Viennese sports club
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| Surname | Viennese sports club |
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| Club colors | black - white |
| Founded | February 24, 1883 |
| resolution | 2001 |
| Association headquarters | Vienna - Hernals |
| Departments | 8th |
| ZVR number | 559316329 |
| Homepage | wsc.at |
The Wiener Sport-Club (also known as “WSC” for short or colloquially often just “Sport-Club”) is one of the oldest sports clubs in Austria . The club emerged from the Vienna Cyclist Club founded on February 24, 1883 . The best-known division, the football section, has existed since the merger with the Vienna Sports Association in 1907, making it one of the oldest football clubs in Austria.
Founding history
The Wiener Sport-Club emerged from the Wiener Cyclisten Club , which was founded on February 24, 1883 and initially consisted only of cyclists. The clubhouse at Rötzergasse 6 was built with own funds and opened on December 1, 1895. Over the following years, the club expanded its activities to numerous other sports. In May 1886 a fencing team was formed in the club, which in 1890 became a separate section. The gymnastics section founded in the same year finally turned the club into an all-round sports club. However, the club still did not have a football department at that time.
The football section found its way into the club on February 25, 1907 through the union with the Vienna Sports Association. Since then, the club has also run the Wiener Sport-Club, which is still known today . The soccer club itself emerged from the soccer clubs FuAC Vorwärts and the German young team Währing , which merged in 1902 and for financial reasons joined the Vienna Sports Association in 1904 , which until then only operated the indoor sports wrestling and lifting, but was wealthy in contrast to the soccer department.
All-round sports club
The Vienna Sports Club has always been an all-round sports club. This is particularly evident in the many sections that the sports club had, especially before the Second World War. In addition to football, cycling and fencing, there were sections for handball, ice hockey, tennis, boxing, athletics and winter sports. After the Second World War, however, some sections were not resumed. It was noteworthy that the athletes often competed for the club in several sports at the same time. For example, the ice hockey team that dominated Vienna before the First World War consisted mainly of footballers from the Vienna Sports Club. This team consisting of all-round athletes won the first Austrian ice hockey championship in 1912, but ceased operations in 1921.
The cycling section is the oldest section of the sports club. The cycling section had its heyday between 1926 and World War II. Drivers like August Schaffer, Pelz, Fabianek and the unforgettable Franz “Ferry” Dusika drove victory after victory on a national and international level, on the road and on the track. In 1932 alone, the members of the Vienna Sports Club won no less than 170 prizes, 72 of them as winners. After the war in 1945, however, the wheel section could no longer be continued. The section was not reactivated until the summer of 2001.
The fencing section of the Vienna Sport Club, which still exists today, was founded in 1886 and is the most successful section of the Sport Club. The fencers of the Wiener Sport-Club are Austrian saber record champions and produced, among others, the fencing world champion Roland Losert. Currently (2018) the saber fencer Lukas Galli, born in 1991, is one of the sporting figureheads of the fencing section.
The club's basketball section won the Austrian basketball championship title in 1951 for the only time in the club's history .
Today, in contrast to earlier times, the Wiener Sport-Club has few sections. In addition to the fencing and cycling section, there is also a squash section , a water polo section , a swimming section and an ice hockey section. The football section, which was suspended in 2001, was revived in 2016. The table tennis section, founded in 1946, competes under the club name (TTC WSC), but is now an independent club.
Fencing section
Founded in 1886.
titles and achievements
World Champion
- Roland Losert ( 1963 )
State champions
- Roland Losert
- Hugo Weczerek
- Karl Hanisch
- Johannes Hradez
- Waltraud Peck
- Ivo Wolf
- Hannelore Hradez-Huber
- Stefan Rathausky
- Lukas Galli
- Herman Resch
- Walter Peck
- Karl Bilinski
Water polo section
The water polo section was founded on February 24, 2005 on the Wiener Sport-Club Platz . Launched as a hobby team, the section played a total of 5 seasons from 2006/2007 to 2010/2011 in the Regional League East organized by the Vienna State Swimming Association. A fourth place in the 2007/2008 season was the best result.
