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Sportklub Rapid Wien, often called Rapid Vienna in English, is an Austrian football club playing in the country’s capital city of Vienna. Rapid is the most popular club in Austria, and also the most successful in terms of league titles. It has won 32 Austrian league titles, and a German championship in 1941 during Nazi rule. Rapid twice reached the final of the European Cup Winners’ Cup in 1985 and 1996, losing on both occasions.

The club is often known as the Die Grün-Weißen (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, Penzing.

The club was founded in 1898 as Erster Wiener Arbeiter-Fußball-Club (First Viennese Workers’ Football Club). The team’s original colours were red and blue, which are still often used in away matches. On 8 January 1899 the club was renamed, taking on its present name of Sportklub Rapid Wien, following the example of Rapide Berlin. In 1904, the team colours were changed to green and white. The club won Austria’s first ever national championship in 1911-12 by a single point,and retained the title the following season.

Rapid have a reputation of winning through strength and endurance – a virtue known as the Rapidgeist or “Rapid Spirit”.

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Almost since the club’s beginnings, Rapid fans have announced the last fifteen minutes of the game by way of the traditional “Rapidviertelstunde” – rhythmic clapping at home or away no matter what the score. The first mention of the practise goes back to 1913, and on 21 April 1918 a newspaper wrote about the fans clapping at the beginning of the “Rapidviertelstunde”. Over the decades, there were many instances where the team managed to turn around a losing position by not giving up and, with their fans’ support, fighting their way to a win just before the final whistle.

Rapid reached the Group Stage of the UEFA Champions League for the most recent time in 2005-06 after beating Dudelange of Luxembourg 9-3 on aggregate and then defeating Lokomotiv Moscow 2-1 on aggregate in a play-off after a 1-0 victory in Russia. They eventually finished last in their group after losing all of their matches with Bayern Munich, Juventus and Club Brugge.

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