Bernd Hirschbichler

Bernd Hirschbichler
Personal
Surname	Bernd Hirschbichler
birthday	5th May 1984
place of birth	Zell am See
country	Salzburg , Austria
size	187 cm
Weight	80 kg
education
job	Business educator
classification
1997– 2007– 2009– 2010–2014	ÖFB referee regional league ÖFB cup games first league	43 8 40
Was standing:	20th August 2017

Bernd Hirschbichler (born May 5, 1984 in Zell am See ) is an Austrian football referee and educator .

He is a member of the Salzburg Football Association and is a member of the Pinzgau referee panel, where he is also the deputy group spokesman and webmaster of the homepage.

Career as a soccer player

Bernd Hirschbichler has been influenced by football since childhood. Erich Hirschbichler's son grew up on the sports field in his home town of Leogang . Even then he was always more interested in refereeing than in the tactical instructions of a coach, but was active in youth football as a goalkeeper at SC Leogang until he was 13. After a serious back injury, Hirschbichler had to end his active career as a football player and on August 8, 1997 attended the beginners' course for referees at the Salzburg Football Association. On September 1, 1997, Hirschbichler successfully passed the soccer referee examination.

Career as a football referee

Bernd Hirschbichler in portrait

At the age of 22, Hirschbichler was allowed to lead his first game in the third highest performance level, the regional league , on May 20, 2006 with the encounter between Reichenau and Hohenems . With this game he was able to qualify for the referee squad of the Regionalliga West from the 2007/08 season.

This was the next step in his career, because on July 31, 2007 he made his debut as assistant referee in the first division in the game Kapfenberger SV against FC Lustenau (2: 1) at the side of referee Rudolf Gruber . After seven appearances in the second-highest division, Hirschbichler came on February 26, 2008 in the game SK Austria Kärnten against SK Sturm Graz (0: 2) at the side of referee Bernhard Brugger for the first time as assistant referee in the Bundesliga .

Due to his good assessments as a referee in the Regionalliga West and as an assistant referee in the Bundesliga, Hirschbichler was accepted into the Bundesliga talent squad. In the 2008/09 season he was initially entrusted with a competition management in each of the regional leagues center and east. After two more appearances in the regional leagues center and east in autumn 2009, Hirschbichler was nominated for two qualifying games in the first division in spring 2010 . He was allowed to make his debut in Austria's second-highest division on March 23, 2010 in the game between FC Gratkorn and FC Dornbirn (1: 2). After successfully completing the second qualifying game on May 7, 2010 between FK Austria Wien II and SKN St. Pölten (1: 3), Hirschbichler was definitely included in the Bundesliga referee squad on July 1, 2010 and is thus allowed to play in the first Lead the league.

Internationally, Hirschbichler was allowed to make his debut as a referee on August 26, 2010 at the friendly international match of the U-17 teams between Austria and Croatia (3: 1) in Vöcklabruck . Hirschbichler had already made international appearances as an assistant referee. On August 20, 2008, he assisted Bernhard Brugger in the friendly international match between Luxembourg and Macedonia (1: 4). On July 23, 2009, Hirschbichler was again used in an international game as Bernhard Brugger's assistant. This time it was an official match with Olimpi Rustawi qualifying for the UEFA Europa League against Legia Warsaw (0-1).

Hirschbichler learned on October 1, 2010 that refereeing can also be dangerous. In the championship game of First Vienna FC 1894 against the syndicate Wolfsberger AC / St. Andrä (1-0) he was downright knocked out by Mathias Berchtold , but was able to lead the game to the end after a longer treatment break. Hirschbichler also had to get to know the downside of a referee. "If someone insults you deeply while walking with your girlfriend in the pedestrian zone, you're wondering where all this can lead," Hirschbichler told Salzburg24.at . However, when he was threatened via Facebook and SMS , he turned the police on.

