# 2023–24 SK Rapid Wien season

The 2023–24 season was the 126th season in the existence of the Sportklub Rapid and the club's 75th consecutive season in the top flight of Austrian football. In addition to the domestic league, Rapid participated in this season's edition of the Austrian Cup and entered international football in the third qualifying round to the UEFA Europa Conference League after coming 4th in the previous Bundesliga season.
Rapid again finished 4th in the Austrian Bundesliga and reached the final of the Austria Cup. Internationally, they were knocked out by eventual finalists ACF Fiorentina in the play-off round of the Europa Conference League.

## Squad
### Squad statistics

| No. | Nat. | Name | Age | League | League | Austrian Cup | Austrian Cup | UEFA Competitions | UEFA Competitions | Total | Total | Discipline | Discipline | Discipline |
| No. | Nat. | Name | Age | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | | | |
| Goalkeepers |||||||||||||||
| 21 | | Bernhard Unger | 24 | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 25 | | Paul Gartler | 26 | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 45 | | Niklas Hedl | 22 | 32 | | 6 | | 4 | | 42 | | 1 | | |
| Defenders |||||||||||||||
| 6 | | Neraysho Kasanwirjo | 21 | 20+3 | | 5 | | | | 25+3 | | 8 | | |
| 13 | | Thorsten Schick | 33 | 7+8 | | 1+2 | | 3 | | 11+10 | | 2 | | |
| 15 | | Terence Kongolo | 29 | 9+3 | | 2+1 | | | | 11+4 | | | 1 | 2 |
| 19 | | Michael Sollbauer | 33 | 5+3 | | 1 | | 0+1 | | 6+4 | | 2 | | |
| 20 | | Maximilian Hofmann | 29 | 14+3 | | 1+2 | | 2+1 | | 17+6 | | 6 | | |
| 22 | | Martin Koscelník | 28 | 2 | | 0+1 | | | | 2+1 | | | | |
| 23 | | Jonas Auer | 22 | 24+2 | 1 | 4 | | 4 | | 32+2 | 1 | 7 | | |
| 26 | | Martin Moormann | 22 | 4+6 | 1 | 3 | | 0+2 | | 7+8 | 1 | 4 | | |
| 43 | | Leopold Querfeld | 19 | 28 | 3 | 6 | | 4 | | 38 | 3 | 9 | | |
| 53 | | Dominic Vincze | 19 | 0+2 | | | | | | 0+2 | | | | |
| 55 | | Nenad Cvetković | 27 | 6+1 | | 1 | | 2 | | 9+1 | | 3 | | |
| Midfielders |||||||||||||||
| 4 | | Patrick Greil | 26 | 1+4 | | 1+2 | | 0+2 | | 2+8 | | | | |
| 5 | | Roman Kerschbaum | 29 | 13+14 | | 3+2 | 2 | 4 | | 20+16 | 2 | 9 | | |
| 8 | | Lukas Grgić | 27 | 16+5 | 2 | 4+1 | | | | 20+6 | 2 | 5 | | |
| 10 | | Nicolas Kühn | 23 | 16 | 2 | 2+1 | 1 | 2+1 | | 20+2 | 3 | 2 | | |
| 10 | | Christoph Lang | 21 | 13+1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | | | 15+1 | 3 | 3 | | |
| 16 | | Thierry Gale | 21 | 0+5 | 1 | 1+1 | | | | 1+6 | 1 | | | |
| 18 | | Matthias Seidl | 22 | 30+2 | 5 | 5+1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 39+3 | 10 | 7 | | |
| 22 | | Isak Jansson | 21 | 5+6 | 1 | 1 | | | | 6+6 | 1 | 2 | | |
| 24 | | Dennis Kaygin | 19 | 2+3 | | | | | | 2+3 | | | | |
| 27 | | Marco Grüll | 25 | 26+3 | 13 | 5+1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 35+4 | 21 | 5 | | |
| 28 | | Moritz Oswald | 21 | 15+11 | | 1+4 | | 3 | | 19+15 | | 1 | | |
| 29 | | Ante Bajic | 27 | 2+4 | 1 | 1+1 | | 0+4 | 1 | 3+9 | 2 | 2 | | |
| 34 | | Nikolas Sattlberger | 19 | 28+2 | | 3+1 | | 4 | | 35+3 | | 9 | 1 | |
| Forwards |||||||||||||||
| 7 | | Oliver Strunz | 23 | 1+11 | | 1+2 | 2 | 0+2 | | 2+15 | 2 | | | |
| 9 | | Guido Burgstaller | 34 | 17+3 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 24+3 | 9 | 2 | | |
| 17 | | Fally Mayulu | 20 | 14+14 | 6 | 2+2 | 5 | 1+2 | | 17+18 | 11 | 2 | | |
| 49 | | Jovan Živković | 17 | 0+7 | | 0+2 | | | | 0+9 | | | | |
| 57 | | Ismail Seydi | 21 | 2+4 | | | | | | 2+4 | | | | |
| 58 | | Furkan Dursun | 18 | 0+5 | | 0+1 | | | | 0+6 | | | | |

