ÖFB team boss
The team boss of the Austrian national soccer team is appointed by the Austrian Football Association (ÖFB for short). He trains and looks after his team at international matches . The team manager can also decide whether or not to call up players for the national team. The team boss determines the team line-up for games and specifies the tactics before and during the game, which he can influence, for example by replacing players. These tasks were originally taken over from October 12, 1902 to June 14, 1913 by the Austrian Football Association or its predecessors themselves.
From 1938 to 1945 there was no Austrian national football team because of the "annexation" of Austria to the German Reich .
The most successful and, with a total of 133 games, the longest in office in the history of the ÖFB was Hugo Meisl , who formed the “ miracle team ” . Meisl, who had already earned an international reputation as a football referee, was not only the coach of the national team, but also general secretary of the ÖFB. In the post-war period, Josef Hickersberger was the record holder with a total of 56 games, which were spread over two terms.
The current team boss is the German Franco Foda , who was signed on October 30, 2017, but did not officially take up his position until January 1, 2018. However, he was already in charge of the national team at the friendly international match against Uruguay on November 14, 2017 instead of his predecessor Marcel Koller , who was already on leave after missing out on qualifying for the World Cup .
Men's
Legend:
- from = start of term of office
- until = end of term of office
- SP = number of games as team boss
- S = number of wins
- U = number of ties
- N = number of losses
- Goals = number of goals scored and received
- TD = goal difference
- PQ = point quotient (based on the three-point rule that applies today ); Only team bosses who have at least three international matches were included in the rating.
1912 to 1937
Surname | from | to | SP | S. | U | N | Gates | TD | PQ | Notes, successes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hugo Meisl | December 22, 1912 | October 3, 1914 | 6th | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11: 9 | +2 | 1.67 | |
Heinrich Retschury | October 4, 1914 | August 1, 1919 | 22nd | 6th | 3 | 13 | 40: 52 | −12 | 0.96 | |
Hugo Meisl | August 1, 1919 | February 17, 1937 (†) | 127 | 69 | 29 | 29 | 332: 200 | +132 | 1.86 |
Vice-European Cup winner 1930 European Cup winner 1932 " Wunderteam " 4th place World Cup 1934 Vice European Cup winner 1935 |
- | March 21, 1937 | May 9, 1937 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3: 1 | +2 | - | after Hugo Meisl's death, Austria was without an association captain |
Heinrich Retschury | May 22, 1937 | October 24, 1937 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10: 10 | ± 0 | 1.40 | World Cup qualification 1938 |
Balance sheet December 22, 1912 to 1937 | 162 | 81 | 35 | 46 | 396: 272 | +124 | 1.72 |
From 1945
Surname | from | to | SP | S. | U | N | Gates | TD | PQ | Notes, successes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Karl Zankl | August 19, 1945 | October 3, 1945 (†) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2: 7 | −5 | - | |
Edi Bauer | October 3, 1945 | March 4, 1948 | 11 | 4th | 0 | 7th | 26: 28 | −2 | 1.09 | |
Eduard Frühwirth | March 4, 1948 | September 1, 1948 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9: 9 | ± 0 | 1.80 | |
Walter Nausch | September 1, 1948 | November 15, 1954 | 47 | 21st | 10 | 16 | 119: | 87+32 | 1.55 | 3rd place World Cup 1954 |
Hans Kaulich | November 15, 1954 | March 28, 1955 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2: 3 | −1 | - | |
Josef Molzer | March 29, 1955 | 3rd September 1955 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6: 8 | −2 | 1.33 | |
Karl Geyer | 3rd September 1955 | April 21, 1956 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8: 14 | −6 | 1.20 | |
Josef Argauer and Josef Molzer |
April 21, 1956 | August 9, 1958 | 18th | 7th | 6th | 5 | 37: 27 | +10 | 1.50 | World Cup qualification 1958 |
Alfred Frey , Franz Putzendopler , Egon Selzer , Josef Molzer |
