First Vienna FC

First Vienna FC
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Surname	First Vienna Football Club 1894
Seat	Döbling , Vienna , Austria
founding	August 22, 1894
Colours	Blue yellow
Website	firstviennafc.at
First team
Head coach	Alexander Zellhofer
Venue	Hohe Warte stadium
Places	7,200
league	Vienna City League
2018/19	1st place (2nd national league) ▲
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The First Vienna Football Club 1894 , commonly known as First Vienna FC or simply referred to as the Vienna , is the oldest Austrian football club . From the 2019/2020 season, the men will play in the Vienna City League, Austria's fourth-highest division. The women's team, newly formed in 2012, plays in the Vienna Women's Regional League, the third highest division in Austrian women's football. "The Vienna" was founded on August 22nd, 1894 with the club colors blue and yellow and has played its games on the Hohe Warte , an elevation in the Vienna district of Döbling, since 1899 . The home stadium of Vienna was at times the largest stadium on the European continent and home to the Austrian national team with a capacity of 85,000 spectators (today 7,200) .

In its history, Vienna won the Austro-Hungarian, Austrian and German cup competitions. The highlight of the club's history was the victory in the Mitropapokal in 1931 , the forerunner of the European Cup , whereby the team remained unbeaten as the only one in the history of the competition.

history

Founding history

The First Vienna Football Club 1894 is the oldest football club in Austria. It was founded on August 22, 1894 under the law of an association. The inaugural meeting was held on the same day and the logo designed by William Beale, which is still valid today, was presented, which, based on his home country, the Isle of Man , represents a football framed by three legs. At that time the following gentlemen entered themselves in the membership register: Franz Joli, Max Hans Joli , William Beale, Major, Anlauf, James Black, Brabenetz, Kent, Roberts and Geo Fuchs, who acted as the first chairman of the association. As godparents, Baron Nathaniel Rothschild and General Director Schuster from the Rothschild bank launched the association in the “Zur Schöne Aussicht” inn . The club colors were set with blue and yellow, the colors of the Rothschild family crest.

The history of the club is closely linked to the history of Austrian football. When the soccer game moved to Austria-Hungary in the early 1890s , it first reached Prague , Graz , Baden near Vienna and in 1894 the metropolis of the old empire itself. As early as 1892, English people living in Vienna founded the Vienna Cricket Club . In 1894 the cricketers founded their own football department and renamed themselves First Vienna Cricket and Football Club.

At the same time as the cricket players, some men began playing football in the gardens of Baron Rothschild. It all started with the stories of the Englishman James Black, who is employed as a gardener there, who told his colleagues about English football and also introduced them to the rules. In Franz Joli, the son of the Austrian head gardener, who had just returned from a stay of several months from England and got to know the soccer game there, he soon found a colleague and both of them organized the first soccer match on the baron's meadow. In camera, four Englishmen competed against four Austrians and tore apart the splendid lawn of the baron, who loved his gardens. The banker and financier Nathaniel Mayer von Rothschild then banned the kickers from playing football on his facilities, but financed them to rent the Kuglerwiese and also paid for the team's training and games. Because of this support, the young men immediately decided to found the association and, out of gratitude, adopted the colors of their patron's coat of arms. The first teams went to their games with jockey hats and vertically divided blue-yellow shirts and looked like the jockeys of the Baron, who also owned a large and well-known racing team.

The fight for the first

The First Vienna Cricket and Football Club and the First Vienna Football Club submitted their statutes to the Lieutenancy almost at the same time, although the Döblinger's documents were processed earlier and First Vienna FC 1894 officially received the foundation of the association on August 22, 1894 . The cricketers received their certification exactly one day later, on August 23, 1894, and at the request of the Vienna also had to delete the name First from their names. This made Vienna the oldest football club in Austria. The English from the Prater, on the other hand, who were so keen on the title First , spoke of scandal and corruption. As a result, a rivalry that went beyond the sporting dimension developed between the two clubs, as it would later only exist between Rapid and Austria .

The first games

On November 15, 1894, the Vienna played the first official soccer match on Viennese soil against the Vienna Cricket and Football Club . The historic game took place in front of around 300 spectators on the Kuglerwiese, the home ground of Vienna, and ended with a clear 4-0 win for the Prater team. In contrast to the cricketers, whose team consisted exclusively of British , there were already some “real” Viennese in the ranks of the Döblinger . This encounter is still seen today as the birth of Austrian football, although two teams from the ATRV Graz competed against each other in the Styrian metropolis on March 18, 1894. The second leg took place on November 29, 1894 on the Jesuitenwiese in the Prater and ended again with a 4-0 win for the Vienna Cricket and Football Club. Only in the third derby of the two clubs, which took place on April 14, 1895, the Vienna was able to defeat the Cricketer for the first time. The game ended with the "standard result" of 4-0, but this time for First Vienna FC 1894 and, after winning the name dispute, represented the first sporting success over the competitor from the Prater.