### Goal scorers

| Name | Bundesliga | Cup | International | Total |
| Marco Grüll | 13 | 6 | 2 | 21 |
| Fally Mayulu | 6 | 5 | | 11 |
| Matthias Seidl | 5 | 4 | 1 | 10 |
| Guido Burgstaller | 7 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| Nicolas Kühn | 2 | 1 | | 3 |
| Christoph Lang | 2 | 1 | | 3 |
| Leopold Querfeld | 3 | | | 3 |
| Ante Bajic | 1 | | 1 | 2 |
| Lukas Grgić | 2 | | | 2 |
| Roman Kerschbaum | | 2 | | 2 |
| Oliver Strunz | | 2 | | 2 |
| Jonas Auer | 1 | | | 1 |
| Thierry Gale | 1 | | | 1 |
| Isak Jansson | 1 | | | 1 |
| Martin Moormann | 1 | | | 1 |
| Own goals |||||
| Drini Halili (DSV Leoben) | | 1 | | 1 |
| Atdhe Nuhiu (Altach) | 1 | | | 1 |
| Christian Ramsebner (St. Pölten) | | 1 | | 1 |
| Oleksandr Romanchuk (Debrecen) | | | 1 | 1 |
| David Schnegg (Sturm Graz) | 1 | | | 1 |
| Totals | 47 | 24 | 6 | 77 |

### Disciplinary record

| Name | Bundesliga | Bundesliga | Bundesliga | Cup | International | Total | Total | Total |
| Nikolas Sattlberger | 7 | 1 | | | 2 | 9 | 1 | |
| Roman Kerschbaum | 6 | | | 1 | 2 | 9 | | |
| Leopold Querfeld | 6 | | | | 3 | 9 | | |
| Neraysho Kasanwirjo | 6 | | | 2 | | 8 | | |
| Jonas Auer | 5 | | | | 2 | 7 | | |
| Matthias Seidl | 4 | | | 1 | 2 | 7 | | |
| Maximilian Hofmann | 5 | | | | 1 | 6 | | |
| Lukas Grgić | 5 | | | | | 5 | | |
| Marco Grüll | 3 | | | 1 | 1 | 5 | | |
| Martin Moormann | 2 | | | 2 | | 4 | | |
| Terence Kongolo | | 1 | 2 | | | | 1 | 2 |
| Nenad Cvetković | | | | 1 | 2 | 3 | | |
| Christoph Lang | 3 | | | | | 3 | | |
| Ante Bajic | 2 | | | | | 2 | | |
| Guido Burgstaller | 2 | | | | | 2 | | |
| Isak Jansson | 2 | | | | | 2 | | |
| Nicolas Kühn | 1 | | | | 1 | 2 | | |
| Fally Mayulu | 2 | | | | | 2 | | |
| Thorsten Schick | 1 | | | | 1 | 2 | | |
| Michael Sollbauer | 2 | | | | | 2 | | |
| Niklas Hedl | 1 | | | | | 1 | | |
| Moritz Oswald | | | | 1 | | 1 | | |
| Totals | 65 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 17 | 91 | 2 | 2 |

### Transfers
#### In

| Pos. | Name | Age | Moved from | Type | Transfer Window |
| FW | Fally Mayulu | 20 | FC Blau-Weiß Linz | Free transfer | Summer |
| MF | Dennis Kaygin | 19 | 1. FSV Mainz 05 U-19 | Free transfer | Summer |
| DF | Nenad Cvetković | 27 | F.C. Ashdod | Transfer | Summer |
| MF | Matthias Seidl | 22 | FC Blau-Weiß Linz | Transfer | Summer |
| MF | Lukas Grgić | 27 | Hajduk Split | Transfer | Summer |
| FW | Thierry Gale | 21 | FC Dila Gori | Transfer | Summer |
| DF | Neraysho Kasanwirjo | 21 | Feyenoord Rotterdam | Loan | Summer |
| DF | Terence Kongolo | 29 | Fulham F.C. | Loan | Summer |
| FW | Christoph Lang | 22 | SK Sturm Graz | Transfer | Winter |
| FW | Isak Jansson | 22 | FC Cartagena | Loan | Winter |

