Austria Vienna starts the European Cup season with 2-0 victory!

Austria Vienna starts the European Cup season with 2-0 victory!

on Thursday evening, July 24, 2025, the Viennese Austria was able to look forward to a successful start to the new European Cup season. As part of the UEFA Conference League qualification, the team was able to defeat the Georgian Cup winner FC Spaeri 2-0 at the Franz Horr Stadium and gain a promising starting point for the second leg. Coach Stephan Helm was proud of the victory, but at the same time emphasized the importance of the other games.

The match grew high hopes among the spectators, and Austria started properly at the beginning. Led by a strong Dominik Fitz, who describes the team as dominant and opportunities from the start, the possibilities were numerous. In the 8th minute, Manfred Fischer scored the first goal. He joy with joy that it was his first European Cup goal for Austria after 17 games. A reason to celebrate, but the home side not only stayed happy with the goal in the first half: they awarded numerous other opportunities and met the aluminum three times. Here, Fischer and Fitz could not avoid practicing self -criticism and criticizing the defective opportunities of opportunities.

optimism despite the need to catch up

coach Helm left no doubt that the team had to tear themselves on the strap in the exploitation of opportunities in order to be successful in the next round. "More efficiency is needed," said Helm. Nevertheless, he remains optimistic and already looks at the upcoming challenges. In the 90th minute, Fitz then made the final decision when he converted a penalty to 2-0. Helm was relieved by the second goal, which now offers a comfortable basis for the second leg in Georgia.

The audience in the stadium was proud of the team's performance after the final whistle. Although Austria went into play as a favorite-after all, FC Spaeri as a second division from Tbilisa did not have the same name as the Viennese-the first match of the European Cup season was anything but a walk. Fischer appealed to the team to stay in the second leg and to bring the performance to the maximum to secure the rise in the European Cup.

For the team, it is an important step to exceed third place from the pre -season (which they took) at best. Now it is important to take the momentum from the victory into the second leg and to show that the Viennese Austria pursues great goals this season. Who knows, maybe in the end the big goal of a European Cup qualification is on the program.