Rapid Vienna

Sportklub Rapid Wien, better known in Spanish as Rapid Viena, is a football club from the city of Vienna, the capital of Austria. It has played in the Austrian Bundesliga since 1899, the top category of professional football in the country.

The entity was created in 1898 by workers from the capital as Erster Wiener Arbeiter-Fußball-Club (First Viennese Workers' Football Club). However, its official founding date is 8 January 1899, when it changed its name to Rapid Viena and began playing in a green and white kit, colors it maintains today. Its main headquarters is located in the western district of Hütteldorf and it plays its home matches at the Allianz Stadion, inaugurated in 2016 and built on the site of the Gerhard Hanappi Stadium. Its historic rival is Austria Vienna, with whom it contests the Viennese derby.

Rapid Wien is the team that has won the Austrian football league the most times, with 32 titles, and enjoys broad social support. Together with Austria Vienna and Red Bull Salzburg, they are the only three teams that have never been relegated from the Austrian Bundesliga. It holds 10 international titles, being the only Austrian team to hold this record and the only one to hold continental titles. These are the Mitropa Cup of 1930, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954 and 1957, in addition to the UEFA Intertoto Cup won in 1992, 1993, 1998 and 2007. Its honors include being runner-up of the European Cup Winners' Cup in the 1984–85 and 1995–96 seasons. It is one of the few clubs in the world that has been league champion in two different countries, as it was champion of the Gauliga of Germany in 1941, when Austria was incorporated into that country during the Third Reich.