Admira Wacker is an Austrian professionalfootball club based inMaria Enzersdorf, a town in theMödling District ofLower Austria. The team competes in the2. Liga, the second tier of theAustrian football league system.

Admira Wacker

Full name	Admira Wacker
Nickname(s)	Admiraner Südstädter
Founded	17 June 1905; 119 years ago (1905-06-17)[1]
Ground	Datenpol Arena, Maria Enzersdorf[2]
Capacity	10,600
President	Christian Tschida[3]
Head coach	Thomas Silberberger
League	2. Liga
2023–24	2. Liga, 7th of 16
Website	admirawacker.at
Home colours Away colours
Current season

The club was formed as Admira/Wacker in 1971 through the merger ofSK Admira and SC Wacker, making it the legal successor to both clubs and inheriting their combined titles and achievements. SC Wacker, founded in 1907 inVienna'sObermeidling district, won theAustrian Championship andAustrian Cup once each. SK Admira, founded in 1905 in theJedlesee district of Vienna and based in Südstadt since 1967, won eight Austrian Championships, five Austrian Cups, and oneAustrian Supercup. Admira's greatest international achievement was reaching theMitropa Cup final in 1934, while the merged club reached the quarter-finals of theEuropean Cup Winners' Cup in 1990.

SK Admira Vienna was formed in theVienna district ofJedlesee as a merger between two football clubs namedBurschenschaft Einigkeit andSportklub Vindobona in 1905.^[4] In 1919, Admira were promoted to the first tier of the Austrian league system for the first time in their history. The club soon became one of the more successful teams during the inter-war period, capturing seven Austrian national championship and threeAustrian Cup titles. Several Admira players were also regulars in theAustria national football team at this time.

After theAnschluss in 1938, Admira played for several seasons in theGauliga Ostmark, one of the top-flight regional leagues created through the reorganization of German football under theThird Reich. Their win of the1938–39 Gauliga Ostmark qualified them for the1939 German football championship, in which Admira made their way to the final againstSchalke 04, which was the dominant German football team of the era. They lost overwhelmingly by a score of 0–9. This effort marked the last major success for Vienna before the end ofWorld War II.

The post-war period led to a slow, but steady decline due to lack of funds to buy more competitive players. It eventually culminated into the first brief relegation from the top tier after forty years in 1960. The club underwent two name changes in that period, playing asESV Admira Vienna after a merger with the railroad sports clubESV Vienna in 1953 before changing toESV Admira-NÖ Energie Vienna in 1960 due to a sponsorship agreement with regional energy suppliersNEWAG/NIOGAS. Soon thereafter, Admira (or Admira Energie, as it was called in most media during the time) regained some of its earlier strength, winning the Austrian Cup in 1964 and theDouble of league and cup titles in 1966.

The revelation of financial scandals within NEWAG/NIOGAS in the late 1960s led to an abrupt end of the steady flow of funds and brought the club onto the brink of administration, which would narrowly be avoided. Nevertheless, Admira began looking for a merger partner, and particularly targetedAustria Vienna. However, after the creation ofAdmira-Austria was declined twice, Admira eventually began talks withSC Wacker Vienna, which were successfully concluded in 1971.

Wacker Vienna was formed in 1908 in the Vienna district of Meidling. The club reached the first tier of the Austrian league system for the first time in 1914. Being a mid-table side until the second half of the 1930s, Wacker became a top-team in the 1940s and 1950s, winning thedouble in 1947 and ending as league runners-up eight more times between 1940 and 1956.

During the last decade as an independent club it became a bona-fideyo-yo club, with eight straight relegations from or promotions to the Austrian top tier between 1961 and 1968. A fifth relegation in 1971, combined with financial and stadium problems, eventually led to a merger withAdmira, formingFC Admira/Wacker Vienna.

VfB Mödling was formed on 17 June 1911 in theLower Austrian town ofMödling. Since their foundation, Mödling were playing in the highest Lower Austrian league. With the introduction of an Austria-wide national league in 1949, the club was classified into the second tier. Playing most of its existence in second- and third-tier leagues since then, the club enjoyed three brief stints in the top division during the 1952–53 and 1987–88 seasons as well as between 1992 and 1995 before eventually merging withAdmira/Wacker in 1997.

In 1997, after a financial crisis, VfB Mödling and Admira Wacker merged. In 2004Iranian Majid Pishyar purchased the club. His stewardship of the club led to on-field and off-field difficulties. The club was relegated after the 2005–06 season. With further financial trouble, Pishyar sold the club to Richard Trenkwalder in 2008. Trenkwalder made a series of changes to the club, including changing the club's name to FC Trenkwalder Admira. His changes eventually paid off, with the club gaining promotion back to the Austrian first division following the 2010–11 season. (Majid Pishyar, meanwhile, notably also caused similar financial problems at a Swiss club,Servette, in the 2011–12 season.)

In 2017,Würzburg-based online printing company Flyeralarm acquired the naming rights for the club, meaning the club will be known as "Flyeralarm Admira" for ten years.^[5]

On 1 July 2024, the club officially reverted to its historic name, Admira Wacker, as part of a broader effort to return to its roots.^[6] One month earlier, the club had unveiled a newly designed crest, which drew heavily on the 1971 emblem but incorporated modern elements. The decision to reinstate the original club name and update the crest was welcomed by the fan base, particularly by fan clubs that had advocated for this change for many years. The club's traditional colors—black, white, and red—remain unchanged, though black and white have been given renewed emphasis in the club's branding.^[7]

• Austrian Champions: 9
  • Admira Vienna (8):1926–27,1927–28,1931–32,1933–34,1935–36,1936–37,1938–39,1965–66
  • Wacker Vienna:1946–47
• Austrian Cup: 6
  • Admira Vienna (5): 1927–28, 1931–32, 1933–34, 1963–64, 1965–66
  • Wacker Vienna: 1946–47
• Austrian Supercup: 1
  • Admira / Wacker Vienna: 1989
• Mitropa Cup
  • Admira Vienna runner-up:1934
  • Wacker Vienna runner-up:1951

Notes

As of 3 march 2025^[8]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

•  Peter Wurz
•  Nicolae Lupescu
•  Marcel Sabitzer

• Official website(in German)