The first successes

Challenge Cup and Tagblatt Cup 1897–1911
Vienna celebrated its first major successes in the Challenge Cup . This was held for the first time in 1897 and was basically open to all clubs in the monarchy. In the semifinals of the competition, First Vienna FC 1894 met their arch-rival and organizer of the competition, the Vienna Cricket and Football Club, and on November 15, 1897 lost the game on the Jesuitenwiese in the Prater with 2: 3. Gindl and Nicholson scored the goals of Vienna. The Vienna player MD Nicholson ensured with another goal, which was not recognized by the referee, that from this point onwards every goal had to be provided with goal nets, as has been customary in the motherland of football, England for years.

On November 27, 1898, Vienna won the semifinals with a goal from Lowe 1-0 against the Cricketers and was thus in the final of the Challenge Cup for the first time. In the final, which was held on March 5, 1899 on the Jesuitenwiese in the Prater, the Vienna defeated the final opponent AC Victoria Wien with 4: 1 and won their first Challenge Cup victory. The team that won the very first title for First Vienna FC 1894 consisted of the players Karl Mollisch, Alfred Marek, MD Nicholson, O'Hofer, Anlauf, Niedl, Retzbach, Schönpflug, Eckstein, Hans and Soldat .

In the following season 1899/1900 the Vienna defeated the Vienna FC 1898 3-1 in the semifinals and won the challenge for the second time in the final on March 11, 1900 with a 2-0 win against the Vienna Cricket and Football Club Cup . The goal scorers in the final were Eipel (Wilhelm Eipeldauer) and Albert. The winning team had the following appearance: Erwin Zander, Gilly ( Paul von Goldberger ), Franz Joli, Karl Mollisch, MD Nicholson, Paul Zander, Max Joli, Blooncy, Löwenbein, Eipel (Wilhelm Eipeldauer), Gindl, Albert, Eckstein, Willy Zander. In the following years, however, the Vienna was no longer able to make a decisive contribution to the Challenge Cup and was mostly eliminated from the competition very early.

The second major competition of that time was the Wiener Tagblatt-Pokal , which was already held according to the championship system . This was played from 1900 to 1903 and won by the Vienna AC every year . The Vienna took second place in 1902 and 1903, with the title win two and one point behind the WAC, respectively.

Important friendlies
On November 1, 1899, Vienna met DFC Prague as part of the new sports field opening . The Prague team had been unbeaten for two years and were considered the best continental team of the time. The team from Prague had traveled to Vienna in full and said in advance that they did not want to spoil the celebrations for the Viennese and therefore would definitely not score more than four goals. The Vienna team, newly formed by coach MD Nicholson, delivered a sensation with a 2-0 win with goals from Eipel and Gindl, which even the cricketers from the Prater greeted with cheers. The line-up of Vienna looked like this at that time: Mollisch (goal), Erwin and Paul Zander (defense), Blooncy, Alfred Marek, Gilly (cover), Gindl, Eipel, Albert, Eckstein and Willy Zander (attack).

The new team rushed from victory to victory and could beat the Cricketer on December 3, 1899. This success was of particular importance, as there was not a single Englishman left in the ranks of First Vienna FC and thus for the first time a purely Viennese team was able to defeat the Prater Club, which still consisted mostly of British. Vienna, headed by Hermann Schönaug from August 1899 to the autumn of 1904, achieved a number of other great successes after Nicholson left. First Vienna Football Club won 1901 against Slavia Prague (5: 3), Graz (7: 1), Wiener FC 1898 (8: 0) and Wiener AC (4: 2). In 1901/02 the Döblinger won a tournament in Margarethen and the Cricketer Whitsun tournament. In the big Rapid tournament they reached the decision, but had to leave the victory to the cricketers.

In 1904, Franz Joli, a founding member from 1894, took over the management of the association. This year's anniversary team was one of the strongest the club had so far and consisted of Pekarna (goal), Eipel, Weiß (defense), Dick, Blooncy, Lencewski, called Lintsch (cover) and Kellner, Kohn, Albert, Weißberg and Kreisl (Attack) together. One of the greatest successes this team achieved in 1904 was a 5-3 away win against DFC Prague . At halftime, the Bohemians were already 3-0 up before Weißberg and Kohn equalized with three goals within five minutes and Kellner led Vienna to victory with two more goals. Also worth mentioning are a 5-3 win against Slavia Prague and a 6-0 win over Sparta Prague . The highlight of the anniversary year was a surprising 4-3 home win against the then German champions TuFC Union 92 Berlin . In this game, too, the unconditional will to win was shown by the Viennese who were able to decide the game in their favor again after a 3-0 half-time result.

