Vienna AC
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| Surname | Viennese athletic sports club | ||
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| Founded | November 1896 | ||
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WAC - sports facility 22 sand tennis courts, 1 concrete tennis court, 1 pool, 2 grass courts with a grandstand on the large square |
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| Association headquarters | Vienna | ||
| Chairman | Martin Kirnbauer | ||
| Homepage | wac.at | ||
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The Wiener Athletiksport Club , in short Wiener AC or simply WAC , is an Austrian sports club from the federal capital Vienna . The hockey department , founded in 1900, is the club's figurehead and is the most important representative of this sport in Austria.
In tennis , the WAC provides women's and men's Bundesliga teams as well as several youth, junior and senior teams. The club offers 19 clay tennis courts in the open-air area, as well as two indoor clay courts and one hard court on its landscaped grounds in Vienna's Prater .
The club has a proud past in football , from the beginnings of the sport in Austria to the 1960s. In 1915 the athletes became Austrian champions, as well as cup winners in 1931 and 1969. In 1931 they also made it into the final of the Mitropa Cup. Today the club only operates recreational football outside of the league.
The Vienna AC was also the first Austrian basketball champion in 1947 .
As a recreational sport , the Vienna AC also offers beach volleyball and wellness as well as an outdoor pool and sauna . Card games such as bridge also have a home in the club building.
Football section
history
Early successes
The football department was launched on October 14, 1897. The WAC was able to record early successes in the first decade of the 20th century, when it won the Challenge and the Wiener Tagblatt Cup three times . At the time, these were the most important trophies that the young sport in Austria had to offer.
During the 1910 tour of the Vienna AC through Germany, with games in Berlin, Munich, Karlsruhe and Stuttgart, there were differences between players who demanded more say in the club and the WAC. In the middle of the year, this led to the resignation of almost all members of the fighting team, such as Adolf Fischera , Johann Andres , Richard "Little" Kohn , Karl and Felix Tekusch, as well as numerous players from the second team who formed the new football club Wiener Associationfootball-Club (also known as Wiener AF , or WAF for short , referenced).
The old star of the WAC, Johann Studnicka , who had already retired to the coaching position, then appeared again as a player and should contribute to future successes. The Vienna AC was able to provide a competitive team at the first Austrian soccer championship in 1911/12 and took fourth place - behind the Vienna AF, however.
Championship 1915
Eventually the WAC won the championship title in 1915 , which was to remain the only success at this level. Due to the war, this championship was played on a simple round, i.e. only nine games per team in a division of ten, condensed in the spring of 1915. Second came the "rebels" from Vienna AF.
Cup successes
In 1928 the Prater Club reached the cup final for the first time . On the Hohenwarte led Admira after seven minutes. Walzhofer was able to equalize immediately, but the final score of 1: 2 was already reached in the first half.
Three years later, in 1930/31, the WAC won the cup competition, which was held as the Vienna Winter Cup in a league format, for the first time and was thus able to qualify for the most important Mitropa Cup at the time .
Mitropapokal
The WAC advanced to the final of the 1931 Mitropa Cup , where both games were lost in November against local rivals First Vienna FC . In the first leg, which was played in front of 16,000 spectators at the Hardturm in Zurich , the Prater team soon led 2-1 with goals from Richard Hanke and Heinrich “Wudi” Müller . Three minutes before the end of the game, however, it was an unfortunate own goal that sealed a 2-3 defeat. In the second leg, 25,000 saw the Döblinger win 2-1 on the Hohe Warte , with Hanke only able to contribute the consolation goal for the athletes just under half an hour before the end of the game .
1931 was also the birth of the Austrian miracle team . As WAC players, Rudi Hiden , Georg "Schurl" Braun , Karl Sesta and "Wudi" Müller were part of this red-white-red football legend, which in 1932 won the European National Football Team Cup itself .
WAC after 1945
In 1959, the Vienna AC won the cup final in the Prater Stadium in front of 10,000 spectators 2-0 against SK Rapid Vienna . After an own goal by Rapid, it was Kaltenbrunner who fixed the result 15 minutes before the end of the game and secured this last great success in football for the club.
In the 1960s, after relegation from the national league, the football department of the WAC founded a syndicate with FK Austria Wien , which ultimately resulted in a merger of the two combat teams . After the short interlude as FK Austria / WAC Vienna (the official sponsor name was FK Austria / WAC Elementar Vienna), Vienna Austria chose its traditional club name again in 1976.
As a result, the name Wiener AC disappeared from the great Austrian football scene to this day. The football section of the WAC, which was inactive during the time together with Austria, continued to exist and was reactivated in 1983.
In 2002 the soccer team was taken over by a transport company that had been a sponsor until then. This team played briefly under the name FK Rad Friendly Systems and eventually received the new club name FC Fireball United .
The Vienna AC has not participated in any championships since 2002. The current soccer section currently consists of a purely amateur team.
Major football players of the WAC
Five top scorer in the first division
- Johann Studnicka (first division top scorer 1913 with 13 goals)
- Johann Neumann (first division top scorer 1913/13 goals and 1914/25 goals)
- Leopold Deutsch (first division top scorer in 1915 with 12 goals)
- Friedrich "Fritz" Cejka (first division top scorer in 1960 with 28 goals)
- Hans Pirkner * (Premier League top scorer in 1976 with 28 goals)
- *) Joint team with FK Austria Wien
successes
- 3 × Challenge Cup winners: 1901, 1903, 1904
- 3 × Tagblatt Cup winners: 1900, 1901, 1902
- 1 × Austrian champion : 1915
- 2 × Austrian Cup winners : 1931, 1959
The title of Austrian Cup winner in 1938 was won by the Schwarz-Rot Wien sports club . This team was the football section of the WAC, which was split off from the entire club at short notice and which rejoined the parent club after a few years.
