FC Admira Wacker Mödling

Admira Wacker

Full name	Fußballclub Admira Wacker Mödling
Nickname(s)	Admiraner Südstädter
Founded	1905 (as SK Admira Wien) 1997 (as Admira Wacker Mödling)
Ground	BSFZ-Arena, Maria Enzersdorf
Ground Capacity	12,000
Manager	Philip Thonhauser
Coach	Ernst Baumeister
League	Austrian Bundesliga
2015–16	2th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

FC Admira Wacker Mödling (short: 'Admira') is a football club from Mödling, Austria. The club was originally formed in 1905 as SK Admira Wien in the Austrian capital. Mergers in 1971 with SC Wacker Wien, in 1997 with VfB Mödling and in 2008 with SK Schwadorf led to its current name. There are 3 teams located in and outside Vienna.

The club were promoted to the Austrian Bundesliga for the 2011–12 season after gaining promotion at the end of the 2010–11 First League season and finished 3rd in their first season.

History

SK Admira Vienna

SK Admira Vienna was formed in the Vienna district of Jedlesee as a merger between two football clubs named Burschenschaft Einigkeit and Sportklub Vindobona in 1905. In 1919, Admira were promoted to the first tier of the Austrian league system for the first time in their history. The club soon became one of the more successful teams during the inter-war period, capturing seven Austrian national championship and three Austrian Cup titles. Several Admira players were also regulars in the Austrian national football team at this time.

After the Anschluss in 1938, Admira played for several seasons in the Gauliga Ostmark, one of the top-flight regional leagues created through the reorganization of German football under the Third Reich. Their win of the 1938–39 Gauliga Ostmark qualified them for the 1939 German football championship, in which Admira made their way to the final against Schalke 04, which was the dominant German football team of the era. They lost overwhelmingly by a score of 0–9. This effort marked the last major success for Vienna before the end of World War II.

The post-war period led to a slow, but steady decline due to lack of funds to buy more competitive players. It eventually culminated into the first brief relegation from the top tier after forty years in 1960. The club underwent two name changes in that period, playing as ESV Admira Vienna after a merger with the railroad sports club ESV Vienna in 1953 before changing to ESV Admira-NÖ Energie Vienna in 1960 due to a sponsorship agreement with regional energy suppliers NEWAG/NIOGAS. Soon thereafter, Admira (or Admira Energie, as it was called in most media during the time) regained some of its earlier strength, winning the Austrian Cup in 1964 and the Double of league and cup titles in 1966.

The revelation of financial scandals within NEWAG/NIOGAS in the late 1960s led to an abrupt end of the steady flow of funds and brought the club onto the brink of administration, which could narrowly be avoided. Nevertheless, Admira began looking for a merger partner, and particularly targeted Austria Vienna. However, after the creation of Admira-Austria was declined twice, Admira eventually began talks with SC Wacker Vienna, which were successfully concluded in 1971.

SC Wacker Vienna

Wacker Vienna was formed in 1908 in the Vienna district of Meidling. The club reached the first tier of the Austrian league system for the first time in 1914. Being a mid-table side until the second half of the 1930s, Wacker became a top-team in the 1940s and 1950s, winning the double in 1947 and ending as league runners-up eight more times between 1940 and 1956.

During the last decade as an independent club it became a bona-fide yo-yo club, with eight straight relegations from or promotions to the Austrian top tier between 1961 and 1968. A fifth relegation in 1971, combined with financial and stadium problems, eventually led to a merger with Admira, forming FC Admira/Wacker Vienna.

VfB Mödling

VfB Mödling was formed on 17 June 1911 in the Lower Austrian town of Mödling. Since their foundation, Mödling were playing in the highest Lower Austrian league. With the introduction of an Austria-wide national league in 1949, the club was classified into the second tier. Playing most of its existence in second- and third-tier leagues since then, the club enjoyed three brief stints in the top division during the 1952–53 and 1987–88 seasons as well as between 1992 and 1995 before eventually merging with Admira/Wacker in 1997.

