Heimo Pfeifenberger

Heimo Pfeifenberger
Heimo Pfeifenberger (2014)
Personnel
birthday	December 29, 1966
place of birth	Zederhaus ,  Austria
size	183 cm
position	Right winger
Juniors
Years	station
1971-1987	UPS Zederhaus
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1987-1988	SV Austria Salzburg	30 (13)
1988-1992	SK Rapid Vienna	117 (42)
1992-1996	SV Austria Salzburg	122 (58)
1996-1998	Werder Bremen	43 0(5)
1998-2004	SV Austria Salzburg	91 (15)
2007	SV Seekirchen 1945	4 0(4)
2007	SV Grödig	2 0(1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1989-1998	Austria	40 0(9)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2005-2007	FC Red Bull Salzburg (youth)
2007-2009	SV Grödig
2009-2010	Austria U-21 (assistant coach)
2010	SPG Axams / Götzens
2010–2012	SV Grödig
2012-2014	SC Wiener Neustadt
2015-2018	Wolfsberger AC
2019	Austria U-20 (assistant coach)
2020	Sūduva Marijampolė
2020–	SV Grödig
1 Only league games are given.

Heimo Pfeifenberger (born December 29, 1966 in Zederhaus ) is a former Austrian soccer player and today's coach .

Player career

society

Pfeifenberger began his career in the youth of USV Zederhaus. In 1987 he drew attention to himself with 56 goals this season for the lower house club and so the then SV Austria Salzburg coach Hannes Winklbauer brought him to the state capital. After he was promoted to the 1st division with the Salzburg team in his first season as a professional , he moved to SK Rapid Vienna . With the Viennese he reached the ÖFB Cup finals in 1990 (against FK Austria Wien ) & 1991 (against SV Stockerau ) , but lost both times to the opposing teams. In 1992 he returned to Salzburg and had his most successful time as a footballer. He was twice Austrian champion and Supercup winner in 1994 and 1995. He also reached the 1994 UEFA Cup final against Inter Milan and the group stage of the 1995 UEFA Champions League. He was also the top scorer in the Austrian Bundesliga in 1994 together with Nikola Jurčević .

After this high-flying sport he moved to Werder Bremen on the Weser in 1996 . Pfeifenberger played in Germany for two years before returning to Austria in 1998 after the World Cup in France . He stayed with Salzburg for another six years before ending his career. In these years the ÖFB Cup final 2000, a 3rd place in the Bundesliga and participation in the UEFA Cup (games against Udinese Calcio and AC Parma ) were the greatest successes.

In the spring season 2007 he played briefly for SV Seekirchen 1945 in the Regionalliga West and changed as coach at SV Grödig twice in autumn 2007.

National team

For the Austrian national soccer team he made his debut on August 23, 1989 in the World Cup qualifier against Iceland . He was able to score his first goal to make it 1-0 for Austria in a 2-1 win at the Lehen stadium in Salzburg. He took part in the soccer world championships in Italy in 1990 and in France in 1998 . While he was not used in Italy, he was allowed to play all three group matches against Cameroon , Chile and Italy in France . He played his last game for Austria on August 19, 1998 in Vienna's Ernst Happel Stadium against the reigning soccer world champion France .

statistics

• National team
  • 40 international matches for Austria
  • 9 goals
  • 2 World Cup participations (1990 & 1998)
• League games
  • 243 for Austria Salzburg
  • 117 for Rapid Vienna
  • 43 for Werder Bremen
• League goals
  • 86 for Austria Salzburg
  • 42 for Rapid Vienna
  • 5 for Werder Bremen

successes

• National:
  • 2 × Austrian champion with Austria Salzburg: ( 1993/94 , 1994/95 )
  • 2 × Supercup winner with Austria Salzburg: 1994, 1995
  • 1 × ÖFB Cup finalist with Austria Salzburg: 2000
  • 1 × top scorer (Bundesliga Austria): 1993/94 (14 goals as well as club colleague Nikola Jurčević )
  • 1 × Footballer of the Year in Austria 1994
  • Eleventh in the all-time Bundesliga goalscorer list with 117 goals (as of Jan. 2011)
• International:
  • Participation in soccer world championships twice : Italy 1990 , France 1998
  • 1 × UEFA Cup final with Austria Salzburg: 1994 against Inter Milan (0: 1.0: 1)
  • 1 × Champions League participation with Austria Salzburg: 1994/95

Coaching career

Coaching staff of the U-21 national team Otto Konrad , Andreas Herzog and Heimo Pfeifenberger

After the end of his career, Pfeifenberger took a year off and then worked from 2005 to 2007 as youth coordinator at FC Red Bull Salzburg . For the 2007/08 season he was appointed coach of SV Grödig . With the Grödigern he immediately made promotion to the first division , but was replaced in the following season by Miroslav Bojčeski after moderate success . Andreas Herzog and Otto Konrad brought him to the Austrian U-21 national team from Austria, where he acted as assistant coach. At the beginning of 2010 he took over the coaching position at SPG Axams / Götzens for a short time before switching back to SV Grödig, with whom he was promoted back to the first division. In December 2010 he was able to guide Otto Konrad to the Grödigers as goalkeeping coach. Pfeifenberger left SV Grödig in spring 2012 after disagreements with the club's management and on May 30, 2012 succeeded Peter Stöger as coach of Bundesliga club SC Wiener Neustadt . On November 12, 2014, the coaching contract was terminated by mutual agreement.

On November 25, 2015, after a break of over a year, he was presented as the new coach of the Carinthian Bundesliga club Wolfsberger AC . In March 2018, Pfeifenberger was given leave of absence. The WAC was at that point in ninth place in the table.

In March 2019 he briefly acted as assistant coach to Hermann Stadler for the Austrian U-20 team . In January 2020 he became a trainer in Lithuania at Sūduva Marijampolė . In April 2020 he was sacked as a coach after just two games.

In May 2020 he was again coach of the regional league club SV Grödig.

successes

• 2 × Champion Regionalliga West (promotion to the first division ) with SV Grödig: 2007/08 , 2009/10

Web links

Commons : Heimo Pfeifenberger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Heimo Pfeifenberger in the database of weltfussball.de
• Heimo Pfeifenberger (player) in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Heimo Pfeifenberger (trainer) in the database of transfermarkt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ sport.orf.at: Farewell to the bottom on November 12, 2014
2. ↑ derstandard.at: WAC puts Kühbauer in front of the door on November 25, 2015
3. ↑ Heimo Pfeifenberger on leave with immediate effect ( memento of the original from March 18, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. rzpelletswac.at, March 17, 2018, accessed on March 17, 2018 
4. ↑ "Sūduvą" treniruos austras H. Pfeifenbergeris fksuduva.lt, on January 8, 2020, accessed on January 8, 2020
5. ↑ Nutraukta sutartis su H. Pfeifenbergeriu fksuduva.lt, April 14, 2020, accessed on April 15, 2020
6. ↑ Heimo Pfeifenberger is back sv-groedig.at, accessed on May 31, 2020