1997–98 Austrian Cup

The 1997-98 Austrian Cup was Austria's nationwide football cup competition. It was the 64th season of the competition. SK Sturm Graz were the defending champions.^[1]

First round

First round with teams from the second league

10 August 1997	Union Ostermiething	2-3 (a.e.t.)	Donau Linz	Ostermiething
10:00	Huber 6' Winterleitner 28' (o.g.)	Report	Havel 18', 84' Winterleitner 28' (o.g.) Hrbek 98'	Attendance: 350 Referee: August Hinterhölzl

12 August 1997	Dornbirner SV	0-3	Salzburger AK 1914	Dornbirn
18:00		Report

12 August 1997	ESV Saalfelden	0-6	SV Wörgl	Saalfelden
18:00		Report

12 August 1997	FC Koblach	3-0	SV Seekirchen	Koblach
18:00		Report

12 August 1997	FC Lustenau 07	3-1	SPG Rum	Lustenau
18:00		Report

12 August 1997	FC ÖMV Stadlau	0-2	ASK Kottingbrunn	Wien
17:30		Report	Ginsthofer 45' (pen.), 90'	Stadium: Hirschstetten

12 August 1997	Polizei SV/SW Salzburg	0-1	SV Austria Salzburg Amateure	Salzburg
17:00		Report

12 August 1997	SV Fügen	2-6	Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz	Fügen
19:00		Report

12 August 1997	SV Horn	3-1	Landstraßer AC Wien	Horn
19:30	? ?' Jerabek 86' Koziak 90'	Report	Ivkovits ?'

12 August 1997	Union St. Florian	2-0	SV Grieskirchen	St. Florian
19:00	Zandl 43' Hofmann 63'	Report		Attendance: 400

13 August 1997	FC Gratkorn	5-1	Union Esternberg	Gratkorn
19:00	Cener 12' Mohr 29' Schlatzer 60' Petritsch 65' Müller 85'	Report	Kehrer ?'	Stadium: Stadion

13 August 1997	FC Zeltweg	2-0	SAK Klagenfurt	Zeltweg
17:30	Meier 17', 77'	Report		Stadium: Aichfeldstadion Attendance: 170 Referee: Ewald Hammer

13 August 1997	ISS Admira Landhaus	2-0	Hellas Kagran	Wien
18:30	Trajkovits 21' Haselmayer 52'	Report

13 August 1997	Post SV Wien	2-4 (a.e.t.)	SV Langenrohr	Wien
17:30	Slijepcevic 59' Novakov 85'	Report	Pfaffl 49', 114' Schuster 56' Plisnic 117'	Stadium: Postsportplatz

13 August 1997	SC Kundl	4-1	SV Kirchbichl	Kundl
18:30		Report

14 August 1997	SC Breitenfeld	1-6	Eintracht Wels	Breitenfeld
17:30	Rabl 48'	Report	Pfister ?', ?' Emich ?' Schachner 60', ?', ?'	Attendance: 400

14 August 1997	SC Marchtrenk	1-3	SK Vorwärts Steyr	Marchtrenk
18:30	Kast 82'	Report	Djuricin ?' Adrovic 56' (pen.) Pavlek 58'

14 August 1997	SV Rohrbach	3-2	1. SV Wiener Neudorf	Rohrbach
19:30	Schranz 21' Schmidt 39', 90'	Report	Eugel 26' Koc 56'	Attendance: 600 Referee: Johann Gruber

14 August 1997	ASV Schrems	0-3	SV Mattersburg	Schrems
19:30		Report	Köszegi 1', 78' (pen.) Németh 41'	Attendance: 800 Referee: Wolgersdorfer

14 August 1997	UFC St. Peter/Au	0-2	Prater SV	St. Peter/Au
17:00		Report	Holemar 13' Mudimula 44'

15 August 1997	ASK Klingenbach	0-1	ASV Hohenau	Klingenbach
18:00		Report	Rath 35'	Attendance: 250 Referee: Roman Kollmann

15 August 1997	Austria XI Wien	2-6	ASK Stoob	Wien
17:00	Reckendorfer 40' Damjanovic 87'	Report	Chovanec 4', 45' (pen.) Gasnarek 37' Bruna 51', 73', 78'	Attendance: 250 Referee: Herbert Kellner

15 August 1997	FC St. Veit	2-1	SK St. Magdalena	St. Veit
17:30	Engl 49' Prossegger 63'	Report	Haderer 74'	Attendance: 200 Referee: Christian Steindl

