The Favoritner Athletik Club, or FavAC for short, is an

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club from the

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district and currently plays under the sponsored name ''Cashpoint FavAC'' in the fourth tier, the Viennese City League. The club's popularity drastically rose during their two-year spell in the top division between 1983 and 1985. Their colours are red and black. It should not be confused with Favoritner Sports Club, a club that was active in the highest Austrian league several years before, nor with Favoritner SK Blau-Weiß which also played in the top division.

History

The club was founded in 1910 as the football section of the

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club ''Kegelklub Favorit'' as ''Favorit Athletic Club''. On 21 December 1910 the club was admitted to a meeting of the

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and assigned to the Vienna Second Division. Before that, the club was already entered into the register of associations on 1 August 1910, under the name ''Favoritner Athletics Sports Club'', or Favoritner ASC for short. After a few years in 2nd Division and a temporary spell in the league of the labour movement, the VAFÖ (''Vereinigung der Amateur-Fußballvereine Österreichs''), Favoritner AC played in the years 1936 to 1938 for the first time in the highest Austrian league. After the relegation in 1938, the top flight could only be achieved between 1983 and 1985. However these two seasons brought the FavAC a great popularity in

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. Since 2010/11 the club plays in

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, the fourth-highest tier.

Honours

Women

* Austrian Women's Champions: 1972/73

Men

*2 × Vienna City League Winners: 1977, 1981 *2 × semi-finalists of the

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: 1992, 1993 *1 × Winner of the Wiener Stadthalle Tournament : 1993 Other achievements: *1934/35: Promotion to the State League *1935–1938: Granted State League membership *1950/51: Winners of the National League *1948–49: 2nd Division North Winners *1976/77:

Winners *1977/78: Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga *1982/83: Promotion to the 1st Bundesliga *1983/84: relegation from the

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*1994/95: Regionalliga Ost Winners *1995: 6th in the 2nd Bundesliga

Notable players

Player who have played in a top flight league: * Zoran Barišić * Peter Burgstaller * Dietmar Constantini * Reinhard Kienast * Tomislav Kocijan * Mario Majstorović *

Andreas Ogris Andreas Ogris (born 7 October 1964) is an Austrian football manager and former player. He is the older brother of former Austrian international and Hertha BSC player Ernst Ogris. Club career Born in Vienna, Ogris played for Austria Wien from ...

Hans Pirkner Johann "Hans" Pirkner (born 25 March 1946, in Vienna) is a former Austrian football forward. Club career Pirkner played for several clubs, including Schalke 04 (1969–1971), Austria Wien (1974–1978) and First Vienna FC. When at Schalke, he wa ...

Josef Sara Josef Sara (born 9 March 1954) is an Austrian footballer. He played in one match for the Austria national football team The Austria national football team (german: Österreichische Fußballnationalmannschaft) represents Austria in men's int ...

Robert Sara Robert Sara (born 9 June 1946) is an Austrian former professional footballer who played as a defender. His younger brother Josef was also a footballer. Club career Sara was bornborn in Oberlainsitz, near St. Martin im Waldviertel. He becam ...

Fred Schaub Fred Schaub (28 August 1960 – 22 April 2003) was a German professional football played as a forward. He is best remembered for scoring the winning goal for Eintracht Frankfurt in the 1979–80 UEFA Cup final. The 17-year-old Schaub joined G ...

Peter Stöger Peter Stöger (; born 11 April 1966) is an Austrian football coach and a former player. As a player Stöger won the Austrian championship 4 times, the cup 3 times. As a coach or sporting director Stöger won the Austrian championship 2 times and ...

Gerhard Bronner Gerhard Bronner (23 October 1922 in Favoriten, Vienna – 19 January 2007 in Vienna) was an Austrian composer, writer, musician and a cabaret artist, known for his contribution to Austrian culture in the post-World War II period. Life Born t ...

(as a youth player) * Stevica Zdravković

External links

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Official website
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