Stefan Ilsanker (soccer player)

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Stefan Ilsanker
FC Salzburg versus SG Eintracht Frankfurt (February 28, 2020 EL sixteenth-final second leg) 24.jpg
Stefan Ilsanker (2020)
Personnel
birthday May 18, 1989
place of birth Hallein ,  Austria
size 189 cm
position Defensive Midfield
Juniors
Years station
1996-1998 1. Halleiner SK
1998-2001 1. FSV Mainz 05
2001-2004 1. Halleiner SK
2004-2005 FC Hallein 04
2001-2005 →  SV Austria Salzburg  (cooperation)
2005-2007 FC Red Bull Salzburg
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2007-2010 Red Bull Juniors 76 (4)
2009-2010 FC Red Bull Salzburg 0 (0)
2010–2012 SV Mattersburg 50 (0)
2012-2015 FC Red Bull Salzburg 81 (4)
2015-2020 RB Leipzig 105 (1)
2020– Eintracht Frankfurt 12 (2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
Austria U17 4 (0)
at least 2006 Austria U18 1 (0)
2007 Austria U19 12 (0)
2008 Austria U20 2 (0)
2009-2010 Austria U21 9 (0)
2014– Austria 42 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2019/20

2 As of November 19, 2019

Stefan Ilsanker (born May 18, 1989 in Hallein ) is an Austrian football player . The defensive midfielder is under contract with German Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt and is a national team player . He is the son of former goalkeeper Herbert Ilsanker .

Career

youth

Ilsanker began playing football in 1996 in his place of birth at the now defunct 1. Halleiner SK . From 1998 he was the goalkeeper of the youth department of the then German second division club 1. FSV Mainz 05 when his father was working there as a professional. In 2001 Ilsanker came back to Hallein and played for his home club again, but soon switched to the youth department of Austria Salzburg on a cooperation basis . This meant that at that time Ilsanker was registered with the 1st Halleiner SK for around two to three months every year and only then went to the violets in the state capital Salzburg . After the Hallein SK had merged with the SK Olympia 1948 Hallein to FC Hallein 04 after the 2003/04 season , Ilsanker switched to this. However, the cooperation with SV Austria Salzburg continued.

Ilsanker in the Red Bull Salzburg jersey, July 2014

When Salzburger Austria was reconstituted as FC Red Bull Salzburg in 2005 , Ilsanker switched to its junior division. It was only during this time, at the age of 15, that he switched from goal to the field after helping out as a field player with a shoulder injury in training. His youth coach recognized the talent and persuaded him to try it in defensive midfield. In the youth teams of Red Bull Salzburg he was mostly used in the youth leagues, his last station being the U19 youth league, for which he played his last game in a 90-minute assignment in the 2007/08 season. This game should remain the only one in the U19 league for Ilsanker this season.

Club career

2007–2010: Red Bull Juniors and first professional outings

From the 2007/08 season , Ilsanker was in the Red Bull Juniors squad. The Juniors are considered to be the amateur team of FC Red Bull Salzburg, but at that time they were playing in the first division , the second highest division in Austria. Ilsanker made his first professional appearance in the first round of this season, when he was substituted on in the 2-1 away win over FC Gratkorn for the Croatian Marin Matos, who also made his professional debut in this game . After he was either substituted on or off in the following games and had seen the yellow-red card once , he became a regular in midfield from his sixth appearance in the first division. In his first season as a professional, he made 26 championship appearances and two hits. In the 29th round in the 2-0 defeat against SV Bad Aussee in front of 100 spectators in the home stadium, he was sent off again with a red card .

In the 2008/09 season he was an assist in 23 league games and came on in the ÖFB Cup game in a 7-0 away win over his former club, FC Hallein 04, from the 57th minute when he was substituted on for Richard Wemmer , for use. On April 4, 2009, in the 4-1 home win over Vienna Austria , Ilsanker sat for the first time on the bench of the Bundesliga team, but was not used. A few days later he was voted Youngster of the Month for March ; at the end of the season he was on the Young Star Team of the Year .

In the 2009/10 season , Ilsanker scored two goals in 27 league games for Red Bull Juniors. He also made two competitive appearances for the first team of FC Red Bull Salzburg. In the 7-1 away win in the ÖFB Cup game against SK Vorwärts Steyr , he replaced the Danish Thomas Augustinussen in midfield in the 52nd minute . On August 25, 2009 he played for the first time from the start in the play-off game for the 2009/10 UEFA Champions League against Maccabi Haifa , but had to be replaced by Saša Ilić in the 70th minute due to an injury . After that, Ilsanker was regularly used by the Juniors.