15 August 1997	Fortuna 05 Wien	1-2	SC Untersiebenbrunn	Wien
10:00	Fellner 18'	Report	Sindelar 34' Schalkhammer 90'	Stadium: Fortuna-Platz

15 August 1997	Grün Weiß Micheldorf	0-5	TSV Hartberg	Micheldorf
18:00		Report	Koch 7' Archan 30' Holub 39', 58' Fuchs 84'

15 August 1997	Kapfenberger SV	3-1	SV Flavia Solva	Kapfenberg
19:00	Stojadinovic 58' Pailer 70' Süss 89'	Report	Knapp 80'	Stadium: Alpenstadion

15 August 1997	SV Oberndorf	1-7	SV Stockerau	Oberndorf
17:00		Report

15 August 1997	SC Eisenstadt	2-0	SV Gerasdorf	Eisenstadt
19:30	Dosti 16' Leonhardsberger 74'	Report		Stadium: Lindenstadion Attendance: 300 Referee: Franz Mostböck

15 August 1997	SC Enzersfeld	1-2	UFC Tadten	Enzersfeld
16:30	Slavicek 22'	Report	Russ 51', 84'	Attendance: 400 Referee: Christian Werschnik

15 August 1997	SC Fürstenfeld	1-0	DSV Leoben	Fürstenfeld
17:00	Biro 45+1'	Report

15 August 1997	SV Leibnitz	1-2 (a.e.t.)	SV Braunau	Leibnitz
17:00	Zadravec 42'	Report	Forster 65' Micheu 101'

15 August 1997	SV Lendorf	4-1	Welser SC Hertha	Lendorf
17:00	R. Morgenstern 27' M. Morgenstern 52' (78) Strauß 75'	Report	Gumpinger 20'	Attendance: 400 Referee: Raimund Haas

15 August 1997	SV Würmla	3-2 (a.e.t.)	Kremser SC	Würmla
17:15		Report

15 August 1997	SVG Bleiburg	1-2 (a.e.t.)	SV Alpine Kindberg	Bleiburg
17:00	Wriessnig 45'	Report	Strassberger 53', 107'	Attendance: 500 Referee: Louis Hofmann

15 August 1997	FC St. Michael/Lavanttal	2-0	ATSV Irdning	St. Michael/L.
17:00	Baumgartner 10' Feldbacher 13'	Report		Attendance: 500 Referee: Alois Unterberger

15 August 1997	TSV Pöllau	2-1	FC Blau-Weiß Linz	Pöllau
17:00	Habetler 2' Tuttner 90' (pen.)	Report	Perzy 19' (pen.)

16 August 1997	FC Tirol Innsbruck Amateure	2-3	SC Rheindorf Altach	Innsbruck
15:00		Report

16 August 1997	Friesacher AC	0-2	ASK Voitsberg	Friesach
17:00	Schreiner 12' Tantscher 63'	Report		Attendance: 400 Referee: Richard Heugenhauser

16 August 1997	SG Simmering/FavAC	1-2	First Vienna FC	Wien
17:00	Krejcirik 82'	Report	Zechner 59', 72'	Stadium: Simmeringer Sportplatz Attendance: 950 Referee: Gerhard Gerstenmayer

16 August 1997	SR Donaufeld	0-0 (a.e.t.) (3-1 p)	VSE St. Pölten	Wien
17:00		Report		Attendance: 350 Referee: König

16 August 1997	SV Bürmoos	0-4	WSG Wattens	Bürmoos
18:00		Report

16 August 1997	Union Rohrbach/Berg	0-4	SV Spittal/Drau	Rohrbach
17:00		Report	Freissegger 45' Popovic 68' (pen.) Dragoslavic 70' Friedl-Pichler 88'	Attendance: 300 Referee: Willhuber

17 August 1997	FC Dornbirn	0-1	FC Kufstein	Dornbirn
18:00		Report		Stadium: Stadion Birkenwiese

Second round

25 August 1997	SC Untersiebenbrunn	4-1	SV Langenrohr	Untersiebenbrunn
19:00	Wittmann ?' Nemeth ?' Slunecko ?' Prudek ?'	Report	Paffl ?'	Attendance: 700