#### Out

| Pos. | Name | Age | Moved to | Type | Transfer Window |
| DF | Denso Kasius | 20 | Bologna F.C. 1909 | Loan return | Summer |
| DF | Christopher Dibon | 32 | SK Rapid II | | Summer |
| MF | Dejan Petrovič | 25 | HNK Rijeka | Free transfer | Summer |
| DF | Kevin Wimmer | 30 | ŠK Slovan Bratislava | Free transfer | Summer |
| FW | Bernhard Zimmermann | 21 | Wolfsberger AC | Loan | Summer |
| FW | René Kriwak | 24 | FC Dordrecht | Transfer | Summer |
| FW | Ferdy Druijf | 25 | PEC Zwolle | Loan | Summer |
| FW | Dragoljub Savić | 22 | FK RFS | Transfer | Summer |
| MF | Lion Schuster | 22 | SV Sandhausen | Free transfer | Summer |
| DF | Martin Koscelník | 28 | NAC Breda | Transfer | Summer |
| MF | Christoph Knasmüllner | 31 | Wieczysta Kraków | Free agent | Summer |
| MF | Patrick Greil | 27 | SV Sandhausen | Free transfer | Winter |
| FW | Ante Bajic | 28 | SV Ried | Transfer | Winter |
| MF | Nicolas-Gerrit Kühn | 24 | Celtic F.C. | Transfer | Winter |
| MF | Aleksa Pejić | 24 | FK TSC | Transfer | Winter |

## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss  Fixtures

## Competitions
### Overall record

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Austrian Football Bundesliga | 28 July 2023 | 19 May 2023 | | 4th | 32 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 47 | 35 | +12 | 034.38 |
| Austrian Cup | 23 July 2023 | 1 May 2023 | Round 1 | Runner-up | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 6 | +18 | 083.33 |
| Conference League | 10 August 2023 | 31 August 2023 | Third qualifying round | Play-off round | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | +4 | 050.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 42 | 18 | 13 | 11 | 77 | 43 | +34 | 042.86 |
Source: Soccerway

### Austrian Football Bundesliga
#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Source: Austrian Football Bundesliga

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 |
| Ground | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H |
| Result | D | W | L | W | D | L | D | D | D | W | L | D | W | L | W | W | L | W | D | W | D | D | D | W | D | D | L | L | L | W | W | L |
| Position | 7 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 |

#### Regular season
##### Table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 4 | Austria Klagenfurt | 22 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 29 | 27 | +2 | 34 | Qualification for the Championship round |
| 5 | Hartberg | 22 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 33 | 28 | +5 | 34 | Qualification for the Championship round |
| 6 | Rapid Wien | 22 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 38 | 21 | +17 | 33 | Qualification for the Championship round |
| 7 | Austria Wien | 22 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 25 | 22 | +3 | 33 | Qualification for the Relegation round |
| 8 | Wolfsberger AC | 22 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 29 | 32 | −3 | 30 | Qualification for the Relegation round |
* 1 2 Head to head points: Klagenfurt 4, TSV Hartberg 1.
* 1 2 Head to head points: Rapid 4, Austria Wien 1.

##### Matches
#### Championship round
##### Table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | STU | RBS | LIN | RWI | HAR | AKL |
| 2 | Red Bull Salzburg | 32 | 20 | 7 | 5 | 74 | 29 | +45 | 42 | Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round | 2–2 | — | 7–1 | 1–1 | 5–1 | 4–2 |
| 3 | LASK | 32 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 43 | 33 | +10 | 34 | Qualification for the Europa League play-off round | 2–2 | 3–1 | — | 5–0 | 1–3 | 1–0 |
| 4 | Rapid Wien | 32 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 47 | 35 | +12 | 28 | Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round | 1–3 | 2–0 | 0–0 | — | 0–3 | 1–1 |
| 5 | Hartberg | 32 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 49 | 52 | −3 | 28 | Qualification for the Conference League play-offs | 1–3 | 1–5 | 1–2 | 0–3 | — | 3–2 |
| 6 | Austria Klagenfurt | 32 | 9 | 12 | 11 | 40 | 50 | −10 | 22 | | 0–4 | 4–3 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 2–2 | — |
* ↑ Since the Europa League winners, Atalanta qualified for the Champions League via league position, Red Bull Salzburg were promoted from the Champions League second qualifying round to the third qualifying round as one of the two teams with the highest coefficient in the second qualifying round.
* ↑ The 2023–24 Austrian Cup winners qualified for the Europa League play-off round. Since the cup winners (Sturm Graz) qualified based on league position, the Europa League spot was passed to the third-placed team.