In the winter / spring of 2008/2009 the establishment of an own youth department was considered for the first time, the implementation began in summer 2009. Already in the winter of the same year the Austrian championship title in the U10 competition was surprisingly won as the first glimmer of hope.
As early as 2010, both the Austrian U10 and U12 championships could be tackled, the U10 competition was finished in first place, and the U12 won bronze. Subsequently, the Vienna Sport Club has won 22 championship titles in junior competitions to date (U10-U19; as of August 2017). For this purpose, several players are placed in the men's and junior national team of the Austrian Swimming Association.
With mostly self-made players, they played the first Bundesliga season in the 2015/2016 season with the support of some guest players and ended it in last place. A year later you could improve yourself by one rank without a guest player.
King of the Kongi
Since 2010, the section has been organizing an annual international water polo tournament at the Vienna Congress Bath at the end of September. Teams from Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Switzerland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Hungary and of course Austria were guests.
Current and former national team players (men's NT)
Tom Donkovic, Raphael Gartner, Fabian Gruber, Harald Hänslin, Dario Sommer
Cycling section
(Re) founded in 2004.
Swimming section
Founded in 2007, accepted into the association at the general meeting on February 24, 2008 for the 125th anniversary celebration.
Several Austrian championship titles (OSV) in the Masters area (age groups) as well as participation in FINA Masters World & European Championships and World & European Masters Games.
The junior business started in 2017.
Squash section
Founded in 2011. Originally founded as a hobby section, Bundesliga players Clemens Wallishauser and Michael Scharrer are now members and in 2018 a team in the 3rd division of the national league entered the league.
Running section
Founded in 2016.
Ice Hockey Section
The Vienna Sports Club had a successful ice hockey section from 1908 to 1921. With the introduction of the puck in the 1921/22 season, the club gave up ice hockey. After 97 years, the section was re-established in 2018 and participated in the Eisner Auto Third League in the league in the 2018/2019 season.
Football section
| Viennese sports club | |||
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| Surname | Wiener Sport-Club - Football section | ||
| Seat | Vienna - Hernals | ||
| founding | 1907 | ||
| Colours | Black-and-white | ||
| Website | wienersportclub.com | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Robert Weinstabl | ||
| Venue | Wiener Sport-Club Platz | ||
| Places | 7,828 | ||
| league | Regional League East | ||
| 2019/20 | 4th place (canceled) | ||
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The soccer section is the best-known and most popular, if only the second most successful section of the Vienna sports club. It has existed since 1904 in the form of the Wiener Sportvereinigung and since 1907 through the merger with the Wiener Cyclistenclub in the form of the Wiener Sport-Club. When the soccer section moved into the Vienna Sport Club, the club gradually changed, as the soccer department increasingly dominated the club and in some cases pushed back or even displaced other less successful sections.
Vienna Sports Association
The roots of the football department of the sports club go back to the Hernals football and athletics club Vorwärts , which was founded in 1898 and which merged with the German youth team Währing to form the German sports club in 1902 . The first major games were participation in the Tagblatt Cup in 1901/02 and 1902/03, which, however, was completed bottom of the table. Since the team was capable, but had hardly any money, the football players joined the Vienna Sports Association in 1904 , which only played indoor sports but was wealthy. Half a year later, the club managed to rent what is now the Dornbacher sports field from St. Peter's Abbey in Salzburg. The first game took place on October 16, 1904 and ended with a 7-3 for the Vienna Sports Association against Ödenburg. In the following year the team celebrated their greatest triumph, winning the Challenge Cup with a 2-1 win over Magyar AC Budapest on April 9, 1905. In 1906, the Vienna Sports Association won the big Rapid tournament on the Rudolfsheimer sports field in the final against Vienna with 2-1. The victorious club received a silver trophy and each player a gold watch chain. The Vienna Sports Association played with: Donhardt, Krojer, Fekete, Beran, Wilczek, Mastalka, Schmieger , Merz, Gindl, Aspek, Ebrock.
