2022–23 SK Rapid Wien season explained

Updated:	3 June 2023
Club:	Rapid Wien
Season:	2022–23
Chrtitle:	Chairman
Chairman:	Martin Bruckner (until 26 November) Alexander Wrabetz
Mgrtitle:	Head coach
Manager:	Ferdinand Feldhofer (until 15 October) Zoran Barisic
Stadium:	Allianz Stadion
League:	Austrian Football Bundesliga
League Result:	4th (championship round) 4th (regular season)
Cup1:	Austrian Cup
Cup1 Result:	Runner-up
Cup2:	Conference League
Cup2 Result:	Play-off round
League Topscorer:	Guido Burgstaller (21 goals)
Season Topscorer:	Guido Burgstaller (25 goals)
Highest Attendance:	26,000 vs. FK Austria Wien, 9th October 2022, 16th April 2023
Lowest Attendance:	12,800 vs. Austria Klagenfurt, 9th April 2023
Average Attendance:	18,100
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Prevseason:	2021–22
Nextseason:	2023–24

The 2022–23 season is the 125th season in the existence of SK Rapid Wien and the club's 74th consecutive season in the top flight of Austrian football. In addition to the domestic league, Rapid Wien will participate in this season's edition of the Austrian Cup and enters international football in the second qualifying round to the UEFA Europa Conference League having won the previous Bundesliga seasons ECL play-offs.

Squad

Squad statistics

		Name		League		Austrian Cup		UEFA Competitions		Total		Discipline
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
21
25				1		1				2		1
45				31		5		6		42
Defenders
2				8+2		1+1				9+3		2		1
4						1		2		3
6				8+2		4	1	6		18+2	1	5		1
17				2		0+1				2+1
19				24		5	1	1		30	1	3		1
20				4+2		1		3+1		8+3		4
22				14+4		1+2		4+1		19+7		4
23				25+3		4+1		3+2		32+6		8
26				14+7		3		1+1		18+8		2		1
43				21+2	1	1+1		0+1		22+4	1	2		1
Midfielders
5				23+5	2	4+1	1	1+2		28+8	3	9
7				12+8	3	3		4+2	1	19+10	4	2
8				7+5		2+2		0+1		9+8		1
13				13+12		3+2		4+2		20+16		11
14				24+2		5		4+1		33+3		15
16				2+2						2+2		1
24				17+11	1	4+2		3+1		24+14	1	3
28				7+5		1+2		3+1		11+8		3
34				2+1				1+2		3+3		1
Forwards
9				27+4	21	6	3	6	1	39+4	25	6
10				1	1	1		1+2		3+2	1	1
18				7+7	4	1+2				8+9	4	4
27				25+5	6	5+1	1	6	2	36+6	9	8
29				11+13	1	3+2	2	3+1		17+16	3	4	1
38				11+12	3	0+4	2	1+2	2	12+18	7	3
39				2+1		1		0+2		3+3
41				8+17	7	0+5	1	3+1		11+23	8	4
77				1+1				0+2		1+3

Goal scorers

Name	width=90	Bundesliga	width=90	Cup	width=90	International	width=90	Total
	21	3	1	25
Marco Grüll	6	1	2	9
	7	1		8
Ferdy Druijf	3	2	2	7
Nicolas Kühn	3		1	4
Oliver Strunz	4			4
Ante Bajic	1	2		3
	2	1		3
Yusuf Demir	1			1
Patrick Greil	1			1
	1			1
		1		1
Kevin Wimmer		1		1
Totals	50	12	6	68

Disciplinary record

Name	Bundesliga			Cup			International			Total
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Aleksa Pejić	8			3			4			15
Thorsten Schick	7			1			3			11
	8						1			9
Jonas Auer	7			1						8
Marco Grüll	6						2			8
Kevin Wimmer	4			1					1	5		1
	6									6
Ante Bajic	4	1								4	1
	2		1	1						3		1
	2			1			1			4
	2						2			4
Oliver Strunz	3			1						4
	4									4
Denso Kasius	2		1							2		1
Martin Moormann	2		1							2		1
			1	1			1			2		1
Ferdy Druijf	2			1						3
Patrick Greil	2			1						3
Moritz Oswald	2						1			3
Nicolas Kühn	1						1			2
Yusuf Demir							1			1
Paul Gartler	1									1
	1									1
Dejan Petrovič	1									1
							1			1
Totals	77	1	4	12			18		1	107	1	5

