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35-546: The BFV is one of 8 regional organizations of the Austrian Football Association ( German : Österreichischer Fußball-Bund , ÖFB). The BFV was founded 1923 un Eisenstadt. The founding members were the football clubs of Eisenstadt, Deutschkreutz , Mattersburg , Neufeld an der Leitha and Parndorf . The first General Assembly was held on 22 March 1924 in Wiener Neustadt . 20 football clubs participated in

70-463: A field lit by torches and flares, and playing with a ball covered in lime to make it more visible. They later successfully played the country's first match under floodlights on 3 November 1956. After Austria was united with Germany in the Anschluss in 1938 the football competitions of the two countries were also merged. First division Austrian teams played in the newly formed Gauliga Ostmark as part of

105-399: A lower division side and were again sent down in 1980. The expansion of the first division from ten to sixteen teams in 1982 allowed Vienna back into the senior competition, but their inconsistent play continued. Another league re-organization established the twelve-team Austrian Bundesliga in 1985 and Vienna made its first appearance there in the following season. A highlight of this time

140-532: A member of the international football federation FIFA and hosted the fifth FIFA congress in 1908. In 1913, they supervised the Galicja national team , which was directly subordinate to the Polish Football Association . The milestones of the federation and past football history were the years 1930 to 1933, 1950 to 1954 and then 1958 as well as 1978, 1982, 1990 and 1998 with the participation of Austria at

175-511: A tight race again looking to repeat as division champions. Occupied by Allied forces after the end of the war, Austria was once again independent of Germany and a separate league structure was re-established. In league play in the 1946 season Vienna earned only a fifth-place finish but did go on to capture the Liberation Cup donated by the Soviets. Through the late 40s and on into the early 50s

210-469: Is either drawn or awarded on the basis of applications. The 4 group winners then take part in the national final round. Which is held in a tournament fashion on one day, with the three groups (North, Central, South) alternating as promoters. The venue is the respective home of the group winner of each group (in the south, South A and South B alternate). Open to all clubs of the BFV, who have no chance to qualify in

245-425: Is held in K.O. system , were all rounds are decided in one game. In the 1st round, the lower ranked team has home field advantage. If there is a draw after 90 minutes of play, the winner will be determined immediately (without overtime) through shoot outs. The first 4 Cup rounds take place within a group (North, Central, South A, South B). Semifinals and finals within each group are held on one tournament day. The venue

280-506: The Vienna Cricket and Football-Club losing 0–4 to the club which would become a bitter longtime rival until the Cricketers' football team was finally dissolved in 1936. The city of Vienna quickly became the centre of Austrian football and by the end of 1896 there were seven clubs playing there, several of which also fielded reserve sides. In 1897, the chairman of the Cricketers donated

315-618: The Challenge Cup establishing a competition open to all football clubs in what was then Austria-Hungary , drawing teams from Vienna, Budapest , and Prague . Cricket won the first cup competition in 1897, but First Vienna followed with consecutive cup titles in 1899 and 1900. The club also made a losing appearance in the 1907 final of the Wiener Cup which emerged when the Challenge Cup competition fell into disarray between 1903 and 1905. In

350-632: The FIFA World Cup 1934 held in Italy, Austria returned to the circle of the best teams again. First Vienna Football Club First Vienna FC 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 . In

385-638: The World Cup . Hugo Meisl was one of the best-known personalities in the early years of the Austrian Football Association, becoming general-secretary and national team coach in 1927. At the 1936 Summer Olympics , his team won silver after losing 2–1 to Italy , Austria's only international final. Meisl's team, nicknamed the Wunderteam , remained unbeaten from 12 April 1931 to 23 October 1932 in 14 successive matches. The highlights of this series were

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420-481: The 2014–15 season in professional football was also denied. From the 2014–15 season, Vienna had to play in the third tier Regionalliga Ost again. Due to the insolvency of the main sponsor Care-Energy, Vienna was declared bankrupt in 2017. While bankruptcy was averted, a championship title in the Regionalliga Ost in the same year was withheld. Promotion was denied and it got worse, with Vienna being transferred to

