FK Austria Wien

Not to be confused with Austria national football team

Austria Wien

Full name	Fußballklub Austria Wien AG
Nickname(s)	Die Veilchen (The Violets)
Founded	15 March 1911; 113 years ago (1911-03-15)
Ground	Generali Arena
Capacity	17,565
Chairman	Frank Hensel
Head coach	Michael Wimmer
League	Austrian Bundesliga
2022–23	Austrian Bundesliga, 5th of 12
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

Fußballklub Austria Wien AG (German pronunciation:

Arena since a 2010 naming rights deal with an Italian insurance company.

History

Foundation to World War II

FK Austria Wien has its roots in Wiener Cricketer, established on 20 October 1910 in Vienna. The club was renamed Wiener Amateur-SV in December of that year and adopted the name Fußballklub Austria Wien on 28 November 1926.

The team claimed its first

in 1924. Wiener Amateur changed its name to Austria Wien in 1926 as the amateurs became professionals. The club won its second league title that year.

The 1930s, one of Austria Wien's most successful eras, brought two titles (1933 and 1936) in the Mitropa Cup, a tournament for champions in Central Europe. The star of that side was forward Matthias Sindelar, who was voted in 1998 as the greatest Austrian footballer.^[1]

The club's success was interrupted by the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in 1938, with Austria taunted as "Judenklub".^[2] While Jewish players and staff at the club were killed or fled the country, Sindelar died under unresolved circumstances on 23 January 1939 of carbon monoxide poisoning in his apartment. He had refused to play for the combined Germany–Austria national team, citing injury (bad knees) and retirement from international matches. The club was part of the top-flight regional Gauliga Ostmark in German competition from 1938 to 1945, but never finished higher than fourth. They participated in the Tschammerpokal (the predecessor to the modern-day DFB-Pokal) in 1938 and 1941. Nazi sports authorities directed that the team change its name to Sportclub Ostmark Wien in an attempt to Germanize it on 12 April 1938, but the club re-adopted its historical identity almost immediately on 14 July 1938.

Post-World War II

Austria Wien won its first league title for 23 years in 1949, and retained it the following year. It later won a fifth title in 1953. The club won three-straight titles in 1961, 1962 and 1963. Forward Ernst Ocwirk, who played in five league title-winning sides in two separate spells at the club, managed the side to 1969 and 1970 Bundesliga titles. Other players of this era included Horst Nemec.

From the 1973–74 season, Wiener AC formed a joint team with FK Austria Wien, which was called FK Austria WAC Wien until 1976–77, when Austria Wien opted to revert to their own club's traditional name. The results of the joint team are part of the Austria Wien football history.

The 1970s saw the beginning of another successful era, despite no league title between 1970 and 1976 as an aging squad was rebuilt. Eight league titles in eleven seasons from 1975–76 to 1985–86 reasserted its dominance. After winning the 1977

Players at Austria Wien in this era included Herbert "Schneckerl" Prohaska, Felix Gasselich, Thomas Parits, Walter Schachner, Gerhard Steinkogler, Toni Polster, Peter Stöger, Ivica Vastić and Tibor Nyilasi.

Recent history

At the start of the 1990s, Austria Wien enjoyed its most recent period of sustained success: three-straight Bundesliga titles from 1991 to 1993; three Austrian Cup titles in 1990, 1992 and 1994; and four Austrian Supercup titles in 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994. However, the club declined in the late 1990s due to financial problems which forced key players to be sold.

Austria Wien was taken over by Austro–Canadian billionaire Frank Stronach's Magna auto-parts consortium in 1999. Following deals with the Memphis cigarette company, the club was renamed FK Austria Memphis Magna. Stronach's investment in players, with a budget three times larger than the average in the league, saw a first Bundesliga title for ten years in 2002–03. Despite this, head coach Walter Schachner was fired. Although his replacement Christoph Daum could not retain the league title, he won the Austrian Cup.

