SK Rapid Wien

S.K. Rapid Wien is an Austrian football club. Rapid Wien was founded in 1898 and is one of the major clubs in Austria. The club plays in Vienna. Rapid is Austria's most successful team with 32 championships wins. Rapid also won a German title in 1941 when the country was part of Germany. 
History


During the years before World War II, Rapid was one of the most successful clubs in Europe. Before the Second World War, Rapid won the Viennese championship 16 times. In these years there was no nationwide championship because professional football teams only played in Vienna. In 1930 Rapid won the Mitropacup against Sparta Praha (2:0; 3:2) (La Coupe de l'Europe Centrale), one of the first international competitions in Europe.IFFHS Mitropacup 1930 Around this time, the rivalry with the other great club of Vienna, FK Austria, started and continues today. Rapid was the club of the working class, while supporters of FK Austria were more middle class. After the annexation of Austria through Nazi-Germany in 1938 Rapid played in the Gauliga Ostmark. Rapid won the Tschammerpokal (Cup) in 1938 with a 3–1 victory over FSV Frankfurt. 1941 they won the Championship  versus Schalke 04 (4-3).



Current squad
 SK Rapid Homepage  

Coaching history (21st century)
 weltfussball.de. Retrieved 8 February 2022 

 Start End Coach 4/1998 5/2000  Heribert Weber 5/2000 8/2001   Ernst Dokupil 8/2001 9/2001   Peter Persidis 9/2001  5/2002  Lothar Matthäus 7/2002 12/2005  Josef Hickersberger 1/2006 8/2006  Georg Zellhofer 8/2006 9/2009   Roman Pivarník 9/2006 4/2011  Peter Pacult 4/2011 6/2011  Zoran Barisic 7/2011 4/2013  Peter Schöttel 4/2013 6/2016  Zoran Barisic 7/2016 11/2016  Mike Büskens 11/2016 11/2016  Thomas Hickersberger 11/2016 4/2017  Damir Canadi 4/2017 9/2018  Goran Djuricin 10/2018 11/2020  Dietmar Kühbauer 11/2020 11/2020  Manfred Nastl 11/2020 11/2021  Dietmar Kühbauer 11/2021 11/2021  Thomas Hickersberger 11/2021 10/22  Ferdinand Feldhofer 10/22  11/23  Zoran Barisic 12/23  04/25   Robert Klauß 04/25  06/25    Stefan Kulovits 07/25  11/25    Peter Stöger 11/25  12/25    Stefan Kulovits 1/26      Johannes Hoff Thorup

Famous players

   Josef Bican
  Franz Binder
  Robert Dienst
  Ernst Dokupil
  Toni Fritsch later playing in the American Footbal League
  Gerhard Hanappilater architect, he designed the homeground of Rapid which is named after him
  Ernst Happel later coach of the dutch national footballteam
  Andreas Herzog
  Josef Hickersberger
  Alfred Körner
  Robert Körner
  Hans Kranklbest scorer of Europe, later playing for CF Barcelona
  Max Merkel
  Erich Probst
  Karl Rappanintroduced the International Football Cup (now UEFA Intertoto Cup)
  Josef Uridil
  Walter Zeman
  Zlatko Kranjčarlater manager of Croatia (2004-2006) and Montenegro (2010- )
  Antonín Panenka

Honours

 National Austrian Championship (16): 1951, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1964, 1967, 1968, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1986–87, 1987–88, 1995–96, 2004–05, 2007–08

 Viennese Championship (16): 1912, 1913, 1916, 1917, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1923, 1929, 1930, 1935, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1946, 1948 Before the Second World war professional football was only played in Vienna.

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

 Austrian Supercup: 1986, 1987, 1988, 2008 (Unofficial edition)

 German War-time Championship: 1941

 German War-time Cup: 1938

 Mitropa Cup: 1930, 1951

 Intertoto Cup: 1992, 1993

 Cup Winners' Cup Runners Up: 1985, 1996

Gallery

References

Wien, SK Rapid
Wien, SK Rapid