SK Rapid Wien
| Full name | SK Rapid Wien | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | Die Grün-Weißen (The Green-Whites), Hütteldorfer |
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| Founded | 1898 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Gerhard Hanappi Stadium (Capacity: 18,400) |
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| Chairman | Rudolf Edlinger | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Peter Pacult | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Austrian Bundesliga | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007–08 | 1st | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Sportklub Rapid Wien (English: Rapid Vienna) is an Austrian football club 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. In English, 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 the club was re-named, taking on its present name of Sportklub Rapid Wien, following the example of Rapide Berlin. In 1904, the team 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 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 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 FK 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.
Rapid were involved in a controversial episode in 1984 when they eliminated Celtic 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 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 in 1977 on the 10th of May 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 Championship title 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
- German Championship: 1941
- German Cup: 1938
- Mitropa Cup: 1930, 1951
- Cup Winners' Cup Runners Up: 1985, 1996
European records
| Season | Competition | Round | Country | Club | Home | Away |
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| 1955–56 | UEFA Champions League | 1R |  |
PSV Eindhoven | 6–1 | 0–1 |
| QF |  |
AC Milan | 1–1 | 2–7 | ||
| 1956–57 | UEFA Champions League | 1R |  |
Real Madrid | 3–1 | 2–4, 0–2* |
| 1957–58 | UEFA Champions League | 1R | |
AC Milan | 5–2 | 1–4, 2–4** |
| 1960–61 | UEFA Champions League | 1R |  |
Besiktas | 4–0 | 0–1 |
| 2R |  |
SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt | 3–1, 1–0*** | 0–2 | ||
| QF |  |
Malmö FF | 2–0 | 2–0 | ||
| SF |  |
Benfica | 0–3 | 0–3 | ||
| 1961–62 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 1R |  |
Spartak Varna | 0–0 | 5–2 |
| 2R | |
Fiorentina | 2–6 | 1–3 | ||
| 1962–63 | UEFA Cup | 1R |  |
Crvena Zvezda | 1–1 | 0–1 |
| 1963–64 | UEFA Cup | 1R |  |
Racing Club de France | 1–0 | 3–2 |
| 2R | |
Valencia CF | 0–0 | 2–3 | ||
| 1964–65 | UEFA Champions League | 1R |  |
Shamrock Rovers | 3–0 | 2–0 |
| 2R |  |
Glasgow Rangers | 0–2 | 0–1 | ||
| 1966–67 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 1R | |
Galatasaray | 4–0 | 5–3 |
| 2R |  |
Spartak Moskva | 1–0 | 1–1 | ||
| QF | |
Bayern München | 1–0 | 0–2 AET | ||
| 1967–68 | UEFA Champions League | 1R | |
Besiktas | 3–0 | 1–0 |
| 2R | |
Eintracht Braunschweig | 1–0 | 0–2 | ||
| 1968–69 | UEFA Champions League | 1R |  |
Rosenborg BK | 3–3 | 3–1 |
| 2R | |
Real Madrid | 1–0 | 1–2 | ||
| QF |  |
Manchester United | 0–0 | 0–3 | ||
| 1969–70 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | QR | |
Torpedo Moskva | 0–0 | 1–1 |
| 1R | |
PSV Eindhoven | 1–2 | 2–4 | ||
| 1971–72 | UEFA Cup | 2R |  |
Dinamo Zagreb | 0–0 | 2–2 |
| 3R | |
Juventus | 0–1 | 1–4 | ||
| 1972–73 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 1R |  |
PAOK Saloniki | 0–0 | 2–2 |
| 2R |  |
Rapid Bucuresti | 1–1 | 1–3 | ||
| 1973–74 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 1R |  |
Randers FC | 2–1 | 0–0 |
| 2R | |
AC Milan | 0–2 | 0–0 | ||
| 1974–75 | UEFA Cup | 1R | |
Aris Saloniki | 3–1 | 0–1 |
| 2R |  |
Velez Mostar | 1–1 | 0–1 | ||
| 1975–76 | UEFA Cup | 1R | |
Galatasaray | 1–0 | 1–3 |
| 1976–77 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 1R | |
Atletico Madrid | 1–2 | 1–1 |
| 1977–78 | UEFA Cup | 1R |  |
TJ VZKG Vitkovice | 1–0 | 0–3 |
| 1978–79 | UEFA Cup | 1R | |
Hajduk Split | 2–1 | 0–2 |
| 1979–80 | UEFA Cup | 1R |  |
Diósgyőri VTK | 0–1 | 2–3 |
| 1981–82 | UEFA Cup | 1R | |
FC Fehérvár | 2–2 | 2–0 |
| 2R | |
PSV Eindhoven | 1–0 | 1–2 | ||
| 3R | |
Real Madrid | 0–1 | 0–0 | ||
| 1982–83 | UEFA Champions League | 1R |  |
Avenir Beggen | 8–0 | 5–0 |
| 2R |  |
Widzew Lodz | 2–1 | 3–5 | ||
| 1983–84 | UEFA Champions League | 1R | |
FC Nantes | 3–0 | 1–3 |
| 2R | |
Bohemians Praha | 1–0 | 1–2 | ||
