Marked for Dominik Baumgartner
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match12 Sep 2026
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Dominik Baumgartner 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.31, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Admira Wacker training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marco Posch is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad14 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Admira Wacker this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I watch every Admira Wacker game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Rapid Wien runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad14 Sep 2026
5 new faces, and Admira Wacker are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Back issues
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Player ratings7 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.67, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match7 Sep 2026
11 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Mattersburg come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Admira Wacker did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Silas Ostrzinski 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Admira Wacker and Grodig, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Match5 Sep 2026
Three points for Admira Wacker, 4‑2 the final word against Grodig in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Market7 Sep 2026
Grodig pay $160.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
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Steady
Match26 Aug 2026
Out, 0‑2 to Mattersburg, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Valentino Laimer at 19 — 8.80
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Valentino Laimer did not need any: 8.80, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 7 of the 24 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer from Grodig for Markus Ilsanker 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Raphael Sabitzer 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
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Silas Ostrzinski is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match29 Aug 2026
Rapid Wien made Admira Wacker work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Admira Wacker did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Valentino Laimer, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.60
A mark of 7.60 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market17 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Admira Wacker have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market17 Aug 2026
Business is business: Kevin Trimmel goes
Grodig paid $100.0K and Admira Wacker took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Admira Wacker training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Martin Hinteregger is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Dominik Baumgartner 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“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.
Match15 Aug 2026
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Wolfgang Lainer and Admira Wacker agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.