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Vienna Quidditch team achieves historic 8th place at the 2025 World Cup!
Austria's national team achieved 8th place out of 31 teams at the 2025 Quadball World Cup in Brussels. Success story in Quidditch.
Vienna Quidditch team achieves historic 8th place at the 2025 World Cup!
Viennese teams report back impressively: The Austrian national team at the Quadball/Quidditch World Cup 2025 has made history! From July 11th to 13th, 2025, the team competed in Tubize near Brussels and took an excellent 8th place out of a total of 31 participating nations. This is the best result in the history of Austrian quadball.
In an exciting start, the team defeated Canada as underdogs and thus set an example. The overall victory of the European team Belgium, which secured the World Cup title for the first time, was particularly pleasing Gazette du Sorcier highlights. Austria's success is part of an exciting episode in international Quidditch.
Team composition and training
The Austrian team is made up of talented players from several federal states: Innsbruck, Linz, Salzburg, Graz as well as three Viennese clubs - the Vienna Vanguards and the Danube Direwolves. The focus of the team members was less on the pure competition and more on the fun of the game, which is particularly popular in the Quidditch community.
Weekly training supports the preparation for such challenging tournaments. The Vienna Vanguards train on Mondays from 8:15 p.m. to 9:45 p.m. and Thursdays from 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the FC 1980 Wien Pitch in the 10th district. The Danube Direwolves meet on Fridays between 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. and Sundays from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in the Union trend sports center USZ Prater in the 2nd district.
International context
The Quadball World Championship, held by the International Quadball Association, has continued to evolve since its inception in London in 2012. In the latest edition, 31 teams took part, including a team from Africa for the first time. In international comparison, the other competitors are aiming to beat the USA, which won the world championship title in Florence in 2018.
The triumphs and challenges for the teams are many. France, which is in 4th place in the current international ranking, also has a good chance of winning a medal and fought against Austria, England, Mexico and India in the preliminary round. Teams also have to adapt to weather conditions and the time difference, which brings additional pressure.
For the Austrian players, this World Cup was not only a sporting challenge, but also an opportunity to present themselves internationally and share their love of the game. All teams are concerned with optimizing team cohesion and player rotation in order to be successful against highly competitive teams.
Overall, Austria showed at the Quadball/Quidditch World Cup 2025 that it is becoming more and more established in international sport. Another chapter in the history of Quidditch is being written, and hope remains for even better placings in the future.