August 9, 1958 | October 15, 1958 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4: 6 | −2 | - | Interim trainer |
Karl Decker | October 16, 1958 | February 28, 1964 | 36 | 16 | 3 | 17th | 60: 67 | −7 | 1.42 | |
Josef Walter and Béla Guttmann |
March 7, 1964 | October 11, 1964 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6: 5 | +1 | 2.00 | |
Eduard Frühwirth | November 20, 1964 | January 13, 1967 | 15th | 4th | 3 | 8th | 12: 23 | −11 | 1.00 | |
Erwin Alge and Hans Pesser |
January 13, 1967 | June 24, 1968 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 18: 19 | −1 | 1.10 | |
Leopold Šťastný | July 1, 1968 | September 30, 1975 | 48 | 15th | 16 | 17th | 57: 59 | −2 | 1.27 | |
Branko Elsner | October 6, 1975 | 19th November 1975 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6: 3 | +3 | - | |
Helmut Senekowitsch | March 1, 1976 | June 30, 1978 | 26th | 14th | 4th | 8th | 40: 26 | +14 | 1.77 | World Cup qualification 1978 |
Karl Stotz | August 1, 1978 | December 14, 1981 | 24 | 13 | 6th | 5 | 43: 25 | +18 | 1.88 | World Cup qualification 1982 |
Georg Schmidt and Felix Latzke |
5th February 1982 | 2nd July 1982 | 8th | 5 | 1 | 2 | 11: 7 | +4 | 2.00 | |
Erich Hof | September 7, 1982 | November 21, 1984 | 15th | 6th | 3 | 6th | 22: 20 | +2 | 1.40 | |
Branko Elsner | January 15, 1985 | November 18, 1987 | 18th | 5 | 5 | 8th | 20: 28 | −8 | 1.11 | |
Josef Hickersberger | January 1, 1988 | September 14, 1990 | 29 | 10 | 7th | 12 | 36: 39 | −3 | 1.28 | World Cup qualification 1990 |
Alfred Riedl | September 15, 1990 | October 10, 1991 | 8th | 1 | 3 | 4th | 6: 16 | −10 | 0.75 | |
Didi Constantini | October 10, 1991 | November 13, 1991 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1: 4 | −3 | - | Interim trainer |
Ernst Happel | January 1, 1992 | November 14, 1992 (†) | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 18: 17 | +1 | 1.00 | |
Didi Constantini | November 15, 1992 | November 18, 1992 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0: 0 | ± 0 | - | Interim trainer |
Herbert Prohaska | January 8, 1993 | March 29, 1999 | 51 | 25th | 9 | 17th | 96: 73 | +23 | 1.65 | World Cup qualification 1998 |
Otto Baric | April 13, 1999 | November 21, 2001 | 22nd | 7th | 6th | 9 | 31: 35 | −4 | 1.23 | |
Hans Krankl | January 21, 2002 | September 28, 2005 | 31 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 47: 46 | +1 | 1.29 | |
Willibald Ruttensteiner , Andreas Herzog and Slavko Kovačić |
September 30, 2005 | December 31, 2005 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2: 1 | +1 | - | Interim trainer |
Josef Hickersberger | January 1, 2006 | June 23, 2008 | 27 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 29: 39 | −10 | 0.89 | Participation in European Championship 2008 |
Karel Brückner | July 25, 2008 | March 2, 2009 | 7th | 1 | 2 | 4th | 9: 15 | −6 | 0.71 | |
Didi Constantini | March 4, 2009 | September 13, 2011 | 23 | 7th | 3 | 13 | 30: 42 | −12 | 1.04 | |
Willibald Ruttensteiner | September 14, 2011 | October 31, 2011 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4: 1 | +3 | - | Interim trainer |
Marcel Koller | November 1, 2011 | October 30, 2017 | 54 | 25th | 13 | 16 | 81: 58 | +23 | 1.63 | European Championship qualification 2016 |
Franco Foda | October 31, 2017 | 22nd | 14th | 2 | 6th | 36:18 | +18 | 2.00 | Euro 2020 qualification | |
Balance from 1945 | 591 | 232 | 130 | 229 | 934: 875 | +59 | 1.40 | As of November 19, 2019 |
gallery
Béla Guttmann
team boss 1964Hugo Meisl formed the " miracle team "
Josef Hickersberger
team manager 1988–1990, 2006–2008Alfred Riedl
team manager 1990–1991Dietmar Constantini
Team Principal 1991, 1992, 2009–2011Ernst Happel
Team Principal 1992Herbert Prohaska
Team Principal 1993–1999Hans Krankl
team boss 2002-2005Willibald Ruttensteiner
interim team leader 2005 and 2011Marcel Koller
Team Principal 2011–2017Franco Foda
Team Principal from 2018
Web links
- ÖFB: A-Team, Statistics → ÖFB team bosses after 1945 (accessed on October 19, 2012)
literature
- Anton Egger, Austria's international soccer games, chronicle 1902–1993 ; Verlag Anton Egger, Wasendorf 1994, ISBN 3-9500332-0-3