The first years of the championship 1912–1923

First Vienna FC 1894 has played 68 seasons in the top Austrian league so far and was a founding member of the first official championship in the opening season 1911/12 . The Döblinger reached the sixth final rank in the first season, but rose at the end of the game year 1913/14 from the former first class . The Vienna officials were responsible for the fact that the league was relegated or left the league. After a relegation game between the last of the 1st class and the master of the 2nd class took place in the previous two game years, they submitted an application to abolish the relegation games and to introduce automatic promotion and relegation. When the football association granted this request and Vienna surprisingly landed itself on the relegation zone, the Döblinger officials immediately protested against their own (!) Request. The association did not get involved in this farce and confirmed the descent of the blue-yellows. Vienna then withdrew from the association and founded the Football Association in Lower Austria (FBiNÖ), a rival association in Lower Austria and, together with clubs from Bohemia and Prague, the Football Union of Austrian Nations (FUAN), a counter-association to the ÖFV, which dissolved again after two years. In 1916 the Döblinger returned to the ÖFV and got back into the championship in 2nd class. In the 1918/19 season the players Pekarna II, Blum, Rumbold, Grabner, Weber, Peschek, Eckel, Tremmel, Fritthum, Hatschi and Edelbacher achieved the championship title of the 2nd class and promotion to the highest league.

From follower to top club 1924–1937

On the way to their first cup victory in
1924, the Döblinger were able to look forward to the title of runner-up for the first time (behind the Wiener Amateur-SV ). The following year, the professional championship was introduced in Austria. First Vienna FC 1894 reached third place and played their way into the final in the ÖFB Cup for the first time. There, however, the Vienna was defeated on November 8, 1925 by the Wiener Amateur-SV 1: 3. In the cup final of 1926, both clubs met again, but again the Döblinger lost the final against the amateurs 3: 4. The goal scorers of the Blue-Yellows, who were runner-up again this year, were Bulla (2) and Siklossy.

On May 30, 1929, Vienna celebrated the greatest success since winning the Challenge Cup in 1900 by winning the Cup over Rapid. In an exciting match in front of 35,000 spectators on the Hohe Warte, the Döblinger beat the Hütteldorfer with goals from Giebisch, Karl Gerhold and Gschweidl with 3: 2. With this success, First Vienna FC 1894 was once again one of Austria's top clubs. In 1930 Vienna took third place in the table, just two points behind Rapid and Admira, but won the ÖFB Cup again after fighting their way through to the final with a 4-0 win over Rapid. The final opponent this time was FK Austria Wien. The game was played in front of 12,000 spectators on the Pfarrwiese and the result was 1-0 for Döblinger with a goal by Fritz Gschweidl in the 76th minute.

Championship honors and Mitropacup victory
The 1930/31 season should be the next highlight of the team after the attempts in previous years. On June 7, 1931, the Döblinger defeated the title contender FK Austria Wien 4-1 and thus won the first Austrian championship title for the first time . As champions, Vienna was allowed to play in the Mitropacup in 1931 and, together with the Vienna AC, which had qualified as the winner of the Winter Cup, ensured Austria's greatest success in this international competition. Both clubs reached the final, with Vienna first defeating the Hungarian club Bocskai FC Debrecen 3-0 and 4-0 and finally AS Roma 3-2 and 3-1. First Vienna FC 1894 won the first final game in Zurich 3-2, the second leg at Hohen Warte 3-1. The Vienna won the Mitropacup for the first time and once.

After the runner-up title in 1932, Vienna was again at the top of the championship in 1933. Equipped with what was by far the best defense at the time, they were three points ahead of Rapid at the top of the table and were able to celebrate their second championship title. In 1936 the Döblinger finished second in the championship for the fourth time and failed in the cup final with 0: 3 at Wiener Austria. The blue and yellow celebrated their third and to this day last cup win in 1937 2-0 over the Wiener Sport-Club. In the championship, however, it was only enough for the Vienna to come in third this year.

The time of the "Ostmark" - Vienna's golden era

Old logo of the club

During the annexation of Austria to the German Reich , First Vienna FC won the Ostmark championship three times in a row from 1942 to 1944 . By winning this title, the club was entitled to take part in the final round of the German championship . The Vienna managed to advance to the final in 1942, but lost there against Schalke 04. In 1943 and 1944, the Döblinger reached the semi-finals and the quarter-finals of the German championship. The greatest success of this time, however, was winning the German cup competition of 1943 against LSV Hamburg .

Final game for the German championship in 1942
In the qualifying round they faced LSV Olomouc (Olomouc, Czech Republic) and won 1-0 away at the Olomouc stadium. With two home wins in Vienna's Prater Stadium against Germania Königshütte (1-0) and Planitzer SC (3-2), the Viennese reached the semi-finals and met the Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin team there . The Döblinger won the game in the Olympiastadion Berlin with 3-2. In the final, however, a 2-0 defeat against FC Schalke 04 followed .

