2016–17 SK Rapid Wien season explained

Club:	Rapid Wien
Season:	2016–17
Manager:	Goran Djuricin Damir Canadi (until 8 April 2017) Mike Büskens (until 7 November 2016)
Mgrtitle:	Head Coach
Chairman:	Michael Krammer
Chrtitle:	President
Stadium:	Allianz Stadion, Vienna, Austria
League:	Bundesliga
League Result:	5th
Cup1:	Austrian Cup
Cup1 Result:	Runner-up
Cup3:	Europa League
Cup3 Result:	Group stage (3rd)
League Topscorer:	Joelinton (8)
Season Topscorer:	Joelinton (13)
Highest Attendance:	26,300 vs. Austria Wien, 23 October 2016
Lowest Attendance:	14,200 vs. SKN St. Pölten, 3 December 2016
Average Attendance:	21,100
Prevseason:	2015–16
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The 2016–17 SK Rapid Wien season was the 119th season in club history.

Background

Background information

Rapid Wien finished the 2015–16 season in second place. Therefore, Rapid Wien started in the 3rd qualifying round of the 2016/17 Europa League competition.

This was the first season Rapid played in the Allianz Stadion.

On 7 November 2016, after a 0-1 defeat at home against Wolfsberger AC both manager Mike Büskens and Director of Football Andreas Müller were sacked.^[1] Four days later Damir Canadi was presented as the new manager, joining Rapid from league rival SCR Altach.^[2] On 11 December, Fredy Bickel was presented as the new Director of Football.^[3]

On 9 April 2017, after a 0-3 defeat in Ried manager Damir Canadi was sacked and replaced by his former assistant coaches Goran Djuricin and Martin Bernhard until end of season.^[4] Djuricin was later appointed as manager for the following season.

Pre-season and friendlies

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F–A	Scorers	Attendance
26 June 2016	Szombathelyi Haladás	N	1-0	Murg 71'	1,300
1 July 2016	Rubin Kazan	N	1-0	Joelinton 52'	2,000
16 July 2016		H	2-0	Joelinton 8', Tomi 82'	28,600
21 January 2017	SC Wiener Neustadt	H	1-2	Schaub 36'; Freiberger 41', Stefel 44'	400
25 January 2017	Ferencvárosi TC	N	1-0	Szántó 72' (pen.)
28 January 2017	Piast Gliwice	N	2-1	Malicsek 64', Sobczyk 87'; Jankowski 15'
26 March 2017	First Vienna	A	4-0	Szántó 9', 76', Pavelić 44', Keles 45'	6,200

Bundesliga

Bundesliga fixtures and results

		Venue	Opponent			Goalscorers and disciplined players		Table
						Rapid Wien	Opponent
1	16:00			5-0	23,600			1st	3	+5	^[5]
2	16:30			0-1	6,237			3rd	3	+4	^[6]
3	16:30			4-1	15,200			2nd	6	+7	^[7]
4	18:30			4-0	21,800			2nd	9	+11	^[8]
5	16:30			1-1	5,900			3rd	10	+11	^[9]
6	16:30			0-0	25,300			3rd	11	+11	^[10]
7	16:00			1-1	16,600			5th	12	+11	^[11]
8	19:00			3-0	19,600			3rd	15	+14	^[12]
9	16:00			1-1	8,000			3rd	16	+14	^[13]
10	16:30			2-4	5,200			4th	16	+12	^[14]
11	18:30			1-1	22,000			5th	17	+12	^[15]
12	16:30			0-2	26,300			5th	17	+10	^[16]
13	16:00			2-1	5,000			5th	20	+11	^[17]
14	14:00			0-1	17,200			5th	20	+10	^[18]
15	16:30			1-2	15,000			5th	20	+9	^[19]
16	16:30			1-2	26,200			5th	20	+8	^[20]
17	20:30			1-1	3,000			7th	21	+8	^[21]
18	16:00			1-0	14,200			5th	24	+9	^[22]
19	14:00			3-1	15,700			5th	27	+11	^[23]
20	16:30			1-3	7,200			5th	27	+9	^[24]
21	16:30			1-1	15,577			5th	28	+9	^[25]
22	18:30			0-0	17,300			5th	29	+9	^[26]
23	16:00			1-2	4,350			5th	29	+8	^[27]
24	16:30			0-1	23,200			5th	29	+7	^[28]
25	16:30			1-2	15,329			6th	29	+6	^[29]
26	16:00			1-1	19,600			7th	30	+6	^[30]
27	16:00			1-1	7,627			7th	31	+6	^[31]
28	16:00			0-3	6,200			7th	31	+3	^[32]
29	18:30			3-0	20,200			6th	34	+6	^[33]
30	16:30			0-2	26,100			6th	34	+4	^[34]
31	16:30			2-3	5,300			7th	34	+3	^[35]
32	18:30			4-0	18,600			6th	37	+7	^[36]
33	16:00			0-1	15,900			6th	37	+6	^[37]
34	16:30			1-0	23,300			6th	40	+7	^[38]
35	16:30			3-1	9,000			6th	43	+9	^[39]
36	16:30			2-1	20,200			5th	46	+10	^[40]

