SV Rapid Lienz

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SV Rapid Lienz
Coat of arms of SV Rapid Lienz
Full name Sports club Rapid Lienz
place Lienz , East Tyrol , Tyrol
Founded March 15, 1946
Dissolved 2000
Club colors Green white
Stadion Lienz Dolomites Stadium
Top league National League (1974/75)
2nd level
successes 1 × ÖFB Cup semifinals,
7 second division seasons
5 × champions Carinthian regional league

The sports club Rapid Lienz was an Austrian football club from the East Tyrolean district capital Lienz . It was founded in 1946, experienced its playful heyday in the 1970s (seven years in the second highest Austrian soccer league, reaching the ÖFB Cup semifinal) and was dissolved in 2000 after financial decline. The successor club is Rapid Lienz, which was founded in 2000 as SV Lienz and currently plays in the West Lower League.

history

prehistory

The football fever emanating from England also spread to the garrison town of Lienz after the First World War , and so, animated by the soldiers stationed here, the Lienzer Sportklub (LSK) was founded in 1920 as the first football club in the Dolomite city. Due to the geographical isolation of the Lienz district from the rest of Tyrol according to the Treaty of St. Germain , this belonged to the Carinthian Football Association , but did not take part in any championship, but only played friendly matches. In 1927, the Vorwärts workers' sports club was founded as the second club in Lienz, and it was also primarily geared towards friendly encounters. Despite the prevailing - also political - rivalry, players from both clubs competed together in city championships, and after the opening of the Pustertaler Strasse sports field on May 21, 1932 and the socio-political upheavals in Austria, Vorwärts, after the dissolution of the ASV in 1934, and the LSK joined forces Art Fusion under the name FC Lienz . However, this was already dissolved in 1938, but the players were still active until the outbreak of war, among others in the FC GÖC (consumer cooperative) or in a Wehrmacht self .

Founding years

As the first club after the Second World War , the workers' sports club was (re-) founded in autumn 1945. But only a few months later, at the meeting on March 15, 1946 in what was then the Schraffl Hall, the decision was made to set up the Rapid Lienz sports club, as a non-political and non-political club, as a suggestion by the then municipal councilor Siegfried Ronacher . Franz Schubert was elected as the first chairman . The new club played its first games against British garrison and various camp teams, and first contacts were made with clubs in the neighboring state of Carinthia. After joining the local football association and integrating it into the championship, well-known Austrian players as coaches (ex-national team player Karl Humenberger , later Vickerl Kubicka ) set signs for the positive future. The first combat team itself also consisted not only of locals such as the returnees Leo Wieser , Friedl Suntinger , Pepi Angerer , Franz Ruß , Luis Angermann , Erich Salcher , Fritz Goller , Pepi Ortner , Ernst and Sigi Ronacher , Otto Kolar , Willi Mitterberger , Friedl Stolzlechner , also some ethnic German and Yugoslav players (for example Fiedler , Damaschun , Hörchner , Trschkan , Pidinov ) as well as English occupation soldiers (for example Oblt. Fayers ) completed the team in the first few years. The then surprising 3: 1 success against the Grazer AK , which had clearly won all games during a guest tour through Carinthia and prompted the Carinthian press to comment “Rapid Lienz saves Carinthia's football theory” , also fell during this time .

The upswing

After a few years with varying successes in the Carinthian championships (in 1956/57 and 1957/58 as second in the league, he narrowly missed promotion to the Tauern League ; 1958/59 league champions, but due to the introduction of the regional league middle , in which only Radenthein was allowed to participate as the only Carinthian team in the first year of play, but also relegation to the lower league as the last in the league in 1961/62), football experienced a new upswing in Lienz, partly triggered by the city's opening in 1964 The new Dolomite stadium with its training facilities was made available to the athletes in Lienz and , after some renovations, still serves as a footballing home for the people of the Dolomites. 1963/64 was able to use a team formed mainly from its own offspring, consisting of u. a. from Kurt Sprenger , Gottfried "Bubi" Strasser , Hermann Auer , Walter and Franz Oberhuber , Georg "Schorsch" Unterweger , Ernst Grandegger , Andi Gasser , Erich Mair and Walter Goller , the promotion to the Carinthian League can be achieved. In 1965, ex-team striker Ernst Melchior was recruited as a coach, and - after Karl Durspekt's brief coaching stint in the 1966/67 season - "Bubi" Straßer looked after the team as a player- coach . In 1968/69 he handed over his management function to Josef "Pepi" Webora (born September 30, 1935, last player of the Vienna Sports Club), who as player- coach led SV Rapid Lienz straight away to the Carinthian championship title, which also promoted promotion to the regional league Middle , the second highest Austrian league at the time, meant.

