Vienna Kangaroos
The Vienna Kangaroos were Vienna’s first Australian Football club, started in 2003 by Australian expats and originally named Wiener Dingos. A local Irish pub, Flanagan’s, funded their jumpers. The club also acted as Austria’s national team in early international events until Graz formed a second club, the Styrian Down Under Dogs, in 2008.
As Austria’s national team, they played in the Central European Championship in Düsseldorf in 2004 against Germany, Belgium, France and Spain, but didn’t do well. They also played in the 2005 European Championships in London.
In 2006, the team was renamed the Vienna Kangaroos and, after a strong recruiting drive, the squad became mostly Austrian-born players. They began facing teams from Croatia and the Czech Republic and started a Tri-nations cup. Austria held the first Schnitzel Cup in Vienna in July 2006, then the Croatia Open in Zagreb in August and the Prague Cup in Prague in September 2006 as part of the Central European Championships.
Since 2006, the Vienna Kangaroos have been a registered sports club. In 2010, they and the Styrian Down Under Dogs started Austria’s first official Australian Football league with regular games, six rounds. The Kangaroos won the season against the Down Under Dogs.
The Vienna Kangaroos did not field a team in 2011. They played a friendly against Graz’s Down Under Dogs, losing 59–74.
Australian football in Vienna later revived with a new team, the Vienna Galahs, started by former Kangaroo players Seb and Pablo.
This page was last edited on 2 February 2026, at 22:46 (CET).