Despite good observation reports, Hirschbichler was denied promotion to the Austrian Bundesliga . The main reason was that his body kept causing problems. In the summer and autumn of 2012 he was out for several months due to a serious injury and had to accept a longer injury break in the autumn of 2014. This was also the reason why Hirschbichler had to quit his professional career at the end of 2014. In the amateur area - regional league and below - he continues his work as a football referee.

In addition to his work as a referee, Hirschbichler has been a regular referee in the Salzburg referees committee since 2013. In addition, in 2016 he was elected deputy chairman of the Salzburg arbitration board. On November 15, 2019, Hirschbichler was elected chairman of the Salzburg referees to succeed Norbert Schwab , who resigned from his position after eight years.

Game management in the Austrian first division

As of August 20, 2017

game	season	date	Home team	-	Visiting team	Result				Eleven meters	annotation
01	2009/10	03/23/2010	FC Gratkorn	-	FC Dornbirn	1: 2	6th	0	0	0	1st qualifier
02	2009/10	07/05/2010	Austria Vienna II	-	SKN St. Pölten	1: 3	5	1	0	0	2nd qualifier
03	2010/11	07/30/2010	TSV Hartberg	-	FC Lustenau 07	1: 2	7th	1	1	0
04th	2010/11	08/17/2010	Burr grain	-	SC Austria Lustenau	2: 2	3	0	0	0
05	2010/11	09/10/2010	FC Lustenau	-	SKN St. Pölten	3: 1	7th	0	0	0
06th	2010/11	10/01/2010	First Vienna FC	-	Wolfsberger AC / SK St. Andrä	1-0	5	0	0	0
07th	2010/11	05/11/2010	FC Admira Wacker Mödling	-	Wolfsberger AC / SK St. Andrä	2-0	5	0	0	0
08th	2010/11	11/12/2010	Burr grain	-	SKN St. Pölten	2: 2	100	0	0	1
09	2010/11	02/25/2011	FC Gratkorn	-	FC Admira Wacker Mödling	0: 6	3	0	0	1
10	2010/11	04/01/2011	FC Admira Wacker Mödling	-	First Vienna FC	1: 3	5	0	0	0
11	2010/11	04/15/2011	SCR Altach	-	TSV Hartberg	1: 2	7th	1	2	0
12	2010/11	05/13/2011	SKN St. Pölten	-	First Vienna FC	1: 1	6th	0	0	0
13	2010/11	05/17/2011	SC Austria Lustenau	-	TSV Hartberg	2: 2	7th	0	0	0
14th	2011/12	07/12/2011	FC Lustenau	-	LASK Linz	1: 1	3	0	0	0
15th	2011/12	07/15/2011	SC Austria Lustenau	-	FC Blau-Weiß Linz	1-0	6th	0	0	0
16	2011/12	08/12/2011	First Vienna FC	-	SKN St. Pölten	3: 1	6th	0	1	0
17th	2011/12	08/22/2011	LASK Linz	-	Wolfsberger AC / SK St. Andrä	2: 3	8th	0	0	2
18th	2011/12	09/09/2011	FC Lustenau	-	First Vienna FC	4: 1	6th	0	0	1
19th	2011/12	09/30/2011	SKN St. Pölten	-	FC Blau-Weiß Linz	0: 1	6th	1	0	0
20th	2011/12	11/25/2011	First Vienna FC	-	FC Lustenau	2: 3	8th	0	0	1
21st	2011/12	03/09/2012	FC Blau-Weiß Linz	-	SKN St. Pölten	0: 1	5	0	0	0
22nd	2011/12	04/03/2012	LASK Linz	-	FC Lustenau	1: 1	4th	0	0	0
23	2011/12	04/27/2012	SC Austria Lustenau	-	TSV Hartberg	2-0	5	0	0	0
24	2011/12	05/11/2012	SCR Altach	-	FC Blau-Weiß Linz	4: 1	5	0	0	0
25th	2012/13	11/23/2012	SCR Altach	-	Kapfenberger SV	2: 1	5	0	1	0
26th	2012/13	11/30/2012	SKN St. Pölten	-	First Vienna FC	2: 2	5	0	0	0
27	2012/13	03/08/2013	SCR Altach	-	SKN St. Pölten	2: 1	6th	0	1	0
28	2012/13	03/15/2013	Kapfenberger SV	-	First Vienna FC	3-0	4th	0	1	0
29	2012/13	03/28/2013	TSV Hartberg	-	SC Austria Lustenau	0-0	5	0	0	0
30th	2012/13	04/12/2013	SCR Altach	-	SV Horn	2-0	100	0	0	1
31	2012/13	04/19/2013	SKN St. Pölten	-	FC Lustenau	2: 2	5	1	0	1
32	2013/14	07/26/2013	SV Mattersburg	-	SKN St. Pölten	0: 1	8th	0	0	0
33	2013/14	08/09/2013	SC Austria Lustenau	-	SV Horn	3-0	9	0	0	0
34	2013/14	09/20/2013	Kapfenberger SV	-	SKN St. Pölten	1-0	5	0	0	0
35	2013/14	04/10/2013	SC Austria Lustenau	-	SKN St. Pölten	1: 1	6th	0	0	0
36	2013/14	11/08/2013	TSV Hartberg	-	SV Mattersburg	1: 3	5	0	1	1
37	2013/14	11/22/2013	First Vienna FC	-	SV Horn	1: 2	4th	0	0	0
32	2013/14	03/11/2014	SC Austria Lustenau	-	Kapfenberger SV	2-0	4th	0	0	0
33	2013/14	03/25/2014	SV Horn	-	SC-ESV Parndorf	1: 3	3	0	0	1
34	2013/14	04/08/2014	SV Mattersburg	-	SC Austria Lustenau	2: 1	5	0	1	1
35	2013/14	05/02/2014	SV Mattersburg	-	SKN St. Pölten	3: 2	5	0	0	0
36	2013/14	05/09/2014	SC Austria Lustenau	-	SCR Altach	5-0	4th	0	0	0
37	2013/14	05/23/2014	Kapfenberger SV	-	SV Horn	2-0	6th	0	0	0
38	2014/15	10/21/2014	SKN St. Pölten	-	Floridsdorfer AC	1: 1	2	0	0	0
39	2014/15	04/11/2014	SV Mattersburg	-	Kapfenberger SV	4: 2	2	0	0	0
40	2014/15	11/28/2014	FC Wacker Innsbruck	-	SC Austria Lustenau	1: 2	3	0	0	0

