SK Rapid Wien /

The Sportklub Rapid Wien (English: Rapid Vienna) is an Austrian football club playing in the country's capital city of Vienna. Rapid is the most successful club in Austria being the national record title holder with 32 national championships, as well priding itself as the only team from the former Ostmark, part of the German Reich, to win the German war-time league in 1941 – during World War Two. It is one of the two best known sides in Vienna, the other being Rapid's eternal rival, FK Austria Wien with whom they compete the Wien derby. The Rapid squad is often known as the "Green-Whites" for its team colours or as Hütteldorfer for the location of the Gerhard Hanappi Stadium, which is in Hütteldorf, part of the city's 14th district, Penzing. SK Rapid Wien was founded in 1898 (en:First Workers' Football Club of Vienna). The team's original colours were red and blue, which are still often used in away matches. On 8 January 1899 the club was re-named, taking on its present name of Sportklub Rapid Wien, following the example of Rapide Berlin. In 1904, the team colours were changed to green and white.