TWL Elektra (Austria)

TWL Elektra

Ground: Rax-Platz

Capacity: 1,000

Club Founded: 1974

League: Wiener Stadtliga - 4th Tier (current level)

TWL Elektra is a football club based in Vienna, with a history of several mergers and name changes, while playing several seasons in the third tier of Austrian football.

The images on this page are of my visit to ASK Elektra at Elektra-Energie Wien Platz, unless otherwise labelled.

Club History

TWL Elektra is a football club based in Favoriten, Vienna, which came into being in time for the 2021-22 season, following a merger between SC Team Wiener Linien and Athletic Sportklub Koma (ASK) Elektra.

ASK Elektra

ASK Elektra was a football club based in the Leopoldstadt district of the capital, founded in 1921, when employees of the Engerthstrasse power plant formed Elektra Wien Sportverein. The team started out playing on a pitch where Kafkastraße is located today. 

In 1932, the club merged with fellow work sides E-Werkverein SC E-Werk IX and SC E-Werk XI to form the sports association of Wiener Elektrizitätswerke, with the football side being known as SC E-Werk Wien. This provided the club with three venues to play their home matches. Owing to the political situation, SC E-Werk was dissolved in 1935.

The club reformed under its previous name in 1945 and gathered enough players to gain membership of the 2. Wiener Klasse the following year. The team was renamed FS Elektra Vienna in 1948, heralding promotion and then becoming Wiener Stadtliga champions in 1949-50.

The success was followed by a couple of relegations before they claimed the Stadtliga title. When the league setup was restructured, the club remained in the second tier, playing in Regionalliga Ost. Wiener Neustädter SC pipped them to the league title in 1962-63.

A couple of relegations and promotions ensued, with Elektra going on to win the 1974-75 Wiener Liga title, which was the fourth tier of Austrian football. Another title followed in the early 80s to win promotion, before dropping down a level once more.

Meanwhile, another club, AS Koma, had been formed in 1984, starting out life competing in the Diocese Sports Association (DSG), and playing matches in Korneuburg, a few miles north of the capital. By 1984-85, Elektra had dropped further down the ladder, winning a couple of league titles.

The team dropped down to play in the fifth-tier Oberliga B by the 2007-08 campaign. Several seasons followed in the bottom third of the table before the championship was secured in 2013-14, after merging with multiple DSG champions, AS Koma, to form ASK Elektra, with Nico Binder finishing as top scorer.

In the Wiener Stadtliga, Elektra continued to improve under chief trainer Thomas Haretterat their Elektra-Energie Wien Platz home. They were league runners-up in 2016-17 with Arben Selmani as leading scorer. Alfred Niefergall took over as trainer as the team finished consistently near the top of the table.

SC Team Wiener Linien

SC Team Wiener Linien was formed in 1974 following a merger of second-tier sides, SV Straßenbahn and SC Gaswerk, although it began life as Gaswerk/Straßenbahn. Gaswerk had a proud history from its formation in 1928 as a company sports club.

Gaswerk progressed from local competition and remained in the second tier until the 1949-50 league reformation, then played continuously in the third-tier Vienna League until 1962. SV Straßenbahn Wien, meanwhile, was founded in 1912 and first played in the second division with later Wunderteam player Schurl Braun in the side. 

Straßenbahn remained a regular member of the third-tier Vienna League until 1965 and produced two later famous national players, Walter Gebhardt and Hans Krankl. In 1974, the two clubs merged as Gaswerk/Straßenbahn, playing on the tramway company's Raxplatz ground. 

Raxplatz

After another merger with Erdbau in July 1974, the team also played several times as Gaswerk/Erdbau. SC Team Wiener Linien was formed in 2005 when Gaswerk withdrew from the partnership, with the new outfit winning promotion in 2009-10 to the fourth-tier Wiener Stadtliga.

Jasmin Delic top-scored for the team trained by Josef Schuster as they clinched the league title to move up to Regionalliga Ost, ahead of ASK Elektra.

Raxplatz

TWL Elektra

On 7th May 2021, it was announced that the club would merge with ASK Elektra Wien to form TWL Elektra. The merged club took Team Wiener Linien's league place, with the squad mixed from both clubs, with Hernert Gager as chief trainer.

The team narrowly avoided relegation before going down to the Wiener Stadtliga at the end of the 2025-26 season.

My visit

ASK Elektra 0 First Vienna FC 2

Wiener Stadtliga - Saturday 7th March 2020 
👨‍👨‍👧‍👧 1,000 🎟️ €8

The Saturday of my long weekend in Vienna was going superbly well, having visited five different venues, including the Hohe Warte Stadion of First Vienna as well as the second half of a friendly match between two lower league local sides.

I’d taken a better look than expected inside Ernst-Happel-Stadion before a short walk under the railway and along Marathonweg took me to Josef-Fritsch-Weg past the back of the buildings with Rapid Wien insignia to the single gate entry to Elektra-Energie Wien Platz.

Inside, a gentleman was taking admission at a table. My eyes were drawn to the left, where the second half of the match between the two sides featured in the main match was about to restart in the Wiener Stadtliga under-23 competition.

Around 70 fans were watching this encounter, and I saw First go 4-0 four minutes after the break with a belting goal from Karim Schneider before Valentin Nikolic added another a few minutes later in a game that would end up in a 9-0 hammering handed out by the visitors.

It was time to discover the facilities on offer. A beer hut was near the gate, but I decided to go inside the clubhouse, where a gent speaking excellent English assisted me at his table, where he sold vouchers for food and drink.

He was intrigued and delighted that I’d chosen this match. He told me that he worked in London reasonably regularly and was most helpful as I ordered a beer and sat down to enjoy it. It wasn’t warm outdoors, so I was glad of the shelter.

The crowd continued to build as kick-off approached. It was obvious that a large following would be turning out to cheer on First, who were top of the table. Indeed, gaining a decent vantage spot down the side was not easy.

The venue was pretty basic with a couple of steps down the near side with wooden benches interrupted halfway by the dugouts and players' entrance, who emerged up some steps to the pitch. The other three sides were surrounded by a shallow grass bank.

A vocal crowd with flags occupied the area in front of the wooden beer shack, cheering on their favourites. Elektra started off well with big forward Ehinabo Omoighe providing a presence.

It was First who took the lead in eleven minutes. A low ball to the feet of Mario Konrad, who cleverly flicked the ball on for Mensur Kurtisi to fire into the roof of the net past the hosts' goalkeeper Philipp Klar.

The first half wasn’t dirty, but saw three yellow cards handed out by referee Isa Simsek. However, the official could have easily shown a red card to Elektra’s Lukas Kalser when he brought down Bernhard Fucik on the edge of the box.

Kiril Ognyanov also worked the First defence at the other end, but he failed to get a strong enough effort away to trouble Oktay Kazan. I took a walk around the ground to keep warm and take photos, and grab another beer at a secondary stall in the far corner.

Unfortunately, I had to leave my match at halftime. I was attending the Bundesliga game at the Generali-Arena between Austria Wien and St. Pölten, which was kicking off an hour later at 5pm.

It appeared that I missed First Vienna sealing the game comfortably. Kurtisi added a second after his penalty was initially kept out by Klar before the forward tucked home the rebound three minutes after the interval.

I headed down Wehlistraße and caught the train towards my main event of the day from the nearby Donaumarina station.