The heyday

In the following years you could not only stay in the second highest league, you also shone temporarily, for example with the autumn championship title and third place in the table in the 1970/71 season behind the champions and promoted WSV Donawitz and SV Kapfenberg , but still in front of football greats such as Villacher SV , Austria Klagenfurt and Vorwärts Steyr . With the home 0: 1 against Wolfsberger AC, Webora's engagement came to an end on June 24, 1972. In the following year, under player- coach Ilija (Ilya) Lukic , after victories over Klagenfurt Austria and Grazer AK , they were able to advance to the round of 16 in the Austrian Cup , in which they lost 3-0 to the Viennese sports club . The revenge for this defeat followed a few years later.

In 1974 the Austrian leagues were fundamentally reformed and the National League was introduced as the second highest division. Rapid managed with coach Lukic by another third place in the final table of the Regionalliga Mitte, to reach the play-off games against the third of the Eastern League, the Badener AC . With two 1-0 victories they qualified for the new 2nd league, in which they were able to take a secure midfield position straight away. The contract with Lukic was dissolved in early November 1974, after which Gottfried Strasser was (again) coach.

1975/76 player- coach Dolfi Blutsch took over the helm, and with him Rapid Lienz achieved its greatest success, which should have a stale aftertaste. In the Austrian Football Cup , after victories over WSV Liezen (2: 0), Wolfsberger AC (2: 1) and first division club Linzer ASK (1: 0), the Dornbachers were eliminated in the quarter-finals , who had left Lienz a few years earlier have thrown (SV Rapid Lienz - Wiener Sportclub 3: 1). So you were qualified for the semifinals and met the reigning champions, FC Wacker Innsbruck , a special game for Rapidler Othmar Sommer , Johann Trenkwalder , Peter Kastner and Josef Peer , who were previously involved with the Black-Greens. After an exciting game with crazy goals (goalkeeper error, offside goal, own goal), in which Rapid Lienz was closer to equalizing in the final minutes and therefore closer to promotion than Wacker to the final decision due to the away goal rule valid at the time, they had to win 2: 1 and could not play a final Rapid Brothers duel against the already qualified Grünweiß from Hütteldorf . Probably the most tragic thing about this season was that the forces thrown into the cup were missing in the relegation battle of the National League, and you only had to relegate because the goal difference was five goals too low, as the direct competitor SC Tulln scored surprising points in the last few laps could. So the adventure of the second division came to an end after seven years. Another detail of the messed up season were some awarded penalties, each of which would have meant a point gain and thus also the relegation.

The Carinthian League years

After relegation, Rapid Lienz had to accept a painful bloodletting from the player, and so they could not get back to the table as second under player-coach Herbert Oberhuber . Further migrations meant an even deeper slide into the everyday life of the Carinthian League, and yet one could point out a few times, be it by getting involved in the title fight or by playing in the Austrian soccer cup. In 1978/79 the championship title could be won, but the qualifying games against Flavia Solva that were necessary for promotion to the second division due to the lack of a regional league center were lost 2: 1 (a) and 1: 3 (h). In the 1982/83 season the next title and the next play-off games followed, and again you could not prevail and had to let the ASK Voitsberg go first. It was remarkable that this championship title could be won with six 17-year-old players ( Reinhard Eder, Hannes Ladinig, Hannes Ausserdorfer, Anton Leitner, Roman Mühlmann, Walter Hartlieb ). This was repeated in 1986/87, when after a successful league win they could leave chemistry Linz behind, but again missed out on promotion against SV Kapfenberg . In the sixteenth finals of the ÖFB Cup of the 1987/88 season, they met after a success against SV Grieskirchen on FC Swarovski Tirol , formerly FC Wacker Innsbruck. In front of over 3,000 spectators, who brought the Lienz stadium to its capacity limits, they had to admit defeat 0: 3. In 1989/90 the Austrian Cup achieved one last surprise success when in the second round in pouring rain the first division team Vorwärts Steyr was defeated by a goal from the player- coach Robert Idl . In the sixteenth finals, however, they met again on the Austrian champions FC Swarovski Tirol, Idl's former club. In front of another 3,000 spectators in the Dolomitenstadion, they managed to keep the game open for an hour, but in the end had to leave the field with a 4-0 defeat against the Innsbruck star ensemble of coach Ernst Happel .

