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Its capacity of 28,600 was achieved in such a cramped, residential space by planners rotating the stadium 90 degrees, so that the legendary Westtribüne is now on the south side, lining Keißlergasse. Opened on the eve of the 2016-17 season, the €54 million Allianz Stadion was built on the site of its predecessor, the Gerhard- Hanappi-Stadion. Qualification for the Europa League tempered another disappointing campaign in 2017-18. Since then, Rapid have only won the title twice, most recently in 2008 with the combination of young striker Erwin Hoffer and attacking midfielder Steffen Hofmann, still the club’s figurehead and captain.ĭespite the promise of playing in a new stadium – and the 2-0 win over Chelsea to open it – Rapid otherwise had a season to forget in 2016-17.
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They repeated the run, and the result, a defeat to Paris Saint-Germain, a decade later. Ironically, the club’s most fallow period coincided with the arrival of their most celebrated player, Hans Krankl, who returned to Rapid after a spell at Barcelona to lead Rapid in the 1980s.Īfter a controversial play-off victory over Celtic, Rapid reached the final of the Cup-Winners’ Cup in 1985, losing to Everton. Driving the team was Gerhard Hanappi, later an architect and planner of the club’s stadium that now bears his name. Rapid continuted to dominate the Austrian game after the war, with Robert Dienst another striker to notch up more goals than appearances.
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Gerhard-Hanappi-Stadion/Peterjon Cresswell Rapid won a dozen titles, even the German one after the Anschluss. Binder’s 1,000-goal career crossed paths with other prolific players of the pre-war era such as Matthias Kaburek, Ferdinand Wesely and Franz Weselik. Scorer of more goals than games played in green and white, Bender was also later coach at Rapid. Rapid won the first derby in 1911, the year that pre-war star Franz ‘Bimbo’ Binder was born. Rapid have always had a workmanlike approach to the game, typified by tank-like striker Pepi Uridil of the World War I era.Īlthough the social divisions hardly apply today, Austria enjoyed bourgeois support, Rapid working-class, typified by the Rapidviertelstunde, a rhythmic hand-clapping by fans to push their team to victory over the last 15 minutes, however doomed the situation. Rapid have had the better of the 300-plus matches over Austria Vienna in the Wiener Derby, Europe’s most enduring cross-city clash after Glasgow’s.įounded in 1898 as the First Vienna Workers’ Football Club by employees at a local hat factory, the club quickly changed to their now familiar name after a Rapid in Berlin. The Grün-Weißen will again have one up on their eternal rivals. Work was completed for the 2016-17 season, and a curtain-raising friendly with Chelsea. Rapid’s current title drought dates back to 2008.ĭespite this lack of recent success, Rapid have invested in the future, with a €50 million stadium, the Allianz, built on the site of their former Gerhard-Hanappi-Stadion. Austria’s most popular and most titled club, based in the Hütteldorf district of west Vienna, Rapid have been trailing in Salzburg’s shadow in recent years.