Transfers

In

		Name	Age	Moved from	Type	Transfer Window
MF		Roman Kerschbaum		FC Admira Wacker Mödling	Free transfer	Summer	^[1]
MF		Patrick Greil		SK Austria Klagenfurt	Free Transfer	Summer	^[2]
MF		Nicolas-Gerrit Kühn		FC Bayern Munich II	Transfer	Summer	^[3]
MF		Aleksa Pejić		FC Shakhtyor Soligorsk	Transfer	Summer	^[4]
DF		Michael Sollbauer		Dynamo Dresden	Free transfer	Summer	^[5]
MF		Ante Bajic		SV Ried	Transfer	Summer	^[6]
FW		Guido Burgstaller		FC St. Pauli	Transfer	Summer	^[7]
DF		Martin Koscelník		FC Slovan Liberec	Transfer	Summer	^[8]
DF		Denso Kasius		Bologna F.C. 1909	Loan	Winter	^[9]

Out

		Name	Age	Moved to	Type	Transfer Window
DF		Leo Greiml		FC Schalke 04	Free transfer	Summer	^[10]
MF		Kelvin Arase		Karlsruher SC	Free transfer	Summer	^[11]
MF		Philipp Schobesberger		SKU Amstetten	Free agent	Summer
MF		Srđan Grahovac		Çaykur Rizespor	Free transfer	Summer
MF		Dalibor Velimirovic		First Vienna FC	Free transfer	Summer
MF		Robert Ljubičić		GNK Dinamo Zagreb	Transfer	Summer
FW		Koya Kitagawa		Shimizu S-Pulse	Transfer	Summer	^[12]
MF		Benjamin Kanuric		Arminia Bielefeld	Transfer	Summer	^[13]
DF		Emanuel Aiwu		U.S. Cremonese	Transfer	Summer	^[14]
DF		Lukas Sulzbacher		WSG Tirol	Transfer	Summer
FW		René Kriwak		TSV Hartberg	Loan	Summer
FW		Yusuf Demir		Galatasaray S.K.	Transfer	Summer

Competitions

Austrian Football Bundesliga

See main article: 2022–23 Austrian Football Bundesliga.

Regular season

Matches

Championship round

Matches

Austrian Cup

See main article: 2022–23 Austrian Cup.

UEFA Europa Conference League

See main article: 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League.

Play-off round

Notes and References

1. Web site: Vertrag bis 2025 für den Wunschspieler: Kerschbaum wechselt zu Rapid . kurier.at . 20 July 2022 . German.
2. Web site: Jetzt ist es offiziell: Rapid verpflichtet Greil von Klagenfurt . kurier.at . 20 July 2022 . German.
3. Web site: Rapid verpflichtet Bayern-Talent: Nicolas Kühn wechselt nach Wien . kurier.at . 20 July 2022 . German.
4. Web site: Rapid hat einen neuen Sechser: Aleksa Pejic wechselt nach Wien . kurier.at . 20 July 2022 . German.
5. Web site: Noch ein Innenverteidiger: Rapid verbreitert mit Sollbauer den Kader . kurier.at . 20 July 2022 . German.
6. Web site: Wieder mit Grüll vereint: Rapid verpflichtet Rieds Besten Ante Bajic . kurier.at . 20 July 2022 . German.
7. Web site: Nun ist es fix, Guido Burgstaller ist ein Rapidler . kurier.at . 20 July 2022 . German.
8. Web site: Rapid kauft einen slowakischen Teamverteidiger mit EM-Erfahrung . kurier.at . 20 July 2022 . German.
9. Web site: Rapid holt Kasius: Katzer präsentiert seinen ersten Transfer . kurier.at . 26 January 2023 . German.
10. Web site: Abschied von Rapid Wien: Talent Leo Greiml wechselt zu Schalke 04 . kurier.at . 20 July 2022 . German.
11. Web site: Arases Abschied von Rapid: Deutschland statt USA oder Russland . kurier.at . 20 July 2022 . German.
12. Web site: Nach drei Jahren in Wien: Transfer-Flop Kitagawa verlässt Rapid . kurier.at . 20 July 2022 . German.
13. Web site: U-19-Teamspieler Kanuric wechselt von Rapid zu Arminia Bielefeld . kurier.at . 20 July 2022 . German.
14. Web site: Rapid verkauft Aiwu an Cremonese: "Wir können sehr zufrieden sein" . kurier.at . 5 August 2022 . German.