UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2017/18 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Ernst-Happel-Stadion - Vienna Thursday 19 October 2017 21.05CET (21.05 local time) FK Austria Wien Group D - Matchday 3 HNK Rijeka Last updated 20/12/2017 00:50CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 3 Team facts 4 Squad list 6 Fixtures and results 9 Match-by-match lineups 13 Match officials 16 Legend 17 1 FK Austria Wien - HNK Rijeka Thursday 19 October 2017 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna Previous meetings Head to Head No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams FK Austria Wien - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-1 24/08/2017 PO FK Austria Wien - NK Osijek St Polten Boban 62 agg: 2-2 ag Ejupi 15; Monschein 17/08/2017 PO NK Osijek - FK Austria Wien 1-2 Osijek 26, Holzhauser 60 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Mader 5, Kienast 82; FK Austria Wien - GNK Dinamo 2-3 Brozović 33, 27/08/2013 PO Vienna Zagreb agg: 4-3 Fernandes 43, Bećiraj 70 GNK Dinamo Zagreb - FK Leovac 68, Stankovic 21/08/2013 PO 0-2 Zagreb Austria Wien 75 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-1 HNK Hajduk Split - FK Austria Cop 21; Daxbacher 15/03/1978 QF agg: 2-2 (aet, 0- Split Wien 56 3pens) FK Austria Wien - HNK Hajduk 02/03/1978 QF 1-1 Vienna Parits 61; Šurjak 66 Split HNK Rijeka - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-0 02/08/2017 QR3 HNK Rijeka - FC Salzburg Rijeka agg: 1-1 ag Hwang 49; 26/07/2017 QR3 FC Salzburg - HNK Rijeka 1-1 Salzburg Gavranović 30 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FK Austria Wien 3 0 1 2 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 2 2 2 8 7 HNK Rijeka 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 1 2 FK Austria Wien - HNK Rijeka Thursday 19 October 2017 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna Match background Austria Wien have been in poor form in recent UEFA home matches but will look to secure a rare win as Rijeka come calling in UEFA Europa League Group D. Previous meetings • These sides are meeting for the first time. • Austria's record in six encounters with Croatian teams is W2 D2 L2, but they have yet to win at home to a Croatian club (D1 L2). • Rijeka met Austrian opposition for the first time in this season's UEFA Champions League third qualifying round, drawing 1-1 away and 0-0 at home against Salzburg – and winning the tie on away goals. Form guide • Austria Wien are without a win in six European home games (D2 L4). • Rijeka are on a four-match European losing streak, and are winless in six UEFA fixtures (D2 L4). • Last season's Austrian Bundesliga runners-up, Austria Wien have not survived their last five UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League group stage campaign; they reached the quarter-finals of the 2004/05 competition. • Croatian title winners for the first time last term, Rijeka are in their third UEFA Europa League group stage campaign – but have yet to reach the knockout phase. Trivia and links • The journey from Rijeka to Vienna is around 350km. • Rijeka midfielder Alexander Gorgon joined the club from Austria Wien in 2016, having been with his home-town team since he was a teenager. He helped them win the Austrian league and reach the cup final in 2012/13. • Austria Wien have a Croatian player, Marko Pejić, the former Dinamo Zagreb trainee having signed after spells with Sesvete (2014) and Hajduk Split (2015–16) in his homeland. • Misses next match if booked: Filip Bradarić (Rijeka). The coaches • Austria Wien coach since 2015, Thorsten Fink won the 2001 UEFA Champions League and several Bundesliga titles as a Bayern midfielder, and secured back-to-back Swiss championships as coach of Basel from 2009–11. • Rijeka's longest-serving coach, Slovenian Matjaž Kek was hired in 2013 and steered the team to their first league championship and fourth Croatian Cup in 2016/17. A defender and coach at Maribor, where his father and son also played, he was Slovenia boss from 2007–11. 3 FK Austria Wien - HNK Rijeka Thursday 19 October 2017 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna Team facts FK Austria Wien Formed: 1911 Nickname: Die Veilchen (The Violets) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: (1978) Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 24 (2013) Austrian Cup: 27 (2009) Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup unless indicated otherwise) 2016/17: group stage 2015/16: did not take part in UEFA competition 2014/15: did not take part in UEFA competition 2013/14: UEFA Champions League group stage 2012/13: did not take part in UEFA competition 2011/12: group stage 2010/11: play-offs 2009/10: group stage 2008/09: first round 2007/08: group