From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad15 Feb 2027
Manprit Sarkaria damages knee ligaments — 39 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 39 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Reinhold Ranftl out for 75 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Samuel Sahin-Radlinger and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Ousmane Diawara 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 dugout15 Feb 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Samuel Sahin-Radlinger is on it.
Market15 Feb 2027
The name of Manfred Fischer keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Austria Wien say nothing, which says plenty.
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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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad1 Feb 2027
54 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
93 days out for Reinhold Ranftl 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.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Austria Wien close the window on a squad of their own making
2 in and 1 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Samuel Sahin-Radlinger and Austria Wien agree another 1 years.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Austria Wien asked and Wolfsberger AC said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Samuel Sahin-Radlinger 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.
Loan watch1 Feb 2027
“I did not go to Admira Wacker to sit and watch. I want to come back to Austria Wien and fight for my place.” 7 appearances in 25 matches say the rest.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Philipp Maybach, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad25 Jan 2027
Manprit Sarkaria damages knee ligaments — 63 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 63 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 101 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market25 Jan 2027
The bid was some way short and Austria Wien did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Samuel Sahin-Radlinger and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Cracovia have kept their man, and Austria Wien go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Kelvin Boateng 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 dugout25 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Noah Botic
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Loan watch25 Jan 2027
“I watch every Austria Wien game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Grodig runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Sanel Šaljić 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad18 Jan 2027
70 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
109 days out for Reinhold Ranftl 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.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Austria Wien may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Samuel Sahin-Radlinger and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Avellino have kept their man, and Austria Wien go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
A loan enquiry to VfL Wolfsburg: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
A loan enquiry to Watford: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Samuel Sahin-Radlinger is on it.
Market18 Jan 2027
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
Squad11 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Manprit Sarkaria
80 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Reinhold Ranftl out for 117 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 targets11 Jan 2027
Austria Wien had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Sturm Graz, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad11 Jan 2027
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.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Ousmane Diawara 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 dugout11 Jan 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.
Loan watch11 Jan 2027
13 appearances at Mattersburg and the goals keep coming. Austria Wien are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Market11 Jan 2027
The name of Sanel Šaljić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Austria Wien say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad4 Jan 2027
Manprit Sarkaria damages knee ligaments — 87 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 87 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market4 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Austria Wien can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Jan 2027
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Austria Wien will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Squad4 Jan 2027
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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words at Austria Wien training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Reinhold Ranftl 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.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sturm Graz have kept their man, and Austria Wien go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Loan watch4 Jan 2027
“I watch every Austria Wien game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Admira Wacker runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
A loan enquiry to Sturm Graz: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Spartak Moscow have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
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Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
95 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Samuel Sahin-Radlinger and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Austria Wien training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Reinhold Ranftl 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 dugout28 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Noah Botic
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alexander Prass and Austria Wien agree another 4 years.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Sanel Šaljić 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.
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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.
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Crisis
Squad14 Dec 2026
110 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.
Match10 Dec 2026
0‑1 against KAA Gent, and an evening that measured the gap rather than the ninety minutes. Nothing about it was a disgrace and nothing about it was close.
Squad14 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.
Squad14 Dec 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Michael Laimer has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market14 Dec 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Alexander Prass has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. 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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Raphael Lienhart to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Manfred Fischer is on it.
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Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Samuel Sahin-Radlinger and Austria Wien agree another 1 years.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Lee Tae-Suk and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Philipp Maybach named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Philipp Maybach is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Aleksandar Dragović is on it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Sanel Šaljić has moved up it.
Loan watch7 Dec 2026
“Nobody here treats me like a loan player, and that is worth more than people think.” 13 appearances and 8 goals, and a summer that will decide it.
Loan watch7 Dec 2026
12 appearances away from home and 4 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Market7 Dec 2026
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Clauvis Carvalho leaves Austria Wien the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
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Steady
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 51. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match25 Nov 2026
Altach are out and Austria Wien go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match25 Nov 2026
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 127th minute. Altach will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Market30 Nov 2026
Ibrahim Buhari has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Austria Wien they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Sanel Šaljić, 21, steals the show — 7.92
Marked 7.92 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Samuel Sahin-Radlinger and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sanel Šaljić commits to Austria Wien for another 5 years.
Squad30 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.
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Crisis
Match21 Nov 2026
The longest week starts now for Austria Wien
Beaten 0‑1 by Rapid Wien in the one fixture that is never just a fixture. Work, school, the corner shop — there will be no getting away from this one.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Samuel Sahin-Radlinger and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aleksandar Dragović, and the manager let it.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad23 Nov 2026
200 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Kelvin Boateng 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 dugout23 Nov 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout23 Nov 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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
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Crisis
Squad16 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Martin Fraisl out for 16 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.
Squad16 Nov 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.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Reinhold Ranftl 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
Sturm Graz left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
The neighbours are next for Austria Wien
Nothing about the week ahead is ordinary. Rapid Wien on Saturday, a town that has already started talking about it, and a dressing room that does not need telling what it means.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Ibrahim Buhari
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Raphael Lienhart to a room that had heard them before.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
There was no pressure on him and nowhere he had to be. Austria Wien lost a goal to a decision that took half a second and will be discussed all week.
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Steady
Match5 Nov 2026
Austria Wien do the business in Europe
0‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Austria Wien came through the finding-out well against Shakhtar.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Martin Fraisl breaks a bone — 23 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 23 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Samuel Sahin-Radlinger 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.