In 2004, Memphis was dropped from the club's name. Austria Wien reached the UEFA Cup quarter-final in 2004–05, where they were eliminated by Parma. On 21 November 2005, Frank Stonach withdrew from the club. Consequently, several players (including top scorer Roland Linz, Vladimír Janočko, Joey Didulica, Libor Sionko, Filip Šebo and Sigurd Rushfeldt) were sold to other teams the following summer. The 2005–06 season nonetheless concluded with a Bundesliga and Cup double.

The loss of key players and a much lower budget for the 2006–07 season saw the club suffer. Despite losing 4–1 on aggregate to Benfica in the preliminary round of the UEFA Champions League, the team managed to qualify (against Legia Warsaw winning 2–1 on aggregate) for the group phase of the UEFA Cup. Former player and coach Thomas Parits became general manager. After the side lost three days later 4–0 away to Red Bull Salzburg, Partis terminated coaches Peter Stöger and Frank Schinkels. Georg Zellhofer replaced them. The season saw a sixth-place finish in the Bundesliga despite being in last place at Christmas. However, the club also won the Cup that year. The side improved the following season, finishing in third in the league.

Red Bull Salzburg

, December 2013

The summer of 2008 brought notable changes. Twelve players left the club, including

In August 2013, Austria Wien qualified to the UEFA Champions League group stage for the first time after defeating Dinamo Zagreb in the play-offs round.^[6] They were drawn against Porto, Atlético Madrid and Zenit Saint Petersburg, all of which have won European trophies in the 21st century. Austria finished last in the group after a loss to Porto at home (0–1), a draw against Zenit in Saint Petersburg (0–0), two losses against Atlético and an away draw against Porto, which eventually put the Portuguese side to the third place in the group. A consolation came when Austria defeated Zenit 4–1 at Ernst-Happel-Stadion.

Stadium

Austria Wien plays its home games at the Franz Horr Stadium, which has had a capacity of 17,000^[7] since 2008, when a new two-tiered East Stand opened and renovations were made to the West Stand. The stadium was renamed the Generali Arena in a naming-rights deal with Italian insurer Generali announced at the end of 2010.^[8]

The stadium was originally built in 1925 for Slovan Vienna, a Czech immigrants' club, and was largely destroyed by the Allies in World War II. Austria Wien moved into the ground in 1973, playing its first match there on 26 August. The stadium was subsequently named for Franz Horr, chairman of the Viennese FA, following his death. The stadium was expanded with new or renovated stands in 1982, 1986, 1998 and, most recently, 2008.^[9]

Wien Derby

Austria Wien contests the

, both in Scotland.

Honours

Domestic competitions

• Austrian Bundesliga
  (24)

Champions:

1925–26, 1948–49, 1949–50, 1952–53, 1960–61, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1975–76, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1990–91, 1991–92, 1992–93, 2002–03, 2005–06, 2012–13

• Austrian Cup (27)

Champions: 1920–21, 1923–24, 1924–25, 1925–26, 1932–33, 1934–35, 1935–36, 1947–48, 1948–49, 1959–60, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1966–67, 1970–71, 1973–74, 1976–77, 1979–80, 1981–82, 1985–86, 1989–90, 1991–92, 1993–94, 2002–03, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2008–09

• Austrian Supercup (6)

Winners: 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 2003, 2004

• Wiener Cup (2)

Winners: 1948, 1949

European competitions

• Mitropa Cup (2)

Champions: 1933, 1936

• Jeunesse et des Etudiants de Jeux Sportif (1)

Champions: 1959

• European Cup Winners' Cup

Runners-up:

1978

Intercontinental competitions

• Copa Rio

Semi-finals (2): 1951, 1952

European record

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away
1960–61	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	Quarter-finals		Wolverhampton Wanderers	2–0	0–5
1961–62	UEFA Champions League	1R		Steaua București	2–0	0–0
		2R		Benfica	1–1	1–5
1962–63	UEFA Champions League	1R		HIFK	5–3	2–0
		2R		Stade Reims	3–2	0–5
1963–64	UEFA Champions League	1R		Górnik Zabrze	1–0, 1–2	0–1
1967–68	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1R		Steaua București	0–2	1–2
1969–70	UEFA Champions League	1R		Dynamo Kyiv	1–2	1–3
1970–71	UEFA Champions League	Qualification		Levski Sofia	3–0	1–3
		1R		Atlético Madrid	1–2	0–2
1971–72	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	Qualification		B 1909	2–0	2–4
		1R		Dinamo Tirana	1–0	1–1
		2R		Torino	0–0	0–1
1972–73	UEFA Cup	1R		Beroe Stara Zagora	1–3	0–7
1974–75	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1R		Waregem	4–1	1–2
		2R		Real Madrid	2–2	0–3
1976–77	UEFA Champions League	1R		Borussia Mönchengladbach	1–0	0–3
1977–78	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1R		Cardiff City	1–0	0–0
		2R		MFK Košice	0–0	1–1
		Quarter-finals		Hajduk Split	1–1	1–1 ( p 3-0)
		Semi-finals		Dynamo Moscow	2–1 ( p 5-4)	1–2
		Final		Anderlecht	0–4
1978–79	UEFA Champions League	1R		Vllaznia Shköder	4–1	0–2
		2R		Lillestrøm	4–1	0–0
		Quarter-finals		Dynamo Dresden	3–1	0–1
		Semi-finals		Malmö FF	0–0	0–1
1979–80	UEFA Champions League	1R		Vejle	1–1	2–3
1980–81	UEFA Champions League	1R		Aberdeen	0–0	0–1
1981–82	UEFA Champions League	1R		Partizani	3–1	0–1
		2R		Dynamo Kyiv	0–1	1–1
1982–83	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1R		Panathinaikos	2–0	1–2
		2R		Galatasaray	0–1	4–2
		Quarter-finals		Barcelona	0–0	1–1
		Semi-finals		Real Madrid	2–2	1–3
1983–84	UEFA Cup	1R		Aris Bonnevoie	10–0	5–0
		2R		Stade Lavallois	2–0	3–3
		3R		Internazionale	2–1	1–1
		Quarter-finals		Tottenham Hotspur	2–2	0–2
1984–85	UEFA Champions League	1R		Valletta	4–0	4–0
		2R		Dynamo Berlin	2–1	3–3
		Quarter-finals		Liverpool	1–1	1–4
1985–86	UEFA Champions League	1R		Dynamo Berlin	2–1	2–0
		2R		Bayern Munich	3–3	2–4
1986–87	UEFA Champions League	1R		Avenir Beggen	3–0	3–0
		2R		Bayern Munich	1–1	0–2
1987–88	UEFA Cup	1R		Bayer Leverkusen	0–0	1–5
1988–89	UEFA Cup	1R		Žalgiris	5–2	0–2
		2R		Hearts	0–1	0–0
1989–90	UEFA Cup	1R		Ajax	1–0	3–0
		2R		Werder Bremen	2–0	0–5
1990–91	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1R		Eintracht Schwerin	0–0	2–0
		2R		Juventus	0–4	0–4
1991–92	UEFA Champions League	1R		Arsenal	1–0	1–6
1992–93	UEFA Champions League	1R		CSKA Sofia	3–1	2–3
		2R		Club Brugge	3–1	0–2
1993–94	UEFA Champions League	1R		Rosenborg	4–1	1–3
		2R		Barcelona	1–2	0–3
1994–95	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1R		Maribor	3–0	1–1
		2R		Chelsea	1–1	0–0
1995–96	UEFA Cup	Qualification		Kapaz Ganja	5–1	4–0
		1R		Dinamo Minsk	1–2	0–1
