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

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club from the Viennese

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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 most recent 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 Vienna. During the course of the 1990s, the club competed several times in the second league, ending in 4th place in the 1992/93 season and 6th in the 1996/96 season. Then in the early 2000s the club fell all the way down to the fifth tier of Austrian football. FavAC Performance Graph

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 *

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* Hans Pirkner * Josef Sara * Robert Sara * Fred Schaub *

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* Gerhard Bronner (as a youth player) * Stevica Zdravković

External links

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Official website
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