SK Rapid Wien

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Rapid Wien

Full name

SK Rapid Wien

Nickname(s)

Die Grün-Weißen
(The Green-Whites),
Hütteldorfer

Founded

1899

Ground

Gerhard Hanappi Stadium

Capacity

18,500

Chairman

Rudolf Edlinger

Manager

Peter Pacult

League

Austrian Bundesliga

2005-06

Austrian Bundesliga, 5th





Home colours





Away colours

The Sportklub Rapid Wien or SK Rapid Wien is one of the two big football teams in Vienna. The second team, Rapid's eternal rival, is FK Austria Wien. The Rapid squad is often known as the "Green-Whites" (those being the team's colours) or as Hütteldorfer for the location of the Gerhard Hanappi Stadium, which is located in Hütteldorf, part of Vienna's Penzing or 14th District. Rapid has a nationwide fanbase and is clearly the country's most popular football club.

1 History
2 Stadium
3 Honours
4 Current squad
5 Notable players
6 Managers since 1910
7 Team trivia
8 Competitions
9 See also
10 External links

[edit] History

SK Rapid Wien was founded in 1898 as Erster Wiener Arbeiter-Fußball-Club (First Workers' Football Club of Vienna). The team's original colors were red and blue and sometimes they are still used in away matches today. On January 8, 1899 the club was re-named, taking on its present name of Sportklub Rapid Wien (Sport Club Rapid Vienna), following the example of Rapide Berlin. In 1904, the team colors 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 and Admira Vienna (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 Championship 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 the club'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 fan's 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 FK Austria Magna 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.

[edit] Stadium

SK Rapid Wien's stadium is Gerhard Hanappi Stadium, which is located in Hütteldorf, part of the Penzing district of Vienna. In its earliest days Rapid played on a military exercise field, until the opening of a new stadium in Rudolfsheim in 1903. But the field there was unsuitable because it was sloped, and with the club's rising popularity, a new stadium was needed: in 1912, the legendary "Pfarrwiese" was built, just in time for the first Austrian Championship. In 1977, Rapid moved to the new "West-Stadion", which was later renamed Gerhard Hanappi-Stadion after its architect and popular and successful former Rapid player Gerhard Hanappi.

[edit] Honours

Rapid Vienna is also Austria's record titleholder, winning the Austrian Championship title 31 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 synomymous with Austrian football at that time.

Austrian Championship (31): 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

Austrian Cup (14): 1919, 1920, 1927, 1946, 1961, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1976, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1995

Austrian Supercup: 1986, 1987, 1988

German Championship: 1941

German Cup: 1938

Mitropa Cup: 1930, 1951

Cup Winners' Cup Runners Up: 1985, 1996

[edit] Current squad

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Raimund Hedl
2	MF	Gernot Plassnegger
3	DF	Thomas Burgstaller
4	DF	Martin Hiden
6	MF	Christian Thonhofer
7	MF	Peter Hlinka
8	MF	Petr Vorisek
9	FW	Mate Bilic
10	MF	Mario Bazina
11	MF	Steffen Hofmann
13	DF	Markus Katzer
14	MF	Ümit Korkmaz

No.	Position	Player
15	MF	Stefan Kulovits
16	MF	Mario Sara
17	MF	Veli Kavlak
19	MF	Matthias Dollinger
21	FW	Erwin Hoffer
22	DF	Radek Bejbl
23	DF	Andreas Dober
24	GK	Helge Payer
25	FW	Marek Kincl
26	DF	Jozef Valachovic
28	MF	Cemil Tosun
30	GK	Andreas Lukse

[edit] Notable players

Hans Pesser
Gerhard Hanappi
Hans Krankl
Franz Binder
Carsten Jancker
Dietmar Kühbauer
Andreas Herzog
Trifon Ivanov
Peter Schöttel
Ernst Happel
Michael Konsel
Andreas Ivanschitz
Dejan Savićević
Josef Uridil
Antonin Panenka
Gerhard Rodax
Toni Fritsch
Max Merkel
Walter Skocik
Walter Zemann
Robert Körner
Anton Körner
Franz Wagner
Heribert Weber
Reinhard Kienast
Wolfgang Kienast
Leopold Lainer
Herbert Feurer
Michael Hatz
Gaston Taument

[edit] Managers since 1910

Dionys Schönecker 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 1968 - 1970
Karl Rappan 1969 - 1970
Gerd Springer 1970 - 1972
Robert Körner 1972
Ernst Hlozek 1972 - 1975
Josef Pecanka 1975
Franz Binder/R. Körner 1975 - 1976
Anton 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 - 2006
Peter Pacult 2006 - now

[edit] Team trivia

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

[edit] Competitions

T-Mobile Bundesliga, 2006-07
SCR Altach \| Austria Vienna \| Grazer AK \| Mattersburg \| Pasching \| Rapid Vienna \| Red Bull Salzburg \| Ried \| Sturm Graz \| Wacker Tirol edit

[edit] See also

Football in Austria
Football Association • National team • Bundesliga • First Division • Regional Leagues (East • Central • West) • Landesliga • Austrian Cup • Supercup • Clubs • Champions • Footballers • Managers • Stadiums • Derbies