In the same year, the Vienna Cylisteclub and the Vienna Sports Association began to develop closer sporting cooperation, which ultimately resulted in a merger on February 25, 1907. Since then, the soccer team has played under the now known name Wiener Sport-Club.
The first years of the Wiener Sport-Club
In 1909 the Wiener Sport-Club made it to the finals in the Challenge Cup, but lost to Ferencvárosi TC from Budapest 1: 2 on the Hohe Warte . The following year they made it to the final again, but lost to the Budapesti Torna Club 1: 2. However, the hosting of the Challenge Cup in 1910 is controversial. On September 24, 1911, the Vienna Sport Club was finally able to win the Challenge Cup for the second time with a 3-0 final victory over Ferencvárosi Budapest. On the way to the final, the sports club had eliminated the FAC 7: 3, Rapid 3: 1 and DFV Troppau even 14: 0. The Challenge Cup was subsequently not held again, the sports club is its last winner and as a result still has this special cup to this day.
The first championship in 1911/1912 ended the Wiener Sport-Club one point behind the surprising winner Rapid in second place, as runner-up. In the following years, the Dornbachers asserted themselves in the top field with ranks three and four.
The beginning of the First World War tore deep wounds in the team of the Vienna Sports Club. Already in the first days of the war, practically the entire first team had to enter the military. In 1915, when the 18-year-olds were drafted, six players from the newly formed team had to appear again, so that teenage boys had to move up to the fighting team. They formed the core of the later championship team in 1922. The loss of Karl Braunsteiner , who died in 1916 as a prisoner of war in Russia, was particularly tragic . He was a talent of the century and played equally well in all positions. Immediately after the war in 1919, the Wiener Sport-Club made it to the finals in the first Austrian Cup , where they lost 3-0 to Rapid. In 1921 the Wiener Sport-Club lost again in the final, this time with 1: 2 to the Wiener Amateur SV .
Until the runner-up in 1937/38, the sports club occupied places in the midfield at best. In 1937 and 1938 they once again made it into the cup final, but they were lost with 0: 2 or 0: 1 against Vienna and Schwarz-Rot Wien, a short-term split from Vienna AC .
The golden 1950s and the successful appearance in the European Cup
After the 1951/52 season, the sports club was only twelfth in the field of 14 teams and was thus second class for the first time, but was able to secure immediate promotion with a first place in the State League B. As early as 1955, the club drew attention again with the runner-up championship.
This marked the beginning of the most successful era after the Second World War. Between June 17, 1957 and September 12, 1959, the Dornbacher under coach Hans Pesser achieved 43 wins and eleven draws in 55 championship games and crowned themselves with only one defeat as the Austrian football champions of the seasons 1957/58 and 1958/59. Back then, this successful team was supported by goalkeeper Rudolf Szanwald , Leopold Barschandt , Josef "Pepi" Hamerl and Erich Hof .
On October 1, 1958, the Wiener Sport-Club wrote Austrian football history. In the first round of the European Cup of national champions, the Viennese outclassed the highly favored team from Juventus Turin after a 1: 3 defeat in Turin in the second leg at the Vienna Prater Stadium with 7: 0 and surprisingly threw the Italian stars out of the competition. Josef Hamerl scored four goals in this game and thus briefly achieved world fame. This result represents the highest victory of an Austrian team against a top European club as well as the highest defeat of an Italian club in the context of the European Cup. In the quarter-finals, the sports club was eliminated after a 0-0 victory at home and a 1: 7- Defeat in the second leg against Real Madrid . The following year, the club reached the quarter-finals again, but were eliminated there after 2: 1 away and a 1: 1 in Vienna against the eventual finalists Eintracht Frankfurt .
In 1960 the club became Austrian runner-up behind record champions Rapid Vienna. With the departure of numerous important players, the team was completely rebuilt in the following years, so that the black and white could no longer keep up with the Austrian top. They only played for the championship title again at the end of the 1960s, but had to be satisfied with the runner-up title behind Austria Wien twice in 1969 and 1970. In 1969 the club reached the final of the ÖFB Cup for the first time since 1938, but lost in an exciting final just 1: 2 against Rapid.