Tschammer Cup 1943
In autumn 1943, the fighting in the German Tschammer Cup began . With victories over the Wiener AC , Floridsdorfer AC , Breslau 02 and the 1. FC Nürnberg , the Vienna played their way up to the final of the German cup competition, which took place on October 31, 1943 in Stuttgart. The final opponent LSV Hamburg was defeated 3-2 in extra time. The winning goal against the Hamburg team was scored by guest player Rudolf Noack , who was stationed in Vienna as a soldier. Hans Schwarzer , Otto Kaller , Karl Bortoli , Gottfried Gröbel , Ernst Sabeditsch , Richard Dörfel , Franz Holeschofsky , Karl Decker , Richard Fischer , Rudolf Noack and Franz Widhalm were in the victorious team of the German cup winners .

Final round of the German championship in 1943
The master of the sports class "Ostmark" started with a 5-2 home win over MSV Brno from South Moravia and an 8-0 victory away in Breslau against LSV Reinecke Brieg from Lower Silesia . In the quarter-finals, the Viennese beat TSV 1860 Munich in the Prater Stadium 2-0 and met FV Saarbrücken in the semi-finals . The Saarbrücken won the game, which was played in Stuttgart , 2-1, which meant that Vienna only had the game for third place. This took place on June 26, 1943 in the Berlin Post Stadium and ended with a 1: 4 defeat against Holstein Kiel .

Final round of the German championship in 1944
In the first round of the last German war championship, Döblinger beat MSV Brno 6: 3 away. In the round of 16 they met STC Hirschberg from Silesia and won the game in the Prater Stadium 5-0. In the quarter-finals, Vienna met Dresdner SC . The match took place away from home in Dresden and ended with a 3-2 home win for the hosts.

Austrian champion for the sixth time

The first competition in the new Austria was the Liberation Cup donated by the Russians. Vienna won this small cup competition with a 3-1 victory in the final against SC Helfort . In the championship, the Döblinger did not play a decisive role for a long time. At the beginning of the 1950s, the team became steadily stronger and in the 1954/55 season there was finally another high point in the club's history. The team was represented in the top ranks from the start and in the end won the sixth Austrian championship title due to the better goal difference compared to the Wiener Sport-Club . Almost the entire Vienna team was part of the A or B national team . A noteworthy event occurred in 1956 with the first floodlight game in Vienna, where Vienna met SC Wacker . The floodlight system in Vienna's Prater Stadium, on the other hand, was only inaugurated ten days later at the SK Rapid European Cup match against Real Madrid .

1968 to 1986: a steady up and down

In the following years and decades, the club from Döbling gradually lost its importance. In 1968, Vienna rose from the top division for the first time since 1919, lying on the penultimate place in the table. In the following season, the club managed to immediately return to the national league and with a changed team, the Vienna 1970/71 even reached fourth place in the championship. After that, blue-yellows were mostly only in the lower third of the table and had to relegate from the top division with the introduction of the 10th division as the third Viennese club, only in eleventh place. Until 1986 (!) The Döblinger changed the league between the first and second division almost year after year. Even in the 1979/80 season, when the team was strengthened with August Starek and Hans Krankl , Vienna was unable to maintain itself in the 1st division of the Bundesliga. Even 13 goals by Hans Krankl could not prevent relegation this season.

1986 to 1993: Mario Kempes, UEFA Cup and the last promotion to the Bundesliga

In 1986 Vienna put all other Bundesliga clubs in the shade with a sensational transfer. The Döblinger managed to hire the Argentine world champion Mario Kempes . With the help of Kempes and the former Austrian national player Gerhard Steinkogler, the team had the quality to stay in the 1st Bundesliga. In the years that followed, many well-known players came to Döbling and Vienna slowly grew back into a very good team. In the winter of 1987 Kurt Russ from Kapfenberger SV and Andreas Herzog came to the club on loan from Rapid . Both were at the beginning of a great career and were already significant reinforcements for Vienna. Kurt Russ was a frequent national player, Andi Herzog's career is well known. Herzog developed so quickly to a top player and national player at Vienna that his parent club Rapid brought him back to Hütteldorf after one season . Another great player in Austrian football who came to the national team via Vienna was Peter Stöger . But many others, such as Peter Webora, Andreas Heraf , Hannes Reinmayr , Ivica Vastić and Gerald Glatzmayer , wore the blue and yellow dress from 1987 to 1992. After a long dry spell, Vienna was able to qualify twice for the UEFA Cup in these years and had thus achieved the goal of finally being able to play in a major international competition again. When participating in the UEFA Cup in the 1988/1989 and 1989/1990 seasons , Vienna was able to advance into the second round. In the 1988/1989 season, the Danish representative Ikast FS was eliminated in the first round (results 1: 0 and 1: 2). In the second round, the Vienna failed very close to the Finnish representative Turku ; the two home goals by Drabits and Glatzmayer were not enough (results 2: 1 and 0: 1). In the following season 1989/1990 the Maltese representative FC Valletta was clearly beaten 4: 1 and 3: 0 in the first round (a total of three hits from Balzis). As in the previous season, the second round was only due to the away goal rule for Vienna. Against the Greek representative Olympiacos Piraeus , Vienna fought well and achieved two draws (2: 2 and 1: 1) due to goals from Niederstrasser, Haiden and Jenisch.

