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FK Austria Wien
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| Full name | FK Austria Magna | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | Die Veilchen (The Violets) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | March 12, 1911 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Horr Stadion, Vienna, Austria (Capacity 11,800) |
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| Chairman |  Wolfgang Katzian |
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| Manager | Thomas Parits, Georg Zellhofer |
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| League | Austrian Bundesliga | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006-07 | 6th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FK Austria Wien is an Austrian football club which plays in the capital, Vienna. They are the champions of the 2005/06 Austrian Bundesliga. In English, they are commonly referred to as Austria Vienna.
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FK Austria Wien play their home games at the Horr Stadion which has a total capacity of 11,800.
Austria Wien were founded in Vienna on March 12, 1911 as the Wiener Amateur Sportvereinigung by players and officials of the Vienna Cricket- and Football- Club taking violet and white as the new club's colours. The team claimed its first championship title in 1924. Amateure changed their name to Austria in 1926 as the former amateurs had become professionals.
The 1930s, one of Austria’s most successful eras brought two Mitropa Cup titles, a predecessor of today’s UEFA Champions League (1933, 1936). During this time world class players like Matthias Sindelar wore the violet jersey.
After the Anschluss and throughout the period of Nazi domination of the country (1938–1945) most of the club’s officials and some players with Jewish heritage, had to flee or were murdered by the Nazi regime. Star player Sindelar died under unresolved circumstances on January 23, 1939 of carbon monoxide poisoning in his apartment. Even though the team did not have any success in this period, they managed a much more important victory in keeping the name "Austria" despite attempts by Nazi sports authorities to rename the club.
Post World War II a new successful era began with Austria winning national championship titles in 1949, 1950, 1953 and 1961 – 63 as well as 1969.
The 1960s marked the beginning of a golden period for FK Austria Wien, a run of 16 titles in 33 seasons between 1960 and 1993. The decade began with three titles in a row (1961, 1962 and 1963) and ended with two more (1969, 1970) under the management of Ernst Ocwirk. Stars of the 1960s included:
- Horst Nemec, a fine centre-forward rated by some at the time as one of Europe's best
- Ernst Fiala, another fine attacker and inspirational team leader
- Johann Geyer, a cultured yet hard-working midfield schemer
- Horst Hirnschrodt, who played mainly on the right flank
The 1970s saw the beginning of another glorious era of the club as the Violets won 8 national championship titles between 1976 and 1986 (1976,1978-81,1984-86) and made it to the Final of the European Cup Winners Cup in 1978 (which was lost 0:4 to R.S.C. Anderlecht) and the semi finals of the European Champions Cup in 1979. Important players included Herbert "Schneckerl" Prohaska, Felix Gasselich, Tibor Nyilasi and Toni Polster.
In the beginning of the 90s, FK Austria enjoyed its so far last successful era: three championship titles (1991-93), three cup titles (1990, 1992, 1994) as well as four Super cup titles (Austrian national champion vs. Cup winner) (1991-94) were won.
After a period without any title (last title 1992/93), Austria Wien was taken over by Frank Stronach in 1999. He invested much money into the club, buying many top players, so they won the title again in 2003. Austia Wien had a three times higher budget than the average clubs of the league. Austria was known for their very fancy and creative style of playing football which on the downside has frequently led to unnecessary losses and makes the team somewhat unpredictable. In the season 2004/05 the team could reach the quarter final of the UEFA CUP. On the 21st of November 2005, Frank Stonach decided to resigne from his post. As a result several players like Vladimír Janočko, Joey Didulica, Libor Sionko, Filip Šebo and Sigurd Rushfeldt were transferred or signed contracts for other teams.
The 1930s, one of Austria’s most successful eras brought two Mitropa Cup titles, a predecessor of today’s UEFA Champions League (1933, 1936). During this time world class players like Matthias Sindelar wore the violet jersey.
Domestic competitions:
Austrian Championship [23]: 1924,1926,1949,1950,1953,1961,1962,1963,1969,1970,1976,1978,1979,1980,1981,1984,1985, 1986,1991,1992,1993,2003,2006
Austrian Cup [26]: 1921,1924,1925,1926,1933,1935,1936,1948,1949,1960,1962,1963,1967,1971,1974,1977,1980,1982,1986,1990,1992,1994,2003,2005,2006, 2007
Austrian Super Cup [6]: 1990,1991,1992,1993,2003,2004
Wiener Cup [2]: 1948,1949
European competitions:
Mitropa Cup [2]: 1933, 1936
Cup Winners' Cup Runners Up: 1978
Joey Didulica
Thomas Flögel
Julio Morales- Matthias Sindelar
- Ernst Ocwirk
Saša Papac- Herbert Prohaska
- Alfred Riedl
Filip Šebo
Libor Sionko- Toni Polster
- Ivica Vastic
- Ernst Ocwirk
- Anton Pfeffer
- Walter Schachner
- Friedl Koniclia
Rabiu Afolabi
Mikael Antonsson
Nastja Čeh- Tosin Dosunmu
Mons Ivar Mjelde
Sebastian Mila
Valdas Ivanauskas- Arminas Narbekovas
- Erich Obermayer
- Andreas Ogris
- Sigurd Rushfeldt
- Ernst Stojaspal
Djalminha- Paul Scharner
Tibor Nyilasi
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