austrian former football player

Ferdinand Feldhofer ( bear 23 October 1979 in Vorau ) is an austrian football passenger car and a former player. He presently coaches Rapid Vienna .

career [edit ]

club [edit ]

Feldhofer started his career as a young musician with TuS Vorau and TSV Pöllau in Styria before joining Sturm Graz with whom he won the double in 1999. He moved on a complimentary to Rapid Wien in 2002, after refusing to extend his batch with Sturm and making the direction to court because he was subsequently put back in Sturm ‘s amateurish side, Feldhofer ended up winning the event. He clinched another league title with Rapid in 2005 and then left to become captain of Wacker Innsbruck. In summer 2008 he decided to return to Sturm, where he signed a 3-year abridge.

National team [edit ]

He made his introduction for Austria in a March 2002 friendly match against Slovakia and went on to earn 13 caps scoring one goal in a friendly against Trinidad and Tobago in Vienna. His last international was a March 2007 friendly equal against Ghana. He was not considered for Austria ‘s Euro 2008 police squad .

Managerial career [edit ]

After acquiring his UEFA A license in June 2012, Feldhofer was a group director at the “ LAZ Weiz ” in Weiz from 2013-2014. After that, from 2014 to 2015, he was working as an individual flight simulator for the ÖFB at the LAZ Styria. On the 10th of October, Feldhofer was revealed as director of austrian Regionalliga club SV Lafnitz and two days late started his exploit there. He was able to win the austrian Regionalliga Central with the club, getting promoted to the austrian 2. Liga by doing so. In October of 2019, Feldhofer acquired his UEFA Pro Licence, the highest of Coach licences which is required in order to coach professional teams.
In December of 2019, Feldhofer became coach of austrian Bundesliga club Wolfsberger AC. Under him, the club was able to record what credibly were the biggest achievements in the history of the club to date. At the end of the 2019/20 season, the Wolfsberger club stood at third invest, which was the best season result in the history of the club, with this they were besides able to immediately qualify for the Europa League for the second clock. In 2020/21, the cabaret was able to pass the group stage of said contest for the first time in club history but their run was put to a crippled after two ties against Tottenham Hotspur. In the league however, the club was struggling to find continuous wins as they were, among early problems, missing a goalscorer of high gear quality with Shon Weissman having departed to Real Valladolid. These smaller problems were however put in the background after it became populace that Feldhofer had apparently repeatedly been having fights with club captain Michael Liendl putting him on the judiciary a few times before finally leaving him, together with two other leading players Michael Novak and Christopher Wernitznig, out of the match-day police squad before their cup-clash against LASK, the game ended in a 0-1 loss after add clock time and Feldhofer decided to step down from his function as club-coach the follow day, leaving the club at fifth in the table. Since the 28th of November in 2021, Feldhofer is managing austrian clubhouse SK Rapid Wien .

managerial statistics [edit ]

As of match played 12 December 2021
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team Nation From To Record Ref
SV Lafnitz Austria 10 October 2015 23 December 2019 132 66 34 32 0 50.00 [1]
Wolfsberger AC Austria 23 December 2019 4 March 2021 46 20 10

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16 0 43.48 [2]
Rapid Wien Austria 29 November 2021 Present 3 2 1 0 0 66.67 [3]
Total 181 88 45 48

0 48.62 —

Honours [edit ]

As player [edit ]

As coach [edit ]

References [edit ]

  • Ferdinand Feldhofer at National-Football-Teams.com
  • Player stats at Rapid Archiv ( in German )