1996	UEFA Intertoto Cup	Group 3, 1st game		Maribor		0–3
		Group 3, 2nd game		Keflavík	6–0
		Group 3, 3rd game		Copenhagen		1–2
		Group 3, 4th game		Örebro	2–3
1997	UEFA Intertoto Cup	Group 9, 1st game		MŠK Žilina		1–3
		Group 9, 2nd game		Rapid București	1–1
		Group 9, 3rd game		Lyon		0–2
		Group 9, 4th game		Odra Wodzisław	1–5
1998	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R		Ruch Chorzów	0–1	2–2
1999	UEFA Intertoto Cup	3R		Sint-Truiden	1–2	2–0
		4R		Rennes	2–2	0–2
2000	UEFA Intertoto Cup	2R		Nea Salamina Famagusta	3–0	0–1
		3R		Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț	3–0	2–2
		4R		Udinese	0–1	0–2
2002–03	UEFA Cup	1R		Shakhtar Donetsk	5–1	0–1
		2R		Porto	0–1	0–2
2003–04	UEFA Champions League	3QR		Marseille	0–1	0–0
2003–04	UEFA Cup	1R		Borussia Dortmund	1–2	0–1
2004–05	UEFA Cup	2QR		Illichivets Mariupol	3–0	0–0
		1R		Legia Warsaw	1–0	3–1
		Group C		Real Zaragoza	1–0
				Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk		0–1
				Club Brugge	1–1
				Utrecht		2–1
		3R		Athletic Bilbao	0–0	2–1
		4R		Real Zaragoza	1–1	2–2
		Quarter-finals		Parma	1–1	0–0
2005–06	UEFA Cup	2QR		MŠK Žilina	2–2	2–1
		1R		Viking	2–1	0–1
2006–07	UEFA Champions League	3QR		Benfica	1–1	0–3
2006–07	UEFA Cup	1R		Legia Warsaw	1–0	1–1
		Group F		Zulte-Waregem	1–4
				Ajax		0–3
				Sparta Prague	0–1
				Espanyol		0–1
2007–08	UEFA Cup	2QR		Jablonec	4–3	1–1
		1R		Vålerenga	2–0	2–2
		Group H		Bordeaux	1–2
				Helsingborgs IF		0–3
				Panionios	0–1
				Galatasaray		0–0
2008–09	UEFA Cup	1QR		Tobol	2–0	0–1
		2QR		WIT Georgia	2–0	not played
		1R		Lech Poznań	2–1	2–4 ( AET )
2009–10	UEFA Europa League	3QR		Vojvodina	1–1	4–2
		Play-off		Metalurh Donetsk	2–2	3–2 ( AET )
		Group L		Athletic Bilbao	0–3	0–3
				Nacional	1–1	1–5
				Werder Bremen	2–2	0–2
2010–11	UEFA Europa League	2QR		Široki Brijeg	2–2	1–0
		3QR		Ruch Chorzów	3–1	3–0
		Play-off		Aris	1–1	0–1
2011–12	UEFA Europa League	2QR		Rudar Pljevlja	2–0	3–0
		3QR		Olimpija Ljubljana	3–2	1–1
		Play-off		Gaz Metan Mediaș	3–1	0–1
		Group G		Metalist Kharkiv	1–2	1–4
				AZ	2–2	2–2
				Malmö FF	2–0	2–1
2013–14	UEFA Champions League	3QR		FH	1–0	0–0
		Play-off		Dinamo Zagreb	2–3	2–0
		Group G		Porto	0–1	1–1
				Atlético Madrid	0–3	0–4
				Zenit Saint Petersburg	4–1	0–0
2016–17	UEFA Europa League	2QR		Kukësi	1–0	4–1
		3QR		Spartak Trnava	0–1	1–0 (5–4p)
		Play-off		Rosenborg	2–1	2–1
		Group E		Astra Giurgiu	1–2	3–2
				Viktoria Plzeň	0–0	2–3
				Roma	2–4	3–3
2017–18	UEFA Europa League	3QR		AEL Limassol	0–0	2–1
		Play-off		Osijek	0–1	2–1
		Group D		Milan	1–5	1–5
				AEK Athens	0–0	2–2
				Rijeka	1–3	4–1
2019–20	UEFA Europa League	3QR		Apollon Limassol	1–2	1–3
2021–22	UEFA Europa Conference League	2QR		Breiðablik	1–1	1–2
2022–23	UEFA Europa League	Play-off		Fenerbahçe	0–2	1–4
	UEFA Europa Conference League	Group C		Villarreal	0–1	0–5
				Hapoel Be'er Sheva	0–0	0–4
				Lech Poznań	1–1	1–4
2023–24	UEFA Europa Conference League	2QR		Borac Banja Luka	1–0	2–1
		3QR		Legia Warsaw	3–5	2–1