| QF | |
Dundee United | 2–1 | 0–1 | ||
| 1984–85 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 1R | |
Besiktas | 4–1 | 1–1 |
| 2R | |
Celtic Glasgow | 3–1 | 1–0 | ||
| QF | |
Dynamo Dresden | 5–0 | 0–3 | ||
| SF | |
Dynamo Moskva | 3–1 | 1–1 | ||
| Final | |
Everton FC
1–3 |
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| 1985–86 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 1R | |
Tatabanya Banyasz SC | 5–0 | 1–1 |
| 2R |  |
Fram Reykjavik | 3–0 | 1–2 | ||
| QF |  |
Dynamo Kiev | 1–4 | 1–5 | ||
| 1986–87 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 1R |  |
FC Brügge | 4–3 | 3–3 |
| 2R | |
Lokomotiv Leipzig | 1–1 | 1–2 AET | ||
| 1987–88 | UEFA Champions League | 1R |  |
Ħamrun Spartans | 6–0 | 1–0 |
| 2R | |
PSV Eindhoven | 1–2 | 0–2 | ||
| 1988–89 | UEFA Champions League | 1R | |
Galatasaray | 2–1 | 0–2 |
| 1989–90 | UEFA Cup | 1R | |
Aberdeen FC | 1–0 | 1–2 |
| 2R | |
FC Brügge | 4–3 | 2–1 | ||
| 3R | |
R.F.C. de Liège | 1–0 | 1–3 | ||
| 1990–91 | UEFA Cup | 1R | |
Inter Milano | 2–1 | 1–3 AET |
| 1992–93 | UEFA Cup | 1R | |
Dynamo Kiev | 3–2 | 0–1 |
| 1995–96 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 1R | |
Petrolul Ploiesti | 3–1 | 0–0 |
| 2R | |
Sporting Clube de Portugal | 4–0 AET | 0–2 | ||
| QF | |
Dynamo Moskva | 3–0 | 1–0 | ||
| SF | |
Feyenoord | 3–0 | 1–1 | ||
| Final | |
Paris St. Germain
0–1 |
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| 1996–97 | UEFA Champions League | 1R | |
Dynamo Kiev | 2–0 | 4–2 |
| Group C | |
Fenerbache | 1–1 | 0–1 | ||
| Group C | |
Manchester United | 0–2 | 0–2 | ||
| Group C | |
Juventus | 1–1 | 0–5 | ||
| 1997–98 | UEFA Cup | 2QR | |
Boby Brno | 6–1 | 0–2 |
| 1R |  |
Hapoel Petah Tikva | 1–0 | 1–1 | ||
| 2R | |
TSV 1860 München | 3–0 | 1–2 | ||
| 3R | |
Lazio | 0–2 | 0–1 | ||
| 1998–99 | UEFA Cup | 2QR |  |
Omonia Nicosia | 2–0 | 1–3 |
| 1R | |
Girondins Bordeaux | 1–2 | 1–1 | ||
| 1999–2000 | UEFA Champions League | 2QR | |
Valletta | 3–0 | 2–0 |
| 3QR | |
Galatasaray | 0–3 | 0–1 | ||
| 1999–2000 | UEFA Cup | 1R | |
Inter Bratislava | 1–2 | 0–1 |
| 2000–01 | UEFA Cup | QUAL |  |
Teuta Dürres | 2–0 | 4–0 |
| 1R | |
Örgryte IS | 3–0 | 1–1 | ||
| 2R | |
NK Osijek | 0–2 | 1–2 | ||
| 2001–02 | UEFA Cup | QUAL |  |
SS Cosmos | 2–0 | 1–0 |
| 1R | |
Partizan Beograd | 5–1 | 0–1 | ||
| 2R | |
Paris St. Germain | 2–2 | 0–4 | ||
| 2004–05 | UEFA Cup | QUAL | |
Rubin Kazan | 0–2 | 3–0 |
| 1R | |
Sporting Clube de Portugal | 0–0 | 0–2 | ||
| 2005–06 | UEFA Champions League | 2QR | |
F91 Dudelange | 3–2 | 6–1 |
| 3QR | |
Lokomotiv Moskva | 1–1 | 1–0 | ||
| Group A | |
Bayern München | 0–1 | 0–4 | ||
| Group A | |
Juventus | 1–3 | 0–3 | ||
| Group A | |
FC Brügge | 0–1 | 2–3 | ||
| 2007 | UEFA Intertoto Cup | 2R |  |
Slovan Bratislava | 3–1 | 1–0 |
| 3R | |
Rubin Kazan | 3–1 | 0–0 | ||
| 2007–08 | UEFA Cup | 2QR |  |
Dinamo Tbilisi | 5–0 | 3–0 |
| 1R | |
RSC Anderlecht | 0–1 | 1–1 | ||
| 2008–09 | UEFA Champions League | 2QR | |
Anorthosis Famagusta | 3–1 | 0–3 |
* 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.
Current squad
As of November, 2008.
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Maierhofer
Heikkinen
Hoffer
Boskovic
Kavlak
Hofmann
Tokic
Katzer
Koch
Dober
Patocka
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Transfers 2008
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Out:
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Out on loan
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Retired numbers
5 – 
Peter Schöttel
Notable players
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Managers since 1910
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Team trivia
- SK Rapid Wien won the German Championship in 1941 and the German Cup in 1938.
External links
- Official Homepage
- Rapid at UEFA.COM
- Rapid at EUFO.DE
- Rapid at Weltfussball.de
- Rapid at Playerhistory.com
- Rapid at Transfermarkt.de
- Rapid at Football Squads.co.uk
- Rapid at National Football Teams.com
- Rapid at Football-Lineups.com
- http://www.rapidarchiv.at/
- http://mitglied.lycos.de/rapidwien/titel.htm (Rapid's achievements)
- http://mitglied.lycos.de/rapidwien/geschich.htm (Rapid's history)
- http://www.scr-forum.net (Rapid forum)
- http://www.austriansoccerboard.at/index.php?showforum=8 (Rapid forum)
- http://www.dokupil.at/ (Rapid in the 90ies/Ernst Dokupil's History/Many interesting pics in German)
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