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'''First Vienna Football Club 1894''' is an Austrian football club based in the Döbling district of Vienna. Established on 22 August 1894, it is the country's oldest team and has played a notable role in the history of the game there. It is familiarly known to Austrians by the English name ''Vienna''.
==History== ===Foundation and early years=== First Vienna FC was founded on 22 August 1894 in Döbling, making it the oldest football club in Austria.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.firstviennafc.at/meilensteine.html |title=Milestones |publisher=First Vienna FC |access-date=25 August 2025}}</ref> The club’s colours blue and yellow derived from Rothschild racing uniforms, while the triskelion logo was designed by Manx player William Beale.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.kicker.de/13-dinge-ueber-die-vienna-die-auch-nach-130-jahren-nicht-jeder-weiss-1045655/artikel |title=13 Dinge über die Vienna |publisher=Kicker |date=22 August 2024|language=de}}</ref> On 15 November 1894, Vienna played its first official match, a 0–4 loss to Vienna Cricket and Football-Club.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://die-nachrichten.at/oesterreich/wien/wien-floridsdorf/130-jahre-first-vienna-fc-ein-blick-auf-die-geschichte-des-aeltesten-clubs/ |title=130 Jahre First Vienna FC – ein Blick auf die Geschichte |publisher=Die Nachrichten |date=22 August 2024|language=de}}</ref>
The club captured the Challenge Cup in 1899 and 1900, one of the first international tournaments in Central Europe.<ref name="ganz-wien_first-vienna">{{cite web|url=https://www.ganz-wien.at/freizeit/sport/fussball/first-vienna.html |title=First Vienna FC |publisher=Ganz Wien |access-date=25 August 2025}}</ref>
===Golden era=== Vienna enjoyed major success between the late 1920s and 1930s, winning the Austrian Cup in 1929 and 1930, the Austrian Championship in 1931 and 1933, and the Mitropa Cup in 1931, unbeaten across all matches.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesm/mit31.html |title=Mitropa Cup 1931 |publisher=RSSSF |date=13 December 1999 }}</ref> The team added another Austrian Cup in 1937.
===Gauliga and World War II=== Following the Anschluss in 1938, Vienna played in the Gauliga Ostmark. They won divisional titles in 1942, 1943 and 1944, reaching the German Championship Final in 1942 (losing 0–2 to Schalke 04). In 1943, the club became the Tschammerpokal (German Cup) winner, defeating Luftwaffen-SV Hamburg 3–2 after extra time.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.firstviennafc.at/vereinsgeschichte.php |title=Club history |publisher=First Vienna FC |access-date=25 August 2025}}</ref>
===Postwar period=== After Austria regained independence, Vienna claimed the Austrian Championship in 1955, edging Wiener Sport-Club on goal quotient.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.firstviennafc.at/meilensteine.html?lang=en |title=Milestones in First Vienna FC's history |publisher=First Vienna FC }}</ref>
===Decline and fluctuating fortunes=== From the 1960s, Vienna faced several relegations. They returned to the top flight in 1986, and highlights included two UEFA Cup appearances (1988–89, 1989–90).<ref name="ganz-wien_first-vienna"/>
Vienna reached the Austrian Cup Final in 1997 (losing 1–2 to Sturm Graz), but financial difficulties deepened. By 2000, the club was relegated to the Regionalliga Ost (third tier). In 2017, after sponsor Care-Energy went bankrupt, the club entered insolvency proceedings, and by court order was demoted to the fifth division.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://wien.orf.at/news/stories/2828560/ |title=Vienna muss Insolvenz anmelden |publisher=ORF |date=2 March 2017|language=de}}</ref>
