ÖFB team boss

The current team boss Franco Foda .

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	00 6th	03	01	02	011: 9 00	+2	1.67
Heinrich Retschury	October 4, 1914	August 1, 1919	00 22nd	06th	03	13	040: 052	−12	0.96
Hugo Meisl	August 1, 1919	February 17, 1937 (†)	00 127	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	002	01	01	00	003: 1 00	+2	-	after Hugo Meisl's death, Austria was without an association captain
Heinrich Retschury	May 22, 1937	October 24, 1937	00 5	02	01	02	010: 010	± 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 (†)	00 2	00	00	02	002: 7 00	−5	-
Edi Bauer	October 3, 1945	March 4, 1948	00 11	04th	00	07th	026: 028	−2	1.09
Eduard Frühwirth	March 4, 1948	September 1, 1948	00 5	03	00	02	009: 9 00	± 0	1.80
Walter Nausch	September 1, 1948	November 15, 1954	00 47	21st	10	16	119: 087	+32	1.55	3rd place World Cup 1954
Hans Kaulich	November 15, 1954	March 28, 1955	00 01	00	00	01	002: 3 00	−1	-
Josef Molzer	March 29, 1955	3rd September 1955	00 03	01	01	01	006: 8 00	−2	1.33
Karl Geyer	3rd September 1955	April 21, 1956	00 05	02	00	03	008: 014	−6	1.20
Josef Argauer and Josef Molzer	April 21, 1956	August 9, 1958	00 18th	07th	06th	05	037: 027	+10	1.50	World Cup qualification 1958
Alfred Frey , Franz Putzendopler , Egon Selzer , Josef Molzer	August 9, 1958	October 15, 1958	00 02	00	00	02	004: 6 00	−2	-	Interim trainer
Karl Decker	October 16, 1958	February 28, 1964	00 36	16	03	17th	060: 067	−7	1.42
Josef Walter and Béla Guttmann	March 7, 1964	October 11, 1964	00 05	03	01	01	006: 5 00	+1	2.00
Eduard Frühwirth	November 20, 1964	January 13, 1967	00 15th	04th	03	08th	012: 023	−11	1.00
Erwin Alge and Hans Pesser	January 13, 1967	June 24, 1968	00 10	03	02	05	018: 019	−1	1.10
Leopold Šťastný	July 1, 1968	September 30, 1975	00 48	15th	16	17th	057: 059	−2	1.27
Branko Elsner	October 6, 1975	19th November 1975	00 02	01	00	01	006: 3 00	+3	-
Helmut Senekowitsch	March 1, 1976	June 30, 1978	00 26th	14th	04th	08th	040: 026	+14	1.77	World Cup qualification 1978
Karl Stotz	August 1, 1978	December 14, 1981	00 24	13	06th	05	043: 025	+18	1.88	World Cup qualification 1982
Georg Schmidt and Felix Latzke	5th February 1982	2nd July 1982	00 08th	05	01	02	011: 7 00	+4	2.00
Erich Hof	September 7, 1982	November 21, 1984	00 15th	06th	03	06th	022: 020	+2	1.40
Branko Elsner	January 15, 1985	November 18, 1987	00 18th	05	05	08th	020: 028	−8	1.11
Josef Hickersberger	January 1, 1988	September 14, 1990	00 29	10	07th	12	036: 039	−3	1.28	World Cup qualification 1990
Alfred Riedl	September 15, 1990	October 10, 1991	00 08th	01	03	04th	006: 016	−10	0.75
Didi Constantini	October 10, 1991	November 13, 1991	00 02	00	00	02	001: 4 00	−3	-	Interim trainer
Ernst Happel	January 1, 1992	November 14, 1992 (†)	00 09	02	03	04th	018: 017	+1	1.00
Didi Constantini	November 15, 1992	November 18, 1992	00 01	00	01	00	000: 0 00	± 0	-	Interim trainer
Herbert Prohaska	January 8, 1993	March 29, 1999	00 51	25th	09	17th	096: 073	+23	1.65	World Cup qualification 1998
Otto Baric	April 13, 1999	November 21, 2001	00 22nd	07th	06th	09	031: 035	−4	1.23
Hans Krankl	January 21, 2002	September 28, 2005	00 31	10	10	11	047: 046	+1	1.29
Willibald Ruttensteiner , Andreas Herzog and Slavko Kovačić	September 30, 2005	December 31, 2005	00 02	01	00	01	002: 1 00	+1	-	Interim trainer
Josef Hickersberger	January 1, 2006	June 23, 2008	00 27	05	09	13	029: 039	−10	0.89	Participation in European Championship 2008
Karel Brückner	July 25, 2008	March 2, 2009	00 07th	01	02	04th	009: 015	−6	0.71
Didi Constantini	March 4, 2009	September 13, 2011	00 23	07th	03	13	030: 042	−12	1.04
Willibald Ruttensteiner	September 14, 2011	October 31, 2011	00 02	01	01	00	004: 1 00	+3	-	Interim trainer
Marcel Koller	November 1, 2011	October 30, 2017	00 54	25th	13	16	081: 058	+23	1.63	European Championship qualification 2016
Franco Foda	October 31, 2017		00 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 1964

• 

  Hugo Meisl formed the " miracle team "

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  Josef Hickersberger
  team manager 1988–1990, 2006–2008

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  Alfred Riedl
  team manager 1990–1991

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  Dietmar Constantini
  Team Principal 1991, 1992, 2009–2011

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  Ernst Happel
  Team Principal 1992

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  Herbert Prohaska
  Team Principal 1993–1999

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  Hans Krankl
  team boss 2002-2005

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  Willibald Ruttensteiner
  interim team leader 2005 and 2011

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  Marcel Koller
  Team Principal 2011–2017

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  Franco 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