Vienna Football Association
| Vienna Football Association (WFV) |
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| founding | February 15, 1923 |
| president | Robert Sedlacek |
| Clubs (approx.) | 250 |
| Teams (approx.) | 1000 |
| Competitions | 105 |
| Seat | Vienna , Austria |
| Homepage | www.wfv.at |
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The Vienna Football Association (WFV) is the association of football clubs of the federal state of Vienna and carries out its activities on a non-profit basis. The Vienna Football Association is a full member of the Austrian Football Association (ÖFB) and its statutes.
history
The years up to 1923
The history of Viennese football began at the end of the 19th century and with the English guest workers living in Vienna at the time. The hunt for the round leather was already extremely popular on the island and the Viennese English did not want to miss this piece of home, even when they were abroad. In 1892 the "Vienna Cricket Club" was founded, but cricket alone was too boring and in 1894 the name was changed to " Vienna Cricket and Football Club ". However, this club was not the first football club in Vienna, because the day before - on August 22, 1894 - the " First Vienna Football Club " ( Vienna, which is still currently playing in the 2nd regional league) was founded. Between these two teams there was also the first official match in Austria and the Cricketers won clearly 4-0 in front of 150 to 200 spectators. The biggest difference between the two teams was that the cricket players only played English and Vienna had to carry the handicap of other Viennese players.
In 1897 there was the first cup competition - Cricketer won the Challenge Cup in the final against the German-Austrian gymnastics club 7-0. On December 18, 1898, a match between a Viennese selection and a selection from the Viennese English took place, which the guest workers won 4: 1 in front of 2,500 spectators. The first international match on the continent also took place in Vienna: Austria beat Switzerland 4-0. However, since both teams involved foreigners, this game is not played in official ratings.
Other associations were founded, including a. the WAC (in 1896 as the “ Wiener Athletiksport Club ”), which was intended primarily for the “upper ten thousand” due to its high membership fees; the " Wiener Sport-Club " (created in 1907 from the merger of the "Wiener Cyclistenclub" and the "Wiener Sportvereinigung"); the “Arbeiter Fußball-Klub” (Workers Football Club) (1898), which just one year later, on January 8, 1899, became “ SC Rapid Wien ”. In 1902 the Wiener Slovan (Sportivni Klub Slovan ve Vidni) - today the SK Slovan-Hütteldorfer AC - was founded. A spin-off from the WAC resulted in the WAF (“ Wiener Associations-Footballclub ”) in June 1910, and defectors from the Cricketers founded the “Wiener Amateur-Sportverein”, today's Austria Wien, in October 1910.
The Englishman M. D. Nicholson played a special role in the development of Viennese (and thus all of Austria) football. Formerly a professional at West Bromwich Albion ´, he worked in a travel agency in Vienna, where he worked as a player and coach for Vienna. In 1899 he founded the “Committee for the Organization of Football Competitions” and in 1900 became President of the “Austrian Football Union”, the forerunner of the “Austrian Football Association” founded in 1904. A club founded in 1913 was named after him: “FC Nicholson”, which was renamed “ FC Wien ” in 1932 .
On May 16, 1911, the Lower Austrian Football Association was founded, to which the Viennese clubs also belonged. In September of the same year, the first championship started in which eleven Viennese clubs participated. The first champion was SC Rapid in front of the Wiener Sportclub, WAF and WAC.
The interwar period and the Anschluss
Even after the First World War and the destruction of the dual monarchy , Vienna remained the capital of Lower Austria. After lengthy discussions, the “Separation Act” was passed at the end of 1921 and Vienna became its own federal state on January 1, 1922. This also had an impact on the association and on February 15, 1923 it was split into the Vienna Football Association and the Lower Austrian FV. The first president of the Vienna Football Association was Ignaz Abeles , who was the founding president of the NÖFV in 1911. His successor in 1927 was Josef Gerö , under whose leadership the Lower Austrians joined the Vienna Association in 1928. Only five years after the split they were reunited.
