At the beginning, Klauss still celebrated great success in Vienna.
The Austrian first division club Rapid Vienna has separated from the German coach Robert Klauss due to its ongoing sporting crisis with immediate effect. The association announced this on Thursday. The traditional club is in fifth place in the master group five game days before the end of the season.
“Unfortunately, the development of the team and consequently the performance and results have been in a direction for a few months that make this step necessary,” said Markus Katzer, Managing Director Sport: “I am convinced that we have a squad that is much better than it may seem in the past few months.” In the last 17 games of the season, Rapid only won four victories, most recently there were three competitive defeats in a row.
Klauss, previously two years coach of 1st FC Nürnberg, took over the Viennese in November 2023. In a total of 67 competitive games under his direction, the ÖFB-Cup final in 2024, as well as the first move into a European quarter-finals for almost three decades. There was an end station there last week in the Conference League against Djurgardens if.