Results summary

Austrian Cup

Austrian Cup review

In a curious turn of events, Rapid played all of its first three games in the Austrian Cup in the Sportklub Stadium in Vienna as neither the home grounds of the opponents had the infrastructure to host the game and the venue of the Linzer Stadion, where Blau-Weiß Linz initially wanted to move, was already occupied at the time with hosting the 2016 World Karate Championships.

Austrian Cup fixtures and results

Round	Date		Opponent			Goalscorers and disciplined players
						Rapid Wien	Opponent
	8 July 2016 19:30	A	FC Karabakh Wien	3-1	4,000		Kara	^[41]
	21 September 2016 18:00			1-0	3,200			^[42]
	26 October 2016 20:15			4-0	3,974			^[43]
	5 April 2017 20:30			3-1	6,700			^[44]
	26 April 2017 20:30		LASK	2-1	18,200			^[45]
	1 June 2017 20:30		RB Salzburg	1-2	20,300			^[46]

Europa League

Europa League review

Rapid entered the Europa League in the 3rd qualifying round and qualified for the group stage after knocking out Torpedo Zhodino and AS Trenčín. Rapid was drawn into group F to compete against Athletic Bilbao, K.R.C. Genk and US Sassuolo Calcio and did not qualify for the knockout stage.

Qualifying rounds

Leg	Date		Opponent				Goalscorers and disciplined players
							Rapid Wien	Opponent
Third qualifying round
	28 July 2016 19:00		Torpedo Zhodino	0-0	-	4,000			^[47]
	4 August 2016 21:05		Torpedo Zhodino	3-0	3-0	18,600			^[48]
Play-off round
	18 August 2016 21:05		AS Trenčín	4-0	-	4,065			^[49]
	25 August 2016 21:05		AS Trenčín	0-2	4-2	21,200			^[50]

Group stage

Fixtures and results

	Date		Opponent			Goalscorers and disciplined players		Table
						Rapid Wien	Opponent
1	15 September 2016 19:00	H	Genk	3-2	21,800			2nd	3	^[51]
2	29 September 2016 21:05	A	Athletic Bilbao	0-1	35,000			3rd	3	^[52]
3	20 October 2016 21:05	H	Sassuolo	1-1	22,200			3rd	4	^[53]
4	3 November 2016 19:00	A	Sassuolo	2-2	7,838			3rd	5	^[54]
5	24 November 2016 21:05	A	Genk	0-1	10,000			3rd	5	^[55]
6	8 December 19:00	H	Athletic Bilbao	1-1	21,500			3rd	6	^[56]

Team record

Competition	First match	Last match	Record
Bundesliga	23 July	28 May
ÖFB Cup	8 July	1 June
Europa League	28 July	8 December
Total

