SK Rapid vs Djurgården facts

SK Rapid welcome Djurgården to Austria for the second leg of their UEFA Conference League quarter-final holding a 1-0 lead.

Rapid sealed a slender advantage in their first European quarter-final in 29 years thanks to Hampus Finndell's own goal in the first leg in Sweden.

That was a first meeting between the two sides in UEFA competition.

Form guide

SK Rapid

Record vs Swedish clubs: W4 D1 L0 F9 A1
Home record vs Swedish clubs: W2 D0 L0

Rapid are unbeaten in their five matches against teams from Sweden, although the first leg was their first game for 25 years.

They won 4-0 on aggregate against Malmö in the 1960/61 UEFA European Cup quarter-final (2-0 h, 2-0 a) and 4-1 versus Örgryte in a 2000/01 UEFA Cup first round tie (3-0 h, 1-1 a).

Die Grün-Weißen finished fourth in the league phase (W4 D1 L1). In their round of 16 tie they took on Borac of Bosnia and Herzegovina, drawing 1-1 in the first leg before a tight return fixture in Vienna was settled in extra time with Louis Schaub's strike finally confirming a 3-2 aggregate win.

The Austrian side are in their first UEFA quarter-final since the 1995/96 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, where they beat Dynamo Moscow 4-0 on aggregate. This is their ninth appearance in the last eight of UEFA competition; they have won three of the previous eight ties.

Rapid have lost just two of their 15 European matches this season (W10 D3).

The Vienna club have won all of their 12 previous European ties when they won the away first leg, most recently in the third qualifying round of this season's UEFA Europa League when a 1-0 first-leg victory at Trabzonspor was followed by a 2-0 home win.

Rapid are yet to appear in a UEFA penalty shoot-out.

Djurgården 

Record vs Austrian clubs: W0 D1 L2 F2 A5
Away record vs Austrian clubs: W0 D1 L1

Prior to the first leg, Djurgården's only previous matches against Austrian clubs were both away at LASK Linz. They lost 2-0 in the 1996 UEFA Intertoto Cup group stage and met against on Matchday 1 of this season's league phase, where second-half goals from August Priske and Tokmac Nguen helped them recover from two goals down to secure a 2-2 draw.

Victories in their final four league phase matches helped Djurgården to a fifth-place finish and automatic qualification to the round of 16. That led them to a tie against Pafos; a 1-0 defeat in the away first leg was successfully overturned in the return fixture in Stockholm thanks to goals from Oskar Fallenius, Daniel Stensson and Nguen that secured a 3-1 aggregate victory.

The Swedish side finished fourth in the 2024 Allsvenskan.

Finland's Jani Honkavaara replaced Kim Bergstrand and Thomas Lagerlöf, who had been in charge since 2018, as Djurgården head coach at the end of December.

The 12-time Swedish champions' only previous UEFA competition quarter-final was in the inaugural European Cup in 1955/56, where they lost 4-1 on aggregate against Hibernian. Djurgården's home match was played at Firhill Park, Glasgow.

Djurgården have won seven of their last nine two-legged European ties.

Djurgården failed to progress on any of the four previous occasions they lost their home first leg in UEFA competition. Most recently, they went down 2-3 on aggregate to Swiss side Luzern in the second qualifying round of last season's Conference League after losing 1-2 at home and drawing 1-1 away.

Djurgården have yet to feature in a UEFA penalty shoot-out.

Links and trivia

Rapid's Isak Jansson is a Swedish Under-21 international and began his career with Kalmar. He has one win and six defeats in seven previous appearances against Djurgården.

Romeo Amane joined Rapid from Swedish side Häcken in January. He made six appearances against Djurgården across his three seasons with the club (W4 D1 L1).

Matthias Seidl made his international debut in Austria's 3-1 victory against Sweden on 12 September 2023, coming off the bench late on in a UEFA EURO 2024 qualifier. Djurgården's Albin Ekdal started for Sweden.