What is Hakoah Vienna?
{{Infobox Football club |clubname=S.C. Hakoah Wien |image= |fullname=Sport Club Hakoah Wien |nickname= |founded=1909 |ground= |capacity= |chairman= |manager= |captain= |league= |season= |position= }} [[File:Hakoah Vienna 1925.jpg|thumb|Hakoah Vienna 1925]] [[File:Béla Guttmann (1925).jpg|thumb|Béla Guttmann]]'''S.C. Hakoah Wien''' was a [[Association football|football]] club which played in [[Austria]]. The club was part of the Jewish sports club Hakoah (Hebrew-the strength)which is still existing. ==History== The club was founded in 1909. In its first year, the club's athletes competed in fencing, football, field hockey, track & field, wrestling and swimming.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hakoah.at/en/textedetail.asp?Block=1&ID=156|title=Homepage S.C. Hakoah|publisher=|access-date=2011-04-08|archive-date=2011-07-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706092754/http://www.hakoah.at/en/textedetail.asp?Block=1&ID=156|url-status=dead}}</ref> It was one of the first team which travelled around the world to play matches. Therefore Hakoah Vienna had supporters under [[Jew|Jews]] in many countries of Europe. One of them was the author [[Franz Kafka]]. Hakoah was one of the best football clubs in Austria before the Second World War. The club was the first from the continent which was able to defeat an English club on the island (Westham United-Hakoah Vienna 0 : 5) and on Juli 15th, 1917 goalkeeper Willy Halpern was the first Hakoahplayer in the nationalteam. 1919 Hakoah reached the first class. [[File:TeamatPolo.jpg|Hakoah Vienna in New York 1926|thumb]]In the 1924/25, season Hakoah Vienna became Austrian Champion. In 1926, the club made a tour to the United States and played in New York where they had 46 000 spectators. This was a record for this time. Impressed by the relatively lack of antisemitism and good payment half of the team stayed in the USA. In New York some players formed the New York Hakoah. Others went to Palestine and founded Hakoah Tel Aviv. This led to the relegation into the second class. In