26 August 1997	FC Koblach	1-2	SC Kundl	Koblach
17:30	Suppan 53'	Report	Hackl 82' Schipfinger 85'

26 August 1997	FC Hard	1-3	SC Rheindorf Altach	Hard
17:30	Pazal 80'	Report	Culjkovic 54', 72' Vujic 92'

26 August 1997	SV Horn	3-5 (a.e.t.)	ASK Kottingbrunn	Horn
19:30	Koziak 36', 48' Jerabek 38' (pen.)	Report	Zelinski 3' (o.g.) Stary 45', 102', 112' Weber 83'

26 August 1997	SV Wörgl	1-2	Salzburger AK 1914	Wörgl
19:00	Glantschnig 28'	Report	Derflinger 48' Bacher 56'

27 August 1997	FC Lustenau 07	0-3	Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz	Lustenau
17:30		Report	Grabher 15' (o.g.) Laviani 38' Milovsavljevic 85'	Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Robert Schörgenhofer

27 August 1997	Union St. Florian	2-2 (a.e.t.) (4-2 p)	Eintracht Wels	St. Florian
19:00	Hodzic 5' Obermüller 110'	Report	Ruttensteiner 85' Schachner 118'	Stadium: Unionsportplatz Attendance: 1,300 Referee: Gerald Lehner

29 August 1997	FC Zeltweg	1-4	FC Gratkorn	Zeltweg
17:00	Hrvo 88' (pen.)	Report	Schlatzer 27' Sauseng 57' Cener 65' Müller 74'	Stadium: Aichfeldstadion Attendance: 400 Referee: Rudolf Schrittwieser

29 August 1997	Kapfenberger SV	1-0	TSV Hartberg	Kapfenberg
19:00	Stojadinovic 89'	Report		Stadium: Alpenstadion Attendance: 400 Referee: Franz Roschitz

29 August 1997	Prater SV	3-1 (a.e.t.)	SR Donaufeld	Wien
17:00	Darasz 44' Mudimula 97' Holemar 109'	Report	Dingelmaier 29'	Attendance: 400 Referee: Zellinger

29 August 1997	SV Austria Salzburg Amateure	0-1	WSG Wattens	Salzburg
17:00		Report	vEberl 50'	Attendance: 50 Referee: Erhard Fuchs-Eisner

29 August 1997	SV Lendorf	0-0 (a.e.t.) (5-3 p)	SV Braunau	Lendorf
17:00		Report		Attendance: 500 Referee: Erwin Hänsel

29 August 1997	SV Rohrbach	1-2	SV Stockerau	Rohrbach
19:30	Schütz 88' (pen.)	Report	Poiger 57' Vogel 67'	Attendance: 800 Referee: Christian Werschnik

29 August 1997	TSV Pöllau	2-2 (a.e.t.) (4-5 p)	SV Spittal/Drau	Pöllau
19:00	Neubauer 2', 11'	Report	Freissegger 8', 78'	Attendance: 700 Referee: Leopold Seyer

30 August 1997	ASK Stoob	5-0	ASV Hohenau	Stoob
17:00	Reisenhofer 63' Eckhardt 65' Bohac 69' (o.g.) Vargek 70' Hamm 87'	Report		Attendance: 500 Referee: Thomas Tauzimski

30 August 1997	ASK Voitsberg	5-0	SC Fürstenfeld	Voitsberg
16:30	Pitschko 19' Schreiner ?', ?' Zuber ?', ?'	Report		Attendance: 400

30 August 1997	Donau Linz	3-1 (a.e.t.)	FC St. Michael/Lavanttal	Linz
16:00	Hrbek 5', 114' Prieler 110' (o.g.)	Report	Ortner 90'	Stadium: Donauparkstadion Attendance: 600 Referee: Nusret Ölmez

30 August 1997	FC St. Veit	2-4 (a.e.t.)	SK Vorwärts Steyr	St. Veit an der Glan
16:00	Pajantschitsch 38' Prossegger 41'	Report	Hubich 9', 91' Pavlek 30', 92'	Attendance: 600 Referee: Werner Winkelbauer

30 August 1997	ISS Admira Landhaus	0-1	SC Eisenstadt	Wien
16:00		Report	Leonhardsberger 29'	Stadium: Landhaus-Platz Attendance: 100 Referee: Osswald

30 August 1997	SV Alpine Kindberg	1-5	FC Kufstein	Kindberg
17:00	Ursank 28'	Report

30 August 1997	SV Mattersburg	0-2	DSV Leoben	Mattersburg
16:30		Report	Spilka 48' Hirzi 85'	Stadium: Pappelstadion Attendance: 400 Referee: Robert Sedlacek

