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Wiener SC
Full name Wiener Sport Club
Founded 1883
Ground Sportclub-Platz
Ground Capacity 8,700
Manager Slobodan Batricevic

Wiener S.C. (Wiener Sport-Club also WSC) is a football club which plays in Austria.

History

The club was formed in 1883 and is one of the oldest footballclubs in Austria. The coulors are black and white. During its long history the club had departments for fencing, boxing, wrestling, cycling, handball, track and field, field hockey, tennis, football and water polo. The footballteam reached 3 times the Austrian Championship (1922, 1958, 1959). One of the greatest successes of the team was a 7:0 victory over Juventus Turin in the 1958 European Champions Cup (now UEFA Champions League).

After 2.319 league matches and two insolvencies in the 1990´s the club slipped to lower leagues. In 2002 the footballsection splited off and formed the Wiener Sportklub, who is currently playing in the Regionalliga Ost (3rd Division). Their homeground is the Wiener Sportclub-Platz in Viennas part Dornbach. The ground was built in 1904 and is the oldest ground in Austria, where are still matches. The northern stand of the ground is called "Friedhofstribüne" (graveyard stand) because he is just opposite the Dornbach cementery.

One of the clublegends is Erich Hof, who played from 1954 till 1969 for the club. Later he was coach of the Austrian national footballteam and three times manager of the WSC.

Honours

  • Austrian Champion:1922,1958,1959
  • Austrian Champion-runner up:1912, 1938, 1955, 1960, 1969, 1970, 1977
  • Austrian Cup:1923
  • Austrian Cup finals:1919, 1921, 1937, 1938, 1969, 1972, 1977
  • Wiener Stadthallenturnier(indoor tournament):1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1973, 1976

Current squad

No. Position Player
1 Austria GK Michael Harrauer
29 Austria GK Janecek Patrick
4 Austria DF Willi Ruiss
6 Austria DF Christoph Hevera
7 Serbia DF Ingomar Szabo
12 Austria DF Christoph Jedlicka
20 Austria DF Rene Herbst
21 Austria DF David Veselica-Bikic
10 MF Salmin Cehajic
11 Austria MF Ercan Kayhan
No. Position Player
13 Liechtenstein MF Marco Pérez
14 Austria MF Patrick Schmiedtberger
16 Austria MF Andreas Eder
17 Austria MF Santana Gavrilovic
23 Austria MF Patrick Wunderbaldinger
8 Austria FW Christian Schandl
9 Austria FW Sertan Günes
18 Austria FW Lukas Grozurek
22 Austria FW Christian Schandl
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