Game management in the Austrian Football Cup

As of August 20, 2017

game	season	date	Home team	-	Visiting team	Result				Eleven meters	annotation
01	2009/10	08/14/2009	FC Blau-Weiß Linz	-	SKN St. Pölten	3: 2	9	2	0	2
02	2010/11	08/14/2010	SVG Reichenau	-	SCR Altach	0: 8	3	0	1	0
03	2010/11	09/17/2010	FC Dornbirn	-	SV Mattersburg	1: 2	6th	1	0	0
04th	2011/12	09/20/2011	Union Innsbruck	-	SC Austria Lustenau	0: 7	7th	0	0	1
05	2011/12	04/11/2012	FC Red Bull Salzburg II	-	FC Red Bull Salzburg	1: 4	4th	0	0	0
06th	2013/14	07/12/2013	FC Dornbirn	-	First Vienna FC	1: 2	100	1	0	1
07th	2013/14	23.09.2013	SAK Klagenfurt	-	TSV Hartberg	2: 2/4: 2 n.v.	3	1	0	0
08th	2013/14	10/28/2013	SV Horn	-	SC-ESV Parndorf	5: 4	5	0	0	1

International assignments

As an arbitrator

As of August 20, 2017

game	date	Competition	Home team	-	Visiting team	Result				Eleven meters	annotation
01	08/26/2010	Friendly match	Austria U-17	-	Croatia U-17	3: 1	2	0	0	0	in Vöcklabruck
02	09/01/2011	Friendly match	Austria U-17	-	Croatia U-17	2: 3	0	0	0	1	in Pichl near Wels
03	05/23/2016	Friendly match	Czech Republic U-21	-	Albania U-21	1: 1	4th	0	0	0	in Mittersill