1993 to 2009: Cup final and relegation to the third division

In 1993/94 Vienna played again in the 2nd division. With a balanced, but still only average squad, it was hoped to achieve promotion to the 1st division of the Bundesliga again in the anniversary year; However, coach Rudi Eggenberger only managed to reach the sixth rank, which was ultimately to be expected. In the following years, the Döblinger were very often close to the rise, but could not achieve their goal.

In 1997, Vienna achieved its last major success when it entered the ÖFB Cup final . With wins against Trausdorf (4: 1), FC Tulln (3: 1), FK Austria Wien (3: 1) and DSV Leoben (3: 0) they reached the quarter-finals. The Grazer AK waited there , who could be defeated 1-0. In the semifinals, Vienna met SV Austria Salzburg , who celebrated their third championship title this season. In an exciting and thrilling match, Vienna was able to wrest a 2-2 draw after extra time from Salzburg and win the subsequent penalty shoot-out with a sensational 8: 7. After 36 years, Vienna was back in the final of the Austrian Cup. The opponent was defending champion SK Sturm Graz in front of 14,000 spectators in the Ernst Happel Stadium . The game started very unlucky for the Döblinger team. Already in the fifth minute the Graz team were awarded a penalty, which was converted by former Vienna player Ivica Vastić . The blue and yellow were almost equal to the first division, but had to accept the 0: 2 by Jens Dowe in the 74th minute . The next goal for the Viennese resulted from an own goal by Mario Posch in the 88th minute. The Vienna offered an excellent performance and could go off the field with their heads held high. The Vienna team in the final, which is the last important appearance so far: Heinz Weber, Franz Blizenec, Christoph Jank, Alexander Jank, Andreas Gutlederer, Manfred Wachter, Peter Pospisil, Hans Slunecko, Martin Lang, Zeljko Radovic, Michael Strasser and as substitutes Manfred Preschern and Martin Cestnik.

Logo 2000-2003

Under coach Walter Skocik , Vienna had to enter the third highest division, the Regionalliga Ost , for the first time in the club's history in the 2000/01 season . The club stayed in the Regionalliga Ost until the 2008/2009 season and made several places in the upper midfield.

2009 to 2014: City hall victory and return to the second division

With Peter Stöger as trainer and Nikolaus Gutmann as manager, Vienna was able to achieve a respectable success at the beginning of 2009 by winning the traditional Vienna City Hall tournament for the first time. The Döblinger made first place in the 2008/09 season and returned to Austria's second-highest division after eight years in third division. At the end of the season, Peter Schöttel joined the team. In the 2009/2010 season they finished eleventh and penultimate place. The relegation games against the West League champion SV Grödig were canceled because the Bundesliga relegated FC Carinthia was revoked.

In the 2010/11 game year Vienna was again penultimate before relegated SV Gratkorn , but the new coach Alfred Tatar managed to win the relegation games against the champions of the Regionalliga Ost, SC-ESV Parndorf 1919 , 3-0 and 2-1. In the following year, the Döblinger team under Tatar only secured eighth place in the 36th and last round and only distanced the penultimate FC Lustenau because of the better goal difference. In the 2012/13 season, Vienna stayed away from the relegation battle with good performances and finished in 7th place, but was given a 3-point minus for the 2013/14 season because of violations of the license provisions. At the end of the season, the Vienna and successful coach Tatar announced the amicable separation.

2014 to 2017: Relegation to the Regionalliga Ost

The 2013/14 season was not very pleasant in any respect without Tatar: The traditional Viennese club was knocked off last, and no less than 13 points were deducted for various licensing violations, and the license for the 2014/15 season in professional football was refused.

The Vienna therefore had to play in the third-class Regionalliga Ost from the 2014/15 season .

2017 to today: forced relegation to the 5th division

In 2017 the association had to file for bankruptcy. In May 2017, the creditors agreed to a compensation with a quota of 30%, whereby the association has to pay out 10% immediately and 20% in the next two years. Since a total of 1.4 million euros in claims were recognized, 30% corresponds to 420,000 euros. This prevented bankruptcy . At the same time, the insurance company Uniqa was presented as the new main sponsor. It was initially unclear whether a further stay in the Regionalliga Ost was possible, as the club fought against the forced relegation prescribed by the ÖFB in court and obtained an injunction . In July 2017, however, the appeal of the ÖFB was granted, which meant that Vienna lost its eligibility to play in the regional league. Around a week after the appeal was upheld, Vienna received its eligibility to play in the regional league again, but the Supreme Court decided on November 28, 2017 that the club had to relegate to the 2nd regional league (fifth highest performance level).

