2021–22 SK Rapid Wien season

Rapid Wien
season
Chairman	Martin Bruckner
Head coach	Ferdinand Feldhofer (from 29 November); Steffen Hofmann (interim); Dietmar Kühbauer (until 10 November)
Stadium	Allianz Stadion
Austrian Football Bundesliga	5th
Austrian Cup	Quarter-finals
Champions League	Second qualifying round
Europa League	Group stage, 3rd
Conference League	Knockout round play-offs
Top goalscorer	League: Ercan Kara (9); All: Ercan Kara (14)
Highest home attendance	16,900 vs. SK Sturm Graz ; 26th September 2021
Lowest home attendance	8,900 vs. SCR Altach ; 20th November 2021
Average home league attendance	13,000
Home colours	Away colours
	← 2020–21 2022–23 →

The 2021–22 season will be the 124th season in the existence of SK Rapid Wien and the club's 73rd consecutive season in the top flight of Austrian football. In addition to the domestic league, Rapid Wien will participate in this season's edition of the Austrian Cup and enter international football in the second qualifying round to the UEFA Champions League having finished 2nd in the previous Bundesliga season.

Squad[]

Squad statistics[]

No.	Nat.	Name	Age	League		Austrian Cup		UEFA Competitions		Total		Discipline
No.	Nat.	Name	Age	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1		Richard Strebinger	28	6		1		5		12		2
21		Bernhard Unger	22
25		Paul Gartler	24	12+1		2		7		21+1		1
Defenders
4		Emanuel Aiwu	20	9+2	1	2		6		17+2	1	6
6		Kevin Wimmer	28	4+2		1		3+4		8+6		4
17		Christopher Dibon	30					0+1		0+1
20		Maximilian Hofmann	27	10		2	1	9	1	21	2	6
22		Filip Stojković	28	15	1	3		8+1		26+1	1	7
23		Jonas Auer	20	4+7		1+2		0+5		5+14		2
26			20	4+1		0+1		3		7+2		1
30		Leo Greiml	19	11		1		8	1	20	1	8
31		Maximilian Ullmann	25	14		2+1	1	11		27+1	1	5
33		Marko Dijakovic	19	0+2				0+1		0+3
37		Lukas Sulzbacher	21	0+1		0+1		0+2		0+4		1
43			17					0+1		0+1
Midfielders
5		Robert Ljubičić	21	11	1	2		8+1	1	21+1	2	3	1
7		Philipp Schobesberger	27
8		Christoph Knasmüllner	29	11+6	2	1+2	1	6+5	3	18+13	6	3
13		Thorsten Schick	31	10+7		3		3+7		16+14		5
14		Srđan Grahovac	28	11+4	1	1+2	2	7+3		19+9	3	6
16		Dejan Petrovič	23	9+3		1+1		5+3		15+7
28			19	0+2						0+2
35			18	0+2						0+2
36		Kelvin Arase	22	5+11		1+1		11		17+12		2
42		Lion Schuster	20	2+2				1+4		3+6		2
46			24					0+1		0+1
47		Dalibor Velimirovic	20
Forwards
9		Taxiarchis Fountas	25	14+3	7	3	1	9+1	3	26+4	11	3
10		Thierno Ballo	19	4+4		1+1		0+3		5+8		1
18			21	0+2		0+2		0+3		0+7		1
27		Marco Grüll	23	16+2	5	2+1	2	10+2	4	28+5	11	5
29		Ercan Kara	25	16+1	9	3	2	11+1	3	30+2	14	1
32		Koya Kitagawa	24	0+9		0+1		1+6		1+16		1

Goal scorers[]

Name	Bundesliga	Cup	International	Total
Ercan Kara	9	2	3	14
Taxiarchis Fountas	7	1	3	11
Marco Grüll	5	2	4	11
Christoph Knasmüllner	2	1	3	6
Srđan Grahovac	1	2		3
Maximilian Hofmann		1	1	2
Robert Ljubičić	1		1	2
Emanuel Aiwu	1			1
Leo Greiml			1	1
Filip Stojković	1			1
Maximilian Ullmann		1		1
Own goals
()		1		1
Totals	27	11	16	54

