The
Sportklub Rapid Wien or SK Rapid Wien is one of the two large football teams
in Vienna. The second team, Rapid's eternal rival, is FK Austria Wien. The
Rapid squad is often known as the "Green-Whites" (those being the team's
colors) or as Hütteldorfer on tha basis of the Gerhard Hanappi Stadium,
which is located in Hütteldorf, part of Vienna's 14th district.
History
SK Rapid Wien was founded in 1898 under the name of Erster Wiener Arbeiter-Fußball-Club
(First Workers Football Club of Vienna). At that time, the team's colors
were red and blue, which is sometimes used today in away matches. After a
couple of months it was renamed to its present name of Sportklub Rapid Wien
(Sport Club Rapid Vienna), following the model of Rapid Berlin. In 1904, the
colors were changed to Green-White.
Rapid became one of the dominant teams during the interwar years, when
Austria was one of the leading football nations on the European continent.
After the Anschluss of Austria to Germany in 1938, Rapid won the German Cup
in 1938 and the German Championship in 1941. Due to strength and endurance,
the traditional virtues of Rapid players (the Rapidgeist or "Rapid spirit"),
Schalke 04's lead of 3:0 could still be turned into a 4:3 for Rapid in the
last fifteen minutes of the final.
Since those days, the legendary "Rapidviertelstunde" refers to the last
fifteen minutes of the game, which are always announced by Rapid's home
audience by rhythmic clapping. Over the decades, there were many instances
where Rapid managed to turn around a game and win just before the final
whistle.
Achievements
Austrian Championship titles: 30
1912, 1913, 1916, 1917, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1923, 1929, 1930, 1935, 1938,
1940, 1941, 1946, 1948, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1964, 1967,
1968, 1982, 1983, 1987, 1988, 1996
Austrian Cup Titles: 14
1919, 1920, 1927, 1946, 1961, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1976, 1983, 1984, 1985,
1987, 1995
Austrian Supercup Titles: 3
1986, 1987, 1988
German Championship Titles: 1
1941
German Cup Titles: 1
1938
Mitropa Cup Titles: 1
1930
Zentropa Cup Titles: 1
1951
Cup Winners' Cup Finalist: 2
1985, 1996
Known players
Hans Pesser
Gerhard Hanappi
Hans Krankl
Franz Binder
Carsten Jancker
Dietmar Kühbauer
Andreas Herzog
Trifon Ivanov
Peter Schöttel
Ernst Happel
Michael Konsel
Andreas Ivanschitz
Dejan Savicevic
Josef Uridil
Antonin Panenka
Gerhard Rodax |