30 August 1997	UFC Tadten	0-6	First Vienna FC	Tadten
17:00		Report	Strasser 3' Gruber 8', 18' Puskás 56' Grabovac 64', 70'	Attendance: 850 Referee: Franz Mostböck

Round of 32

26 September 1997	FC Gratkorn	1-1 (a.e.t.) (3-4 p)	SV Stockerau	Gratkorn
19:00	Müller 78'	Report	Vogel 90'	Stadium: Stadion Referee: Wolfgang Smole

26 September 1997	FC Kufstein	0-2	Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz	Kufstein
18:30		Report	Friesenbichler 76', 78'	Stadium: Grenzlandstadion Referee: Bernhard Brugger

26 September 1997	SC Eisenstadt	1-3	First Vienna FC	Hartberg
19:30	Burgemeister 66'	Report	Wachter 13' Gruber 87' Puskás 90'	Stadium: Stadion Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Wolfgang Falb

26 September 1997	SC Untersiebenbrunn	2-0	ASK Kottingbrunn	Untersiebenbrunn
19:00	Sindelar 6' (pen.), 23'	Report		Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Wolfgang Falb

26 September 1997	Union St. Florian	1-2	SV Spittal/Drau	St. Florian
19:00	Zandl 57'	Report	Freissegger 23' Pichorner 78'	Stadium: Unionsportplatz Attendance: 500 Referee: Franz Mostböck

27 September 1997	ASK Stoob	0-1	FK Austria Wien	Stoob
15:30		Report	Kellner 74'	Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Stefan Meßner

27 September 1997	ASK Voitsberg	0-0 (a.e.t.) (3-5 p)	Grazer AK	Voitsberg
15:40		Report		Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Manfred Schüttengruber

27 September 1997	Donau Linz	1-5	LASK	Linz
15:30	Havel 53'	Report	Augustine 17' Riseth 23' Weissenberger 32' Frigard 54', 76'	Stadium: Donauparkstadion Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Karl Finzinger

27 September 1997	Kapfenberger SV	0-4	SK Sturm Graz	Kapfenberg
15:30		Report	Reinmayr 43', 54' Spiteri 77' Haas 84'	Stadium: Alpenstadion Attendance: 3,500 Referee: Wolfgang Sowa

27 September 1997	Prater SV	1-3	SK Rapid Wien	Wien
15:30	Holemar 53'	Report	Stumpf 22', 23', 77'	Stadium: Franz-Horr-Stadion Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Robert Sedlacek

27 September 1997	SC Kundl	0-5	SV Austria Salzburg	Kundl
15:30		Report	Amerhauser 10' Glieder 14' Kitzbichler 18' Kogler 40' Aigner 82'	Attendance: 1,200 Referee: Gerald Lehner

27 September 1997	SC Rheindorf Altach	0-4	SV Ried	Altach
15:30		Report	Berensztajn 32' Oerlemans 60' Hartl 69' Hansen 82'	Stadium: Stadion Schnabelholz Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Konrad Plautz

27 September 1997	SV Lendorf	1-2	SK Vorwärts Steyr	Lendorf
15:30	Morgenstern 45'	Report	Burits 18' Bradaric 47'	Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Johann Almer

27 September 1997	SV Würmla	0-5	VfB Admira/Wacker Mödling	Würmla
15:30		Report	Sliwowski 6', 10', 43' Schwellensattl 52' Möseneder 83'	Stadium: Sportplatz Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Leopold Seyer

27 September 1997	Salzburger AK 1914	1-4	FC Tirol Innsbruck	Salzburg
15:30	Vitzkotter 68' (pen.)	Report	Baur 36', 60' Kirchler 43' Mayrleb 89'	Stadium: SAK-Platz Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Gerd Grabher

27 September 1997	WSG Wattens	1-0	SC Austria Lustenau	Wattens
15:30	Frass 73'	Report		Stadium: Alpenstadion Attendance: 700 Referee: Erwin Hänsel

Round of 16

31 October 1997	FC Tirol Innsbruck	2-1	Grazer AK	Innsbruck
19:30	Mayrleb 5' Severeyns 40'	Report	Sabitzer 68'	Stadium: Tivoli Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Günter Benkö

1 November 1997	SK Rapid Wien	1-0	FK Austria Wien	Wien
20:30	Braun 83'	Report		Stadium: Gerhard-Hanappi-stadium Attendance: 12,500 Referee: Erwin Hänsel

