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===Fall from the top flight=== ''Vienna'' remained competitive through the balance of the decade, consistently finishing in the top three, but the club faded through the 60s until they were finally relegated in 1968 for the first time since their return to the top flight after World War I. They re-appeared in the first division after a single season absence, but no longer seriously challenged for the title. With the establishment of the ten-team Zehnerliga, Austria's new premier division, in 1974–75, ''Vienna'' again found itself playing second division football until earning promotion in 1976. However, they continued to struggle as a lower division side and were again sent down in 1980. The expansion of the first division from ten to sixteen teams in 1982 allowed ''Vienna'' back into the senior competition, but their inconsistent play continued. Another league re-organization established the twelve-team Austrian Bundesliga in 1985 and ''Vienna'' made its first appearance there in the following season. A highlight of this time was a strong championship round performance in 1988 that led to a fourth-place finish that earned the club a [[UEFA Cup]] appearance. The club remained a lower table side and was facing relegation trouble by the early-90s, finally being sent down in 1992. ''Vienna'' next enjoyed a strong run through the 1997 Austrian Cup competition which took them to the final where they lost 2–1 to first division side [[Sturm Graz]]. However, the team could not recover itself in regular league play, and while they came close to a return to the Bundesliga several times, they continued a slide that in 2000 landed them in the third division ''[[Austrian Regional League East|Regionalliga Ost]]'' where Vienna played until in 2009, they won the championship and gained promotion to the [[Austrian Football First League|First League]]. In the 2009–10 season, ''Vienna'' finished eleventh in the second tier of Austrian football. A potential relegation playoff against Regionalliga West champions [[SV Grödig]] were canceled because the relegated team [[FC Kärnten]] had its license withdrawn. The following 2010–11 season, Vienna finished once again second-bottom in the league table ahead of [[SV Gratkorn]]. However, under new coach [[Alfred Tatar]] managed to win their relegation matches against the champions of the Regionalliga Ost, [[SC-ESV Parndorf 1919]], 3–0 and 2–1 respectively, and maintained their second-tier status. The following year, ''Vienna'' secured their place in the league in the 36th match of the season and in the 2012–13 season, Vienna performed better, managing to keep away from the relegation battle with good performances and finished 7th. The 2013–14 season was a disaster for ''Vienna'', finishing last with a 13-point deducted due to various licensing violations. At the end of the season, Vienna and Tatar announced an amicable separation. The club's license for the 2014–15 season in professional football was also denied. From the 2014–15 season, Vienna had to play in the third tier Regionalliga Ost again. Due to the insolvency of the main sponsor Care-Energy, Vienna was declared bankrupt in 2017.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://wien.orf.at/news/stories/2828560/ |title=Vienna muss Insolvenz anmelden |publisher=ORF |date=2 March 2017 |language=German}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.90minuten.at/de/red/magazin/nachgehakt/2017/maerz/oefb-generalsekretaer-hollerer---das-ist-eine-frage-der-gleichbehandlung-aller-vereine-/ |title=ÖFB-Generalsekretär Hollerer: 'Das ist eine Frage der Gleichbehandlung aller Vereine' |work=90minuten.at |date=2 March 2017 |language=German |access-date=2017-03-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303051301/https://www.90minuten.at/de/red/magazin/nachgehakt/2017/maerz/oefb-generalsekretaer-hollerer---das-ist-eine-frage-der-gleichbehandlung-aller-vereine-/ |archive-date=2017-03-03 |url-status=dead }}</ref> While bankruptcy was averted, a championship title in the Regionalliga Ost in the same year was withheld.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.oefb.at/stellungnahme-zur-neuen-entwicklung-news27006 |title=Stellungnahme zur neuen Entwicklung |publisher=OFB |date=18 July 2017 |language=German |access-date=9 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170725072252/http://www.oefb.at/stellungnahme-zur-neuen-entwicklung-news27006 |archive-date=25 July 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Promotion was denied and it got worse, with Vienna being transferred to the fifth division by court order in the following season.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.firstviennafc.at/news/urteil-ogh-6132.html|title=First Vienna|publisher=firstviennafc.at|accessdate=1 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201005317/http://www.firstviennafc.at/news/urteil-ogh-6132.html|archive-date=1 December 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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