi Bauer 1926–1936
- Leopold Nitsch 1936–1945
- Hans Pesser 1945–1953
- Josef Uridil 1953–1954
- Viktor Hierländer 1954–1955
- Alois Beranek 1955–1956
- Franz Wagner 1956
- Max Merkel 1956–1958
- Rudolf Kumhofer 1958–1959
- Robert Körner 1959–1966
- Rudolf Vytlacil 1966–1968
- Karl Decker (footballer) 1968–1970
- Karl Rappan 1969–1970
- Gerd Springer 1970–1972
- Robert Körner 1972
- Ernst Hlozek 1972–1975
- Josef Pecanka 1975
- Franz Binder/Robert Körner 1975–1976
- Antoni Brzezanczyk 1976–1977
- Robert Körner 1977–1978
- Karl Schlechta 1978–1979
- Walter Skocik 1979–1982
- Otto Barić 1982–1985
- Vlatko Marković 1985–1986
- Otto Barić 1986–1989
- Hans Krankl 1989–1992
- August Starek 1992–1993
- Hubert Baumgartner 1993–1994
- Ernst Dokupil 1994–1998
- Heribert Weber 1998–2000
- Ernst Dokupil 2000–2001
- Peter Persidis 2001
- Lothar Matthäus 2001–2002
- Josef Hickersberger 2002–2005
- Georg Zellhofer 2006
- Peter Pacult 2006–
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Team trivia

- SK Rapid Wien won the German Championship in 1941 and the German Cup in 1938.

SK Rapid Wien II Squad

Austria Kärnten, FK Austria Wien, Kapfenberger SV, LASK Linz, SCR Altach, SK Rapid Wien, SK Sturm Graz, SV Mattersburg, SV Ried, SV Salzburg