455-472: The 6–0 (Berlin) and 5–0 (Vienna) victories against Germany . The 1950s saw more achievements with their well-known football greats such as Ernst Ocwirk (twice captain of the FIFA World Selection Team), Ernst Happel , Gerhard Hanappi and Walter Zeman . The FIFA World Cup 1954 ranks among being most successful in Austrian Football Association history. Twenty years after being in 4th place in

490-684: The BFV moved into a larger building in the Haydngasse. In 1989 the BFV moved into the newly built headquarters in Hotterweg. The Burgenland Football Association also organizes a Cup competition. The BFV Cup bears currently the name Raiffeisen-Cup , named after the sponsor. The cup winner receives a fixed starting place in the 1st round of the ÖFB Cup . The BFV Cup was introduced in 1995, before this time there were Cup competitions in Burgenland in 1946–1949 and 1974–1977, which no longer take place. The BFV-Cup

525-754: The North District, was disbanded on 24 May 1936. The smaller district, the South District, was disbanded in 1938 and joined the Empire Sports Association. The BFV was newly founded in the fall of 1945. In October 1945, a provisional state committee was set up, at the Café Ostmark in Eisenstadt, with Otto Willomitzer as chairman. The first office of the BFV was in Eisenstadt, in the Pfarrgasse 8. In 1960

560-516: The Wiener Stadtliga. They remained unbeaten in the league in the 2019–20 season after 17 games. The league was abandoned due to the COVID-19 outbreak , meaning the club stayed in the Wiener Stadtliga for the 2020–21 season. However, at the end of season 2020–21 Vienna was promoted once again to the third tier Regionalliga Ost. They later finished top of their tier in 2021–22, securing promotion back to

595-567: The balance of the decade, consistently finishing in the top three, but the club faded through the 60s until they were finally relegated in 1968 for the first time since their return to the top flight after World War I. They re-appeared in the first division after a single season absence, but no longer seriously challenged for the title. With the establishment of the ten-team Zehnerliga, Austria's new premier division, in 1974–75, Vienna again found itself playing second division football until earning promotion in 1976. However, they continued to struggle as

630-399: The club's performance was uneven as they generally earned only mid-table results. However, led by club legend Karl Koller , in 1955 Vienna enjoyed an excellent season that ended with the club's sixth national championship title as they finished ahead of Wiener Sport-Club since they had the better goal quotient. The goal difference was not yet implemented. A 1–0 was better than a 10–1 win,

665-582: The country. Football is, perhaps with the exception of skiing , the most popular sport in Austria. Football possesses a large value, and has a rich history and tradition in Austria. In 1894, the First Vienna Football Club , the first football team in Austria, were founded in Vienna. From this nucleus, the Austrian Football Association was established in 1904. One year after the establishment, Austria became

700-509: The current Cup season in the championship for the ÖFB Cup, meaning all teams below the Burgenland League. Therefore, the champion of the 2. Leagues are not qualified for the BFV Cup. The qualification is based on the previous seasons' championship final placement. Austrian Football Association The Austrian Football Association ( German : Österreichischer Fußball-Bund ; ÖFB ) is

735-554: The early 1890s English and Austrian gardeners working for Nathaniel Anselm von Rothschild began to play football on his estates. To avoid further damage to his flowers Nathaniel ceded them a pasture nearby and also granted the team's blue-yellow kits , former jockey costumes of his riding stable. The Manx player William Beale designed the triskelion logo, also in the Rothschild colours blue and yellow, which Vienna still uses. The team played its first match on 15 November 1894 against

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770-459: The fifth division by court order in the following season. In 2018, First Vienna FC, became a member of the exclusive Club of Pioneers , as the oldest football club of Austria. In the 2018–19 season, Vienna played in the 2. Landesliga Wien, the fifth tier of the Austrian league system. In their first season, Vienna finished top with 78 points from 30 games and were promoted to the fourth division,

805-514: The final played on 4 July 1942 in Berlin where they dropped a 0–2 decision to Schalke 04 the dominant side of German football in the era. Vienna repeated as divisional champions the following season, but this time advanced only as far as the semi-finals before being put out 1–2 by FV Saarbrücken . The club did, however, have a successful Tschammerpokal run, winning the 1943 competition by defeating Luftwaffen-SV Hamburg 3–2 in extra time to become

