VfB Mödling

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VfB Mödling
Logo of the VfB Mödling
Full name Association for Movement
Games Mödling
place
Founded June 17, 1911
Dissolved 1997 (merger)
Club colors Red White Red
Stadion Stadium of the City of Mödling
(6000th seats)
Top league 5 × Bundesliga
successes 2 × national champions

The Movement Games Association Mödling was an Austrian football club from the Lower Austrian town of Mödling . It was founded in 1911 with the club colors red-white-red and has appeared in the top Austrian league five times in its history . After relegation to the Bundesliga in 1995, the merger with local rivals FC Admira / Wacker from neighboring Südstadt to VfB Admira Wacker Mödling followed two years later .

history

Historical table position development

1911–1948: Foundation and regional league

VfB Mödling was founded on the initiative of Franz Zimmermann , a player in the Vienna Sports Association , who advertised the establishment of a sports club in his hometown using posters and articles in the local press. He thus became the initiator of VfB Mödling, which first held a general assembly on June 17, 1911. Viktor Schmiedel was elected as the first chairman, and the former national player Gustl Huber ( Vienna AC ) took over the post of section head . The club colors were set to red-white-red, the Mödlingers played their first games on the grounds of the Hyrtl'schen Orphanage, whose director Viktor von Velten was an important sponsor of the soccer game.

VfB Mödling moved to Königswiese as early as 1912 and also registered for the first Lower Austrian provincial championship in 1912/13 in the same year, where it took second place in the south group behind Germania Schwechat . Even before the First World War, the Association for Movement Games was able to receive well-known Viennese associations such as Rapid , Amateure , WAC , WAF or Rudolfshügel . In 1923 the Mödlingers found a new home in the newly built stadium of the city of Mödling on Dursmagasse, where they played their home games until their club ended. The Mödlingers celebrated their most significant successes in the Lower Austrian regional league with title wins in 1929 and 1948.

1949–1997: Bundesliga and merger

With the introduction of a uniform nationwide championship in 1949, VfB Mödling came into the second-class B league. As early as the 1951/52 season, the Red-Whites were able to finish this league as first in the table before Grazer SC and thus rose to the A-League . The guest appearance in the highest league lasted only a year, but the relegation was extremely unfortunate. VfB Mödling was tied with FC Wien and Linz ASK and was the only one to be relegated only because of the poorer goal difference. There followed turbulent times in Mödling, to which several board members fell victim and in which around fifty players left. Just one year after relegation from the A-League, he was relegated from the B-League in 1954.

It was not until the end of the 80s that the club could make a name for itself again. Hans-Werner Weiß , who took over the club in 1978, led it from the lower league to the top division in just a few years. After promotion to the 1st division in 1987 and promotion again in 1992, VfB Mödling played a total of four more years in the top Austrian division. The best placement was the 6th place in the 1993/94 season under coach Hans Krankl . With Michael Zisser , a player was appointed to the Austrian national soccer team for the first time this season . After the descent of VfB Mödling in 1995, it finally merged in 1997 with local rivals FC Admira / Wacker from neighboring Südstadt, which was in financial difficulties, to form VfB Admira Wacker Mödling .

Known players

Austrian national team

 

Other known players


 

Legionaries

Well-known trainers

titles and achievements

further in chronological order: The number in brackets indicates the level of the division. Regional means that at that time this league was the highest division that could be achieved by clubs in the respective federal state and that there was still no Austrian championship.