Short soaring, quick decline

It wasn't until ten years later, in 1996/97, that Rapid Lienz managed to move up a class, but this time into the Middle Regional League , which was introduced two years earlier , making it the third highest division. You could get used to it in the following season, in 1998/99 you even reached fifth place. Despite an excellent offspring (for example Robert Mayer , Wolfgang Mair , Bernhard Erkinger and others), voices were raised that hoped to achieve even more through more investment and thereby drowned out the moderate warnings. The financial burden was almost too great due to normal gaming operations, and bad purchases worsened the already tight budget situation in a very short time. There was also cooperation with the neighboring regional league club SV Spittal and Unterligaklub SV Oberdrauburg for the 1999/2000 season . On July 20, 1999, Hubert Bründler was hired as a coach, but due to lack of success he was released on September 7th. He was succeeded by Radoslav Tomic from Zagreb . Already in the autumn of 1999 the bow was overstretched and the filing of bankruptcy could no longer be prevented. The last autumn games were played with a "Notelf", in the spring of 2000 the game was stopped - the remaining matches were criminally verified with 0: 3 on the basis of the association's statutes. The bankruptcy itself was settled in the competent courts in 2000. The path of the green and white traditional club from Lienz, which also led a successful women's team in its last few years, did not end on the grass, but at the green table after 54 years.

playback time

For the women's and junior teams, which initially continued to play under the name of FC Lienz , a rescue club was founded with the second Lienz club, competitor ASV , for which, however, it had to sacrifice its name. SV Lienz , now playing in yellow and blue, was never able to match the success of its former big brother, football in the Dolomites city was in a real crisis - and the renaming of existing clubs was continued, from the football club that was active in the last Austrian league UKAJ Lienz became Rapid Lienz FC . And once again a merger was carried out, with which the team of the former UKAJ disappeared from the scene and the SV Lienz became a green and white football club Rapid Lienz Tirol Milch , which played in the Carinthian Unterliga West (fifth Austrian league) in the 2007/2008 season, however, was able to fix promotion to the Carinthian League. Within ten years, Lienz football, which had previously been confronted with ideas about merging (for example with FC WR Nussdorf-Debant ) in favor of FC Osttirol , was decimated: by four clubs and three combat teams (SV Rapid Lienz, ASV Lienz, UKAJ Lienz, and in the offspring Borussia Lienz) on the only survivor, Rapid Lienz Tirol-Milch. However, this new "Rapid Lienz" had to go back to the lower league in 2012/13 as the third from bottom of the Carinthian league (precisely Unterliga West). In the 2014/15 season, the title win was impressive and, with it, promotion again. The club name is now "SV Rapid Sonnenstadt Lienz".

successes

  • 1 × ÖFB-Cup semifinals (1975/76)
  • 7 second division seasons (1969 / 1970–1973 / 74 regional league middle, there autumn championship title and 3rd place as the greatest success, 1974 / 75–1975 / 76 national league)
  • 5 x champions of the Kärntner Landesliga (seasons 1968/69, 1978/79, 1982/83, 1986/87 and 1996/97)

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References and comments

  1. ↑ Stefan Weis: The history of the Rapid Lienz sports club .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: tivoli12.at, March 28, 2008, accessed on April 16, 2009, citation of the original text with the permission of the author.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.tivoli12.at