2004–05 FK Austria Wien season

During the 2004–05 Austrian football season, Austria Wien competed in the Bundesliga.

FK Austria Wien

2004–05 season
Manager	Lars Søndergaard
Austrian Football Bundesliga	3rd
Austrian Cup	Winners
UEFA Cup	Quarter-finals

Season summary

Austria Wien finished in third and reached the UEFA Cup quarter-finals. They also won the Austrian Cup.

First-team squad

Squad at end of season[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  CRO Joey Didulica[2] 2 DF  NGA Rabiu Afolabi 3 DF  ARG Fernando Ariel Troyansky 4 DF  SWE Mikael Antonsson 5 DF  BIH Saša Papac 6 DF  AUT Ernst Dospel 7 MF  CZE Libor Sionko 8 MF  AUT Michael Wagner 9 FW  AUT Ivica Vastić[3] 10 MF  SVK Vladimír Janočko 11 MF  CZE Štěpán Vachoušek 12 GK  HUN Szabolcs Sáfár 15 MF  FRA Jocelyn Blanchard 16 DF  POL Krzysztof Ratajczyk 17 DF  BEL Didier Dheedene 18 DF  AUT Florian Metz

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 MF  POL Radosław Gilewicz 20 MF  AUT Markus Kiesenebner 21 FW  NOR Sigurd Rushfeldt 22 FW  NGA Tosin Dosunmu 23 MF  AUT Richard Kitzbichler 24 MF  AUT Christoph Saurer 26 MF  AUT Pascal Velek 27 DF  AUT Andreas Schicker 28 DF  AUT Daniel Sobkova 29 MF  AUT Alexander Schörg 30 FW  AUT Halil Akaslan 31 GK  AUT Robert Almer 32 GK  GER Marc Ziegler 33 MF  POL Sebastian Mila 34 DF  CZE Adam Petrouš (on loan from Rubin Kazan)

Left club during season

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 13 GK  AUT Bartoloměj Kuru[4] (on loan to LASK Linz)

No. Pos. Nation Player 25 DF  BRA Fernando Santos (released)

Matches

Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Rapid Wien (C)	36	21	8	7	67	31	+36	71	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2	Grazer AK	36	21	7	8	58	28	+30	70	Qualification to UEFA Cup second qualifying round
3	Austria Wien	36	19	12	5	64	24	+40	69
4	Pasching	36	17	9	10	53	48	+5	60
5	Mattersburg	36	12	9	15	48	58	−10	45

Source: weltfussball.de (in German)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champion.

Quarter-final

27 April 2005	SKN St. Pölten	0 – 6	Austria Wien
			Vastić  27' (p), 69' Petrouš  47' Gilewicz  51' Dosunmu  72' Kitzbichler  86'

Semi-final

18 May 2005	Austria Wien	3 – 0	Austria Kärnten
	Sionko  18' Vastić  36' (p) Rushfeldt  62'

Final

1 June 2005	Austria Wien	3 – 1	Rapid Wien	Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna
	Mila  20' Vastić  55' Sionko  65'		Burgstaller  5'	Attendance: 28,000

First round

16 September 2004	Austria Wien	1–0	Legia Warsaw	Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna
20:45	Kiesenebner  83'	Report		Referee: Vitaliy Godulyan (Ukraine)

30 September 2004	Legia Warsaw	1–3 (1–4 agg.)	Austria Wien	Polish Army Stadium, Warsaw
20:45	Smoliński  84'	Report	Vachoušek  32' Poledica  42' (o.g.) Sionko  90'	Referee: Nicolai Vollquartz (Denmark)

Group stage

4 November 2004	Austria Wien	1 – 0	Real Zaragoza	Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna
20:45	Gilewicz  70'	Report		Attendance: 18,800 Referee: Paolo Bertini (Italy)

25 November 2004	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	1 – 0	Austria Wien	Meteor Stadium, Dnipropetrovsk
18:45	Nazarenko  19'	Report		Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Krzysztof Slupik (Poland)

1 December 2004	Austria Wien	1 – 1	Club Brugge	Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna
20:45	Gilewicz  50' Papac  90'	Report	Lange  90' Simões  89'	Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Rob Styles (England)

16 December 2004	Utrecht	1 – 2	Austria Wien	Stadion Galgenwaard, Utrecht
20:45	Douglas  54'	Report	Sionko  14' Rushfeldt  78'	Attendance: 14,000 Referee: Athanassios Briakos (Greece)

Round of 32

24 February 2005	Austria Wien	0–0	Athletic Bilbao	Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna
19:30 (CET)		Report		Referee: Alon Yefet (Israel)

27 February 2005	Athletic Bilbao	1–2 (1–2 agg.)	Austria Wien	San Mamés Stadium, Bilbao
18:00 (CET)	Yeste  19' (pen.)	Report	Sionko  35', 70'	Referee: Grzegorz Gilewski (Poland)

Round of 16

10 March 2005	Austria Wien	1–1	Real Zaragoza	Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna
19:30 (CET)	Rushfeldt  32'	Report	Sávio  74'	Referee: Peter Fröjdfeldt (Sweden)

17 March 2005	Real Zaragoza	2–2 (3–3 agg.)	Austria Wien	La Romareda, Zaragoza
20:45 (CET)	Villa  59' Galletti  63'	Report	Papac  6' Dosunmu  12'	Referee: Alain Hamer (Luxembourg)

Quarter-finals

7 April 2005	Austria Wien	1–1	Parma	Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna
20:45 (CET)	Mila  61'	Report	Pisanu  34'	Referee: Éric Poulat (France)

14 April 2005	Parma	0–0 (1–1 agg.)	Austria Wien	Stadio Ennio Tardini, Parma
20:45 (CET)		Report		Referee: Steve Bennett (England)

References

1. http://www.footballsquads.co.uk/austria/2004-2005/bundes/austvien.htm
2. Didulica was born in Geelong, Australia, and represented them at U-23 level, but also qualified to represent Croatia internationally through his parents and made his international debut for Croatia in April 2004.
3. Vastić was born in Split, Yugoslavia (now Croatia), but also qualified to represent Austria internationally after obtaining citizenship and made his international debut for Austria in 1996.
4. Kuru was born in Nymburk, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic), but also qualifies to represent Austria internationally after obtaining citizenship and has represented them at every youth level from U-17 to U-21.