Admira Juniors or Admira II is the under 23 reserve team of FC Admira Wacker Mödling, a club with a proud record of producing their own players before moving on for transfer fees to create a self-sustainable club.
Click here to read about parent club FC Admira Wacker Mödling and my visit to their stadium.
The team first competed in the third tier Regionalliga Ost in 2003-04, finishing towards the wrong end of the table on a couple of occasions before fifth place was achieved in 2005-06. However, Admira II ended in the relegation places in 2006-07.
As it transpired the side would have had to drop down anyway as Admira Wacker senior team were also relegated to the same division at the same time. However, they were given a helping hand by Richard Trenkwalder, president of Erste Liga club ASK Schwadorf.
He moved his club to Mödling and changed their title to FC Trenkwalder Admira. They took the second tier place of Schwadorf. This allowed the junior set up to continue and play in Regionalliga Ost as FC Trenkwalder Admira Kampfmannschaft II in 2007-08.
The team ended in eighth place in 2008-09 before going on to runners-up the following season prior to a mid table slot and then a scrape with relegation in 2011-12 and then bouncing back to fourth place in 2012-13 with Maximilian Sax top scoring.
Further seasons around the middle of the table ensued while the Trenkwalder moniker was dropped. Fifth place in the ten team division came in 2017-18 as Rene Kriwak heading the goal charts.
Marco Hausjell’s goals took Admira Juniors to tenth place in 2018-19 of the extended competition before the side were placed one off the bottom in 2019-20 before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic finished the season.
Admira Juniors will play in Regionalliga Ost in the 2020-21 season.
My visit
Admira Juniors 1 ASV Draßburg 2 (Sunday 8th March 2020) Regionalliga Ost (att: 115)
My Sunday afternoon action took me south of the capital to Maria Enzersdorf after I’d enjoyed the morning match at Slovan HAC, a wonderful walk through Schönbrunner Schlosspark and then a bite to eat outside Meidling station.
The WLB train had delivered me at the home of SV Wienerberg and then onwards to Maria Enzersdorf Südstadt station. I’d fully expected my match to be taking place inside the main BSFZ-Arena but the sight of players warming up on an outside pitch the training ground didn’t inspire me with much hope.
I managed to get inside the stadium for a look and photos. Perhaps the pitch had suffered some wear and tear after the previous evening’s Bundesliga encounter between the first team of Admira and SCR Altach.
On my way round to the match a seemingly disgruntled groundhopper who I’d seen at my morning match went wandering towards the station. There was always the traffic on the raised fast moving Triester Straße above the far side to keep me entertained or I could always clear off if it wasn’t up to much.
As it turns out Stadion BSFZ Südstadt was a decent enough venue. Yes, it had a running track around the pitch, but that was compensated by way of a large sports centre down one side which had a raised stepped viewing area upstairs under a cover as well as standing being available just above pitch level.
A smattering of supporters stood on the far side without any hassle, although there was just a flat path all the way around behind the rail fence. Admission was free, which was an obvious bonus with food and refreshments available.
Draßburg travelled the thirty miles north with quite a few fans to cheer them on the side sat in eleventh place before kick off. The opening minutes of the game offered little in the way of goal mouth action.
The hosts went ahead when midfielder Maximilian Eksler went on a powerful run and then laying off the ball to a colleague who fed Aleksandar Cirkovic wide on the left. His cross was headed against the bar by Eksler for Rene Hellermann to control the rebound with what looked like his arm before netting from close range.
A counter attack saw Admira’s Luca Kronberger try a spectacular bicycle kick that went across the face of the goal of keeper Lukas Stifter. Referee Ahmet Hromalic was not making many friends among the visiting contingent with some contentious decision making.
The hosts under coach Csaba Szanto seemed to be the more incisive side using their pace to good effect. Noel Kustor missed a good opportunity to equalise when left free in the box from a corner but he put his header over the bar ten minutes short of the interval.
The same player was denied by a brilliant low save from Christoph Haas to keep out a header on forty minutes. However, the stopper completely missed his kick when receiving a back pass, bringing down Draßburg’s Lukas Kornholz in the process.
Referee Hromalic wasn’t having any of it. It was at this point I decided that I wanted the away team to win. There weren’t getting any borderline decisions. Coach Franz Lederer wasn’t the happiest man in town and quite rightly so.
At the break the visitors used the changing rooms under the terracing while Admira’s lads wandered off to use the main stadium changing rooms. I went for a wander around the pitch to take photos. I can be seen here at 1:07:40 on the coverage.
Draßburg went perilously close to levelling things five minutes after the break when an inswinging corner from Kornholz was headed back across goal by Dejan Cosic for Kustor to see his flicked header hacked off the line.
They weren’t to be denied shortly after when a pinpoint cross from Marco Anderst was headed home by an unmarked Kornholz. Petar Melezovic should have probably headed Draßburg ahead but he found the sound netting from another excellent Kornholz delivery.
I’m not sure whether some advice was offered at half time, but the refereeing seemed far more equal handed after the resumption. Admira were spurned by an excellent point blank block by Sifter to deny substitute Daniel Weber with fifteen minutes remaining.
Admira found another gear for a short spell and looked the more likely of the sides to score. Then Draßburg responded. Man of the match Kornholz fired in a low bending free kick which Haas did well to keep out at the foot of the post on eighty three minutes.
Three minutes later yet another Kornholz corner was met at the near post by Cosic. His header came back off the far post where right back and captain Holger Knartz was on hand to put away the rebound.
That was just about that. The visitors soaked up three free kicks comfortably enough to claim the points. It was just about the correct result. Admira started well but Draßburg worked them out and played very well after the break.
That should have been it football wise for me. I was half tempted by the encounter between DSG ISG Stammtisch and DSG Salzachsturm in the second tier of the Diocesan Sports Community competition at Dynamo Helfort but the weather was drawing in and I was tired after the walking I’d earlier enjoyed.
As I stood on the platform back at the station, I noticed a set of modern floodlights not too far away. Indeed, they were close to the next stop down. It wasn’t planned but I was glad that I made the effort to go to take photos at the home of 1.SV Wiener Neudorf.
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