SK Slovan-Hütteldorfer AC

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Slovan HAC
Badge of the SK Slovan-Hütteldorfer AC
Basic data
Surname SK Slovan-Hütteldorfer AC
founding 1902
Colours blue White
President Tatjana Kinsky
Website slovan-hac.at
First soccer team
Head coach Gerhard Werner
Venue Sports field Slovan-HAC
Steinbruchstrasse 5a, 1140 Vienna
Places 3,000
league Vienna City League
2018/19 8th place
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The SK Slovan Hütteldorfer AC is an Austrian football club from the Vienna district Penzing . It emerged from the Sportovni Klub Slovan ve Vídni ( Sports Club Slav in Vienna ), founded in 1902 by the Czech minority in Vienna in Favoriten , which played a total of nine seasons in Austria's top division between 1923 and 1950 and reached the cup final in 1924. The best league placement was sixth place in 1926. The most prominent player in the club's history was the legendary Josef "Pepi" Bican , one of the most successful goal scorers in football history. At the time of the Anschluss , the club operated as AC Sparta . The Franz Horr Stadium , today's home of FK Austria Wien , was originally built by Slovan in 1922-25 as the České srdce Stadium ("Czech Heart Stadium"). The historical SK Slovan is commonly referred to as " the Slovan".

In 1960 the SK Slovan merged with the SV for workers and employees ÖMV Olympia 33 and renamed itself SK Slovan-Olympia . The Olympia square on Steinbruchstrasse became the club's new home. In 1976 the association merged with the Hütteldorfer AC, which was founded in 1911, to form today's SK Slovan-Hütteldorfer AC. The greatest successes since then have been winning the Vienna City Championship three times and winning the third-rate Regional League East in 1988. The most prominent players in recent decades have been the former Czechoslovak national players Jozef Adamec , Ján Popluhár and the 1976 European champion Antonín Panenka , who played with the club spent. The Austrian international Ümit Korkmaz emerged from the youth.

The SK Slovan-Hütteldorfer AC last rose to the fourth class Vienna City League in 2017.

history

Early years, cup finals and first league

The SK Slovan was founded on January 11, 1902 with the club colors green and white and emerged from the "Association of Czech Sports Friends in Vienna", which had existed since 1898. The club first appeared in sport in 1915 when it was promoted to the second division in Austria. After the green-whites were able to establish themselves in the second division, they narrowly missed promotion in 1922. Together with the Vienna AC and Germania Schwechat , Slovan finished the championship tied with 42 points at the top of the table and only failed because of the poor win-defeat ratio on the rise. In the following season, the point gap was even greater. With 10 points on the second SC Movement XX succeeded for the first time in the club's history of promotion to the first division.

In 1924 they held their own in the first class and at the end of the championship had only one point on relegated and district rivals Hertha . The Austrian vice-top scorer Rudolf Hanel played a major role in staying up . In the same year Slovan reached the cup final after victories over Viktoria V, Jedlersdorf, SK Admira Wien , Wiener AF and Wiener AC , where they faced the amateurs in Simmering . With a total of 14 goals, this game went down as one of the most exciting and the most scoring in Austrian cup history. The big outsiders Slovan led against the reigning champions from Ober Sankt Veit with 3: 1 and in the 90th minute 4: 3, before Ferdinand Swatosch forced an extension with a goal a few seconds before the final whistle. The Veilchen quickly took the lead 7: 4, but Slovan fought his way back to 6: 7. Only Viktor Hierländer's 8: 6 ruined the green and white cup dreams.

In the following years, Slovan was still mostly in the lower third of the table and finally had to accept relegation to the second division in 1929. In the second league, however, the club was able to prevail after a three-way battle with the Brigittenauer AC and the Favoritner FC Vorwärts 06 and managed to get back up immediately in 1930. After two last places in a row - relegation was suspended in 1931 - the green-whites went back to the second division in 1932. The SK Slovan did not manage to rise again in the period that followed, even if he narrowly failed several times: In 1935 they won the second division championship, but lost in the relegation against the favorites AC with a total score of 3: 4.