Squad

Squad statistics

		Name		League		Austrian Cup		Europa League		Total		Discipline
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1				4		2		5		11
21				15		2		1		18
30				17		2		4		23
Defenders
3				20+2	4	2+1	1	7		29+3	5	2
4				22+4		5		9+1	1	36+5	1	5	1
6				17+3	2	1		3		21+3	2	5		1
17				26	1	4		9		39	1	4
20				16+3		3		3+1		22+4		4
22				28	1	5	1	7	1	40	3	3
24				15+3		3+2		2+1		20+6		2
25				1						1		1
38				9+2				2		11+2
39				9+2		3+1	1	2		14+3	1	3
Midfielders
7				4+1		1		2+2		7+3
8				27	5	4+1	2	6+1	2	37+2	9	7
10				26+2	5	3	1	9+1	5	38+3	11	4
11				7+8	2	3+1	1	0+3		10+12	3	2
16				2+7	2	0+2		1		3+9	2
18				18+11	5	5		1+3		24+14	5
23				14+8	3	1+2		7+1		22+11	3	1
26				11+3		2		7+1		20+4		7	1
27				8		1+1				9+1		2
29				19+7	3	5+1	2	5+2		29+10	5	3
36				0+2		0+1				0+3
41				1+1						1+1
Forwards
9				5+5		1+2	1	1+3	1	7+10	2	3
13				17+9	7	3+1	1	0+5	1	20+15	9	8
28				0+2	1			1		1+2	1	1
34				26+7	8	3+2	3	9+1	2	38+10	13	9	1
43				0+1						0+1
Players who left after the start of the season
15				12+8	2	2		7+2		21+10	2	6		1
31 / 99				0+2				0+1		0+3

Goal scorers

Name	width=100	Bundesliga	width=100	Cup	width=100	Europa League	width=100	Total
	8	3	2	13
	5	1	5	11
	7	1	1	9
	5	2	2	9
	3	2		5
	4	1		5
	5			5
	2	1		3
	1	1	1	3
	3			3
	2			2
		1	1	2
	2			2
	2			2
	1			1
	1			1
			1	1
		1		1
Own goals
Omar Colley (Genk)			1	1
Nedeljko Malić (Mattersburg)	1			1
Totals	52	14	14	80

Disciplinary record

Name	Bundesliga			Cup			Europa League			Total
	7	1					2			9	1
	5	1					2			7	1
	4			2			2			8
	4		1				2			6		1
	5			1			1			7
	4		1				1			5		1
	4	1					1			5	1
	1			1			2			4
	4									4
	2						2			4
	1			1			2			4
	2						1			3
	1			1			1			3
	2			1						3
	1						2			3
	1						1			2
	1						1			2
	1			1						2
	2									2
	1									1
	1									1
	1									1
Totals	54	3	2	7			21			82	3	2

Transfers

In

		Name	Age	Moved from	Type	Transfer Window	Contract ends	Transfer fee
3	DF	Christoph Schößwendter		Admira Wacker Mödling	End of contract	Summer	2019	Free	^[57]
23	MF	Arnór Ingvi Traustason		IFK Norrköping	Transfer	Summer	2020	€1,900,000	^[58]
16	MF	Philipp Malicsek		Admira Wacker Mödling	Transfer	Summer	2019	Undisclosed	^[59]
34	FW	Joelinton		TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	Loan	Summer	2018	€600,000	^[60]
99	FW	Maximilian Entrup		Floridsdorfer AC	Transfer	Summer	2019	Undisclosed	^[61]
26	MF	Ivan Močinić		HNK Rijeka	Transfer	Summer	2020	€2,000,000	^[62]
13	FW	Giorgi Kvilitaia		Dinamo Tbilisi	Transfer	Summer	2020	€700,000	^[63]
27	MF	Andreas Kuen		Floridsdorfer AC	Loan return	Winter	2018