2010–2012: Two years in Mattersburg

Because the breakthrough in the professional squad of FC Red Bull Salzburg did not seem to succeed, Ilsanker signed a contract with Bundesliga club SV Mattersburg in summer 2010 . At Burgenland, he immediately fought for a place in the starting line-up and made a total of 56 competitive appearances in two seasons.

2012–2015: return to Salzburg

From the 2012/13 season , Ilsanker played again for FC Red Bull Salzburg. He signed a contract that was valid until summer 2014. Under coach Roger Schmidt he became a regular in his first season in defensive midfield. During this season he made 31 competitive appearances in the Bundesliga, Cup and Champions League qualification.

The 2013/14 season finally turned out to be the most successful sporting season for Ilsanker and Red Bull Salzburg. The season ended with a double win from the championship and the cup. In addition, the Salzburg in the proposed 2013-14 UEFA Europa League among other Ajax Amsterdam with a total score of 6: 1 and eliminated in the first knockout round against FC Basel from. Ilsanker came to 51 competitive appearances and five goals this season. His contract with Red Bull Salzburg ran until 2018 and he was a regular player in the following season.

2015–2020: RB Leipzig

For the 2015/16 season he moved to the German second division club RB Leipzig , with whom he rose to second in the table at the end of the season. He made his Bundesliga debut on August 28, 2016 (1st matchday) in a 2-2 draw in the away game against TSG 1899 Hoffenheim . As a result, the midfielder was used regularly and played with Leipzig in the European Cup every year from 2017. In the 2019/20 season, however , Ilsanker only made five Bundesliga games and one appearance in the cup .

Since 2020: Eintracht Frankfurt

On the last day of the 2019/20 winter transfer period , Ilsanker moved to Eintracht Frankfurt within the Bundesliga , where he signed a contract until 2022. On June 3, 2020, he scored his first two Bundesliga goals in a 3-0 away win against Werder Bremen , scoring for the first time only 17 seconds after being substituted on, setting a Bundesliga record since the detailed data collection began.

National team

Ilsanker in a game against Iceland, May 2014

Ilsanker already gained his first experience in the youth national teams of the ÖFB in the U17 selection , for which he was used in four games. He also made three appearances for the U18 national team and eleven games for the Austrian U19 team . In July 2007, Ilsanker was appointed by Hermann Stadler to the 18-man squad for the U19 European Championship 2007 in Upper Austria . Two games for the U20s and nine appearances for the U21s followed , with which he also qualified for the 2011 U21 World Cup in Denmark .

For the friendly against Uruguay on March 5, 2014, Ilsanker was appointed to the Austrian national team for the first time . After he had not yet played against the South Americans, he made his debut on May 30, 2014 in the game against Iceland . At the 2016 European Championships in France, Ilsanker was included in Austria's squad. In the opening game he was not used, in the 0-0 win against Portugal he was in the starting line-up. In the decisive game against Iceland, he was substituted at half time when the score was 0: 1. With just one point, the team was bottom of the group and eliminated.

successes

FC Red Bull Salzburg

RB Leipzig

Awards

Web links

Commons : Stefan Ilsanker  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: ADEG First League ratings 2008/09 )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bundesliga.at
  2. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: "Jungbullen" Ilsanker and Schartner zu Mattersburg )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / sport.orf.at
  3. ↑ Welcome to Salzburg. The return of Stefan Ilsanker to the Red Bulls. ( Memento of December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 24, 2012.
  4. ↑ Football: Midfielder Ilsanker extended until 2018 in Salzburg. In: kurier.at. February 26, 2014, accessed December 24, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Contract until 2022: Stefan Ilsanker becomes an eagle bearer , eintracht.de from January 31, 2020, accessed on January 31, 2020.
  6. ↑ Super-Joker Ilsanker ensures a record , sport1.de from June 3, 2020, accessed on June 4, 2020.
  7. ↑ Hermann Stadler nominates the squad for the UEFA European Under-19 Championship in Upper Austria (July 16-27 ) ( Memento from April 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), oefb.at, accessed on August 19, 2009.
  8. ↑ 18-man squad for the European Championship finals ( memento from February 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), oefb.at, accessed on August 19, 2009.
  9. ↑ Koller brings debutant Ilsanker into the squad , kurier.at from March 2, 2014, accessed on February 8, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Ilsanker, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Hallein , Austria