Dietmar Kühbauer

Dietmar Kühbauer
Dietmar Kühbauer (2018)
Personnel
birthday	April 4th 1971
place of birth	Heiligenkreuz in Lafnitztal ,  Austria
size	173 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
1978-1987	SV Mattersburg
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1987-1992	FC Admira Wacker	121 0(7)
1992-1997	SK Rapid Vienna	148 (33)
1997-2000	Real Sociedad	56 0(2)
2000-2002	VfL Wolfsburg	49 0(8)
2002-2008	SV Mattersburg	181 (24)
2012-2013	SV Rohrbrunn
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1992-2005	Austria	55 0(5)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2008-2010	FC Admira Wacker Mödling II
2010-2013	FC Admira Wacker Mödling
2013-2015	Wolfsberger AC
2018	SKN St. Pölten
2018–	SK Rapid Vienna
1 Only league games are given.

Dietmar "Didi" Kühbauer (born April 4, 1971 in Heiligenkreuz in Lafnitztal ) is a former Austrian football player and today's coach . Since October 2018 he has been coaching the Austrian Bundesliga club SK Rapid Wien .

Career

player

Born in Burgenland, he made his debut in the Austrian Bundesliga at the age of 16 as a player for Admira Wacker . In 1992, the then team boss Ernst Happel appointed him to the Austrian national team for the first time, and in the summer of the same year he moved from Südstadt to Hütteldorf to SK Rapid Vienna .

Although the club was in great financial difficulties until 1994 and was only moderately successful in terms of sport, Kühbauer was a permanent member of the ÖFB selection. At Rapid, a group was formed around the young player, which ensured a good atmosphere and in 1994/95 also very attractive sporting performances. The result was the Austrian Cup victory. In the summer of 1995, Rapid signed ÖFB team player Peter Stöger . With this, Andreas Heraf , Stephan Marasek and Zoran Barisic they formed the best midfield in the league. The result was winning the Austrian championship, internationally they made it into the European Cup final of the cup winners.

In 1996/97 he played his best season for the greens / whites , but due to many indisciplines it was not enough for the championship title. In February 1997 he suffered his biggest and most painful blow of fate to date. His pregnant wife Michaela had a serious accident on the way to the airport (she wanted to pick up her husband from the training camp) in a traffic accident and died lying in a coma after six months. Kühbauer had to make a fresh start and switched to Real Sociedad in the Primera División .

A very successful first was followed by two average years, which is why he moved to the German Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg in the summer of 2000 . He got off to a happy start there and with strong performances he was captain of the Werkself for a short time. The wave of success did not last long, Kühbauer was demoted as captain, lost his regular place and finally moved to the second Austrian Bundesliga in the summer of 2002 to his home club SV Mattersburg . There followed in the first season of promotion to the top division. After a few years in the midfield of the league, they achieved an international starting position for the first time by reaching the ÖFB Cup final in 2006 and, in the autumn of 2006, the very good second place in the league.

After the 2007/08 season, Kühbauer announced his retirement from professional football. In the summer of 2012, Kühbauer played football again at the lower-class SV Rohrbrunn.

Trainer

Dietmar Kübauer at the 2013 season finale in Mattersburg.

In December 2008, after having received the Trainer-A license, he started his first coaching position with the Admira Amateurs. In April 2010 he was promoted to head coach of Admira Wacker Mödling after Walter Schachner had been released early.

In his first season as Admira coach, Kühbauer made a successful start to his first full coaching season with a reduced budget and a young team, which he ended on May 24, 2011 with the championship title and the associated promotion of Admira to the Austrian Bundesliga . He is the first Admira coach since Milan Miklavic in the 1999/2000 season to survive a full season in the Admira coaching bench. In his first season as coach of Admira in the Austrian Bundesliga , Kühbauer reached third place with the team in the final table and qualified for the Europa League . In the 2012/13 season, Admira was less successful due to the departures of team supports Christopher Dibon , Marcel Sabitzer and Philipp Hosiner and numerous injuries and only kept the league in the last round with a 1-0 away win at SV Mattersburg . Nevertheless, on June 11, 2013, Kühbauer's contract, which would have run until 2014, was resolved amicably. Kühbauer indicated as the reason for the emerging austerity course at Admira.

On September 2, 2013, the Austrian Bundesliga club Wolfsberger AC signed him after separating from coach Slobodan Grubor .

After a very successful 2014/15 season , in which the WAC came in fifth after leading the table, the 2015/16 Austrian Football Championship was very poor, especially in the first third. The WAC was in last place after 16 laps and was therefore in danger of relegation. That's why Kühbauer had to vacate his coaching chair on November 25, 2015.

On April 1, 2018, Kühbauer took over the position of trainer of the SKN St. Pölten from his predecessor Oliver Lederer . In October 2018 he moved to league competitor SK Rapid Wien , for whom he had already played as a player, where he received a contract until summer 2021.

successes

• 1 × Champion Austria: 1996 (SK Rapid Vienna)
• 1 × Cup winner Austria : 1995 (SK Rapid Vienna)
• 1 × European Cup final: 1996 (SK Rapid Vienna)
• 1 × World Cup participation: France 1998
• 55 international matches (5 goals) for the Austrian national team
• 6 × winners of the Krone footballer choice : 1996, 1997, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2005
• Part of the Rapid Team of the Century

Web links

Commons : Dietmar Kühbauer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Dietmar Kühbauer in the weltfussball.de database
• Dietmar Kühbauer (player profile) in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Dietmar Kühbauer (Trainer Profile) in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Dietmar Kühbauer in the database of kicker.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kühbauer and Admira split up. In: kurier.at. June 11, 2013, accessed December 24, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Emergency braking after a negative series , on sportv2.orf.at
3. ↑ WAC puts Kühbauer in front of the door
4. ↑ Dietmar Kühbauer is the new leader! ( Memento from April 2, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) skn-stpoelten.at, April 1, 2018, accessed on April 1, 2018
5. ↑ Welcome home, Didi Kühbauer skrapid.at, October 1, 2018, accessed on October 1, 2018
6. ↑ Kühbauer changes to Hütteldorf on ORF Lower Austria from October 1, 2018, accessed on October 1, 2018.