Out

		Name	Age	Moved to	Type	Transfer Window	Transfer fee
5	MF	Thanos Petsos		Werder Bremen	End of Contract	Summer	Free
33	FW	Deni Alar		Sturm Graz	End of Contract	Summer	Free
36	DF	Michael Schimpelsberger		Wacker Innsbruck	End of Contract	Summer	Free
14	MF	Florian Kainz		Werder Bremen	Transfer	Summer	€3,500,000	^[64]
23	DF	Stefan Stangl		Red Bull Salzburg	Transfer	Summer	€1,600,000	^[65]
38	FW	Philipp Prosenik		Wolfsberger AC	Loan	Summer
27	MF	Andreas Kuen		Floridsdorfer AC	Loan	Summer
19	MF	Stefan Nutz		SV Ried	Transfer	Summer	Free
31	FW	Maximilian Entrup		SKN St. Pölten	Loan	Winter
15	MF	Srđan Grahovac		FC Astana	Loan	Winter		^[66]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Rapid feuert Trainer Büskens und Sportdirektor Müller. kurier.at. 11 November 2016. büskensmüllersack. German.
2. Web site: Fünf Fakten zum neuen Rapid-Trainer Canadi. kurier.at. 11 November 2016. 11 November 2016. canadimanager. German.
3. Web site: Offiziell: Bickel wird Rapid-Sportdirektor. kurier.at. 11 December 2016. German.
4. Web site: Offiziell: Rapid beurlaubt Trainer Damir Canadi. kurier.at. 9 April 2017. canadisack. German.
5. Web site: Rapid Wien vs. SV Ried 5-0. soccerway. 23 July 2016.
6. Web site: Rheindorf Altach vs. Rapid Wien 1-0. soccerway. 31 July 2016.
7. Web site: Austria Wien vs. Rapid Wien 1-4. soccerway.com. 7 August 2016.
8. Web site: Rapid Wien vs. Admira 4-0. soccerway.com. 13 August 2016.
9. Web site: Wolfsberger AC vs. Rapid Wien 1-1. soccerway.com. 21 August 2016.
10. Web site: Rapid Wien vs. Salzburg 0-0. soccerway.com. 28 August 2016.
11. Web site: Sturm Graz vs. Rapid Wien 1-1. soccerway.com. 10 September 2016.
12. Web site: Rapid Wien vs. Mattersburg 3-0. soccerway.com. 18 September 2016.
13. Web site: St. Pölten vs. Rapid Wien 1-1. soccerway.com. 25 September 2016.
14. Web site: Ried vs. Rapid Wien 4-2. soccerway.com. 2 October 2016.
15. Web site: Rapid Wien vs. Rheindorf Alach 1-1. soccerway.com. 15 October 2016.
16. Web site: Rapid Wien vs. Austria Wien 0-2. soccerway.com. 23 October 2016.
17. Web site: Admira vs. Rapid Wien 1-2. soccerway.com. 29 October 2016.
18. Web site: Rapid Wien vs. Wolfsberger AC 0-1. soccerway.com. 6 November 2016.
19. Web site: Salzburg vs. Rapid Wien 2-1. soccerway.com. 20 November 2016.
20. Web site: Rapid Wien vs. Sturm Graz 1-2. soccerway.com. 27 November 2016.
21. Web site: Mattersburg vs. Rapid Wien 1-1. soccerway.com. 30 November 2016.
22. Web site: Rapid Wien vs. St. Pölten 1-0. soccerway.com. 3 December 2016.
23. Web site: Rapid Wien vs. Ried 3-1. soccerway.com. 11 December 2016.
24. Web site: Rheindorf Altach vs. Rapid Wien 3-1. soccerway.com. 18 December 2016.
25. Web site: Austria Wien vs. Rapid Wien 1-1. soccerway.com. 12 February 2017.
26. Web site: Rapid Wien vs. Admira 0-0. soccerway.com. 18 February 2017.
27. Web site: Wolfsberger AC vs .Rapid Wien 2-1. soccerway.com. 26 February 2017.
