SC Red Star Penzing
| SC Red Star Penzing | |
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Surname | SC Red Star Penzing |
| founding | 1903 |
| Colours | black red |
| president | Reinhard Krumpholz |
| Website | redstar-penzing.at |
| First soccer team | |
| Head coach | Michael Sonvilla |
| Venue | Car space |
| Places | nb |
| league | 2nd national league |
| 2018/19 | 3rd place |
The Red Star Penzing sports club , or SC Red Star Penzing for short, is a football club from the Ottakring district of the Austrian capital, Vienna .
history
The first years
The club was founded in 1903 with the club colors black and red, which are still valid today, as SC Red Star Vienna. Red Star joined the Football Union and in 1904 switched to the newly founded Austrian Football Association , where the club was divided into 2nd class. In this class, the Rotsterne , as the SC Red Star Vienna is affectionately known, celebrated their first championship title in the 1907/08 season. On the grounds that the club did not have its own sports facility, the SC Red Star was denied promotion to 1st class. Instead, the club Floridsdorfer AC , which was ten points behind Ottakringer, was allowed to move into the top division. The first official Austrian football championship was held in the 1911/12 season. After the association had revoked the championship title of 2nd class from Rennweger SV in 1901 , a qualifying game for promotion to 1st class was initiated between the two next-placed clubs, which SC Red Star just lost to ASV Hertha Wien . With this defeat, the Ottakringers missed becoming a founding member of the first championship. Red Star continued to play in the 2nd class and in 1913 acquired a plot of land near the Ottakringer Friedhof , which was the club's first home ground for at least a year. After the sports field had to give way to an allotment garden in 1914 , Red Star mutated again to sub-tenants for various clubs. Despite the lack of a home facility, the Ottakringer team won the title in 2nd class A in 1916, but could not move up to 1st class again due to the suspension of promotion and relegation during the war years . At the start of the following season, the SC Red Star had to give up its English name at the behest of "above" and was now called SC Rotstern Wien.
Interwar period
Immediately after the end of the war, however, the club resumed its old name. When the Association of Amateur Football Associations in Austria (VAFÖ) was founded on July 1 , 1926, deliberately differentiating it from the now exclusively professional General Austrian Football Association AÖFB , the Red Star workers' association joined it and became one of the leading clubs within the association. In the first year of 1927, the Rotsterne became VAFÖ champions of 1st class west and won some smaller cup competitions advertised by the association. After winning the class again in 1928, the SC Red Star played against the VAFÖ champions of 1st class East, the SC E-Werk Wien , for the Vienna VAFÖ championship title and won the game 4: 2. Also in 1928 the club merged with SC Sturm 1914 Vienna. With the onset of Austrofascism , the VAFÖ workers' association was forcibly dissolved in 1934. This fate also happened to all the clubs of the former association, including the SC Red Star. A short time later, however, the club was again allowed to participate in the championship of the Austrian Football Association. The club was divided into 3rd and last class and had to start all over again. The SC Red Star was hit worse by the expropriation of its own sports field at Vogelweidplatz, for which the Ottakringers had to fight for years to get it back. The following years were mainly characterized by several mergers of the club, which helped the SC Red Star to re-establish itself in the second tier. In 1935 the SC Red Star merged with a second club of the same name (!) Which was run by the union . In 1936 there was a merger with SC Neubau Wien , which was reversed a year later, and in 1937 it merged with the Wiener Sportvereinigung. It is noteworthy that the club name was always retained.
The years of the Ostmark
In 1940 the Red Stars had to rename themselves to SC Rot-Stern 03 by order of the National Socialist rulers . But as after the First World War, this renaming was reversed immediately after the war. Otherwise the difficult time of the Second World War could not harm the club. The club managed to keep the game going , also through the merger with district rivals FC Libertas Wien in 1941, and between 1939 and 1941 celebrated the vice-championship title of the 2nd class three times in a row. In August 1943 the club celebrated its 40th anniversary; For this reason, in an anniversary week, the club played a number of friendly matches against clubs in the division class, such as Floridsdorfer AC , SK Admira Vienna or Post-SG Vienna .