Decline from the 1970s
1972 succeeded once more the advance into the cup final, but after a 2-1 win in the first leg, the second leg against Rapid after extra time was lost 3-1.
After the 1973/74 season, the National League with its 17 clubs was replaced by the Bundesliga, which now only consisted of ten clubs. Vienna was granted two places, making the sports club second class for the second time. The second place in 1975 behind the Grazer AK was not enough for promotion. In the 1975/76 season, however, the opening of the floodlights on the sports field in Dornbach fell on October 10th, where Eintracht Braunschweig was the opponent and won 1-0. It was not until 1977 that the team returned to first class and also took part in a cup final, where the playing community between Austria and Vienna AC was too big a hurdle.
In 1977/78 the class could be kept tight and in 1979 the sports club became runner-up again, the last notable success in the club's history for the time being. August "Gustl" Starek was a well-known player on that team. After the 1984/85 season, the Bundesliga, which had meanwhile grown to 16 clubs, was reduced to 12 clubs and the 12th club was replaced by a promoted team. However, by taking first place in the second division, he returned to the Bundesliga immediately. In the following years, the class could only just barely be held. Because of its prominent equipment, the team between 1986 and 1988 deserves special attention. In addition to the national player Christian Keglevits , who came from Rapid in 1984 , the former national players Felix Gasselich and "Goleador" Hans Krankl also played at the sports club. Krankl scored an impressive 40 goals in his two seasons in Dornbach. With Gasselich's temporary departure in 1989, this ambitious and correspondingly expensive era ended.
Due to two bankruptcies in the 1990s, the Vienna Sport Club plunged deep. In the 1990/91 season, the club was only last in the middle playoffs, which were decisive for relegation, but rose again in 1992 and came fourth in the Bundesliga. After 1993/94 the club was only tenth and last, which marked the final farewell to top Austrian football.
In the 1994/95 season, Wiener SC formed a syndicate with SV Gerasdorf , which reached a midfield position in the second division. After the dissolution of the syndicate, Gerasdorf kept its place in the league and the sports club was placed in the third-class eastern league.
In 1999 the Wiener Sport-Club reached a midfield position in the fourth-class Wiener Stadtliga, but rose again to the third division the following season. In the following year, despite a 4-0 defeat in qualification against FC Lustenau , they even managed to move up to the second division, as Innsbruck's FC Tirol license was withdrawn for economic reasons. But the last thing to do was to descend again.
The club's financial problems led to the separation of the football section from the Vienna Sports Club (WSK) founded on July 1, 2001 . The sports club could be saved as an all-round club. The new sports club played as an independent football club in the third- tier Regionalliga Ost until 2017 .
Return to football and merger with the Viennese sports club
On April 25, 2016, the general assembly decided to run a football section again for the 2016/17 season. This started that season in the 2nd class B, which you finished fifth out of 13 representatives. In the following season the Wiener Sport-Club merged with the Wiener Sportklub. The Wiener Sport-Club took over the starting place of the Wiener Sportklub in the Regionalliga Ost and in the ÖFB-Cup .
