Marked for Andreas Baumgartner
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad8 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Manprit Sarkaria
47 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Austria Wien lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 86 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Leyton Orient have kept their man, and Austria Wien go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market8 Feb 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Andreas Lazaro has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market8 Feb 2027
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alexander Wimmer is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Feb 2027
The name of Philipp Maybach has come up in conversations Austria Wien were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Xavi Ríos and Austria Wien agree another 4 years.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Andreas Baumgartner and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Manfred Fischer has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Austria Wien will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Dec 2026
103 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Austria Wien lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Austria Wien training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ousmane Diawara 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Philipp Maybach and Austria Wien agree another 5 years.
Squad21 Dec 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 Austria Wien this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Nobody at Austria Wien will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market21 Dec 2026
The name of Manfred Fischer keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Austria Wien say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
32 days out for Martin Fraisl after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Austria Wien will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match2 Nov 2026
Austria Wien refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 27 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Market2 Nov 2026
Only the photograph left for Ibrahim Buhari
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ibrahim Buhari will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Austria Wien the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Austria Wien training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Manprit Sarkaria 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.
Looking ahead2 Nov 2026
Two sides from the top of the table, one afternoon, and a month of talk decided in ninety minutes. Austria Wien will not use the word title this week and will not stop thinking it.
Market2 Nov 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
7.51, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Austria Wien had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Andreas Baumgartner 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.
In brief
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Squad
A place in the month's best eleven for Sanel Šaljić
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
The form table has caught Matteo Schablas
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Martin Fraisl out for 87 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Austria Wien will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Empoli is saying, and nobody at Austria Wien is enjoying the guessing.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Reinhold Ranftl was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Mattersburg have kept their man, and Austria Wien go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Looking ahead14 Sep 2026
Rapid Wien next, which means a week that starts on Monday. Everything else on this page will be forgotten by Saturday; this fixture will not be forgotten for a year.
Match12 Sep 2026
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Sturm Graz scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Market14 Sep 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The formation has left Konrad Wober behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Austria Wien will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.