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| Full name | Fernwärme First Vienna Football Club 1894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | Vienna | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Hohe Warte Stadium (Capacity 5,000) |
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| Manager |  Peter Stöger |
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| League | Regionalliga Ost (III) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006-07 | 3rd | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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First Vienna FC is an Austrian football club based in the city of Vienna. Football club names are a part of the sport 's culture reflecting century-old traditions This is a of lists of the use of Nicknames in football (soccer. Hohe Warte Stadium is a multi-use Stadium in Vienna, Austria. The following is a list of Association football stadia. They are ordered by their capacity, that is the maximum number of spectators that the Peter Stöger (born April 11, 1966 in Vienna) is a retired Austrian football player Austria (Österreich ( officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered Vienna ( in Wien; see also other names) is the Capital of Austria, and is also one of the nine States of Austria. Established on August 22, 1894, it is the country's oldest team and is familiarly known by Austrians by the English name Vienna. Year 1894 ( MDCCCXCIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common
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History
In the early 1890s English and Austrian gardeners working for Nathaniel Anselm von Rothschild began to play football on his estates. The English people (from the adjective in Englisc) are a Nation and Ethnic group native to England who predominantly speak English Gardening is the practice of growing Plants for their attractive flowers or foliage and Vegetables or Fruits for consumption Nathaniel Mayer Anselm von Rothschild ( October 26, 1836 - June 16, 1905) was a member of the Rothschild banking family of Austria. To avoid further damage to his flowers Nathaniel ceded them a pasture nearby and also granted the team's blue-yellow kits, former jockey costumes of his riding stable. A flower, also known as a bloom or Blossom, is the reproductive structure found in Flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also Pasture is land with Herbaceous vegetation cover used for grazing of Ungulate Livestock as part of a Farm or Ranch. A kit (also known as a "strip" or "uniform" is the standard equipment and attire worn by players in Association football. In Sport, a jockey is one who rides Horses in Horse racing or steeplechase racing primarily as a profession The Manx player William Beale designed the triskelion logo, also in the Rothschild colours blue and yellow. The Manx are an ethnic group coming from the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea in northern Europe. A triskelion or triskele (both from the Greek gr ''τρισκέλιον'' or grc ''τρισκελής'' for "three-legged" is a Symbol The Rothschild family (often referred to simply as the Rothschilds) is an international Banking and Finance Dynasty of German The team played its first match on November 15, 1894 against the Vienna Cricket and Football-Club losing 0:4 to the club which would become a bitter longtime rival until the Cricketers' football team was finally dissolved in 1936. The city of Vienna quickly became the centre of Austrian football and by the end of 1896 there were seven clubs playing there, several of which also fielded reserve sides. Year 1896 ( MDCCCXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year
In 1897, the chairman of the Cricketers donated the Challenge Cup establishing a competition open to all football clubs in what was then Austria-Hungary, drawing teams from Vienna, Budapest, and Prague. Year 1897 ( MDCCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Budapest ( also /ˈbʊ-/) is the capital city of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary it serves as the country's principal Political, Prague (ˈprɑːg Praha (ˈpraɦa see also other names) is the Capital and Largest city of the Czech Republic. Cricket won the first cup competition in 1989, but First Vienna followed with consecutive cup titles in 1899 and 1900. Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) Year 1899 ( MDCCCXCIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1900 ( MCM) was an exceptional Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar The club also made a losing appearance in the 1907 final of the Wiener Cup which emerged when the Challenge Cup competition fell into disarray between 1903 and 1905. Year 1907 ( MCMVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1903 ( MCMIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar or a Common year starting Year 1905 ( MCMV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting In the years leading up to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 Vienna performed poorly and by 1915 had fallen out of first division play and did not return to the top flight until after the war in 1919. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All Year 1914 ( MCMXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1919 ( MCMXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common
Glory years
The club gradually returned to form and consistently finished in the top half of the league table through the 20s winning Austrian Cup titles in 1929 and 1930 before finally claiming the national championship in 1931. Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1930 ( MCMXXX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1931 ( MCMXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. That same year the team also won the Mitropa Cup, one of Europe's first international club competitions. The Mitropa Cup, officially called the La Coupe de l'Europe Centrale was one of the first really international major European football cups for club sides Vienna captured a second national title in 1933 with a third Austrian Cup following in 1937. Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
WWII and play in the Gauliga