840-529: The governing body of football in Austria . It organises the football league, Austrian Bundesliga , the Austrian Cup and the Austria national football team , as well as its female equivalent . It is based in the capital, Vienna . Since 1905, it has been a FIFA member, and since 1954, a UEFA member. Since 7 April 2002, Friedrich Stickler , the director of executive committee of the Austrian lottery, has been

875-450: The higher the quotient the better, although the ideal one being zero (forced goals divided by allowed goals). 20:1=20, 20:2=10, so the higher quotient, the better with the exception of zero. Example: when Vienna won the championship in the 1954–55 season they ended up with 64:26 goals = 2.461 quotient. Wiener Sport-Club finished with 75:40 goals, achieving a quotient of only 1.875 but on equal points (39). Vienna remained competitive through

910-412: The league in the 36th match of the season and in the 2012–13 season, Vienna performed better, managing to keep away from the relegation battle with good performances and finished 7th. The 2013–14 season was a disaster for Vienna , finishing last with a 13-point deducted due to various licensing violations. At the end of the season, Vienna and Tatar announced an amicable separation. The club's license for

945-581: The league structure established under the Third Reich in the re-organization of German football in 1933. This led to the appearance of Austrian sides in the national finals of Germany and in competition for the Tschammerpokal, predecessor of today's German Cup . In 1942, Vienna captured the divisional title in what was by then known as the Gauliga Donau-Alpenland (Ostmark) and went all the way to

980-532: The meeting. On 29 March 1924, the association’s first board was established with Josef Cekal as its first president. For the first football championship in 1924 three groups were established: In Burgenland also existed a regional group of the VAFÖ (the workers union of the football clubs in Austria), starting in 1926. In 1934 the VAFÖ was disbanded and the BFV divided into North District and South District. The larger district,

1015-404: The president of the Austrian Football Association. Supporting him is its president, Kurt Ehrenberger, Frank Stronach , Gerhard Kapl , and Leo Windtner . In 2004, it was announced there are 285,000 players (both sexes) in Austria playing for 2,309 teams in the federation, although many more players play informally or for non-recognised teams. Thus the federation is the largest sporting organisation

1050-444: The relegated team FC Kärnten had its license withdrawn. The following 2010–11 season, Vienna finished once again second-bottom in the league table ahead of SV Gratkorn . However, under new coach Alfred Tatar managed to win their relegation matches against the champions of the Regionalliga Ost, SC-ESV Parndorf 1919 , 3–0 and 2–1 respectively, and maintained their second-tier status. The following year, Vienna secured their place in

1085-399: The second Austrian side to take the cup by following in the footsteps of Rapid Wien , victors in 1938. A third Gauliga title in 1944 again put the club into Germany's national playoffs where this time they went out 2–3 in the quarterfinals to eventual champions Dresdner SC . As World War II drew to a close and Allied armies advanced into Germany league play collapsed with Vienna still in

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1120-468: The team also won the Mitropa Cup , one of Europe's first international club competitions. The cup title was unique in the history of the competition as they swept their opposition, winning all six of their matches. Vienna captured a second national title in 1933 with a third Austrian Cup following in 1937. The team was involved in a failed attempt in the 1924–25 season to play Austria's first night game on

1155-625: The team could not recover itself in regular league play, and while they came close to a return to the Bundesliga several times, they continued a slide that in 2000 landed them in the third division Regionalliga Ost where Vienna played until in 2009, they won the championship and gained promotion to the First League . In the 2009–10 season, Vienna finished eleventh in the second tier of Austrian football. A potential relegation playoff against Regionalliga West champions SV Grödig were canceled because

1190-502: The years leading up to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 Vienna performed poorly and by 1915 had fallen out of first division play and did not return to the top flight until after the war in 1919. The club gradually returned to form and consistently finished in the top half of the league table through the 20s winning Austrian Cup titles in 1929 and 1930 before finally claiming the national championship in 1931. That same year

1225-427: Was a strong championship round performance in 1988 that led to a fourth-place finish that earned the club a UEFA Cup appearance. The club remained a lower table side and was facing relegation trouble by the early-90s, finally being sent down in 1992. Vienna next enjoyed a strong run through the 1997 Austrian Cup competition which took them to the final where they lost 2–1 to first division side Sturm Graz . However,

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