stage Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 10-0: Austria Wien v Aris Bonnevoie 28/09/83, UEFA Cup first round second leg • Biggest away win 0-5: Aris Bonnevoie v Austria Wien 14/09/83, UEFA Cup first round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 1-5 twice, most recently v AC Milan 14/09/17, UEFA Europa League group stage 0-4: Austria Wien v Juventus 24/10/90, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup second round first leg • Heaviest away defeat 7-0: Beroe Stara Zagora v Austria Wien 13/09/72, UEFA Cup first round first leg UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup • Biggest home win 10-0: Austria Wien v Aris Bonnevoie (see above) • Biggest away win 0-5: Aris Bonnevoie v Austria Wien (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 1-5: Austria Wien v AC Milan (see above) • Heaviest away defeat 7-0: Beroe Stara Zagora v Austria Wien (see above) HNK Rijeka Formed: 1946 Nickname: Riječki bijeli (Rijeka Whites) UEFA club competition honours • None Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) Domestic title: 1 (2017) National cup: 6 (2017) 4 FK Austria Wien - HNK Rijeka Thursday 19 October 2017 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup unless indicated otherwise) 2016/17: third qualifying round 2015/16: second qualifying round 2014/15: group stage 2013/14: group stage 2012/13: did not take part in UEFA competition 2011/12: did not take part in UEFA competition 2010/11: did not take part in UEFA competition 2009/10: third qualifying round 2008/09: UEFA Intertoto Cup first round 2007/08: did not take part in UEFA competition Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 5-0: Rijeka v Prestatyn Town 18/07/13, UEFA Europa League second qualifying round first leg • Biggest away win 1-5: The New Saints v Rijeka 18/07/17, UEFA Champions League second qualifying round second leg 1-5: Vikingur v Rijeka 31/07/14, UEFA Europa League second qualifying round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-3: Rijeka v Aberdeen 16/07/15, UEFA Europa League second qualifying round first leg 0-3: Rijeka v Partizan 04/08/99, UEFA Champions League second qualifying round second leg • Heaviest away defeat 4-0: Vitória Guimarães v Rijeka 19/09/13, UEFA Europa League group stage UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup • Biggest home win 5-0: Rijeka v Prestatyn Town (see above) • Biggest away win 1-5: Vikingur v Rijeka (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 0-3: Rijeka v Aberdeen (see above) • Heaviest away defeat 4-0: Vitória Guimarães v Rijeka (see above) 5 FK Austria Wien - HNK Rijeka Thursday 19 October 2017 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna Squad list FK Austria Wien Current season All-time QUAL UEL League UEL UEFA No. Player Nat. DoB Age D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Goalkeepers 1 Robert Almer AUT 20/03/1984 33 - - - - - - - 5 - 16 - 31 Osman Hadžikić AUT 12/03/1996 21 - 4 - 1 - 8 - 6 - 11 - 32 Patrick Pentz AUT 02/01/1997 20 - - - 1 - 3 - 1 - 1 - 33 Valerian Hüttner AUT 23/01/2001 16 - - - - - - - - - - - 38 Dominik Krischke AUT 21/05/1998 19 - - - - - - - - - - - 99 Mirko Kos AUT 12/04/1997 20 - - - - - - - - - - - Defenders 2 Petar Gluhakovic AUT 25/03/1996 21 - - - 1 - 3 - 1 - 1 - 3 Marco Stark AUT 05/01/1993 24 - - - - - - - - - - - 4 Ruan BRA 14/01/1994 23 - - - - - 1 - - - - - 6 Abdul Kadiri Mohammed GHA 07/03/1996 21 - 3 - 2 - 8 - 2 - 5 - 17 Florian Klein AUT 17/11/1986 30 - - - 2 - 5 1 19 - 40 1 18 Heiko Westermann GER 14/08/1983 34 - 4 - 1 - 7 - 9 1 26 1 19 Michael Blauensteiner AUT 11/02/1995 22 - - - - - - - - - - - 24 Alexandar Borkovic AUT 11/06/1999 18 - 1 - 1 1 2 - 1 1 2 1 25 Thomas Salamon AUT 18/01/1989 28 - 1 - - - 7 - 1 - 2 - 29 Marko Pejić CRO 24/02/1995 22 - - - - - - - - - 5 - 30 Stefan Jonovic AUT 08/02/1996 21 - - - - - - - - - - - 41 Lukas Prokop AUT 26/04/1999 18 - - - - - - - - - - - Midfielders 5 Vesel Demaku AUT 05/02/2000 17 - - - - - - - - - - - 7 Ismael Tajouri-Shradi AUT 28/03/1994 23 - 4 - 1 1 10 - 7 1 15 1 10 Alexander Grünwald AUT 01/05/1989 28 - 2 - - - 3 - 10 3 23 5 15 Tarkan Serbest AUT 02/05/1994 23 - 4 - 2 - 8 - 8 - 18 - 16 Dominik Prokop AUT 02/06/1997 20 - 3 - 2 - 9 1 5 1 9 1 21 Jinhyun Lee KOR 26/08/1997 20 - - - 2 - 5 1 2 - 2 - 23 David De Paula ESP 03/05/1984 33 - 4 - 2 - 10 - 3 - 12 - 26 Raphael Holzhauser AUT 16/02/1993 24 - 4 2 2 - 9 4 15 3 25 6 28 Christoph Martschinko AUT 13/02/1994 23 - 4 - 2 - 8 - 7 - 19 1 34 Denis Adamov AUT 16/05/1999 18 - - - - - - - - - - - 37 David Cancola AUT 23/10/1996 20 - 1 - - - 1 - - - 1 - 42 Florian Hainka AUT 08/04/1998 19 - - - - - - - - - - - 95 Felipe Pires BRA 18/04/1995 22 - 4 1 2 - 11 3 10 - 22 3 Forwards 8 Ibrahim Alhassan Abdullahi NGA 03/11/1996 20 - - - 1 - 4 1 1 - 1 - 9 Kevin Friesenbichler