In the economically difficult period between the wars, the clubs tried to stay afloat, primarily through tours abroad. There was even an association resolution that the teams were not allowed to stay abroad for longer than two consecutive Sundays during the season so that the championship does not turn into a farce. A world record that is still unbroken today was set by FC Wien, which in the 1932/32 season came with 22 championship matches and a number of cup games to 49 friendly matches abroad.
On March 13, 1937, the Vienna Association held the last general assembly for many years. Shortly before that, on February 17, 1937, the legendary Hugo Meisl , who had looked after the Austrian miracle team , died. In March 1938 Austria ceased to exist and was only a Gau. In the so-called “ follow-up game ” on April 3rd in the Vienna stadium in front of 60,000 spectators, Austria beat Germany 2-0 - the official name of the match was “ Ostmark ” versus “ Altreich ”.
After the abolition of professional football, a Gauliga was founded to which the Viennese clubs Rapid, Austria, Sportclub, Vienna, Wacker, Admira and Austro-Fiat belonged. The Ostmarkmeister Admira (1939) and Rapid (1941) each played in the final of the German championship against Schalke 04, whereby Rapid caused a sensation with the unforgettable 4: 3 (after the break 0: 3). In 1943, Vienna won the German Cup with a 3-2 win (thanks to “ Golden Goal ”!) Against LSV Hamburg. The last war championship in 1944/45 was not ended and after the end of the war the Vienna Football Association was re-established.
1945 until today
A few days before the end of the war, on May 2, 1945, the first meeting of the Vienna Football Association took place under the leadership of Police Captain Karl Zankl. On September 1st, the first round of the new Austria's championship kicked off and the first champion was again Rapid. The big upheaval came in 1949, because the 1948/49 season was the last in which the “major clubs” took part in the Vienna championship. In an extraordinary meeting, the clubs decided to move out of the Vienna Association and to found the State League. The “Austrian State League” was accepted into the ÖFB on July 31, 1949 and the supremacy of the Vienna Football Association came to an end.
Since the 1949/50 season a separate Viennese championship has been held (under different names - today as the “ Wiener Stadtliga ”) and the first champion was called “FS Elektra”. The most prominent player of the successful team was Edi Frühwirth , successful team manager at the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland. The Viennese league was privileged at that time, because the champions were allowed to advance directly to the state league without further qualifying games. A year later the "State League B" was introduced and the State League was now third class. The Staatsliga-B became obsolete with the introduction of the regional leagues in 1959, and the Viennese champions rose to the regional league east from 1960 onwards. In 1974 the Bundesliga was founded with the first and second level and the Vienna Football Association was only in the fourth level. With a short break from 1980 to 1985 (the regional leagues ceased to exist), this is still the case today.
In the 1988/89 season, the Vienna Football Association introduced a national cup, which is held as the " Vienna Toto Cup ". Only clubs of the Vienna Association that play in the city league or below are eligible to participate. The cup was the first WAF club to win the Austrian championship (1913/14) and Austrian cup winner (1922). In 2004 the club stopped playing and part of Viennese football history was a thing of the past.
Leagues and championship operations
Combat teams
The Vienna Football Association holds championships in five performance levels. In the 2013/14 season these are:
| 1st performance level | Vienna City League | 16 clubs |
| 2nd performance level | 2nd national league | 16 clubs |
| 3rd performance level | Oberliga-A | 14 clubs |
| Oberliga-B | 14 clubs | |
| 4th performance level | 1st class A | 14 clubs |
| 1st class B | 14 clubs | |
| 5th performance level | 2nd class A | 12 clubs |
| 2nd class B | 12 clubs | |
| total | 112 clubs |
In addition, there is an U-23 competition in the first three levels.
offspring
There are four performance classes in the junior division.
| WFV League | 12 clubs |
| A league | 12 clubs |
| B league | 12 clubs |
| C league | 8 clubs |
| total | 44 clubs |
In addition, there are clubs that do not play with the youth in the regular championship and have named them in so-called regional classes.
