SV Admira Wiener Neustadt

SV Admira Wiener Neustadt
	SV Admira Wiener Neustadt
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Basic data
Seat	Wiener Neustadt , Lower Austria
founding	1919
Colours	blue-black
Board	René Pauer (chairman)
ZVR number	122764649
First soccer team
Head coach	Christophorus Scheibelhofer
Venue	Admira sports complex
Places
league	2nd class Steinfeld
2018/19	13th place

The SV Admira Wiener Neustadt is an Austrian football club from Wiener Neustadt in Lower Austria .

history

Founding history of the workers' sports club

As early as 1915, young football enthusiasts from the Josefstadt district of Wiener Neustadt got together to chase the ball, known at the time as "Fetzenlaberl", on the airfield in Etrichgasse. In 1918 some of these young men decided to start a new football club. In 1919, the Admira Wiener Neustadt workers' sports club was registered with the authorities and officially founded. In the first years of the championship, the club started exclusively with players from Josefstadt and from the airfield. A few years after it was founded, the workers' sports club moved from Wöllersdorferstrasse to today's Wackerplatz in Fischauergasse.

Between the wars and promotion to the national class

In the 1922/23 season, the young team won their first championship title with the superior title win in the 4th class. In 1930 the club was just about to be dissolved, but with a new team, the Wiener Neustädter soon achieved promotion to 1st class south. Due to the political unrest in Austria in 1934, the worker's club was forced to stop playing, but could be resumed in 1935 with the combat team and for the first time with a youth team. In addition to countless successes in friendly matches against clubs from Prague , Brno , Olomouc , Budapest and Ödenburg , in the 1935/36 game year they finally achieved a success over their traditional city rivals, the Lower Austrian national champion 1. Wiener Neustädter SC, founded in 1908 and up to then four times . This successful team at that time included players like Grün, Roschka, Ochsenhofer, Wallisch, Schäffler, Schügerl and Novotny.

Fusion and first flight after the war

After the Second World War , Admira was the first football club in Lower Austria to resume its gaming operations and moved from Wacker-Platz to what is now the club's own Admiraplatz. The club name changed through the support of the Raxwerke in ASK Raxwerke Admira Wiener Neustadt . A short time later, the workers' sports club merged with the Josefstadt soccer club (under the management of Ing.Lo Kalchgruber and Bela Füzi) and over the next few decades appeared as SV Raxwerke Admira-Josefstadt .

At the end of the 1951/52 season, the Wiener Neustädter relegated from 1st class to 2nd class South, but in 1955 they managed to get promoted and made their way through to the 2nd Lower Austrian League. The Admirans achieved their greatest post-war success to date with the championship title of the 1957/58 season and the associated promotion to the third-class national league. In addition to this championship title, a sporting highlight was the friendly match against a selection from Hungary , in which stars like Ferenc Puskás and Sándor Kocsis showed their skills. "Tschinnerl" Gerdenitz, Emmerich and Egon Remely, Hans Schicker, Hans Mürkl, Franz Fröhlich, Friedl Janovsky and Erwin Janska belonged to the successful team of Josefstadt.

SV Raxwerke Admira-Josefstadt finished its first year in the national league in eleventh place, in the following season 1959/60 it was at least fifth place. For the time being, the relegation from the national league with established players such as Sandor Majoros, Karl Miessler, Walter Lassnig, the ex-international Hans Menasse and the former Rapidler Hans Riegler, who acted as player-coach, as well as the young Herbert Halbauer (later president of the club), Kurt Schaffler ( later vice chairman), Adi Fürbacher (later sports director) and Kurt Lisy are still prevented. After eight years in the regional league, the sports club finally had to relegate to the 2nd division in 1966 and a year later to the 1st class south.

The golden years and promotion to the national league

In 1968, when Hans Besenlehner took on the role of coach, the golden age of Admira began, which culminated within five years with the march from 1st class to the national league, the top professional division in Austria at the time. In 1969 the club celebrated the superior championship title in front of the city rivals ESV Wacker in the sub-league south-southeast, in 1971 the blue-blacks were already playing in the national league.

For the first season in what was then the third level, Admira strengthened itself with Fritz Tiefenbrunner, Hubert Hutfless and Sigi Pfalzer from local rivals 1. Wiener Neustädter SC and sat down in the fight for promotion to the regional league against established regional league clubs such as SC Marchegg , Kremser SC and Badener AC think through. The successful regional league troop, which also celebrated their first win in the Lower Austrian regional cup in the same season, included Horst Hasenkopf, "Gigi" Piringer, Ernstl Schwarz, Josef Zacsek and Horst Cerwenka.

