Therefore, Rapid Wien started in the 3rd qualifying round of the 2016/17 Europa League competition.

On 7 November 2016, after a 0-1 defeat at home against Wolfsberger AC both manager Mike Büskens and Director of Football Andreas Müller were sacked.

[1] Four days later Damir Canadi was presented as the new manager, joining Rapid from league rival SCR Altach.

[3] On 9 April 2017, after a 0-3 defeat in Ried manager Damir Canadi was sacked and replaced by his former assistant coaches Goran Djuricin and Martin Bernhard until end of season.

Win Draw Loss In a curious turn of events, Rapid played all of its first three games in the Austrian Cup in the Sportklub Stadium in Vienna as neither the home grounds of the opponents had the infrastructure to host the game and the venue of the Linzer Stadion, where Blau-Weiß Linz initially wanted to move, was already occupied at the time with hosting the 2016 World Karate Championships.