FC Wacker Innsbruck

After a few years playing friendlies against other Innsbruck sides, the club was put on hiatus until 1918 because of the interruption of the First World War.On 20 July 1971, FC Wacker Innsbruck and SV Wattens, also playing in Austrian first division, merged to form a single team called SpG Swarovski Wattens-Innsbruck (SSW Innsbruck) in order to focus the football power of Tyrol better.The union applied only to the professional footballers – the junior sides of both teams carried on as part of their original clubs.SSW Innsbruck won the Austrian Championship five times and reached the quarterfinals in the 1977–78 European Cup.In the same year the FC Swarovski was dissolved and Wacker regained the Bundesliga license and access to the 1992–93 UEFA Cup.
Historical chart of FC Wacker Innsbruck league performance (incl. mergers and successor clubs)
FC Wacker Innsbruck (2002)Home coloursAustrian association footballInnsbruckBundesligaSV Wattens1977–78 European CupFC Swarovski Tirol1992–93 UEFA CupFC Tirol InnsbruckAustrian Bundesliga1970–711971–721972–731974–751976–77Austrian Cup1992–93Mitropa CupUEFA Cup Winners' CupPartizaniReal MadridEuropean CupBenficaDynamo Kyiv1973–74CSKA SofiaUEFA CupBorussia M'Gladbach1975–76IK StartVideoton1977–78CelticBorussia Mönchengladbach1978–79UEFA Cup Winner's CupZagłębie SosnowiecIpswich Town1979–80FC Lokomotíva Košice1983–84FC Koln1984–851985–86RFC LiegeOtto BarićBranko ElsnerGeorg KeßlerJohann EigenstillerLajos BarótiPeter VelhornFranz WolnyHeinz BinderCor BromWerner SchwarzFelix LatzkeWalter Skocik