What is SK Rapid Wien?
{{Infobox Football club |clubname=Rapid Wien |image= |fullname=Sportklub Rapid Wien |nickname= |founded=1899 |ground=[[Allianz Stadion]] |capacity=28,345 |chairman=[[Martin Bruckner]] |manager=[[Ferdinand Feldhofer]] |captain= |league=[[Austrian Bundesliga]] |season= 2022-23 |position= 4th }} '''S.K. Rapid Wien''' is an [[Austria]]n [[Association football|football]] club. Rapid Wien was founded in [[1898]] and is one of the major clubs in Austria. The club plays in [[Vienna]]. Rapid is Austria's most successful team with 32 championships wins. Rapid also won a German title in 1941 when the country was part of [[Germany]]. ==History== [[Image:Rapid 1898.jpg|thumb|300px|The 1. Arbeiter FC in 1898]]The club was founded in 1898 as First Workers' Football Club of Vienna but was renamed in S(port) K(lub) Rapid Wien on 8 January 1899. The first coulors were red and white. The teams uses these colours in [[Road (sports)|away matches]] today. During the years before [[World War II]], Rapid was one of the most successful clubs in Europe. Before the Second World War, Rapid won the Viennese championship 16 times. In these years there was no [[Country|nationwide]] championship because professional football teams only played in Vienna. In 1930 Rapid won the Mitropacup against Sparta Praha (2:0; 3:2) (''La Coupe de l'Europe Centrale''), one of the first international competitions in Europe.<ref>[http://www.iffhs.de/?17f43c20e32b0ae63828ff2d17f92904a76056a61817f7370eff3702bb1c2bbb6a28e13c11e23b00e13c17 IFFHS Mitropacup 1930]</ref> Around this time, the rivalry with the other great club of Vienna, FK Austria, started and continues today. Rapid was the club of the working class, while supporters of FK Austria were more middle class. After the annexation of Austria through Nazi-Germany in 1938 Rapid played in the Gauliga Ostmark. Rapid won the Tschammerpokal (Cup) in 1938 with a 3–1 victory over FSV Frankfurt. 1941 they won the Championship versus Schalke 04 (4-3). [[File:Supporters SK Rapid Wien.JPG|thumb|300px|Supporters o