Vienna Quidditch team achieved a historic 8th place at the 2025 World Cup!

Vienna Quidditch team achieved a historic 8th place at the 2025 World Cup!

Brüssel, Belgien - Wiener teams come back impressively: The Austrian national team at the Quadball/Quidditch WorldCup 2025 wrote history! From July 11th to 13th, 2025, the team competed in Tubize near Brussels and took the excellent 8th place out of a total of 31 participating nations. This is the best result in the history of Austrian quad ball.

In an exciting start, the Canada team defeated as an outsider and set a sign. The overall victory of the European team Belgium was particularly gratifying, which for the first time secured the title at the WorldCup, such as Gazette du Sorcier . The success of Austria is therefore part of an exciting episode in the international quidditch.

team composition and training

The Austrian team is made up of talented players from several federal states: Innsbruck, Linz, Salzburg, Graz and three Viennese clubs - the Vienna Vanguards and the Danube Direwolves. The focus of the team members was less on the pure competition, but rather 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 FC 1980 Vienna 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 Sport Center USZ Prater in the 2nd district.

international context

The Quadball World Championship, held by the International Quadball Association, has steadily developed since its foundation in London in 2012. In the latest edition, 31 teams took part, including a team from Africa for the first time. In an international comparison, the other competitors strive to beat the United States, who won the world championship title in 2018 in Florence.

The triumph and challenges for the teams are diverse. France, which takes 4th place in the current international ranking, also has a good chance of a medal and fought in the preliminary round against Austria, England, Mexico and India. The teams also have to adapt to the 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 to share the love of the game. All teams are about optimizing team coachion and player profitation in order to be successful against strongly competing teams.

Overall, Austria showed the Quadball/Quidditch World Cup 2025 that it is becoming increasingly established in international sport. Another chapter in the history of the Quidditch is written, and the hope of even better placements in the future remains.