Dominik Thalhammer

Dominik Thalhammer
Dominik Thalhammer (2017)
Personnel
birthday	2nd October 1970
place of birth	Vienna ,  Austria
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1997-2000	SC Brunn am Gebirge
2000-2003	AKA Admira Wacker Mödling
2003-2004	VfB Admira Wacker Mödling II
2004	VfB Admira Wacker Mödling (assistant coach)
2004-2005	VfB Admira Wacker Mödling
2006	Viennese sports club
2008	Floridsdorfer AC
2010	TSV Ottensheim
2010-2011	Union Pregarten
2011-2020	Austria women U-17
2011-2020	Austria women
2020–	LASK

Dominik Thalhammer (born October 2, 1970 in Vienna ) is an Austrian football coach .

Career

Thalhammer coached the lower class SC Brunn am Gebirge from 1997 to 2000 . From the 2000/01 season Thalhammer worked for the Bundesliga club VfB Admira Wacker Mödling as academy director, amateur trainer and academy trainer. With the amateur team he was promoted to the Regionalliga Ost, as an academy coach he was Austrian champion with the U17 and U19.

When Thalhammer was appointed head coach of the fighting team in September 2004, at the age of 33 he was the youngest coach ever to coach a team in the first Austrian division. In August 2005 Admira parted ways with him. From December 2005 to October 2006 he was the head coach of the regional division Wiener Sportklub . From June 2007 to May 2008 Thalhammer worked for the first division club LASK as assistant to head coach Karl Daxbacher and as a sports manager. He then briefly looked after the regional division Floridsdorfer AC . In 2010 he coached the fifth-class TSV Ottensheim , with whom he was relegated to the district league. In the 2010/11 season he was coach of the fifth class Union Pregarten until the winter break .

In February 2011, Thalhammer was appointed by the Austrian Football Association to head the National Center for Women's Football in St. Pölten and head of the Austrian women's U-17 national team. In April 2011 he also took over the Austrian women's A national team . With this, Dominik Thalhammer reached the playoffs for the European Championship in Sweden in 2012 for the first time in the history of Austrian women's football , in which the team failed against Russia. With the U-17 national team , Thalhammer managed to qualify for the first time in 2013 for an Austrian women's national team for a final round of a European championship that took place in England in 2014 . There they just missed the semi-finals after a draw against Portugal (0: 0), a defeat against England (1: 2) and a win against Italy (1: 0). In February 2016, Thalhammer was appointed sporting director of coach training for the Austrian Football Association, thereby also ending his activities as sporting director of the National Center for Women's Football and as team leader of the women's U-17 national team. In March 2016, Thalhammer secured the tournament victory with the Austrian women's A national team at the prestigious Cyprus Cup (2-1 final victory against Poland) and thus won the first title for an ÖFB women's selection.

In September 2016, Thalhammer and the women's national team achieved the historic first qualification for a European championship , which took place in the Netherlands in 2017. In the EM qualification group, the women's national team took 2nd place behind Norway.

Thalhammer (3rd from left) at the Austrian Athlete of the Year 2017 award

At the European Championships in the Netherlands, Dominik Thalhammer's team sensationally qualified as group winners for the quarter-finals after a win against Switzerland (1-0), a draw against France (1: 1) and a win against Iceland (3-0) . In this, after 120 goalless minutes and a win on penalties (5: 3) against Spain, the women's national team surprisingly entered the semi-finals of the European Championship as a big underdog, in which they were again eliminated after 120 goalless minutes on penalties against Denmark. In August 2017, Dominik Thalhammer was nominated by FIFA for the women's world coach of the year. In the election he finished eighth out of ten. His team was voted Team of the Year 2017 in Austria .

In November 2017, Thalhammer was voted "Trainer of the Year" by the Federal Sports Organization (BSO). In December 2017, the ÖFB appointed Dominik Thalhammer as general manager of the Austrian trainer education and training. In July 2019, Dominik Thalhammer was appointed to the UEFA Jira Panel by UEFA, which deals with issues relating to the development of coaching and the training of coaches.

After more than nine years at ÖFB, he returned to LASK for the 2020/21 season, where he became head coach and sports director.

Private life

Dominik Thalhammer is married and has two daughters. He lives with his family in Linz .

Web links

Commons : Dominik Thalhammer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Dominik Thalhammer in the database of weltfussball.de
• Dominik Thalhammer in the database of transfermarkt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thalhammer no longer Admira-Trainer derstandard.at, on August 17, 2005, accessed on July 11, 2020
2. ↑ Women's national team celebrates tournament victory at the Cyprus Cup. In: oefb.at. March 9, 2016. Retrieved January 19, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Female soccer players secure their first European Championship participation. In: derstandard.at . September 20, 2016. Retrieved January 19, 2017 . 
4. ↑ fifa.com: FIFA Football Awards 2017 - Voting Results
5. ↑ BSO Cristall-Gala 2017. Winner of the 2017 Gala. November 10, 2017, accessed on November 19, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Thalhammer takes on trainer training at the ÖFB - derStandard.de. In: derStandard.de. STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft, December 20, 2017, accessed on December 23, 2018 (Austrian German). 
7. ↑ Dominik Thalhammer new trainer at LASK lask.at, on July 11, 2020, accessed on July 11, 2020