For the regional league season, SV Raxwerke Admira-Josefstadt strengthened itself with prominent and national league-experienced newcomers such as Rapids national player Walter Glechner and Austria's defender Alfons Dirnberger. Then there were Rudolf Hasenöhrl and Reinhard Siebenbrunner from Wacker and ex- St. Pölten's Marcel Prugger. During the winter break, the Admira secured the autumn championship title in a gripping finish ahead of local rivals 1. Wiener Neustädter SC. At the end of the 1971/72 season, the Lower Austrians won the championship title four points ahead of SV Wienerberger and five points ahead of the traditional club Wiener AC and, with their promotion to the national league, achieved the greatest success in the club's long history.

Admira in the National League 1972/73

After advancing to Austria's highest football league, the Lower Austrians changed their club name to SV Admira Wiener Neustadt in order to show more solidarity with their hometown Wiener Neustadt in the top division. In the championship, the club entered under the sponsor name as SV Myrtle Mill Admira Wiener Neustadt. In order to achieve the goal of "staying up", the Lower Austrians, who continued to rely on coach Hans Besenlehner, signed the Rapid legend Rudolf Flögel , Austria's team player Karl Fröhlich and some less well-known second-rate legionnaires.

In the opening round, Admira drew 0-0 at home against Donawitz , but then had to accept four defeats in a row, with the debacles against GAK (2: 6) and Innsbruck (0: 5) against Vienna (0: 1 ) and Rapid (1: 2) with very good performances only narrowly lost. From the sixth round, the team was well-rehearsed and reached a draw against ASK Linz , SK Sturm Graz and Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz . With one exception against Austria Wien (1: 5), the defeats were extremely narrow until the end of the autumn championship. Admira Wiener Neustadt celebrated their only victory in the first half of the season on November 11th in their own stadium against VÖEST Linz 3-2.

After the winter break, the Lower Austrians defeated SC Eisenstadt 1-0 in the opening game of the spring round and sensationally the Grazer AK 2-1 in the round but one. Then Admira lost their games against Vienna (0: 7), Innsbruck (0: 1) and Rapid (1: 2). Wiener Neustadt captured the last two points in rounds 21 and 22 against LASK (1: 1) and Austria Salzburg (2: 2). The club was unable to score in the remaining eight matches, with the defeats mostly being very high (e.g. 0: 5 against Admira / Wacker and Sturm Graz). At the end of the season, Admira finished 14th and last in the table with 12 points from three wins and six draws, far behind, and had to close the national league chapter after just one season.

The rapid descent into insignificance

In the 1973/74 regional league season , SV Admira Wiener Neustadt, in fourth place with 27 points, only missed qualifying for the now second-class national league because of the slightly worse goal difference against the Baden AC with equal points. With the introduction of the Bundesliga as the first and the national league as the second level, Admira, who had previously played in the second-rate regional league, was only third-rate without further relegation.

After Admira had overtaken itself financially due to numerous prominent commitments in the previous years, the 1973/74 regional league season saw a major cut in the squad that took away any chance of the club to stay in the league. At the end of the season, due to the worse goal difference behind the equal-point clubs Helfort and Siegendorf, they only finished 14th and were relegated to the state league. In the years that followed, there was a deep march down to the lowest divisions of the Lower Austrian Football Association. In 1983 Admira won the championship in the "2nd class Steinfeld" and after three years won the championship title in the "1st class south". The promotion to the next higher level was immediately followed by relegation to the "2nd Class Steinfeld", the last Lower Austrian league in which Admira still plays today (2016/17 season).

titles and achievements

1 × participation in the National League : 1973
1 × Lower Austria champion : 1971
1 × Lower Austria Cup winner : 1971

further in chronological order:

Master 4th grade change: 1923
Champion 2nd class south C: 1955
Master 1st class south center: 1956
Champion 2nd League South: 1958
Master 1st class south (5): 1968
Champion Unterliga Süd-Südost (4): 1969
Champion Landesliga (3): 1971
Champion Regionalliga Ost (2): 1972
Master 2nd class Steinfeld: 1983
Master 1st class south: 1986

Explanation: The number in brackets indicates the level of play

Known players

Web links

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