Viennese sports club

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VAC
Wiener SK.svg
Full name Viennese sports club
place Vienna - Hernals
Founded 2001
Dissolved 2017
Club colors black - white
Stadion Wiener Sport-Club Platz
Top league First League
successes
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The Wiener Sportklub was an Austrian football club from the Hernals district in the federal capital Vienna and played in the third-class Regional League East until 2017 .

The club was founded by former officials and players of the soccer section of the Vienna Sports Club in 2001 as a rescue club for the economically distressed club. The WSK took over the place, license, players and fans of the WSC. In 2017 the WSK was reintegrated into the WSC.

history

prehistory

The Viennese sports club had its roots in the Viennese sports club . The traditional club, which has existed since 1883 and has had its own successful soccer section since 1907, ran into financial difficulties in the mid-1990s, which resulted in two bankruptcy proceedings that were closed with a settlement , but in 1995 the club voluntarily withdrew from the then existing partnership with the SV Gerasdorf and the associated relegation from the 2nd Bundesliga to the Regionalliga Ost.

In 2001 the WSC achieved the championship title in the Vienna City League and, thanks to its promotion to the third-class regional league with AXA insurance, was able to win a potent club sponsor for the first time in many years and also concluded the game year positively in economic terms. Since the second bankruptcy proceedings had not yet been completed at that time and the future of the club did not seem secure despite the economic and sporting optimism, some officials and active members of the football section felt compelled to found a rescue club for the players of the Vienna sports club.

Founding history and first successes of the WSK

In June 2001 the FC Wien-Hernals was founded under association law and in December of the same year it was renamed the Wiener SK AXA. In January 2002, the WSC's general assembly decided by a majority to re-establish the Vienna SK AXA and thus to take over the WSC's gaming operations. This decision was made not least because the treasury administrator of the WSC, Alzinger, promised the general assembly that gaming operations would be closed.

The Vienna SK AXA subsequently appeared as the “Vienna Sports Club” and, without having joined the Vienna Football Association , but with its tolerance, from the spring of 2002, tacitly and initially also unnoticed by the competition in the Regional League, the Vienna Sports Club . Unencumbered by the debts of the old club, the new club strengthened itself in several positions and was - although the club only completed 15 of the 30 championship rounds itself - with the points still scored by the WSC in the 2001/02 season with ten points ahead of the Floridsdorf AC champions the Regionalliga Ost.

With this title win, the club qualified for the relegation games to the second Bundesliga, the former First Division. Against the ninth-placed second division club FC Lustenau 07 , the WSK only drew 0-0 in the home game and lost the second leg in Lustenau 4-0. After bankruptcy proceedings were opened against Bundesliga champions FC Tirol Innsbruck and the Tyroleans withdrew from the league, these relegation games were declared obsolete and Vienna's SK AXA Wienstrom was allowed to advance directly to the second level.

In the licensing procedure for the Bundesliga, however, the WSK was refused the license in the first instance on the grounds that the club was neither a member of the WFV nor a regular participant in the Regionalliga Ost. The Viennese sports club AXA Wienstrom did not raise an objection to this decision, so that it became legally binding. Instead, parts of the management of the WSK approached several politicians from the parties represented in parliament, including Peter Westenthaler , the former FPÖ club chairman , and received a license for the Bundesliga through a controversial decision of the second instance in the licensing process.

A year of second class and success in the town hall

In the first division of the Bundesliga, SK AXA Wienstrom from Vienna only reached the bottom of the table in the 2002/03 season despite twelve wins and six draws with two points behind the relegation place and had to relegate to the Regionalliga Ost after only one year. In the ÖFB Cup , the Dornbachers were able to advance to the second round, where they were defeated 0: 3 away by the first division team SK Sturm Graz . The WSK played surprisingly well at the Wiener Stadthallenturnier , where the club was the group winner after the opening defeat against FK Austria Wien (3: 4) with victories over SK Rapid Wien (5: 4 and 3: 1) and Austria Wien (3: 1) before the two top clubs and after a 6-5 success in the semifinals over SV Mattersburg even advanced into the final. There the Dornbachers had no chance and lost against Austria with 1: 5.

After relegation from the First Division, the black and whites only finished in the disappointing 12th place in the 2003/04 regional league season . The club could not cope with the sale of many top performers and had to see itself forced to renovate.