Reichsbund
The Reichsbund für Turnen und Sport is an independent sports association that takes part in the WFV championship with its football division within its own classes.
| ASG league | 10 clubs |
| ASG minor league | 10 clubs |
| ASG seniors | 8 clubs |
| total | 28 clubs |
Eleven clubs also hold a reserve championship.
Diocesan sports community
The DSG Vienna has been staging football matches since 1951. In 1998 they joined the WFV and play there - like the Reichsbund - in their own classes (in four levels) championship.
| league | 12 clubs |
| Oberliga | 12 clubs |
| Sub-league A | 12 clubs |
| Lower league B | 12 clubs |
| 1st class A | 12 clubs |
| 1st class B | 12 clubs |
| 1st class C | 12 clubs |
| 1st class D | 12 clubs |
| 2nd class A | 10 clubs |
| 2nd class B | 10 clubs |
| 2nd class C | 10 clubs |
| 2nd class D. | 10 clubs |
| total | 136 clubs |
14 clubs have also decided to hold a reserve competition.
Committees
In the Vienna Football Association there are technical committees or presentations:
- Committee of the class chairmen
- Youth Committee
- Criminal and Accreditation Committee
- Control and reporting committee
- Referee Committee
- Committee on Women's Football and Trend Sports
- Marketing and Projects
Personnel
Bureau
| president | Robert Sedlacek |
| Vice President & Finance Officer | Kurt Lanscha |
| Vice President | Manfred Steiner |
| Vice President and Secretary | Reinhard Wilrader |
| Representative area classes | Leo Levnaic-Iwanski von Jwanin |
Presidents from 1923 until today
Status: April 2011
| 1923-1927 | Ignaz Abeles |
| 1927-1938 | Josef Gerö |
| 1945 | Karl Zankl |
| 1946-1959 | Franz Putzendopler |
| 1960-1972 | Julius Blazek |
| 1972-1974 | Franz Horr |
| 1974-1976 | Karl Sekanina |
| 1976-1977 | Wilhelm Alexa |
| 1977-1990 | Othmar Luczensky |
| 1990-2010 | Kurt Ehrenberger |
| 2010– | Robert Sedlacek |
Teams in the leagues
The following teams will play in Austrian leagues in the 2019/20 season
Men's
Women
literature
- Josef Huber; The history of Viennese football - 75 years of the Vienna Football Association; Vienna 1998
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vienna Football Association, Association at a Glance. Retrieved July 17, 2017 .
- ^ Vienna Football Association, club information. Retrieved July 17, 2017 .
- ^ Herbert Wesely: NÖFV-Chronik von 1911–2011 , Niederösterreichischer Fußballverband , February 16, 2011 (PDF, 1.9 MB).
- ↑ Vienna Football Association: Presidents of the Vienna Football Association from 1923 to the present day ( Memento of the original from March 28, 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. (accessed on April 7, 2011)
Men's
Regionalliga : West ∙ Middle ∙ East
Regional league of the respective federal state: Burgenland ( BFV ) ∙ Carinthia ( KFV ) ∙ Lower Austria ( NÖFV ) ∙ Upper Austria ( OÖFV ) ∙ Salzburg ( SFV ) ∙ Styria ( StFV ) ∙ Tyrol ( TFV ) ∙ Vorarlberg ( VFV ) ∙ Vienna ( WFV )
Women
ÖFB Women's Bundesliga ∙ 2nd league
Regional league of the respective federal state: Burgenland ( BFV ) ∙ Carinthia ( KFV ) ∙ Lower Austria ( NÖFV ) ∙ Upper Austria ( OÖFV ) ∙ Salzburg ( SFV ) ∙ Styria ( StFV ) ∙ Tyrol ( TFV ) ∙ Vorarlberg ( VFV ) ∙ Vienna ( WFV )
Including follow depending on the state association , the country's lower leagues or upper leagues , area leagues and district leagues , 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th classes.