The Admira Wacker Gazette
Match26 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Admira Wacker
A 1‑0 win over Mattersburg, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Platon Smirnov, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.12
A mark of 8.12 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marcel Lienhart runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market31 Aug 2026
Konrad Posch puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Admira Wacker, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market31 Aug 2026
Admira Wacker say no — this time
The offer from Mattersburg for Maximilian Lindner was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Admira Wacker
Carlos Gutiérrez 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Marko Alaba 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.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
Admira Wacker supporters have found a favourite in Platon Smirnov
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Platon Smirnov has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match29 Aug 2026
Admira Wacker see off Rapid Wien
Three points for Admira Wacker, 1‑0 the final word against Rapid Wien in a contest settled by the finer margins.
In brief
- Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Lukas Junuzovic
- Squad Marco Ulmer signs on for more
- Market The Wolfgang Kalajdzic conversation is coming