From 1945
With the introduction of the Austrian championship in 1949/50 it became more and more difficult for the Viennese clubs to assert themselves in the top leagues. In the 1950s, the club mostly shuttled between the State League B and the only third-class Vienna League. During the 1960s, the club was mostly to be found in the Vienna league , only in the 1967/68 season did the Ottakringers play in the second-rate regional league . In the following decade, the club did not get beyond the third and fourth level. In 1974 the merger with the association Ober-Sankt-Veit followed. The following year, the association moved into the car park on Kendlerstrasse. In 1977 another merger with the RAC-AO-Heimlich followed and in 1980 the merger with the SC Auto-Gerngroß to the SC Red Star / Auto . In 1982 followed with the championship title in the now fifth-class Viennese league, promotion to the 1st regional league (fourth division). A year later, the 1st regional league was renamed the Vienna League again. In the 1984/85 season, the SC Red Star / Auto took second place in the Vienna league and thus celebrated their return to the Regionalliga Ost. However, the club's playing strength was not enough to stay in the league, and so the Ottakringers spent the next few years in the Vienna league again. In 1990 the championship title in the Vienna League followed and the club was renamed SC Red Star-Heimlich . In the championship year 1997/98, the club entered into a cooperation with SK Rapid Wien . The reserve and junior teams continued to compete under the old club name, only the combat team was under the leadership of SK Rapid and was renamed SK Rapid Vienna Amateure / Red Star . After only one year, the cooperation was ended due to insurmountable differences with the green-white club management. However, the Rapid Amateurs kept the league place and the SC Red Star should start again for the second time in the last division. In order to avoid this fate, the club's management decided in 1998 to merge with SC Janecka- Penzing , which was also rented on the Red-Star-Platz , the new club name has since been SC Red Star Penzing . Under this name, they entered the game in 1st class in the 1998/99 season and in 2002 achieved promotion to the Oberliga A with second place. Since the 2014/15 season, SC Red Star Penzing has played in the the former upper leagues A and B merged and newly founded 2nd regional league. In the same year, winning the Toto Cup in May 2015 in the Ernst Happel Stadium was the greatest success in the club's history.
Finding a name
Towards the end of 1902, Ottakringer metal workers considered founding a club and discussed a sonorous club name. At Christmas 1902, some of these football fans strolled through Vienna's Ringstrasse at night and saw the brightly lit window of an American shipping company with the resounding name Red-Star-Line on the Kärntner Ring, with a red star shining on its logo. With that the club had found its name and its football crest.
The stadium question
When it was founded, the SC Red Star did not have its own sports facility, but instead set up a sub-tenant on Libertas Square in its early years. In 1913, the association leased a plot of land near the Ottakringer Friedhof, which, however, had to give way to an allotment garden a year later. In 1919, after a long search, they moved into a sports field in Herbertstrasse together with the second traditional Ottakring club, FC Libertas Vienna. However, the space was too small for both clubs and so in 1922 SC Red Star started to expand the sports facility Wien-West, which they moved into in 1923. On September 21, 1930, Karl-Volkert-Platz, which could hold 9,000 spectators, was opened at Vogelweidplatz 15 in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus, a new home facility that was even suitable for the first division. This sports facility, which is now often referred to as the “old Red Star course”, served the SC Red Star as a home until the 1970s, but then had to give way to an underground car park. The facility was also the venue for the handball world championship in 1966, when Austria won bronze at this place with a 17:15 victory over Switzerland. In 1975 the “Auto-Platz” sports facility in Kendlerstrasse was finally available, which meant that the club moved back to its founding district.
List of known players
Fans
SC Red Star Penzing is supported by the "Guardia Rossa" fan club for home and away games. Most of the fans come from the left-wing, partly communist camp and refer to the founding and tradition of SC Red Star Penzing as a workers' club. They often position themselves on social issues and regularly show choreographies.
Club name and merger partner
- 1916 Change of name to SC Rot-Stern Wien
- 1928 Merger with SC Sturm 1914 Vienna
- 1935 merger with Red Star (union)
- 1936 Fusion with SC new building to form SC Red Star / new building
- 1937 solution of the merger; Merger with the Vienna Sports Association
- 1940 Name change to SC Rot-Stern 03 Vienna
- 1941 merger with FC Libertas Vienna
- 1945 renamed SC Red Star Vienna
- 1974 Merger with Ober-Sankt Veit
- 1977 Merger with RAC-AO-Heimlich
- 1980 Merger with SC Auto-Gerngroß to become SC Red Star / Auto
- 1990 Name change to SC Red Star-Heimlich
- 1997 Cooperation with SK Rapid Wien as Rapid Wien Amateure / Red Star
- 1998 solution of the cooperation; Merger with SC Penzing-Janecka to form SC Red Star Penzing
Title & Achievements
- TOTO-Cup winner 2015
- Participation in the second division
- 2nd class master (2): 1908, 1916
- Champion of the 1st VAFÖ class West: 1927 and 1928
- Vienna VAFÖ champion: 1928
- Master 3rd class C (3): 1935
- Champion of the Vienna League (3): 1951, 1954, 1964
- Champion of the Vienna League (4): 1990
- Champion Unterliga A (5): 1980
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 40 years of Rotstern. In: Völkischer Beobachter. Battle sheet of the national (-) socialist movement of Greater Germany. Vienna edition / Vienna observer. Daily supplement to the “Völkischer Beobachter” , August 6, 1943, p. 5 (online at ANNO ). , accessed on January 11, 2020