In 1894, the
First Vienna Football Club, the first football team in Austria, were founded in Vienna. From this nucleus, the Austrian Football Association was established in 1904. One year after the establishment, Austria became a member of the international football federation
FIFA and hosted the fifth FIFA congress in 1908. In 1913, they supervised the
Galicja national team, which was directly subordinate to the
Polish Football Association. The milestones of the federation and past football history were the years 1930 to 1933, 1950 to 1954 and then 1958 as well as 1978, 1982, 1990 and 1998 with the participation of Austria at the
World Cup.
Hugo Meisl was one of the best-known personalities in the early years of the Austrian Football Association, becoming general-secretary and national team coach in 1927. At the
1936 Summer Olympics, his team won silver after losing 2–1 to
Italy, Austria's only international final. Meisl's team, nicknamed the
Wunderteam, remained unbeaten from 12 April 1931 to 23 October 1932 in 14 successive matches. The highlights of this series were the 6–0 (Berlin) and 5–0 (Vienna) victories against
Germany. The 1950s saw more achievements with their well-known football greats such as
Ernst Ocwirk (twice captain of the FIFA World Selection Team),
Ernst Happel,
Gerhard Hanappi and
Walter Zeman. The
FIFA World Cup 1954 ranks among being most successful in Austrian Football Association history. Twenty years after being in 4th place in the
FIFA World Cup 1934 held in Italy, Austria returned to the circle of the best teams again. ==Regional associations==