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Rapid Wien

Full name	Sportklub Rapid Wien
Nickname(s)	Die Grün-Weißen (The Green-Whites), Hütteldorfer
Founded	1899
Ground	Gerhard Hanappi Stadium (Capacity: 18,500)
Chairman	Rudolf Edlinger
Manager	Peter Pacult
League	Austrian Football Bundesliga
2008–09	2nd
Home colours Away colours

The Sportklub Rapid Wien (English: Rapid Vienna) is an Austrian football club playing in the country's capital city of Vienna. Rapid is Austria's most successful side with 32 championships to its credit, as well as a German title captured when the country was part of Germany. It is one of the two best known sides in Vienna, the other being Rapid's eternal rival, FK Austria Wien. The Rapid squad is often known as the "Green-Whites" for its team colours or as Hütteldorfer for the location of the Gerhard Hanappi Stadium, which is in Hütteldorf, part of the city's 14th district, Penzing.

Contents 1 History 2 Stadium 3 Honours 4 Current squad 4.1 Retired numbers 5 Notable players 6 Managers since 1910 7 Team trivia 8 SK Rapid Wien II Squad 9 See also 10 References 11 External links

[edit] History

SK Rapid Wien was founded in 1898 as Erster Wiener Arbeiter-Fußball-Club (en:First Workers' Football Club of Vienna). The team's original colours were red and blue, which are still often used in away matches. On 8 January 1899 the club was re-named, taking on its present name of Sportklub Rapid Wien, following the example of Rapide Berlin. In 1904, the team colours were changed to green and white.

One of the best teams in early European football, Rapid became a dominant side during the years between the world wars, when Austria was one of the leading football nations on the continent. After the Anschluss of Austria to Germany in 1938, Rapid played in that country's Gauliga Ostmark along with clubs such as First Vienna and Admira Vienna (playing then as Wacker Wien and Admira Wien). Rapid would be the most successful of these clubs. They won the Tschammerpokal, predecessor of today's German Cup, in 1938 with a 3–1 victory over FSV Frankfurt, and topped that with a German Championship in 1941 by defeating Schalke 04, the most dominant German club of the era. The team was able to overcome a 3–0 Schalke lead to win the match by a final score of 4–3 through strength and endurance – the traditional virtues of Rapid players known as the Rapidgeist or "Rapid Spirit".

Almost since the club's beginnings, Rapid fans have announced the last fifteen minutes of the game by way of the legendary "Rapidviertelstunde" – rhythmic clapping at home or away no matter what the score. The first mention of the practise goes back to 1913, and in 1919 a newspaper wrote about the fans clapping at the beginning of the "Rapidviertelstunde". Over the decades, there were many instances where Rapid managed to turn around a seemingly hopeless situation by not giving up and, with their fans' support, fighting their way to a win just before the final whistle.

Although Rapid is by far the most popular club in Austria, other teams like Red Bull Salzburg or FK Magna are able to spend significantly more money every year as they are owned by investors/billionaires. Rapid is trying to compensate for this lack of financial funds by supporting young and talented players.

Rapid were involved in a controversial episode in 1984 when they eliminated Celtic from the European Cup Winners Cup last 16. Strikes from Brian McClair (32 mins) Murdo MacLeod (45+5 mins) put Celtic 2-0 ahead at half time. After the interval Tommy Burns (68 mins) scored a controversial third goal to put Celtic 4-3 up on aggregate. With 14 mins left of the match, Rapid conceded a penalty, after Reinhard Kienast punched Burns on the back of the head whilst a corner kick was being taken. Rapid players, opposing the decision, crowded around the referee and linesman, close to the Celtic fans. Rapid defender Rudolf Weinhofer then fell to the ground, not hit by an object thrown from the terracing. TV pictures only showed that a bottle landed several feet away from Weinhofer. After a delay of some 10 minutes, the penalty was taken by Peter Grant, and he struck it wide. The match finished 3–0, giving Celtic a 4–3 win on aggregate. However, Rapid appealed to UEFA for a replay, and both teams were fined. The replay appeal was turned down initially, and Celtic appealed against the fine. In reaction to Celtic's appeal, UEFA granted Rapid a replay and increased Celtic's fine. The replay was held at Old Trafford, Manchester, and Rapid won 1–0 through a Peter Pacult strike.

[edit] Stadium

Rapid Wien now plays at the Gerhard Hanappi Stadium which was opened on 10 May 1977 in a game against FK Austria.

[edit] Honours

Rapid Vienna is also Austria's record titleholder when including Vienna-only titles and titles won in Germany during the time of the Third Reich, winning the Austrian Championship title 32 times to date. Supporters of other teams sometimes argue that the 16 championship wins before the establishment of a nation wide all-Austrian league should not be counted. However, those titles are credited by most observers, since Viennese league play was virtually synonymous with Austrian football at that time. The wins of the German Championship and German Cup were possible due to Austria's annexation by Germany on March 12, 1938.