After the promotion to the Vienna City League with 3rd place was missed in 2017/18 , the championship title in the 2nd regional league finally succeeded in 2018/19 and thus the promotion.

Divisions

Period	Division The number in brackets indicates the level of the division (1 = highest level)
1912-1914	First class (1)
1915-1916	Resigned from the association
1917-1919	Second grade (2)
1920-1924	First class (1)
1925-1936	I. League (1)
1937-1938	National League (1)
1939	Gauliga Ostmark (1)
1940-1941	Area class Ostmark (1)
1942	Area class Danube-Alpenland (1)
1943-1944	Gauliga Danube Alpenland (1)
1945	no championship
1946-1949	First class (1)
1950-1965	League A (1)
1966-1968	National League (1)
1969	Regionalliga East (2)
1970-1974	National League (1)
1975-1976	National League (2)
1977-1980	1st division (1)
1981-1982	2nd division (2)
1983	1st division (1)
1984	2nd division (2)
1985	1st division (1)
1986	2nd division (2)
1987-1992	1st division (1)
1993-1998	2nd division (2)
1999	1st division (2)
2000-2001	First division (2)
2002-2009	Regionalliga East (3)
2009-2014	First division (2)
2014-2017	Regionalliga East (3)
2017-2019	2nd national league (5)
2019–	Vienna City League (4)

titles and achievements

title

• 6 × Austrian champion : 1931 , 1933 , 1942 , 1943 , 1944 , 1955
• 3 × Austrian Cup winners : 1929 , 1930 , 1937
• 1 × German cup winner : 1943
• 2 × Challenge Cup winners : 1899, 1900
• 1 × Mitropa Cup winner : 1931
• 1 × Alpine Prize : 1941
• 1 × Liberation Cup winner: 1945
• 2 × Intertoto Cup winners : 1988 , 1990
• 1 × Vienna City Hall tournament winner : 2009
• 2 × Champion Regionalliga Ost (3rd division) : 2009 , 2017

successes

• 6 × Austrian runner-up : 1924 , 1926 , 1932 , 1936 , 1957 , 1961
• 1 × German runner-up : 1942
• 6 × Austrian Cup finalists : 1925 , 1926 , 1936 , 1946 , 1961 , 1997
• 68 first division seasons : 1912–1914, 1920–1944, 1946–1968, 1970–1974, 1977–80, 1983, 1985, 1987–1992

Top scorer

• 1944 Karl Decker 33 goals
• 1950 Karl Decker 23 goals
• 1956 Hans Buzek 33 goals
• 2009 Osman Bozkurt 26 goals (3rd division)

Known players

Heroes of the Stone Age Football (before 1912)

Mark Nicholson played for West Bromwich Albion for years and was transferred to Vienna by his employer, the international travel agency "Cook & Son". At the time, Vienna was still a predominantly English club and so Nicholson was soon playing for Austria's oldest football club. He was not only by far the best footballer in Vienna at the time and an absolute star and box office magnet of his club, but also soon took over agendas as organizer and functionary at Vienna. In 1898, Nicholson organized the committee for the organization of soccer competitions , which merged to form the Austrian Soccer Union on January 4, 1900 , and was the first president of this first Austrian soccer association. When Nicholson returned to England he was the first honorary captain to leave Vienna for life.

On the occasion of its ten-year existence, Vienna invited some well-known football clubs to a tournament in Döbling at Pentecost 1904, in which the Glasgow Rangers and the Danish Bolden Club also took part. After an injury to the Danish goalkeeper, Vienna loaned the Bolden Cluben their goalkeeper Karl Pekarna , who impressed the Scottish opponents with an incredible performance to such an extent that they engaged him in the same year. The then 22-year-old Viennese goalkeeper became the first Austrian football professional and legionnaire and also the first Austrian footballer on the British island.

In this context, it is also worth mentioning other players from this era who distinguished themselves both through their performance and their personality. Among them was the defender Wilhelm Eipeldauer , known as Eipel , who, according to tradition at the time, did not speak a single word for 90 minutes during a game, and the striker Kohn, who in turn talked incessantly and not only with his teammates but also with himself, spoke to the opponents and the referees. According to tradition, he is said to have given a speech to the assembled players with every throw-in, free kick and out. Other well-known names of this era were Heinrich Lenczewsky, known as Lintsch , Heinrich Retschury , who later became the star referee, and Franz Weber , all of whom were several national players and great footballers of their time.