Disciplinary record[]

Name	Bundesliga		Cup	International	Total
Name
Leo Greiml	3			5	8
Filip Stojković	4			3	7
Emanuel Aiwu	4		1	1	6
Srđan Grahovac	3			3	6
Maximilian Hofmann	3			3	6
Marco Grüll	3		1	1	5
Thorsten Schick	3			2	5
Maximilian Ullmann	1		1	3	5
Robert Ljubičić	2	1		1	3	1
Kevin Wimmer	1			3	4
Taxiarchis Fountas	3				3
Christoph Knasmüllner	2			1	3
Kelvin Arase	1			1	2
Jonas Auer	2				2
Lion Schuster	1			1	2
Richard Strebinger				2	2
Thierno Ballo	1				1
Paul Gartler				1	1
Ercan Kara	1				1
Koya Kitagawa				1	1
				1	1
				1	1
Lukas Sulzbacher				1	1
Totals	38	1	3	35	76	1

Transfers[]

In[]

Pos.	Name	Age	Moved from	Type	Transfer Window	Ref.
FW	Marco Grüll	22	SV Ried	Free transfer	Summer	^[1]
MF	Robert Ljubicic	21	SKN St. Pölten	Free Transfer	Summer	^[2]
DF	Kevin Wimmer	28	Stoke City F.C.	Free transfer	Summer	^[3]
DF	Jonas Auer	20	FK Mladá Boleslav	Transfer	Summer	^[4]
DF	Emanuel Aiwu	20	FC Admira Wacker Mödling	Transfer	Summer	^[5]
FW	Thierno Ballo	19	Chelsea F.C.	Loan	Summer	^[6]

Out[]

Pos.	Name	Age	Moved to	Type	Transfer Window	Ref.
MF	Tamás Szántó	25		End of career	Summer
MF	Dejan Ljubicic	23	1. FC Köln	Free transfer	Summer	^[7]
DF	Mario Sonnleitner	34	TSV Hartberg	Free transfer	Summer
DF	Mateo Barać	26	PFC Sochi	Free transfer	Summer
MF	Marcel Ritzmaier	28	Barnsley F.C.	Loan return	Summer
FW	Deni Alar	31	SKN St. Pölten	Free transfer	Summer
FW	Yusuf Demir	18	FC Barcelona	Loan	Summer	^[8]

Pre-season and friendlies[]

Win Draw Loss Fixtures

26 June 2021 Friendly	SV Lafnitz	2–5	Rapid Wien	Rohrbach an der Lafnitz, Austria
17:00	Kröpfl 42' (pen.) 70'		Fountas 6' Knasmüllner 30' Dijakovic 47' Kitagawa 66' Schick 72'	Stadium: Stadion Rohrbach Attendance: 200

30 June 2021 Friendly		0–3	Rapid Wien	Oberwart, Austria
18:00			Kitagawa 18' Grüll 49' Fountas 79' (pen.)	Stadium: Informstadion Attendance: 1,100

3 July 2021 Friendly	Rapid Wien	0–0	Lokomotiv Moscow	Pinkafeld, Austria
16:30				Attendance: 550

7 July 2021 Friendly	Rapid Wien	2–2	SKN St. Pölten	Vienna, Austria
17:00	Fountas 65' Kara 76'		Gschweidl 10' Vucenovic 51'	Stadium: Allianz Stadion

10 July 2021 Friendly	Rapid Wien	1–0	Copenhagen	Vienna, Austria
18:30	Kara 65'			Stadium: Allianz Stadion Attendance: 7,500

Competitions[]

Overall record[]