Current squad

As of 6 February 2024^[12]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  GER Christian Früchtl 2 DF  AUT Luca Pazourek 3 DF  BRA Lucas Galvão 4 DF  AUT Ziad El Sheiwi 8 MF  AUS James Holland 9 FW  AUT Muharem Husković 10 FW  KOS Fisnik Asllani (on loan from Hoffenheim) 11 FW  AUT Manuel Polster 13 GK  AUT Lukas Wedl 17 FW  AUT Andreas Gruber 19 DF  AUT Marvin Potzmann 21 DF  FRA Hakim Guenouche 22 MF  AUT Florian Wustinger 24 DF  CRO Tin Plavotić

No. Pos. Nation Player 26 MF  AUT Reinhold Ranftl 27 FW  AUT Romeo Vučić 29 FW  AUT Marko Raguž 30 MF  AUT Manfred Fischer 33 FW  AUT Alexander Schmidt 36 FW  AUT Dominik Fitz 37 MF  AUT Moritz Wels 40 DF  AUT Matteo Meisl 41 DF  GER Frans Krätzig (on loan from Bayern Munich) 46 DF  AUT Johannes Handl 60 FW  ISR Ayi Silva Kangani 66 DF  LUX Marvin Martins 99 GK  AUT Mirko Kos

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 — GK  AUT Sandali Conde (at Stripfing until 30 June 2024) — GK  AUT Samuel Şahin-Radlinger (at Almere City until 30 June 2024) — DF  AUT Leonardo Ivkić (at Stripfing until 30 June 2024) — DF  AUT Florian Kopp (at Stripfing until 30 June 2024) — DF  AUT Tobias Polz (at Stripfing until 30 June 2024) — DF  AUT Dejan Radonjic (at Stripfing until 30 June 2024) — MF  AUT Denis Dizdarević (at Stripfing until 30 June 2024) — MF  AUT Matthias Braunöder (at Como until 30 June 2024)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  AUT Dario Kreiker (at Stripfing until 30 June 2024) — MF  TUR Enis Safin (at Stripfing until 30 June 2024) — MF  AUT Sanel Saljic (at Stripfing until 30 June 2024) — MF  AUT Timo Schmelzer (at Stripfing until 30 June 2024) — FW  AUT Daniel Au Yeong (at Stripfing until 30 June 2024) — FW  AUT Lukas Haubenwaller (at Neusiedl am See until 30 June 2024) — FW  AUT Can Keleş (at Fatih Karagümrük until 30 June 2024)

Club officials

Position	Staff
President	Frank Hensel
Board Member	Sebastian Prödl
Sporting Director	Manuel Ortlechner
Manager	Michael Wimmer
Assistant Manager	Ahmet Koc
Goalkeeper Coach	Udo Siebenhandl
Fitness Coach	Christoph Glatzer
Athletic Coach	Paiam Yazdanpanah
Head of Scouting/Video Analyst	Lorenz Kutscha-Lissberg
Chief Scout	Gerhard Hitzel
Scout	Siegfried Aigner Andreas Ogris Maximilian Koppensteiner
Director of youth department	René Glatzer
Sports Scientist	Christian Puchinger
Team Doctor	Dr. Gabriel Halat Dr. Roman Ostermann Dr. Marcus Hofbauer Dr. Gudrun Sadik
Physiotherapist	Roberto Baumgartner Richard Horinka
Sportstherapist	Christian Hold Markus Stoyer
Team Manager	Christoph Lehenbauer

Coaching history

As of 1 December 2018^[13]

See also

• The Football Club Social Alliance

References

External links

• Official website (in German)
• Official Youth Academy site (in German)
• Austria Wien at UEFA.com
• Austria Wien at EUFO.de
• Austria Wien at Weltfussball.de
• Austria Wien at Football Squads.co.uk
• Austria Wien at National Football Teams.com
• Austria Wien at Football-Lineups.com