Following the announcement in May 2017 Vienna FC secured sponsorship from UNIQA enabling a conclusion of the insolvency proceedings and avoidance of bankruptcy. <ref>{{Cite web |title=Milestones |url=https://www.firstviennafc.at/meilensteine.html?lang=en |access-date=2026-04-21 |website=First Vienna FC 1894 |language=de}}</ref>
Vienna FC secured an additional sponsor in September 2020 from Immounited, who became the main partner for the youth academy of First Vienna FC 1894.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Redaktion |date=2020-09-10 |title=ImmoUnited und First Vienna FC 1894 starten Partnerschaft |url=https://sportsbusiness.at/immounited-und-first-vienna-fc-1894-starten-partnerschaft/ |access-date=2026-04-21 |website=sportsbusiness.at |language=de}}</ref>
===Revival=== Despite financial setbacks, Vienna began climbing back up: champions of the 2. Landesliga Wien in 2019, they later secured promotion to the Regionalliga Ost (2021) and the Austrian Second League in 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.laola1.at/de/red/fussball/regionalligen/regionalliga-ost--first-vienna-fc-steigt-in-die-2--liga-auf-/ |title=First Vienna FC steigt in die 2. Liga auf! |publisher=laola1.at |date=20 May 2022 |language=de}}</ref>
==First Vienna FC in Europe== {| class="wikitable" ! Season ! Competition ! Round ! Country ! Club ! Home ! Away ! Aggregate |- | rowspan="2" |1988–89 | rowspan="2" |UEFA Cup |1 |{{flagicon|DEN}} |Ikast FS |bgcolor="#ddffdd" align=center|1–0 |bgcolor="#ffdddd" align=center|1–2 |bgcolor="#ddffdd" align=center|2–2 (a) |- |2 |{{flagicon|FIN}} |TPS Turku |bgcolor="#ddffdd" align=center|2–1 |bgcolor="#ffdddd" align=center|0–1 |bgcolor="#ffdddd" align=center|2–2 (a) |- | rowspan="2" |1989–90 | rowspan="2" |UEFA Cup |1 |{{flagicon|MLT}} |Valletta |bgcolor="#ddffdd" align=center|3–0 |bgcolor="#ddffdd" align=center|4–1 |bgcolor="#ddffdd" align=center|7–1 |- |2 |{{flagicon|GRE}} |Olympiacos Piraeus |bgcolor="#ffffdd" align=center|2–2 |bgcolor="#ffffdd" align=center|1–1 |bgcolor="#ffdddd" align=center|3–3 (a) |}
==Current squad== {{updated|11 May 2026}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.firstviennafc.at/kampfmannschaft/kader.html|title=First Vienna FC–Squad|website=First Vienna FC|access-date=4 March 2025}}</ref> {{Fs start}} {{Fs player | no= 1 | pos=GK | nat=AUT | name= Bernhard Unger}} {{Fs player | no= 4 | pos=DF | nat=AUT | name= Niklas Szerencsi}} {{Fs player | no= 5 | pos=DF | nat=AUT | name= Santino Pistrol}} {{Fs player | no= 6 | pos=MF | nat=AUT | name= Markus Rusek}} {{Fs player | no= 7 | pos=FW | nat=AUT | name= Christoph Monschein}} {{Fs player | no= 8 | pos=MF | nat=AUT | name= Bernhard Luxbacher}} {{Fs player | no= 9 | pos=FW | nat=AUT | name= Amir Abdijanovic}} {{Fs player | no=10 | pos=MF | nat=AUT | name= Florian Prohart}} {{Fs player | no=11 | pos=FW | nat=JPN | name= Meguru Odagaki}} {{Fs player | no=14 | pos=MF | nat=KOR | name= Seo Jong-min}} {{Fs player | no=15 | pos=MF | nat=BIH | name= Haris Zahirović}} {{Fs player | no=17 | pos=DF | nat=AUT | name= Benjamin Rosenberger}} {{Fs player | no=18 | pos=FW | nat=AUT | name= Bernhard Zimmermann}} {{Fs player | no=19 | pos=DF | nat=AUT | name= Niklas Alozie}} {{Fs mid}} {{Fs player | no=20 | pos=MF | nat=AUT | name= Felix Nagele}} {{Fs player | no=21 | pos=MF | nat=GER | name= Max Mergner}} {{Fs player | no=22 | pos=DF | nat=AUT | name= Osarenren Okungbowa}} {{Fs player | no=23 | pos=DF | nat=AUT | name= Marco Gantschnig}} {{Fs player | no=25 | pos=DF | nat=AUT | name= Jürgen Bauer}} {{Fs player | no=26 | pos=GK | nat=AUT | name= Moritz Troindl}} {{Fs player | no=27 | pos=FW | nat=AUT | name= Vincent Zeidler}} {{Fs player | no=28 | pos=MF | nat=AUT | name= Kai Stratznig}} {{Fs player | no=29 | pos=FW | nat=AUT | name= Moritz Jerabek}} {{Fs player | no=36 | pos=DF | nat=AUT | name= Kelechi Nnamdi}} {{Fs player | no=39 | pos=MF | nat=BRA | name= Lucas Dantas}} {{Fs player | no=41 | pos=GK | nat=AUT | name= Christopher Giuliani}} {{Fs player | no=66 | pos=MF | nat=AUT | name= David Ungar}} {{Fs player | no=77 | pos=FW | nat=AUT | name= Luca Edelhofer}} {{Fs end}}
==Notable players== *{{flagicon |ARG}} Mario Kempes, (1986–1987) World Cup Winner and former Argentinian International *{{flagicon |AUT}} Alfred Drabits, (1988–1991) Former Austrian International *{{flagicon |FIN}} Kimmo Lipponen, (1989) former Finnish international *{{flagicon |AUT}} Zeljko Radovic, (1994–1997) Former Austrian International *{{flagicon |Mauritius}} Gary Noël, (2015–2016) Former Mauritius International *{{flagicon |TUR}} Turgay Bahadır (2015–2016) Former Turkish International *{{flagicon |AUT}} Markus Katzer, (2015–2020) Former Austrian International *{{flagicon |MKD}} Mensur Kurtisi, (2016–2021) Former Macedonian International *{{flagicon |AUT}} Ümit Korkmaz, (2019–2020) Former Austrian International *{{flagicon |AUT }} Andreas Lukse, (2021–2023) Former Austrian International
==Honours== *Austrian Champions (6): 1931, 1933, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1955 *Austrian Cup (3): 1929, 1930, 1937 *Austrian 2. Landesliga: Champions 2019 *Austrian Regionalliga: Champions 2022 *Challenge Cup (2): 1899, 1900 *German Cup (1): 1943 *Mitropa Cup (1): 1931 *Liberation Cup (1): 1946 *Tournoi de l'Exposition Coloniale (Paris-Vincennes) (1): 1931<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesc/colonialexpo31.html|title=Tournoi de l'Exposition Coloniale (Paris-Vincennes, May-Nov 1931)|access-date=2 February 2023|archive-date=22 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230122031339/https://www.rsssf.org/tablesc/colonialexpo31.html|url-status=live}}</ref> *Tournoi du Nouvel An du Red Star (1): 1924 (shared)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesc/colonialexpo31.html|title=Tournoi de l'Exposition Coloniale (Paris-Vincennes, May-Nov 1931)|access-date=2 February 2023|archive-date=22 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230122031339/https://www.rsssf.org/tablesc/colonialexpo31.html|url-status=live}}</ref> *Tournoi de Nöel de Paris : Runners-up 1935<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesc/colonialexpo31.html|title=Tournoi de l'Exposition Coloniale (Paris-Vincennes, May-Nov 1931)|access-date=2 February 2023|archive-date=22 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230122031339/https://www.rsssf.org/tablesc/colonialexpo31.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Official website}} {{in lang|de}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20121222221144/http://www.rsssf.com/ Historical Austrian league results] * [http://www.f-archiv.de Historical German league results] {{in lang|de}} * [https://int.soccerway.com/teams/austria/first-vienna-fc-1894/ Soccerway profile] * [https://www.flashscore.com/team/first-vienna/Eez3RKEM/results/ First Vienna FC Results] Current results of First Vienna FC matches
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