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Austrian Football Bundesliga	24 July 2021	May 2022			18	6	6	6	27	27	+0	033.33
Austrian Cup	16 July 2021		Round 1		3	3	0	0	11	1	+10	100.00
Champions League	20 July 2021	28 July 2021	Second qualifying round	Second qualifying round	2	1	0	1	2	3	−1	050.00
Europa League	5 August 2021	9 December 2021	Third qualifying round	Group stage	10	5	0	5	14	13	+1	050.00
Conference League	17 February 2022		Knockout round play-offs						!—
Total					33	15	6	12	54	44	+10	045.45

Last updated: 12 December 2021
Source: Soccerway

Austrian Football Bundesliga[]

League table[]

Pos	Team v t	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
3	Wolfsberger AC	18	9	4	5	31	28	+3	31	Qualification for the Championship round
4	Austria Klagenfurt	18	6	7	5	26	27	−1	25
5	Rapid Wien	18	6	6	6	27	27	0	24
6	Ried	18	6	6	6	24	34	−10	24
7	Austria Wien	18	4	9	5	24	22	+2	21	Qualification for the Relegation round

Updated to match(es) played on 12 December 2021. Source: Austrian Football Bundesliga
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head record; 3) Goal difference; 4) Goals scored; 5) Matches won; 6) Away matches won; 7) Away goals scored.^[9]

Results summary[]

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
18	6	6	6	27	27	0	24	5	1	3	17	12	+5	1	5	3	10	15	−5

Last updated: 12 December 2021.
Source: Austrian Football Bundesliga

Results by round[]

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A
Result	L	D	W	L	W	D	L	L	L	W	D	D	W	L	W	D	W	W
Position	12	12	6	10	3	4	9	9	11	8	8	10	5	7	5	8	5	5

Updated to match(es) played on 5 December 2021. Source: Austrian Football Bundesliga
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches[]

The league fixtures were announced on 24 July 2021.^[10]

24 July 2021 1	Rapid Wien	0–2	Hartberg	Vienna
17:00		Report	Tadić 40' 67' (pen.)	Stadium: Allianz Stadium Attendance: 12,200 Referee: Manuel Schüttengruber

31 July 2021 2	LASK	1–1	Rapid Wien	Pasching
17:00	Schmidt 79'	Report	Fountas 8'	Stadium: Raiffeisen Arena Attendance: 6,090 Referee:

8 August 2021 3	Rapid Wien	3–0	WAC	Vienna
17:00	Fountas 22' 52' 53'	Report		Stadium: Allianz Stadium Attendance: 13,100 Referee:

15 August 2021 4	Altach	2–1	Rapid Wien	Altach
17:00	Nussbaumer 82' Nuhiu 90+1' (pen.)	Report	Grüll 58'	Stadium: Cashpoint Arena Attendance: 4,837 Referee:

22 August 2021 5	Rapid Wien	3–0	Ried	Vienna
17:00	Grüll 42' Kara 72' Ljubičić 81'	Report		Stadium: Allianz Stadium Attendance: 14,500 Referee:

29 August 2021 6	Austria Wien	1–1	Rapid Wien	Vienna
17:00	Mühl 33'	Report	Grüll 47'	Stadium: Generali Arena Attendance: 10,851 Referee: Harald Lechner

11 September 2021 7	Rapid Wien	1–2	Admira	Vienna
17:00	Grahovac 45'	Report	Kerschbaum 51' Zwierschitz 86'	Stadium: Allianz Stadium Attendance: 16,600 Referee:

19 September 2021 8	Red Bull	2–0	Rapid Wien	Wals-Siezenheim
17:00	Adeyemi 79' (pen.) Aaronson 90+4'	Report		Stadium: Red Bull Arena Attendance: 17,218 Referee: Markus Hameter

26 September 2021 9	Rapid Wien	0–3	Sturm	Vienna
17:00		Report	Yeboah 38' Gorenc Stanković 71' Ljubic 82'	Stadium: Allianz Stadium Attendance: 16,900 Referee:

3 October 2021 10	Rapid Wien	5–2	WSG Tirol	Vienna
14:30	Kara 45+2' 46' 60' (pen.) Grüll 78' Knasmüllner 90+3'	Report	Sabitzer 37' Behounek 65' Petsos 82'	Stadium: Allianz Stadium Attendance: 10,200 Referee:

16 October 2021 11	Austria Klagenfurt	1–1	Rapid Wien	Klagenfurt
17:00	Mahrer 21' Amanda 87'	Report	Fountas 37'	Stadium: Wörthersee Stadion Attendance: 7,493 Referee:

24 October 2021 12	Hartberg	1–1	Rapid Wien	Hartberg
14:30	Rotter 90+7'	Report	Fountas 11'	Stadium: Profertil Arena Attendance: 4,500 Referee:

31 October 2021 13	Rapid Wien	3–2	LASK	Vienna
17:00	Kara 41' 78' Grüll 86' Ljubicic 90+7'	Report	Goiginger 17' Luckeneder 89'	Stadium: Allianz Stadium Attendance: 11,900 Referee:

7 November 2021 14	WAC	4–1	Rapid Wien	Wolfsberg
17:00	Jasic 22' Gugganig 31' Dieng 45+1' Peretz 63'	Report	Aiwu 33'	Stadium: Lavanttal-Arena Attendance: 3,551 Referee:

20 November 2021 15	Rapid Wien	1–0	Altach	Vienna
17:00	Stojković 47' Kara	Report	59'	Stadium: Allianz Stadium Attendance: 8,900 Referee: Manuel Schüttengruber

28 November 2021 16	Ried	2–2	Rapid Wien	Ried im Innkreis
17:00	Stojković 26' (o.g.) 71'	Report	Kara 11' Knasmüllner 84'	Stadium: Josko Arena Referee:

5 December 2021 17	Rapid Wien	1–1	Austria Wien	Vienna
17:00	Kara 25' (pen.)	Report	1'	Stadium: Allianz Stadium Referee:

12 December 2021 18	Admira	1–2	Rapid Wien	Maria Enzersdorf
14:30	Zwierschitz 18'	Report	Fountas 14' Kara 63'	Stadium: BSFZ-Arena Attendance: 3,500 Referee:

11 February 2022 19	Rapid Wien	v	Red Bull	Vienna
17:00				Stadium: Allianz Stadium

19 February 2022 20	Sturm	v	Rapid Wien	Graz
17:00				Stadium: Merkur Arena

26 February 2022 21	WSG Tirol	v	Rapid Wien	Innsbruck
17:00				Stadium: Tivoli

5 March 2022 22	Rapid Wien	v	Austria Klagenfurt	Vienna
17:00				Stadium: Allianz Stadium

Austrian Cup[]

16 July 2021 1st round	Rapid Wien	6–0		Vienna
20:30	Kara 9' (pen.) Hofmann 41' Grahovac 58' 61' (o.g.) Knasmüllner 65' Grüll 89' (pen.)	Report	29'	Stadium: Allianz Stadion Attendance: 8,100 Referee: Harald Lechner

23 September 2021 2nd round	Admira Wacker	1–2 (a.e.t.)	Rapid Wien	Maria Enzersdorf
20:30	Mustapha 66'	Report	Ullmann 39' Grüll 109' (pen.)	Stadium: BSFZ-Arena Attendance: 4,130 Referee: Manuel Schüttengruber

28 October 2021 Round of 16	SKU Amstetten	0–3	Rapid Wien	Amstetten
18:00		Report	Kara 13' Fountas 27' Grahovac 55'	Stadium: Ertl Glas Stadion Attendance: 2,797 Referee: Walter Altmann

5 February 2022 Quarterfinal	Rapid Wien	v	TSV Hartberg	Vienna
16:30		Report		Stadium: Allianz Stadion

UEFA Champions League[]

Second qualifying round[]

The draw for the second qualifying round was held on 16 June 2021.^[11]

20 July 2021 First leg	Rapid Wien	2–1	Sparta Prague	Vienna, Austria
20:30	Knasmüllner 63' 71'	Report	Krejčí II 3'	Stadium: Allianz Stadion Attendance: 19,500 Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük (Netherlands)