Squad9 Nov 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Andreas Alaba 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Manfred Fischer’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Austria Wien.
Looking ahead9 Nov 2026
Top-of-the-table clash for Austria Wien
Sturm Graz next, and the two sides the division is watching meet each other. Whoever wins will be told nothing is decided in the same breath as being congratulated.
Market9 Nov 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Austria Wien, another week without a signature from Manfred Fischer.
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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
Squad26 Oct 2026
41 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.
Match22 Oct 2026
0‑1 away to the standard of Shakhtar. Nobody will pretend this was a scandal; the gap is real, it is measurable, and closing it is a project rather than a team talk.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Samuel Sahin-Radlinger and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Austria Wien training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Reinhold Ranftl 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match24 Oct 2026
Late, late show earns Austria Wien a point
Minute 94, against Altach, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Aleksandar Dragović.
Match24 Oct 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Altach leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Upbeat
Squad19 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Martin Fraisl out for 48 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Nobody wants to play Austria Wien right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Manprit Sarkaria 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Lee Tae-Suk and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Marked 8.16. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Austria Wien.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Noah Botic 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Austria Wien are still strangers to each other
9 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
56 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.
Match12 Oct 2026
22 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.18, and nobody on the pitch better.
Match10 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Austria Wien do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Samuel Sahin-Radlinger 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Austria Wien training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kelvin Boateng 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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Raphael Lienhart on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Martin Fraisl out for 64 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.
Match1 Oct 2026
A European night to remember for Austria Wien
0‑0 against KAA Gent, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.57, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match5 Oct 2026
19 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market5 Oct 2026
Ibrahim Buhari has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Austria Wien they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Samuel Sahin-Radlinger and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match3 Oct 2026
6 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Grodig were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Match3 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Austria Wien do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
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Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
71 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Austria Wien
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Austria Wien are no longer polite ones.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Samuel Sahin-Radlinger and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 91. Wolfsberger AC had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
Market28 Sep 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Kelvin Boateng has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Austria Wien.
The dugout28 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.
Match28 Sep 2026
Halfway: Austria Wien sit in position 4
16 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.46 on the card, and the Austria Wien support went home talking about one name.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
79 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match19 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Austria Wien
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Austria Wien are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 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 Austria Wien this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Manprit Sarkaria 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Austria Wien
9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Austria Wien pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
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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.
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Upbeat
Squad7 Sep 2026
Martin Fraisl breaks a bone — 95 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 95 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match7 Sep 2026
Austria Wien refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 13 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Sebastian Jacob had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market7 Sep 2026
Ibrahim Buhari has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Austria Wien they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Every paper's favourite story and every manager's least. What happened is being dealt with internally, which is the phrase clubs use when they would rather nobody asked again.
Market7 Sep 2026
The paperwork is done: Konrad Wober joins from Mattersburg in a deal worth $1.5M. Now comes the harder part.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 22 in, 9 out at Austria Wien
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 22 arrived, 9 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Viktoria Plzen is saying, and nobody at Austria Wien is enjoying the guessing.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Manprit Sarkaria and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Triumph
Squad31 Aug 2026
104 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Match29 Aug 2026
There were 88 minutes on the clock and SV Ried had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Austria Wien did not stop to explain themselves.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Austria Wien asked and Altach said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Lee Tae-Suk 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Austria Wien keep winning on the road
3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Match29 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over SV Ried, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Austria Wien training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kelvin Boateng 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.
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Upbeat
Squad24 Aug 2026
111 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Austria Wien have gone to Mattersburg with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets24 Aug 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The deal with Universitatea Craiova is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad24 Aug 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Austria Wien training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Reinhold Ranftl 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of Konstantin Aleksa has come up in conversations Austria Wien were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
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Triumph
Squad17 Aug 2026
Martin Fraisl breaks a bone — 121 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 121 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Austria Wien asked and Red Bull Salzburg said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market17 Aug 2026
Sturm Graz come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Austria Wien did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match15 Aug 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Samuel Sahin-Radlinger 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Austria Wien training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Reinhold Ranftl 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 dugout17 Aug 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market17 Aug 2026
The name of Abdoulaye Kanté has come up in conversations Austria Wien were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
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Triumph
Market10 Aug 2026
KV Oostende come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Austria Wien did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market10 Aug 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Red Bull Salzburg have kept their man, and Austria Wien go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Austria Wien spend $700.0K to raise the standard
This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $700.0K has been paid because Ousmane Diawara is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.
Market10 Aug 2026
Romeo Vučić has left for Köln in a $1.5M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The deal with Monza is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Ibrahim Buhari has agreed terms with Rapid Wien for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Johannes Eggestein commits to Austria Wien for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Samuel Sahin-Radlinger and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Triumph
Match1 Aug 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 7‑0 against Grodig, and it could have been more.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The match ball belongs to Johannes Eggestein, whose 4 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A brace, and Manfred Fischer takes the afternoon — 8.28
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Manfred Fischer provided it, and the 8.28 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Sanel Šaljić, 20, steals the show — 7.73
Marked 7.73 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Martin Ádám gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Martin Ádám has just signed for Austria Wien, and for once the answer mattered.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Reinhold Ranftl and Austria Wien agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
The offer went to Altach this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad3 Aug 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.