Rapid Vienna
Nation : Austria, Year of Establishment : 1899
Stadium : Gerhard Hanappi (18,500 Seats)
Seasons in Austria Championship : 106 (All)
All-Time Austria Championship Ranking : 1st
Austria Championship : Winners (8-A, 24-P), Runner-Up (29)
German Championship : Winner (1), SF (1)
DFB-Pokal : Winner (1), SF (2)
Austrian Cup : Winners (19) ,Runner-Up (11)
Austrian Double Champion : 6
UEFA Cup : R16 (3-A), Cup Winners’ Cup : RN (2), QF (2)
European Cup : SF (1-A), QF (3-A), R16 (1-A)
Mitropa Cup : WN (1), RN (2), SF (1)
All-Time Top-Scorer : Robert Dienst (307 Goals)
The Greatest Player Ever : Gerhard Hanappi
The Greatest Manager Ever : Robert Korner
All-time XI : Walter Zeman, Peter Shottel, Josef Smistik, Herbert Weber, Ernest Happel, Dietmar Kuhbauer, Gerhard Hanappi, Antonin Panenka, Franz Hasil, Hans Krankl, Franz Binder
The Sportklub Rapid Wien is the greatest Austrian club of all-time, is the most Austrian league champions, is the 1st place in all-time Austrian league table and the most successful Austrian Club in European football. SK Rapid Wien was founded in 1898 as a workers’ football club. The club dominated Austrian football in the 1910s to early 1920s and reached their prime in 1930 that they won Mitropa Cup and is regarded as one of the top clubs in Europe at that period, priding itself as the only team from the former Ostmark, part of the German Reich, to win the German war-time league in 1941.Since then, Rapid Vienna was overshadowed by Austria Vienna as dominator. They didn’t win any league title in the 1970s. Its best year in the second half of 20th Century is 1996 in which they won the league title and reach European Cup Winners’ Cup final match. Rapid Vienna totally won six Austrian double champions in their history. There are totally 77 seasons in history of Austrian football Rapid finishes in top 3 of the league.It holds the record highest goals ratio and goal differences ratio in an Austrian league season with 5.54 (133 goals) and 3.88 (93 diffs) in 24 games, respectively both achieved in the 1950 - 1951 season. It achieved the greatest Austrian seasonal result ever in the 1934 - 1935 with 18-4-0.