28 July 2021 Second leg	Sparta Prague	2–0 (3–2 agg.)	Rapid Wien	Prague, Czechia
20:30	Moberg Karlsson 16' (pen.) Pešek 81'	Report		Stadium: Stadion Letná Attendance: 9,105 Referee: Bobby Madden (Scotland)

UEFA Europa League[]

Third qualifying round[]

5 August 2021 First leg	Rapid Wien	3–0	Anorthosis Famagusta	Vienna, Austria
20:30	Kara 35' Knasmüllner Fountas 65' Grüll 83'	Report		Stadium: Allianz Stadion Attendance: 11,400 Referee: (Italy)

12 August 2021 Second leg	Anorthosis Famagusta	2–1 (2–4 agg.)	Rapid Wien	Larnaca, Cyprus
19:00	Lafferty 45+1' Roushias 88'	Report	Kara 64'	Stadium: Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium Attendance: 3,574 Referee: Aleksandar Stavrev (North Macedonia)

Play-off round[]

19 August 2021 First leg	Rapid Wien	3–0	Zorya Luhansk	Vienna, Austria
21:00	Fountas 29' Kara 78' Grüll 86'	Report		Stadium: Allianz Stadion Referee: Sandro Schärer (Switzerland)

26 August 2021 Second leg	Zorya Luhansk	2–3 (2–6 agg.)	Rapid Wien	Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
18:30	Hladkyy 40' Zahedi 87' (pen.)	Report	Grüll 10' Greiml 15' Fountas 68'	Stadium: Slavutych-Arena Attendance: 2,563 Referee: István Kovács (Romania)

Group stage[]

The draw for the group stage was held on 27 August 2021.^[12]

Table[]

Pos	Team v t	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	WHU	DZA	RWI	GNK
1	West Ham United	6	4	1	1	11	3	+8	13	Advance to round of 16	—	0–1	2–0	3–0
2	Dinamo Zagreb	6	3	1	2	9	6	+3	10	Advance to knockout round play-offs	0–2	—	3–1	1–1
3	Rapid Wien	6	2	0	4	4	9	−5	6	Transfer to Europa Conference League	0–2	2–1	—	0–1
4	Genk	6	1	2	3	4	10	−6	5		2–2	0–3	0–1	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Games[]

16 September 2021 1	Rapid Wien	0–1	Genk	Vienna
18:45		Report	Onuachu 90+2'	Stadium: Allianz Stadion Referee: Kristo Tohver (Estonia)

30 September 2021 2	West Ham United	2–0	Rapid Wien	London
21:00	Rice 29' Benrahma 90+4'	Report		Stadium: London Stadium Referee: Tobias Stieler (Germany)

21 October 2021 3	Rapid Wien	2–1	Dinamo Zagreb	Vienna
18:45	Grüll 9' Hofmann 34'	Report	Oršić 24'	Stadium: Allianz Stadion Attendance: 22,300 Referee: Kateryna Monzul (Ukraine)

4 November 2021 4	Dinamo Zagreb	3–1	Rapid Wien	Zagreb
21:00	Petković 12' Andrić 34' Šutalo 83'	Report	Knasmüllner 8'	Stadium: Stadion Maksimir Attendance: 7,835 Referee: John Beaton (Scotland)

25 November 2021 5	Rapid Wien	0–2	West Ham United	Vienna
18:45		Report	Yarmolenko 40' Noble 45+2' (pen.)	Stadium: Allianz Stadion Referee: Sergey Ivanov (Russia)

9 December 2021 6	Genk	0–1	Rapid Wien	Genk
21:00		Report	Ljubičić 29'	Stadium: Luminus Arena Referee: Tiago Martins (Portugal)

UEFA Europa Conference League[]

Knockout round play-offs[]

17 February 2022 First leg	Rapid Wien	v	Vitesse	Vienna, Austria
18:45				Stadium: Allianz Stadion

24 February 2022 Second leg	Vitesse	v	Rapid Wien	Arnhem, Netherlands
21:00				Stadium: GelreDome

References[]

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