1997 to 2011 Merger with VfB Mödling and Financial Trouble

In 1997, after a financial crisis, VfB Mödling and Admira Wacker merged. In 2004 Iranian Majid Pishyar purchased the club. His stewardship of the club led to on-field and off-field difficulties. The club was relegated after the 2005–06 season. With further financial trouble, Pishyar sold the club to Richard Trenkwalder in 2008. Trenkwalder made a series of changes to the club, including changing the club's name to FC Trenkwalder Admira. His changes eventually paid off, with the club gaining promotion back to the Austrian first division following the 2010–11 season. (Majid Pishyar, meanwhile, notably also caused similar financial problems at a Swiss club, Servette, in the 2011–12 season.)

Honours

• Austrian Champions: 9

Admira Vienna (8): 1927, 1928, 1932, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1966

Wacker Vienna (1): 1947

• Austrian vice-Champions: 13

Admira Vienna (5): 1929, 1930, 1931, 1935, 1963

Wacker Vienna (7): 1939, 1940, 1941, 1948, 1951, 1953, 1956

Admira / Wacker Vienna (1): 1989

• Austrian Cup: 6

Admira Vienna (5): 1928, 1932, 1934, 1964, 1966

Wacker Vienna (1): 1947

• Austrian Supercup: 1

Admira / Wacker Vienna (1): 1989

• German vice-Champions: 1939 (Admira Vienna)

• Mitropa Cup Finalist: 2

Admira Vienna (1): 1934

Wacker Vienna (1): 1951

European tournaments history

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1964–65	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1		Legia Warsaw	1–3	0–1	1–4
1966–67	European Cup	1		Vojvodina	0–1	0–0	0–1
1973–74	UEFA Cup	1		Internazionale	1–0	1–2	2–2
		2		Fortuna Düsseldorf	2–1	0–3	2–4
1982–83	UEFA Cup	1		Bohemians Praha	1–2	0–5	1–7
1987–88	UEFA Cup	1		TPS Turku	0–2	1–0	1–2
1989–90	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1		AEL Limassol	3–0	0–1	3–1
		2		Ferencváros	1–0	1–0	2–0
		1/4		Anderlecht	1–1	0–2	1–3
1990–91	UEFA Cup	1		Velje BK	3–0	1–0	4–0
		2		FC Luzern	1–1	1–0	2–1
		3		Bologna	3–0	0–3	3–3 (5–6 pen)
1992–93	European Cup Winners' Cup	1		Cardiff City	2–0	1–1	3–2
		2		Royal Antwerp	2–4	4–3 (aet)	6–7
1993–94	UEFA Cup	1		Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	2–3	0–1	2–4
1994–95	UEFA Cup	1		Górnik Zabrze	5–2	1–1	6–3
		2		Cannes	1–1	4–2	5–3
		3		Juventus	1–3	1–2	2–5
2012–13	UEFA Europa League	Q2		Žalgiris Vilnius	5–1	1–1	6–2
		Q3		Sparta Prague	0–2	2–2	2–4

Current squad

First team squad

As of 7 July, 2015

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 3 DF Christoph Schößwendter 4 DF Stephan Zwierschitz 5 DF Thomas Ebner 6 DF Markus Lackner 7 FW Maximilian Sax 8 MF Christoph Knasmüllner 10 MF Daniel Toth 11 MF Lukas Grozurek 12 MF Philipp Malicsek 17 FW Dominik Starkl (on loan from Rapid Wien) 18 MF René Schicker 19 MF Nico Löffler 20 DF Markus Pavic 21 DF Markus Wostry 22 MF Marcus Maier 23 FW Sinan Yilmaz

