It’s raining and raining. In many parts of the country the water levels will rise significantly. That’s why the sports weekend has been canceled, at least in part.
The Wachau Marathon along the DanubeThe route to Krems, directly next to the river, could not have been secured – apart from the unpleasant conditions.
The latest cancellations
The weather-related cancellations in the domestic football leagues continued on Saturday. As the Bundesliga announced on Saturday morning, the Second division games of FAC against Liefering and from SV Horn against Vienna postponed. The match in Floridsdorf was supposed to take place on Saturday afternoon, the one in Horn on Sunday morning.
Salzburg match cancelled
This was the beginning of a series of cancellations. The same quickly happened with the Academy games of the greatest football talents. Most of the games for the weekend (such as Salzburg – Rapid) were already cancelled on Friday morning.
In the Bundesliga, the first cancellation rained down on Friday afternoon: Salzburg against Austria Klagenfurt cannot be played on Saturday afternoon. The league announced this on Friday afternoon after a preliminary commissioning of the Red Bull Arena.
The replacement date is still open. However, Salzburg is already tight on time, as the supplementary match against Hartberg had to be inserted.
Rapid professionals on the bus, Rapid II and Rapid women cancelled
The Bundesliga clubs. In Wolfsberg, the match is likely to take place WAC – Rapid possible on Saturday.
It is raining less in the Lavanttal and it is expected to stay that way. That is why the Hütteldorfers set off in the team bus.
However, there will be no match Rapid II – Amstetten on Friday evening in the 2nd league – cancelled! This means that the promoted team from Hütteldorf, who had started strongly, are already two games behind schedule.
In addition, tomorrow’s away game of the Rapid Women-Teams against the Vienna Sports Club (1b) may be cancelled.
SKN St. Pölten vs. Admira cancelled
Fix cannot be played in St. Pölten either. The Lower Austria Derby the 2nd league SKN – Admire would have started on Friday evening at 8.30 p.m. Just before 2 p.m. it was clear that the grass in the NV Arena could not take any more rain.
While in the 2nd league on Friday at least Kapfenberg against Lustenau (Final score 0:2) and Ried against Voitsberg (0:0) were played in the Regional League East no games were played today. The Saturday match between Sportunion Mauer and Donaufeld falls into the water.
Problems at the Vienna Capitals
Bizarrely, an indoor ice hockey match also had to be postponed. Vienna Capitals are having a hard time with their ice rink in Kagran. The drop in temperature would have been a real pleasure for those in charge, because at over 30 degrees the mobile cooling system was pushed to its limits. But the rain is also putting the Caps in a predicament: The game planned for this evening Friendly match against Trencin had to be moved to the third hall because rain was falling onto the ice in the large arena through a hole in the roof.
(courier.at, AHu, kks)
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14.09.2024, 15:02