First division participation
38 first division seasons: 1912-21, 1923, 1925-36, 1943-44, 1946-48, 1954 and 1957-65
In addition, the Vienna AC took part in all three seasons from 1901 to 1903 of the Tagblatt Cup , which can be regarded as the forerunner of the Austrian league operation.
Hockey section
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| Full name | Vienna athletic sports club section hockey |
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| Founded | October 14, 1897 | ||
| Stadion | WAC - sports facility | ||
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| president | Alexander Ruitner | ||
| Homepage | wac.at , wachockeey.at | ||
| league | Hockey Bundesliga | ||
| 2018/19 | Men (4th hall, 2nd field), women (3rd hall, 3rd field) | ||
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Since summer 2017, the WAC has had its own artificial turf pitch on its home ground. The “Heimstätte” project was financed by one of the largest crowdfunding projects in Austrian sport.
Home dressing: red body, black trousers, red / black striped socks
Away address: black body, red pants, black socks
Successes of the hockey section
Men's
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| year | competition | level | space | place |
| 1975 | Club Champions Cup | 1 | 12 | Frankfurt / M. |
| 1980 | Club Champions Cup | 1 | 11 | Barcelona |
| 1982 | Club Champions Trophy | 2 | 6th | Cardiff |
| 1985 | Club Champions Trophy | 2 | 4th | Banbridge |
| 1990 | Club Champions Trophy | 2 | 4th | Gothenburg |
| 1993 | Cup Winners Trophy | 2 | 7th | Zagreb |
| 1994 | Cup Winners Challenge | 3 | 3 | Bratislava |
| 1995 | Cup Winners Trophy | 2 | 5 | Brussels |
| 1996 | Club Champions Challenge | 3 | 1 | Vienna |
| 1997 | Club Champions Trophy | 2 | 5 | Cagliari |
| 1998 | Club Champions Trophy | 2 | 7th | Brasschaat |
| 1999 | Club Champions Challenge | 3 | 1 | Vienna |
| 1999 | Cup Winners Trophy | 2 | 7th | Wettingen |
| 2000 | Club Champions Trophy | 2 | 7th | Belfast |
| 2001 | Club Champions Challenge | 3 | 1 | Vienna |
| 2002 | Club Champions Trophy | 2 | 5 | Wettingen |
| 2004 | Club Champions Cup | 1 | 7th | Barcelona |
| 2005 | Club Champions Trophy | 2 | 3 | Brest |
| 2006 | Club Champions Trophy | 2 | 5 | Wettingen |
| 2007 | Cup Winners Trophy | 2 | 3 | Prague |
| 2009 | Club Challenge | 3 | 5 | Prague |
| 2010 | Club Challenge | 3 | 1 | Vienna |
| 2018 | Club Trophy | 2 | 6th | Vienna |
- 19 × national champions in field hockey : 1919–1923; 1927-1929; 1994-2001; 2003-2005
- 16 × national champion in indoor hockey (1990-2002; 2004; 2007; 2008)
- 2 × third place in the European Champions' Cup - Champions League in indoor hockey
1996 first club team to defeat a German club team at an indoor European cup.
- 32 × European Cup participants - Austrian record
Ladies
- 17 × national champions in field hockey (1927–1932; 1934; 1950; 1951; 1954–1956; 1969; 1977; 1979; 2006–2007)
- 1 × Reich vice champion in field hockey ( 1941 )
- 8 × national champion in indoor hockey (1964–1969; 1978; 2009)
offspring
Numerous championship titles as well as tournament victories at home and abroad were won. The main focus next to the teams of the first is the red-black hockey offspring.
Basketball section
successes
- 1 × Austrian champion (basketball) (1947)
Water polo section
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| Surname | Viennese athletic sports club section water polo |
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| Founded | 1897 |
| resolution | 1961 |
| Venue | Vienna Diana Bath |
| Association headquarters | Vienna |
| Homepage | www.wac.at |
The water polo section at the Vienna AC was founded in 1897. A team from the Vienna AC was already there at the first water polo championship and came second behind the Vienna swimming club "Austria". In total, the Vienna AC won 20 championship titles before renaming itself to SC Diana Vienna. As SC Diana Vienna, he won two more championships. In 1961 the section was dissolved.
| Team line-up from 1920 |
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Grünfeld, Hager, Schwarz, Otto Sheff, Pepi Sticker, Tolnai, Oskar Worel |
titles and achievements
- 22 × Austrian champion:
- as Vienna AC
- 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1907, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1947
- as SC Diana Vienna
- 1950, 1951
Web links
- Wiener Athletiksport Club - Official club website
- Vienna Athletic Sports Club - Hockey section
- Vienna athletic sports club , club facilities on Google Maps .
Individual evidence
- ^ Ambrosius Kutschera: 1909/10 season , football in Austria
- ↑ Compilation from EHF Handbook 2016 ( memento of the original from March 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ The national water polo championship - 1897 to 2012. In: osv.or.at. Archived from the original on October 15, 2012 ; accessed on September 15, 2018 .