No. Position Player 24 DF Florian Neuhold (on loan from LASK Linz) 25 DF Patrick Wessely 27 MF Eldis Bajrami 28 GK Jörg Siebenhandl 29 GK Manuel Kuttin 30 GK Dennis Verwüster 32 DF Philipp Posch 33 GK Jakob Meierhofer 44 MF Markus Blutsch (on loan from LASK Linz) 45 FW Marvin Egho 50 GK Dennis Verwüster 55 MF Ilter Ayyildiz 77 FW Toni Vastić 93 FW Srđan Spiridonović 94 MF Oliver Pranjic 99 MF Peter Žulj

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Andreas Leitner (at Austria Klagenfurt) 31 DF Thomas Weber (to FAC)

Managers

• Hans Pesser (July 1, 1960 – June 30, 1967)
• Karl Schlechta (1971)
• Ernst Ocwirk (July 1, 1971 – June 30, 1973)
• Rudolf Matuschka (May 18, 1975 – June 30, 1975)
• Helmut Senekowitsch (July 1, 1975 – May 14, 1976)
• Rudolf Matuschka (May 16, 1976 – June 30, 1976)
• Franz Pelikan (1976)
• Rudolf Matuschka (Jan 1977 – June 1977)
• Stefan Jasiolek / Franz Pelikan (July 1977 – Dec 77)
• Antoni Brzeżańczyk (1978)
• Rudolf Illovszky (July 1, 1978 – May 19, 1979)
• Felix Latzke (May 23, 1979 – April 30, 1983)
• Ernst Dokupil (May 5, 1983 – Aug 16, 1986)
• August Starek (July 1, 1986 – March 13, 1988)
• Wilhelm Kreuz (March 14, 1988 – June 30, 1988)
• Ernst Weber (July 1, 1988 – June 30, 1990)
• Thomas Parits (July 1, 1990 – May 11, 1991)
• Sigfried Held (May 11, 1991 – June 30, 1993)
• Dietmar Constantini (July 1, 1993 – May 31, 1995)
• Walter Knaller (July 1, 1995 – June 30, 1996)
• Kurt Garger (July 1, 1996 – June 30, 1997)
• Wolfgang Kienast (July 1, 1997 – Aug 30, 1997)

• Milan Miklavič (Sept 1, 1997 – June 30, 1998)
• Hannes Weninger (July 1, 1998 – April 22, 1999)
• Ilija Sormaz (interim) (April 24, 1999 – April 26, 1999)
• Milan Miklavič (April 26, 1999 – Aug 26, 2000)
• Hans Krankl (Sept 6, 2000 – Dec 31, 2001)
• Walter Knaller (Jan 1, 2002 – Oct 22, 2002)
• Johann Krejcirik (interim) (Oct 25, 2002 – Dec 9, 2002)
• Alfred Tatar (Dec 10, 2002 – May 11, 2003)
• Rashid Rakhimov (Dec 10, 2002 – May 11, 2004)
• Bernd Krauss (May 11, 2004 – Sept 22, 2004)
• Dominik Thalhammer (Sept 23, 2004 – Aug 16, 2005)
• Robert Pflug (Aug 17, 2005 – Feb 16, 2006)
• Ernst Baumeister (Feb 16, 2006 – Dec 23, 2007)
• Attila Sekerlioglu (Dec 23, 2007 – April 18, 2008)
• Ernst Baumeister (2008)
• Heinz Peischl (July 1, 2008 – Aug 8, 2008)
• Walter Schachner (Aug 9, 2008 – April 26, 2010)
• Dietmar Kühbauer (April 26, 2010 – June 11, 2013)
• Toni Polster (June 17, 2013 – Aug 10, 2013)
• Oliver Lederer (Aug 10, 2013 – Sept 19, 2013)
• Walter Knaller (Sept 19, 2013– Apr 2015)
• Oliver Lederer (Apr 2015 – June 2015)
• Ernst Baumeister (June 2015–)

External links

• Official website (German)