• Austrian Championship (32): 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, 1981-82, 1982-83, 1986-87, 1987-88, 1995-96, 2004-05, 2007-08

• 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 Championship: 1941

• German Cup: 1938

• Mitropa Cup: 1930, 1951

• Intertoto Cup: 1992, 1993

• Cup Winners' Cup Runners Up: 1985, 1996

[edit] Current squad

As of 31 August 2009

No. Position Player 1 GK Raimund Hedl 3 DF Jürgen Patocka 4 DF Milan Jovanović 6 DF Christian Thonhofer 7 MF Stefan Kulovits 8 MF Markus Heikkinen 9 FW Hamdi Salihi 11 MF Steffen Hofmann (captain) 13 DF Christoph Schößwendter 14 DF Markus Katzer 15 MF Boris Prokopić 16 FW Nikica Jelavić 17 MF Veli Kavlak 18 DF Hannes Eder

No. Position Player 19 MF Christopher Drazan 20 FW René Gartler 22 DF Ragnvald Soma 23 DF Andreas Dober 24 GK Helge Payer 27 MF Branko Bošković 28 FW Christopher Trimmel 30 GK Lukas Königshofer 31 DF Tanju Kayhan 33 FW Mario Konrad 35 MF Yasin Pehlivan 36 MF Muhammed Ildiz

[edit] Retired numbers

5 – Peter Schöttel

[edit] Notable players

Lists of "famous" or "notable" sports persons with no clear inclusion or exclusion criteria should be avoided. Such lists should be removed or replaced with verifiable lists of players recognized by the club, league, or another reliable source and be properly referenced.

Josef Bican Franz Binder Robert Dienst Ernst Dokupil Herbert Feurer Toni Fritsch György Garics Gerhard Hanappi Ernst Happel Andreas Heraf Andreas Herzog Josef Hickersberger Martin Hiden Andreas Ivanschitz Reinhard Kienast Michael Konsel Alfred Körner Robert Körner Hans Krankl Dietmar Kühbauer Jürgen Macho Sebastián Martínez

Max Merkel Peter Pacult Helge Payer Peter Persidis Heimo Pfeifenberger Erich Probst Karl Rappan Andreas Reisinger Gerhard Rodax Peter Schöttel August Starek Josef Uridil Heribert Weber Arnold Wetl Walter Zeman Steffen Hofmann Carsten Jancker Hossein Sadaghiani Farhad Majidi Jan Åge Fjørtoft Sulejman Halilović Zlatko Kranjčar

Branko Bošković Dejan Savićević Mario Bazina Mario Tokić Ladislav Maier Antonín Panenka René Wagner Peter Hlinka Jozef Valachovič Trifon Ivanov Krzysztof Ratajczyk Axel Lawarée Gaston Taument Andreas Lagonikakis Hugo Maradona Hernán Medford Erwin Hoffer Veli Kavlak Ümit Korkmaz

[edit] Managers since 1910

Dionys Schönecker 1910–1925 Stanley Willmott 1925–1926 Edi Bauer 1926–1936 Leopold Nitsch 1936–1945 Hans Pesser 1945–1953 Josef Uridil 1953–1954 Viktor Hierländer 1954–1955 Alois Beranek 1955–1956 Franz Wagner 1956 Max Merkel 1956–1958 Rudolf Kumhofer 1958–1959 Robert Körner 1959–1966 Rudolf Vytlacil 1966–1968 Karl Decker 1968–1970 Karl Rappan 1969–1970 Gerd Springer 1970–1972 Robert Körner 1972 Ernst Hlozek 1972–1975 Josef Pecanka 1975

Franz Binder/R. Körner 1975–1976 Antoni Brzezanczyk 1976–1977 Robert Körner 1977–1978 Karl Schlechta 1978–1979 Walter Skocik 1979–1982 Otto Barić 1982–1985 Vlatko Marković 1985–1986 Otto Barić 1986–1989 Hans Krankl 1989–1992 August Starek 1992–1993 Hubert Baumgartner 1993–1994 Ernst Dokupil 1994–1998 Heribert Weber 1998–2000 Ernst Dokupil 2000–2001 Peter Persidis 2001 Lothar Matthäus 2001–2002 Josef Hickersberger 2002–2005 Georg Zellhofer 2006 Peter Pacult 2006–

[edit] Team trivia

• SK Rapid Wien won the German Championship in 1941 and the German Cup in 1938.

[edit] SK Rapid Wien II Squad

No. Position Player 1 GK Ertan Uzun 2 DF Oliver Mohr 3 DF Philipp Schöberl 4 DF Nermin Jusić 6 DF Emanuel Sakić 8 FW Christopher Trimmel 9 MF Marcel Toth 11 MF Serkan Ciftci 12 DF Stefan Holzmeier 13 MF Matthias Muhr 15 FW Richard Jicinsky 16 DF Stephan Palla

No. Position Player 17 MF Thomas Bergmann 18 FW Mehmet Sütcü 19 MF Muhammed Ildiz 20 MF Michel Sandić 21 GK Nikola Kovacević 23 FW Thomas Fröschl 24 DF Cem Tosun 25 MF Arvedin Terzić 26 FW Daniel Luxbacher 27 MF Patrik Nagy 28 DF Dominik Huber 29 FW René Gartler

[edit] See also

• List of SK Rapid Wien records and statistics

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official Homepage
• Rapid at UEFA.COM
• Rapid at EUFO.DE
• Rapid at Weltfussball.de

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