As an assistant referee

As of August 20, 2017

game	date	Competition	Home team	-	Visiting team	Result	referee	annotation
01	08/20/2008	International match	Luxembourg	-	Macedonia	1: 4	Bernhard Brugger
02	07/23/2009	Europa League qualification	Olimpi Rustavi	-	Legia Warsaw	0: 1	Bernhard Brugger

Private

Bernd Hirschbichler is single and has no children. In June 2003 he successfully passed the Matura at the Federal Commercial Academy in Zell am See . He then completed basic military service at the Saalfelden hunter's school and enrolled at the Leopold-Franzens University in Innsbruck in September 2004 . In parallel with the armed forces, he volunteered at the Red Cross , Salzburg regional association. Since July 1, 2003, Hirschbichler has been working as a volunteer at the Red Cross in Saalfelden. He passed the paramedic exam in February 2004. Step by step, he achieved further goals in extensive training. As a control center dispenser in the rescue control center in Zell am See, Hirschbichler has been responsible for regularly providing control center services for many years. Parallel to his studies in business education in Innsbruck, he was trained as a lecturer in first aid at the Red Cross .

Hirschbichler successfully completed his master's degree at the University of Innsbruck on September 9, 2009. Bernd Hirschbichler has been working as a business educator at vocational middle and high schools since October 2008 . In the school years 2008/09 and 2009/10 he taught the commercial subjects of accounting and business administration at the college for business professions in Saalfelden . Since September 13, 2010, the Leogang has been working as a secondary school teacher at the Federal Trade Academy in Zell am See.

Web links

Commons : Bernd Hirschbichler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Austrian Bundesliga: Referee data Bernd Hirschbichler (accessed on March 12, 2011)
• transfermarkt.at: Profile Bernd Hirschbichler (accessed on March 12, 2011)
• Bernd Hirschbichler in the database of weltfussball.de
• schiri.at: Portrait of Bernd Hirschbichler (accessed on March 12, 2011)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SFV referee: Referee group Pinzgau - We introduce ourselves ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on March 12, 2011) 
2. ↑ weltfussball.at: Kapfenberger SV against FC Lustenau 2: 1 (accessed on March 12, 2011)
3. ↑ Salzburg referees' college: Bundesliga debut for Bernd Hirschbichler  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on March 12, 2011)  
4. ↑ weltfussball.at: SK Austria Kärnten vs. SK Sturm Graz 0: 2 (accessed on March 12, 2011)
5. ↑ bundesliga.at: FC Gratkorn vs. FC Dornbirn 1: 2 (accessed on March 12, 2011)
6. ↑ bundesliga.at: Austria Wien II against SKN St. Pölten 1: 3 (accessed on March 12, 2011)
7. ↑ Austrian Bundesliga: List of referees for the 2010/11 Bundesliga ( memento of the original from 23 August 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on March 12, 2011) 
8. ↑ weltfussball.at: Luxembourg vs Macedonia 1: 4 (accessed on March 12, 2011)
9. ↑ weltfussball.at: Olimpi Rustavi against Legia Warszawa 0: 1 (accessed on March 12, 2011)
10. ↑ Claus Hollmann in Kleine Zeitung from October 1, 2010: WAC player Berchtold knocked out referee (accessed on March 12, 2011)
11. ↑ Salzburg24.at from November 6, 2015: The tough job of referee: Everything about Leberkäs attacks, insults and threats in private life (accessed on August 20, 2017)
12. ↑ Salzburg Football Association: Reports - Referees (accessed on August 20, 2017)
13. ↑ Salzburg Football Association: Bernd Hirschbichler is the new referee chairman (accessed on February 21, 2020)
14. ↑ ^{a b c d} transfermarkt.at: Profile Bernd Hirschbichler (accessed on August 20, 2017)
15. ↑ ^{a b c d} weltfussball.at: Spiele Bernd Hirschbichler (accessed on August 20, 2017)