Wiener Sport-Club

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Wiener Sport-Club
Austrian Regional League East
2022–23Regionalliga Ost, 4th of 16
WebsiteClub website
Current season

The Wiener Sport-Club, sometimes abbreviated as WSC, was established in 1883 in Vienna, Austria and is one of the country's oldest athletics clubs. Their traditional home is in the Dornbach quarter of the city (17th district).

History

At various times throughout its history the club has had departments for fencing, boxing, wrestling, cycling, handball, track and field, field hockey, tennis, squash, football and water polo. The football team enjoyed success in

. Two bankruptcies in the 1990s eventually led the team to slip into the lower leagues.

In 2001, the football section split off as Wiener Sportklub due to financial troubles and was re-integrated back into WSC in 2017. The first squad currently plays in the

Austrian Regional League East (3rd Division). The club's home ground Wiener Sport-Club Stadium (or Wiener Sport-Club Platz in German) dates back to 1904 and is considered as Austria's oldest actively used football field. Player and coach Erich Hof
is known as the club's legend.

Historical chart of Wiener SC league performance

Honours

  • 1958–59
  • Austrian Cup Winner (1): 1922–23
  • Austrian Football First League
    Winner (1): 1976–77
  • Austrian Regional League East
    Winner (1): 2001–02
  • Challenge Cup: 1904-05

Club staff

  • Manager: Jürgen Csandl

Current squad

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 Austria AUT Florian Pröglhof
3 DF Austria AUT Philipp Haas
13 DF Austria AUT Lucas Pfaffl
5 DF Croatia CRO Luka Gusic
27 DF Austria AUT Jürgen Csandl
6 MF Austria AUT David Rajkovic
17 MF Austria AUT Philip Dimov
23 MF Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH Mirza Berkovic
No. Pos. Nation Player
21 FW Austria AUT Mario Rekirsch
9 FW Austria AUT Marcel Holzer

Notable players

Notable coaches

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