Last appearance in the state league and more recent past

After the connection of Austria to the German Reich, the association of Czech citizens to constant control and paternalism has been exposed by the new rulers. In 1938 in particular, the association's existence was in serious danger. Several times important Slovan players were prevented from participating in games before scheduled competitive games as part of state police investigations by the Gestapo or the Vienna police, so that often only six to seven footballers were on the field. A large part of the Slovan members of Czech origin were included in the "work effort" and dispersed in all directions. In the course of the Germanization of the associations, the long-time section head Alois Janousek and with him all other functionaries who did not meet the ideas of the new rulers had to resign. The management of the club was placed in "thoroughbred hands" according to that time. The name "Slovan", which was a thorn in the side of the National Socialists, was also banned. The names Eintracht and Germania X proposed by the National Socialists were also vehemently rejected by Slovan's new officials. Due to the concession of a functionary of the Vienna Football Association, the club was allowed to continue playing as AC Sparta Vienna from autumn 1940 .

After the end of the Second World War , "AC Sparta" took on its real club name again in 1945. In the first post-war season Slovan promptly reached second place in the table in the 2nd class and was able to celebrate the second division championship in front of the Heiligenstädter SV and one last time the promotion to the first class three seasons later . In the state league, however, with only two wins from 24 games, the club had no chance in 1950 and was relegated again. 1951, however, the relegation in the State League B was missed - Slovan slipped from the first to the third division within two years.

The club was only represented in the second division one more time in 1966 and has not been able to intervene in high-class Austrian football since then. In 1976 there was finally a merger with the Hütteldorfer AC , founded in 1911 , which resulted in major losses in terms of the Czech character of the club. Slovan caused another stir when the great football star Antonín Panenka moved to the club at the end of his career and shot him to the championship title in 1987/88 in the third division regional league. The rise was denied Slovan by the ÖFB , because they had an artificial turf pitch since 1983 , which at that time was not allowed for the second division. Since relegation from the Vienna City League in 2001, the club played in the fifth-class Oberliga A. In 2008 they won the championship title in Oberliga A and thus rose again to the Vienna league.

The last successful appearance in the ÖFB-Cup was in 1983/84, when the team with goalkeeper Alexander Vencel advanced to the quarter-finals, where they lost 5-0 at home against Austria Wien on March 14th.

After 5 city league seasons you had to take note of the relegation to the Oberliga-A in 2012/2013. As a result, the qualification for the 2nd regional league succeeded in the course of the league reform in 2014. After the less than successful 2014/2015 season and relegation to the league, the championship title in the Oberliga-A followed in 2015/16 and thus the immediate promotion to the 2nd . Landesliga. In the 2016/2017 season, SK Slovan HAC was able to secure the title again and thus promotion to the Vienna City League.

In the 2017 season, the SK Slovan-HütteldorferAC celebrates its 115th anniversary.

Stadium "České srdce - Czech Heart"

In the early days of the club, they played on different courts, on the Laaer Berg , on the Schmelz and in Heiligenstadt , as the club did not yet have its own home ground. At times they also nested in the Cricketer squares in Vienna's Prater and Wacker in Meidling . As the success grew, the construction of an own stadium became inevitable. In 1922 the “Czech Heart” square was set up on the Favoritner Laaer Berg, which was subsequently expanded into a stadium until it opened in August 1925. However, the expansion brought the sports club into financial difficulties in the following years. This sports field still exists today, but is no longer used by Slovan, but by Vienna Austria , who built their Franz Horr Stadium on it. Slovan no longer plays in Favoriten, but moved to Steinbruchstrasse in the 1970s.

Known players

offspring

National player

  • Franz Czernicky (1 international match for Austria 1927)
  • Franz Eckl (7 international matches for Austria from 1919 to 1928, 4 of which for Slovan)
  • Rudolf Hanel (2 international matches for Austria in 1926)
  • Rudolf Hencl (1 international match for Austria in 1931)

Legionaries

successes

Further sections

The SK Slovan once had other sections for the sport of the Czech minority. Among other things, the first women's volleyball team was successful here, winning a total of five Austrian champions from 1961 to 1964 and 1966 in a syndicate with Olympia Vienna . In the first decades of the 20th century there was an ice hockey department that took part in the Austrian championships several times.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://slovan-hac.at/index.php?module=content&aid=299
  2. ↑ Internet site FOOTBALL IN AUSTRIA 1983/84

Literature and web links

  • Adolf Navratil: SK Slovan 1902-1952 , Vienna 1952
  • “SK Slovan - A Station Before the End of the World” in Hubert Pramhas / Wolfgang Slapansky: Red Devils Live Longer , Vienna 1993
  • slovan-hac.at (official website of the association)
  • Melanie Hovorka: "Slovan-HAC without Czechs" , ORF , January 9, 2006