Combat team
Coaching team
As of August 25, 2020
| function | Surname | Date of birth | nationality | with the club since |
Last club |
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| Trainer | Robert Weinstabl | 08/30/1983 |
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07/2019 | SKU Amstetten |
| Assistant coach | Patrick Krainz | 07/30/1993 |
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07/2020 | Analyst |
| Assistant coach | Edvin Merdzic | 03/23/1988 |
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07/2019 | Trainer Wiener Sport-Club II |
| Goalkeeping coach | Andreas Gössl | 03/14/1969 |
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01/2018 | 1. FC Bisamberg |
Current squad
As of August 25, 2020
| goal | |
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| 1 |
Florian Prögelhof
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| 22nd |
Alex Kniezanrek
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| 24 |
 Đorđe Stojanović
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| Defense | |
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| 3 |
Philipp Haas
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| 5 |
 Luka Gusić
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| 6th |
Thomas Jackel
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| 13 |
Lucas Pfaffl
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| 15th |
Nenad Vasiljevic
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| 20th |
Igor Klarić
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| 27 |
Jürgen Csandl
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| 29 |
Christian Hayden
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| midfield | |
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| 7th |
 Martin Pajaczkowski
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| 11 |
Ivan Andrejevic
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| 14th |
 Andrei Todoroski
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| 16 |
Eray Öztürk
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| 17th |
Philip Dimov
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| 18th |
Aleksandar Petruljevic
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| 21st |
Titian Bender
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| 23 |
Mirza Berkovic
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| 30th |
Philip Buzuk
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| 31 |
Philip Obermüller
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| attack | |
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| 9 |
Thomas Hirschhofer
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| 19th |
Julian Küssler
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| 29 |
Miroslav Beljan
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| 33 |
Corvin Aussenegg
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Fans of the Viennese sports club
The Wiener Sport-Club is one of the crowd pullers in the Regionalliga Ost. On average, the Wiener Sport-Club Platz is visited by 1,700 spectators. The fans are considered “tolerant” and “non-violent”, which is why there have never been fan riots. In addition, the fans have strong ties to their club and particularly appreciate the club's loyalty to tradition.
The largest fan club of the Vienna Sports Club was founded in 1990 and is called Friends of the Friedhofstribüne. The name of the fan club is derived from the so-called Friedhofstribüne , which in turn got its name from the Dornbacher Friedhof opposite . The fan club impresses above all with its creative fan chants. Especially when it comes to away games, the supporters motivate their team by filling an entire stand area. Violence and xenophobia are strictly rejected by the members of the fan club.
A British football atmosphere can be felt in the fan sections of the WSC. In contrast to the usual fan clubs, flags , optical supports and capos are not used and more fan chants and acoustic elements are used. A large part of their fan chants is sung in English , so the traditional British cheer "Score in a minute" is sung in a standard situation. Their fan culture also includes the unusual clinking of keys by the spectators, which is used before an imminent corner kick and for free kicks from a promising position.
Between the 2014/15 season and the 2016/17 season there was again the “little Viennese derby” with Vienna , who played in the Regionalliga Ost in those seasons .
Stadion
The venue of the Wiener Sport-Club is the Wiener Sport-Club Platz , the oldest still playable football field in Austria.
titles and achievements
International
- 2 × Challenge Cup winners: 1905 (as a Viennese sports association), 1911
- 1 × Challenge Cup finalist: 1909
- 2 × quarter-finals European Champion Clubs' Cup : 1959 , 1960
- 1 × Intertoto Cup winner: 1981
- 1 × Third place Trofeo Ramón de Carranza : 1958
National
- 3 × Austrian champion : 1922 , 1958 , 1959
- 7 × Austrian runner-up: 1912, 1938, 1955, 1960, 1969, 1970, 1979
- 1 × Austrian Cup winner : 1923
- 7 × Austrian Cup finalists: 1919, 1921, 1937, 1938, 1969, 1972, 1977
- 8 × winners of the Vienna City Hall tournament : 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1973, 1976
Top scorer
- Franz Jelinek : 1942
- Walter Horak : 1958
- Erich Hof : 1959, 1963
- Wolfgang Gayer : 1965
- Günter Kaltenbrunner : 1970
Known players
Women's soccer
The women's department was founded in 2011 at the Wiener Sportklub and was taken over by the Wiener Sport-Club in 2017 and now play in the 2nd women's league.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Results playoffs 2018/19 . wehv.at. Retrieved November 13, 2019.
- ^ "Floodlight gala with Braunschweig" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna October 7, 1975, p. 9 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Peter Karlik: The sports club is becoming a sports club again. In: Kurier.at. June 19, 2017. Retrieved June 30, 2017 .
- ↑ wienersportclub.com: coaching team (accessed on August 25, 2020)
- ↑ wienersportclub.com: Squad (accessed August 25, 2020)
- ↑ a b page no longer available , search in web archives: 11 friends. Issue 17 (PDF).
- ↑ Friends of the cemetery stand. In: friedhofstribuene.at. Retrieved August 1, 2018 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 34 " N , 16 ° 18 ′ 40.9" E