Vienna Cricket and Football-Club

Vienna Cricket and Football-Club is a sport club from Vienna. Today they have tennis and athletics sections, but the club is most famous for the football section which was one of the oldest football clubs in Austria.
History
The club was founded by English men in Vienna under the name Vienna Cricket Club . Because only few people want to see Cricket they founded a football section. They chanced the name to  First Vienna Cricket and Football-Club. They want an official permit and got it on 23 August 1894 only one day after Vienna FC . So they had to swipe the "first" out of their name. The first official match was a 4:0 win versus their rival First Vienna FC. Because the number of members increased many spin-offs happend. The most important was in 1911 the Wiener Amateursportverein later known as FK Austria Wien.

In 1908 the club hosted the first international match between Austria and Germany in front of 5,000 visitors. Ludwig Hussak was the only player from the club.Match info

One of the founders, John Gramlick, later established the Challenge Cup. In the early 20th century the club was famous for Cricket and Football. Due to financial problems the football section of the club was dissolved in the early 1930s.

Honours
Challenge Cup:1898, 1902
Challenge Cup runner-up:1900, 1904
First league team:1911/12

References

Category:Austrian football clubs
Category:Football clubs of Vienna
Category:1894 establishments in Europe
Category:19th-century establishments in Austria