In the 2012–13 season, Pasching was back at the other end of the table. The team won the autumn championship and went in...to the winter break four points ahead of LASK Linz. However, this advantage was lost in the spring and Pasching finished the season two points behind Linz in second place.
In the 2012–13 Austrian Cup, Pasching achieved the biggest sensation in the history of the competition. After Austria Salzburg, Austria Lustenau and Austria Klagenfurt were eliminated in the first three rounds, the elite of Austrian football waited for the regional league team in the last three rounds. In the quarter finals, Pasching beat Rapid Wien 1–0 away from home. In the semi-final, they faced cooperation partner Red Bull Salzburg away from home and turned a 0–1 deficit into a 2–1 victory, becoming the first team from the third division to reach the final of the ÖFB Cup in its 94-year history.[1] The opponent in the final at the Ernst-Happel-Stadion in Vienna was Austria Wien. Daniel Sobkova scored shortly after half time giving Pasching a 1–0 lead, which they defended to win the final. Thus, FC Pasching defeated the champion, the runner-up and third team in the Bundesliga season 2012–13, without ever having had the home advantage for themselves. The Cup victory saw the Upper Austrians qualify for the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League play-off round, where they met the Portuguese club Estoril Praia and lost with two defeats.