Wonder team players and other greats (until 1945)

Josef Blum Otto Fischer Leopold Giebisch Friedrich Gschweidl Leopold Hofmann Otto Kaller

Adolf Laudon Leo Machu Rudolf Noack Karl Rainer Willibald Schmaus Josef Uridil

Franz Mandl

Known players from 1946 to 1974

Hans Buzek Karl Decker Karl Koller Hans Menasse Ernst Sabeditsch

Kurt Schmied Rudolf Röckl Bruno Engelmeier Josef Epp Rainer Schlagbauer

Blue-Yellow Stars (from 1975)

Peter Artner Ralf Balzis Franz Blicenec Steffen Bury Martin Cestnik Alfred Drabits Gerhard Franz Gerald Glatzmayer Konstantin Grussmann Andreas Gutlederer Andreas Heraf

Andreas Herzog Friedrich was called Rudolf Hevera Ulf Hollsten Alexander Jank Christoph Jank Ewald Jenisch Tino Jessenitschnig Mario Kempes Michael Konsel Hans Krankl

Andreas Lipa Kimmo Lipponen Jürgen Macho Ernst Mader Thomas Mandl Marjan Marković Sebastián Martínez Peter Master Richard Niederbacher Jiří Ondra Zoltan Peter

Herbert Poindl Günther Pospischil Marcus Pürk István Puskás Zeljko Radovic Hannes Reinmayr Kurt Russ Christian Salaba Andreas Spielmann Hans Slunecko Gerhard Steinkogler

Peter Stöger (trainer) Laurens ten Heuvel Ivica Vastić Günther Vidreis Franz Weber Heinz Weber Peter Webora Helmut Zimmermann

Women's football section

1990–1997: First women's team

In 1990, Vienna also founded a women's team, which immediately entered the top division of the women's Bundesliga . In the opening season, the women of Vienna only finished 11th and penultimate place, but were able to remain in the league due to the voluntary withdrawal of other teams. In 1991 the team was able to improve to fifth place and in 1992 the Döblingen women celebrated their best result in the club's history with fourth championship rank. At that time, only seven points were missing from the champions Union Kleinmünchen Linz . In the following year only eight points could be conquered during the entire season and Vienna had to be relegated from the Bundesliga in eighth place. After a sixth place in the 1993/94 season in the 2nd Division East, the Viennese women achieved promotion to the Bundesliga in 1995 with second place in this division. In the top division, Vienna only reached 3rd place in the relegation play-off in 1995/96, but would have managed to stay in the league. However, the club withdrew voluntarily from the league and took third place in 1997 in the 2nd Division East. After the end of the game year, the Döblinger women's football section was dissolved in autumn 1997. The team then switched to FC Hellas Kagran and in 2000, under the leadership of the green-black Kagran team, made it to the women's Bundesliga.

2011: youth teams

In 2011, Vienna began setting up and supervising new girls' teams in their junior division. There are now teams for the U12, U14 and U15 age groups that play championships. Since autumn 2018, Vienna has also been building a U10 team that will start the championship in the following year.

2012: Second women's team

Since autumn 2012 there has been a women's fighting team again, which started in the first class women in the 2012/13 season, became champions and rose to the Vienna women's regional league - the third highest division in Austrian women's football. In this, the team became champions in the 2017/18 season and qualified for the 2nd league east / south.

Fan culture

An average of 2,053 fans attended the Vienna league games in the 2011/2012 season. Up to 3,700 people came to the Hohe Warte for top games. Although the great sporting successes of Vienna are a thing of the past, the club still enjoys diverse support from various fan groups. The fans borrow strongly from a British football culture, which is noticeable through the numerous English-language chants. Many fan chants are also characterized by humor and self-irony.

The most important associations are the "Döblinger Koyoten", the "Vienna Wanderers" and the "Antifa Döbling". All fan groups share the principle of positive support. Instead of reviling the opponent and his fans, the focus is on supporting your own team. Many fans are active against racism , sexism and homophobia , which is why political banners can be seen regularly in the fan sectors and on the fallow parts of the natural arena. The stadium's house rules are explicitly directed against the distribution of right-wing extremist propaganda material. The relationship between the club and the fans can be described as good, even if there is occasional criticism of decisions made by the club's management. "First Vienna FC 1894 is proud to be supported by such a diverse and creative fan pool," reads the club's official website.

The fans of Vienna maintain friendly relations with the supporters of Blau-Weiß Linz and especially with the fans of the Vienna sports club, which also plays in the Regionalliga Ost . After Vienna's relegation to the Regionalliga Ost in 2014, there are direct encounters between the two clubs again. During the brief "guest appearance" of Vienna in the first division, only friendly matches were possible. Games against the Viennese sports club, which are often referred to as the "little Viennese derby" or affectionately by the fans as the "Dörby of Love", often attract over 5,000 spectators and bring the clubs considerable income.

