Marco Tilio

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Rapid Wien
29 Dec 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Marco Tilio

15 Edition

The Rapid Wien Chronicle

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Petter Nosa Dahl leads the rout of Wolfsberger AC

4‑0, and Petter Nosa Dahl took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Rapid Wien tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Squad

Tempers go at Rapid Wien

Petter Nosa Dahl was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Tobias Gulliksen falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Ercan Kara

Marked 8.92 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Petter Nosa Dahl

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Kevin Ulmer at his very best

Marked 8.78. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Rapid Wien.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Petter Nosa Dahl at his very best

Marked 8.46. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Rapid Wien.

Squad

Ercan Kara is carrying Rapid Wien

10 goals and a season average of 7.25. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

The dugout

No hiding place for Nikolaus Wurmbrand

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikolaus Wurmbrand, and the manager let it.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Rapid Wien Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Jakob Schöller agrees terms with Grodig

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Rapid Wien people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market

Kevin Ulmer arrives at Rapid Wien in a $5.7M statement of intent

There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Rapid Wien have paid $5.7M for Kevin Ulmer, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.

Market

Marco Tilio asks to leave Rapid Wien

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Kevin Ulmer

Rapid Wien asked and Mattersburg said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Sion join the queue for Kevin Ulmer

Add another name to the list: Sion have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Kevin Ulmer. The answer from Rapid Wien has not changed — yet.

Squad

Keven Schlotterbeck in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rapid Wien this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Serge-Philippe Raux-Yao sends Rapid Wien past Wolfsberger AC

It finished 2‑0, and it was Serge-Philippe Raux-Yao’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Rapid Wien.

Player ratings

Ercan Kara was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.36. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad

A row about effort at Rapid Wien

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tobias Gulliksen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief

3 Edition

The Rapid Wien Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Rapid Wien break the bank for Keven Schlotterbeck

$23.1M. No player has ever cost Rapid Wien more, and expectation arrives with him.

Transfer targets

Rapid Wien agree $5.7M for Kevin Ulmer

The clubs have shaken hands with Mattersburg; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Transfer targets

Udinese tell Rapid Wien: Jordan Zemura is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Transfer targets

No deal for Andreas Leitner at that price

Rapid Wien offered $370.0K; SV Ried said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

The terraces

Rapid Wien spend $23.1M on the signing the town wanted

It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $23.1M for Keven Schlotterbeck, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.

Squad

Ange Ahoussou in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rapid Wien this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

Niklas Hedl gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match

Rapid Wien come up short against Sturm Graz

Sturm Graz left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market

Mattersburg join the queue for Laurenz Orgler

Add another name to the list: Mattersburg have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Laurenz Orgler. The answer from Rapid Wien has not changed — yet.

In brief

1 Edition

The Rapid Wien Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Transfer targets

Rapid Wien make their move for Keven Schlotterbeck

$16.9M on the table at FC Augsburg. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Player ratings

Both of them Petter Nosa Dahl's — 9.03

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.03, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match

Rapid Wien leave it late against Mattersburg

Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 88th, and Mattersburg spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Guido Lindner

Rapid Wien asked and Mattersburg said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Grodig come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Rapid Wien did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Bendegúz Bolla signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Bendegúz Bolla commits to Rapid Wien for another 4 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Rapid Wien

Bendegúz Bolla was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match

Petter Nosa Dahl the difference as Rapid Wien beat Mattersburg

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Petter Nosa Dahl. 2‑1 against Mattersburg, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Market

Altach watching Yusuf Demir

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Rapid Wien have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

In brief