After Austria was united with Germany in the Anschluss in 1938 the football competitions of the two countries were also merged. The ( German: "link-up" also known as the, was the 1938 Annexation of Austria into Greater Germany by the Nazi Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. First division Austrian teams played in the newly formed Gauliga Ostmark as part of the league structure established under the Third Reich in the re-organization of German football in 1933. Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the common English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. This led to the appearance of Austrian sides in the national finals of Germany and in competition for the Tschammerpokal, predecessor of today's German Cup. The DFB-Pokal ( Deutscher Fußball-Bund-Pokal or German Football-Federation Cup is an elimination football tournament held annually In 1942, Vienna captured the divisional title in what was by then known as the Gauliga Donau-Alpenland (Ostmark) and went all the way to the final played on July 4, 1942 in Berlin where they dropped a 0:2 decision to Schalke 04 the dominant side of German football in the era. Year 1942 ( MCMXLII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1942 ( MCMXLII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. FC Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04, commonly FC Schalke 04, is a German football club originally from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen Vienna repeated as divisional champions the following season, but this time advanced only as far as the semi-finals before being put out 1:2 by FV Saarbrücken. The club did, however, have a successful Tschammerpokal run, winning the 1943 competition by defeating Luftwaffen-SV Hamburg 3:2 in extra time to become the second Austrian side to take the cup by following in the footsteps of Rapid Wien, victors in 1938. Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Luftwaffen-SV Hamburg was a short-lived German military football club active during World War II and is notable as the most successful of The Sportklub Rapid Wien (Rapid Vienna is an Austrian football club playing in the country's capital city of Vienna. Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A third Gauliga title in 1944 again put the club into Germany's national playoffs where this time they went out 2:3 in the quarterfinals to eventual champions Dresdner SC. Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Dresdner SC is a German multisport club playing in Dresden, Saxony. As World War II drew to a close and Allied armies advanced into Germany league play collapsed with Vienna still in a tight race again looking to repeat as division champions. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including
Postwar play
Occupied by Allied forces after the end of the war, Austria was once again independent of Germany and a separate league structure was re-established. In league play in the 1946 season Vienna earned only a fifth place finish but did go on to capture the Liberation Cup donated by the Soviets. Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
Through the late 40s and on into the early 50s the club's performance was uneven as they generally earned only mid-table results. However, in 1955 Vienna enjoyed an excellent season that ended with the club's sixth national championship title as they finished ahead of Wiener Sport-Club on goal difference. Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) The Wiener Sportclub, commonly referred to simply as WSC was established in 1883 playing in club colours of black and white
Fall from the top flight
Vienna remained competitive through the balance of the decade, consistently finishing in the top three, but the club faded through the 60s until they were finally relegated in 1968 for the first time since their return to the top flight after World War I. Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. They re-appeared in the first division after a single season absence, but no longer seriously challenged for the title. With the establishment of the ten-team Zehnerliga, Austria's new premier division, in 1974-75, Vienna again found itself playing second division football until earning promotion in 1976. Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. However, they continued to struggle as a lower division side and were again sent down in 1980. Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar)
The expansion of the first division from ten to sixteen teams in 1982 allowed Vienna back into the senior competition, but their inconsistent play continued. Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) Another league re-organization established the twelve-team Austrian Bundesliga in 1985 and Vienna made its first appearance there in the following season. Year 1985 ( MCMLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar) A highlight of this time was a strong championship round performance in 1988 that led to a fourth place finish that earned the club a UEFA Cup appearance. Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) The UEFA Cup is a football competition for European club teams organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA. The club remained a lower table side and was facing relegation trouble by the early-90s, finally being sent down in 1992. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Vienna next enjoyed a strong run through the 1997 Austrian Cup competition which took them to the final where they dropped a 1:2 decision to first division side Sturm Graz. Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar SK Sturm Graz is an Austrian football club based in Graz, Styria, playing in the Austrian Bundesliga
However, the team could not recover itself in regular league play, and while they came close to a return to the Bundesliga several times, they continued a slide that in 2000 landed them in the third division Regionalliga Ost where they play today. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. The Austrian Regional League East is a third-tier division of Austrian football.
Stadium
The club's home venue is the Hohe Warte Stadium built in 1921 and having a current capacity of 5,000 spectators. Hohe Warte Stadium is a multi-use Stadium in Vienna, Austria. Year 1921 ( MCMXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1921 calendar of the Gregorian calendar
Current squad
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Honours
- Austrian champions (6): 1931, 1933, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1955
- Austrian Cup winner (3): 1929, 1930, 1937
- Challenge Cup winner (2): 1899, 1900
- German Cup winner: 1943
- Mitropa Cup winner: 1931
- Liberation Cup winner: 1946
Team trivia
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- The club still uses the same logo and wears the same colours – blue and yellow – as originally adopted at its founding meeting in 1894.
- The team was involved in a failed attempt in the 1924-25 season to play Austria's first night game on a field lit by torches and flares, and playing with a ball covered in lime to make it more visible. Year 1924 ( MCMXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1925 ( MCMXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. They later successfully played the country's first match under floodlights on 3 November, 1956. Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
- Vienna's 1931 Mitropa Cup title was unique in the history of the competition as they swept their opposition, winning all six of their matches.
- The club is currently sponsored by heating firm Fernwärme.
External links
- Official website (German)
- Austriasoccer
- Historical Austrian league results
- Historical German league results (German)
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