Franz Woehrer

Franz Wöhrer 2009

Franz Wöhrer (born June 5, 1939 ) is a former football referee for the Austrian Football Association .

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Since 1957 he has been a referee, his main profession as a teacher , he reached the top division in Austria , League A , in 1964 and headed games at this level until 1987. He was a FIFA referee on the international list for the Austrian Football Association from 1969 active until 1987. He was in charge of more than 300 games in the Austrian Bundesliga and the second leg of the SK Sturm Graz cup final against FC Wacker Innsbruck (1915) (2-0). 160 international appearances, 75 of them in the European club cup competitions, prove his internationally successful career.

On May 2, 1986, he headed the final for the European Cup Winners' Cup between Dinamo Kiev and Atlético Madrid (3-0), on December 13, 1987 in the National Stadium in Tokyo, the final for the Intercontinental Cup between FC Porto ( Portugal ) and the CA Peñarol ( Uruguay ), which ended 2: 1. He also headed the second leg final of the U-21 European Football Championship in 1978 between Yugoslavia and the GDR (4: 4) in Mostar .

One game each was under his direction at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow ( Soviet Union - Venezuela 4: 0) and at the World Cup finals in Spain in 1982 ( Peru - Cameroon 0: 0).

With the World Cup final in 1987 in Tokyo, he ended his career as a referee (source: "Kleine Zeitung Kärnten" from December 14, 1987, page 23) and took over functions in the Austrian referee system and as a referee observer . Franz Wöhrer has been an honorary member of the ÖFB and WFV since 2010. He is also the chairman of the oldies with whistle, an association of former referees.

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