From the Kuglerwiese to the Hohe Warte - the stadium

Natural grandstand on the Hohe Warte

Fortified grandstand on the opposite side

Panorama from May 6, 2011 during the first division match between Vienna and Altach

The first home of Vienna was the Kuglerwiese near Heiligenstädter Straße until May 31, 1896 . In September 1896 the association moved to the Kreindlwiese . This was next to the institute for the blind on the Hohe Warte and was leased to the association by the brickyard owner Kreindl. The main thing about the course was that the terrain was completely uneven and the players constantly had to run up and downhill. Another move was only a matter of time. In 1899 they left the inclined plane of the Kreindlwiese and leased the area of ​​today's Hohe-Warte-Bad in order to build the largest soccer field in Vienna and to meet the growing public interest. The new chairman and successor to the first President Geo Fuchs, Hermann Schönaug, contributed with a great deal of personal commitment to the fact that the new home of the Blue-Yellows could be completed quickly for the conditions at the time. On November 1, 1899, the so-called “old Hohe Warte” was officially opened with the brilliant 2-0 win against DFC Prague . In 1910, the Vienna AF became a subtenant on the Hohe Warte. Eduard Schönecker, the architect and builder of the Hohe-Warte Stadium after the First World War, was also on the board of the WAF.

In 1919 the municipality of Vienna terminated the lease agreement and left the property to a film company. After the sports facility on the "old Hohe Warte" had been razed to the ground, the club officials decided to purchase a piece of land on which the lower-class FC Ostmark had created a sports facility. This was already the site of today's Hohe Warte , but at that time the playing field was set across. The then club president Mauthner entrusted the planning for the new stadium, which was to hold 90,000 spectators and cost over 5 million crowns, to the civil engineer Eduard Schönecker. He was very familiar with the matter through the construction of the Rapidplatz and also ensured that the system was completed in a record time (for the conditions at the time). On June 19, 1921, the natural arena on the Hohe Warte was opened with the championship game of Vienna against Hakoah (2: 1). This natural arena is still the home of the Vienna today and an impressive one-of-a-kind stadium construction.

The Hohe Warte, at that time one of the largest stadiums in Europe, not only served the Vienna as a modern venue, but was also the triumphal site of the national team in the era of the wonder team . In order to be able to use the facility optimally, many other sporting and cultural events were held. In the post-war period, the Hohe Warte had to be shared with the American occupation army. Only baseball was played on the main field until 1952; it was not until the spring of 1953 that the facility was reopened for football.

Due to the slow decline, the capacity of the stadium has now been limited to 4,500 seats and later expanded to 7,200 through the construction of new tubular steel stands . To bring some money into the cash register, the club also offers space for fringe sports such as rugby and American football in the stadium. The natural arena opposite the fortified grandstand is still popular with families, especially during the summer months, but is no longer allowed to be used as an auditorium after a municipal decision.

The current presidium

• President: currently none in office
• Vice-Presidents: Robert Hammerl, Kurt Svoboda, Mario Herzog, Jonas Puck
• Supervisory board: Peter Winkler (chairman), Adolf Tiller, Peter Smirz, Peter Markuzy, Alexander Juraske, Stefan Petrofsky, Peter Kaiser, Alexander Widter, Angelika Pipal-Leixner

Web links

Commons : First Vienna FC  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the First Vienna Football Club 1894
• fan page

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vienna: The title beckons, relegation threatens. kurier.at, March 16, 2017, accessed on March 28, 2017 . 
2. ↑ See the extract from the association register under ZVR number 828814177 on zvr.bmi.gv.at , accessed on April 26, 2017.
3. ^ Vienna: License and point deduction. (No longer available online.) Laola1.at, May 15, 2013, archived from the original on November 9, 2013 ; accessed on March 20, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Vienna and Tatar parted amicably , sn.at
5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Vienna saved from bankruptcy. In: wien.orf.at. May 31, 2017. Retrieved November 11, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Court gives appeal result ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. oefb.at, accessed on July 9, 2017 
9. ↑ Statement on the new development ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. oefb.at, on July 18, 2017, accessed on July 18, 2017 
10. ^ Judgment of the Supreme Court. (No longer available online.) In: firstviennafc.at. November 28, 2017, archived from the original on December 1, 2017 ; accessed on November 28, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ The young girls' teams of Vienna ( Memento of the original from November 27, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , firstviennafc.at, November 27, 2018 
12. ^ First Vienna FC 1894 - women. In: firstviennafc.at. Archived from the original on March 18, 2016 ; accessed on July 12, 2019 . 
13. ↑ The control room continues to grow. December 16, 2011, accessed July 21, 2012 . 
14. ↑ fans

Coordinates: 48 ° 14 '56 "  N , 16 ° 21' 35"  E