28. Web site: Rapid Wien vs. Salzburg 0-1. soccerway.com. 6 March 2017.
29. Web site: Sturm Graz vs. Rapid Wien 2-1. soccerway.com. 12 March 2017.
30. Web site: Rapid Wien vs. Mattersburg 1-1. soccerway.com. 18 March 2017.
31. Web site: St. Pölten vs. Rapid Wien 1-1. soccerway.com. 1 April 2017.
32. Web site: Ried vs. Rapid Wien 3-0. soccerway.com. 8 April 2017.
33. Web site: Rapid Wien vs. Rheindorf Altach 3-0. soccerway.com. 15 April 2017.
34. Web site: Rapid Wien vs. Austria Wien 0-2. soccerway.com. 23 April 2017.
35. Web site: Admira vs. Rapid Wien 3-2. soccerway.com. 30 April 2017.
36. Web site: Rapid Wien vs. Wolfsberger AC 4-0. soccerway.com. 6 May 2017.
37. Web site: Salzburg vs. Rapid Wien 1-0. soccerway.com. 15 May 2017.
38. Web site: Rapid Wien vs. Sturm Graz 1-0. soccerway.com. 21 May 2017.
39. Web site: Mattersburg vs. Rapid Wien 1-3. soccerway.com. 25 May 2017.
40. Web site: Rapid Wien vs. St. Pölten 2-1. soccerway.com. 28 May 2017.
41. Web site: Karabakh vs. SK Rapid Wien. Soccerway. 8 July 2016. German.
42. Web site: Leobendorf vs. Rapid Wien 0-1. soccerway.com.
43. Web site: Blau-Weiß Linz vs. Rapid Wien 0-4. soccerway.com.
44. Web site: St. Pölten vs. Rapid Wien 1-3. soccerway.com.
45. Web site: Rapid Wien vs. LASK 2-1. soccerway.com.
46. Web site: Rapid Wien vs. Salzburg 1-2. soccerway.com.
47. Web site: Torpedo Zhodino vs. Rapid Wien 0-0. soccerway. 28 July 2016.
48. Web site: Rapid Wien vs. Torpedo Zhodino 3-0. soccerway.com. 4 August 2016.
49. Web site: Trencin vs. Rapid Wien 0-4. soccerway.com. 18 August 2016.
50. Web site: Rapid Wien vs. Trencin 0-2. soccerway.com. 25 August 2016.
51. Web site: Rapid Wien vs. Genk 3-2. soccerway.com. 15 September 2016.
52. Web site: Athletic Club vs. Rapid Wien 1-0. soccerway.com. 30 September 2016.
53. Web site: Rapid Wien vs. Sassuolo 1-1. soccerway.com. 21 October 2016.
54. Web site: Sassuolo vs. Rapid Wien 2-2. soccerway.com. 3 November 2016.
55. Web site: Genk vs. Rapid Wien 1-0. soccerway.com. 24 November 2016.
56. Web site: Rapid Wien vs. Athletic Club 1-1. soccerway.com. 8 December 2016.
57. News: Schösswendter kehrt zu Rapid zurück. 21 May 2016. 14 April 2016. German.
58. News: Transfer von Arnor Traustason zu Rapid fix. 21 May 2016. 12 May 2016. German.
59. News: Rapid verpflichtet Admiras Malicsek. 16 June 2016. 16 June 2016. German.
60. News: 300.000 Euro für TSG: Joelinton zu Rapid Wien. 23 June 2016. 23 June 2016. German.
61. News: Rapid kauft FAC-Talent Entrup. 24 June 2016. 24 June 2016. German.
62. News: Rapid bestätigt Verpflichtung von Mocinic. 17 July 2016. 17 July 2016. German.
63. News: Rapid vermeldet Verpflichtung von Kvilitaia. 4 August 2016. 4 August 2016. German.
64. News: Baumanns Verwunderung mit Folgen: Werder holt Kainz. 17 June 2016. 17 June 2016. German.
65. News: Rapid verkauft Stangl an Salzburg. 30 June 2016. 30 June 2016. German.
66. News: Rapid verleiht Grahovac nach Astana. 16 March 2017. 16 March 2016. German.