Legal relationship with the Wiener Sport-Club

The old club Wiener Sport-Club survived the club crisis caused by the departure of the soccer section and continues to run an officially dormant soccer section. In 2003, the Vienna Football Association had to return the association number assigned to the WSK to the founding member at the time and recognize the WSC as an independent association member.

On April 23, 2004, the WSC and the WSK agreed on a contractual agreement in which the WSK is forbidden from “drawing on the history and tradition of the WSC, in particular in a way from which it could be deduced for third parties that the WSK is identical to the WSC ". Furthermore, the WSK also has to make it clear to the media and other third parties "at the WSC's first request that the WSK does not and cannot claim the successes, results and other services previously achieved by the WSC".

In response to legal pressure from the Wiener Sport-Club, the Wiener SK pays an annual fee of € 10,750 for the possibility of being allowed to call itself "Wiener Sportklub" to a limited extent - and for no longer than ten years Compulsory balancing of the WSC is used. In addition, talks have been held since 2004 between those responsible for the two clubs about integrating the new WSK as a football section into the sports club or about the possibility of granting the WSK the status of an independent branch of the WSC. In March 2006 these talks were broken off without any results, because the now ex-president of the Vienna SK wanted to keep the club as an independent association in the future. Since then, there have been repeated discussions between various officials of the two clubs, but these have not brought any concrete results. The WSC promised to reactivate their own football section.

There are still voices at WSC and Wiener SK as well as the supporters' association of WSC and the friends of the Friedhofstribüne that consider a merger of WSC and Wiener SK to be desirable, or at least call for a peaceful coexistence of the two associations.

Merger with the WSC

On April 25, 2016, the WSC 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 WSC merged with the WSK, which disappeared again. The WSC took over the starting place of the WSK in the Regionalliga Ost and in the ÖFB-Cup .

Fans of the Vienna sports club

The local rival of the WSK was the league competitor Vienna until the 2008/09 season - until their promotion . The “little Viennese derby ”, as the matches between the two former first division clubs are called, was mostly played in front of up to 7,000 fans.

From the 2014/15 season there will be the “little Viennese derby” again, as Vienna has been playing in the Regionalliga Ost again this season . On March 27, 2015, the sports club's first home league party with Vienna since the 2008/09 season took place on the WSC-Platz , with 7,842 spectators at the completely sold-out, traditional sports facility.

Between 2009 and 2016, the Vienna sports club was able to win the largest number of spectators in the Regionalliga Ost.

Stadion

The venue of the WSK was the Wiener Sportclub-Platz , the oldest still playable football field in Austria. On October 25, 2018, the local council approved a subsidy of € 6.25 million for the renovation of the desolate stadium. The renovation is to begin in 2020 and the renovation, which should take place while the game is running, should be completed in 2021

successes

Well-known players of the WSK

Women's soccer

The women's team was founded in May 2011 and started in 1st class A (4th league). The founder and section head is the well-known musician Chris Peterka, who has also been a coach in Viennese women's football since 2006. The team was coached by Thomas Rauch for the first three seasons and Mehmet Aksoy since the 2014/15 season. In the 2011/12 premiere season, they became champions straight away without losing points and were promoted to the Vienna Regional League (3rd division). In addition to the championship title, they also won the Vienna Women's Cup. This gave you a starting place in the ÖFB Women's Cup for the 2012/13 season. In the 2012/13 season they became undefeated champions in the Vienna regional league, and the promotion to the second highest level was just missed in the relegation. Also in the 2013/14 season the championship title in the Vienna regional league was fixed unbeaten, the promotion to the second division was awarded again in the relegation. In the ÖFB Women's Cup, the WSK women came in the top 16 as a third division team in the 2013/14 season. Overall, the WSK women achieved 47 wins and 3 draws in 50 championship games in the first three years of their existence. After a runner-up in the Vienna State League in the 2014/15 season, the former Austria-Vienna professional Patrick Kasuba and Josef Kirchberger took over the A and B teams of the WSK women in the following season 2015/16. The women's team was taken over by the Wiener Sport-Club in 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the history of WSC and WSK AXA.
  2. ↑ The sports club becomes the Kurier.at sports club again , on June 19, 2017, accessed on June 30, 2017
  3. ^ Regionalliga Ost 2015/2016 - spectators. In: weltfussball.de. Retrieved December 8, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Sports Club Stadium: Renovation starts. In: ORF Vienna. ORF Vienna, October 25, 2018, accessed on October 25, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Sports club: the stadium is being revitalized. In: w24.at. w24.at, October 25, 2018, accessed on October 25, 2018 .