Rapid's best performance in the European Cup came in the 1960–61 season when they reached the semi-final before being eliminated by eventual winners Benfica, 4–1 on aggregate. Despite losing the away leg 1–0, the club still advanced to a quarter-final, where they started with a 1–1 home draw against Milan before being defeated 7–2 in the away match at the San Siro to lose 8–3 on aggregate. They were drawn in the first round against PSV and opened with a 6–1 home victory, with Alfred Körner scoring a hat-trick. The team was able to overcome a 3–0 Schalke lead to win the match 4–3.Īs the winners of the 1954–55 season, Rapid were Austria's entrant for the inaugural European Cup in the following season. They won the Tschammerpokal, predecessor of today's DFB-Pokal, in 1938 with a 3–1 victory over FSV Frankfurt, and followed that with a German Championship in 1941 by defeating Schalke 04, the most dominant German club of the era. Rapid would be the most successful of these clubs. After the annexation of Austria to Germany in 1938, Rapid joined the German football system, playing in the regional first division Gauliga Ostmark along with clubs such as Wacker Wien and Admira Vienna. It won its first hat-trick of titles from 1919 to 1921. Rapid became a dominant force during the years between the world wars, an era in which Austria was one of the leading football nations on the continent. Historical chart of Rapid Wien league performance Between World Wars The club won Austria's first ever national championship in 1911–12 by a single point, and retained the title the following season. In 1904, the team colours were changed to green and white. Wien or Vienna are commonly added when referring to the club but are not part of the official name. On 8 January 1899, the club was (thanks to Wilhelm Goldschmidt ), taking on its present name of Sportklub Rapid, following the example of Rapide Berlin. The team's original colours were red and blue, which are still often used in away matches. The club was founded in 1897 as Erster Wiener Arbeiter-Fußball-Club (First Viennese Workers' Football Club). The club is often known as Die Grün-Weißen (The Green-Whites) for its team colours or as Hütteldorfer, in reference to the location of the Gerhard Hanappi Stadium, which is in Hütteldorf, part of the city's 14th district in Penzing. Rapid twice reached the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup in 19, losing on both occasions. Rapid has won the most Austrian championship titles (32), including the first title in the season 1911–12, as well as a German championship in 1941 during Nazi rule. The Sportklub Rapid ( German pronunciation: ), commonly known as Rapid Wien or magischer RK, is an Austrian professional football club playing in the country's capital city of Vienna.
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