1 November 1997	SC Untersiebenbrunn	1-3	VfB Admira/Wacker Mödling	Untersiebenbrunn
15:00	Schalkhammer 12'	Report	Sliwowski 24' Schwellensattl 57', 86'	Stadium: Marchfeldstadion Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Johann Scheuhammer

1 November 1997	SV Stockerau	0-4	SK Sturm Graz	Stockerau
15:30		Report	Vastić 37' (pen.), 54' Gröbl 85' Toth 87'	Stadium: Alte Au Attendance: 2,700 Referee: Johann Liebert

1 November 1997	Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz	3-2	SV Spittal/Drau	Bregenz
15:30	Friesenbichler 20', 64' Fuchsbichler 90+1'	Report	Tresnjic 39' Popovic 77' (pen.)	Stadium: Casinostadion Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Konrad Plautz

1 November 1997	First Vienna FC	0-1	SV Ried	Wien
15:30		Report	Rothbauer 63'	Stadium: Hohe Warte Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Leopold Seyer

1 November 1997	SK Vorwärts Steyr	0-0 (a.e.t.) (7-8 p)	DSV Leoben	Steyr
15:30		Report		Stadium: Vorwärts-Stadion Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Werner Winkelbauer
	Penalties
	Grubor Kiesenhofer Bradaric Woldeab Fading Walker Schrammel Heiml Irndorfer Burits		Hütter Aigner Aufhauser Jurcevic Glieder Lesiak Amerhauser Hörmann Kogler Safar

1 November 1997	WSG Wattens	0-2 (a.e.t.)	LASK	Wattens
18:00		Report		Stadium: Alpenstadion Attendance: 1,200 Referee: Hannes Birgmann

Quarter-finals

8 April 1998	FC Tirol Innsbruck	0-1	LASK	Innsbruck
19:30		Report	Stöger 90'	Stadium: Tivoli Attendance: 5,500 Referee: Erwin Hänsel

8 April 1998	SK Rapid Wien	1-2	VfB Admira/Wacker Mödling	Wien
19:00	Pürk 70'	Report	Narbekovas 19' Sliwowski 29'	Stadium: Gerhard-Hanappi-stadium Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Karl Finzinger

8 April 1998	SV Austria Salzburg	0-1 (a.e.t.)	SK Sturm Graz	Salzburg
18:15		Report	Prilasnig 115'	Stadium: Lehener Stadion Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Robert Sedlacek

8 April 1998	SV Ried	3-2	Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz	Ried
19:00	Berensztajn 26' Strafner 52', 65'	Report	Schnepf 2' Schmid 67'	Stadium: Stadion der Stadt Ried Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Bernhard Brugger

Semi-finals

5 May 1998	SK Sturm Graz	2-0	LASK	Graz
20:30	Reinmayr 63' Vastić 86'	Report		Stadium: Schwarzenegger-Stadion Attendance: 7,500 Referee: Fritz Stuchlik

5 May 1998	VfB Admira/Wacker Mödling	0-1 (a.e.t.)	SV Ried	Südstadt
19:00		Report	Strafner 110'	Stadium: Bundesstadion Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Werner Winkelbauer

Final

5 June 1996

20:30

SV Ried	3-1	SK Sturm Graz
Stanisavljevic 11' (pen.) Drechsel 32' Scharrer 89'	Report	Reinmayr 88'

Gerhard-Hanappi-stadium, Wien

Attendance: 6,000

Referee: Günter Benkö

SV Ried:

Ronald Unger, Faruk Hujdurović (61. Oliver Glasner), Alexander Jank, Günther Steininger, Goran Stanisavljević, Manfred Rothbauer (90. Oliver Graf), Markus Scharrer, Michael Angerschmid, Herwig Drechsel (90. Stefan Hartl), Helmut Zeller, Gerald Strafner
coach: Klaus Roitinger

SK Sturm Graz :

Kazimierz Sidorczuk, Franco Foda, Darko Milanic (30. Mario Posch), Günther Neukirchner (70. Joseph Spiteri), Wolfgang Hopfer, Hannes Reinmayr, Markus Schupp, Roman Mählich, Gilbert Prilasnig (25. Tomislav Kocijan), Ivica Vastić, Mario Haas
coach: Ivica Osim

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Maciej Sliwowski	Vfb Admira Wacker Mödling	5
2	Bruno Friesenbichler	Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz	4
2	Hannes Reinmayr	SK Sturm Graz	4
2	Arnold Freissegger	SV Spital an der Drau	4

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References

[1] Austriasoccer.at

[2] (German)

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