Ferdinand Feldhofer
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 23 October 1979 | ||
| Place of birth | Vorau, Austria | ||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Cercle Brugge (manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| TuS Vorau | |||
| TSV Pöllau | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1998–2002 | Sturm Graz | 32 | (1) |
| 2002–2005 | Rapid Wien | 80 | (5) |
| 2005–2008 | Wacker Innsbruck | 77 | (4) |
| 2008–2013 | Sturm Graz | 88 | (2) |
| International career | |||
| 2002–2007 | Austria | 13 | (1) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2015–2019 | SV Lafnitz | ||
| 2019–2021 | Wolfsberger AC | ||
| 2021–2022 | SK Rapid Wien | ||
| 2024 | Dinamo Tbilisi | ||
| 2024– | Cercle Brugge | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Ferdinand Feldhofer (born 23 October 1979) is an Austrian football coach and a former player. He is currently managing Cercle Brugge in the Belgian Pro League.
Career
[edit]Club
[edit]Feldhofer started his career as a youth player with TuS Vorau and TSV Pöllau in Styria before joining Sturm Graz with whom he won the double in 1999. He moved on a free to Rapid Wien in 2002, after refusing to extend his deal with Sturm and making the way to court because he was subsequently put back in Sturm's amateur side, Feldhofer ended up winning the case. He clinched another league title with Rapid in 2005 and then left to become skipper of Wacker Innsbruck. In summer 2008 he decided to return to Sturm, where he signed a 3-year contract.
National team
[edit]He made his debut 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 match against Ghana. He was not considered for Austria's Euro 2008 squad.
Managerial career
[edit]After acquiring his UEFA A Licence in June 2012, Feldhofer was a group manager at the "LAZ Weiz" in Weiz from 2013-2014. After that, from 2014 to 2015, he was working as an individual trainer for the ÖFB at the LAZ Styria. On the 10th of October, Feldhofer was revealed as manager of Austrian Regionalliga club SV Lafnitz and two days later started his work 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 2019, Feldhofer acquired his UEFA Pro Licence, the highest of Coach licences which is required in order to coach professional teams.
In December 2019, Feldhofer became coach of Austrian Bundesliga club Wolfsberger AC. Under him, the club was able to record what probably 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 place, which was the best season result in the history of the club, with this they were also able to immediately qualify for the Europa League for the second time. In 2020/21, the club was able to pass the group stage of said competition for the first time in club history but their run was put to a halt after two ties against Tottenham Hotspur. In the league however, the club was struggling to find continuous wins as they were, among other problems, missing a goalscorer of high caliber with Shon Weissman having departed to Real Valladolid. These smaller problems were however put in the background after it became public that Feldhofer had seemingly repeatedly been having fights with club skipper Michael Liendl putting him on the bench a few times before finally leaving him, together with two other leading players Michael Novak and Christopher Wernitznig, out of the match-day squad before their cup-clash against LASK, the game ended in a 0-1 loss after added time and Feldhofer decided to step down from his role as club-coach the following day, leaving the club at fifth in the table.
Since 28 November 2021, Feldhofer managed Austrian club SK Rapid Wien. Feldhofer was fired by Rapid on 16 October 2022.[1]
On 16 June 2024, he was appointed as the manager of Georgian club Dinamo Tbilisi signing a year and a half contract.[2] On 10 December 2024, Dinamo Tbilisi announced the departure of Feldhofer as Head Coach by mutual agreement.[3]
Managerial statistics
[edit]- As of match played 15 October 2022
| Team | Nation | From | To | Record | Ref | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | Win % | |||||
| SV Lafnitz | 
|
10 October 2015 | 23 December 2019 | 132 | 66 | 34 | 32 | 50.00 | [4] |
| Wolfsberger AC |
|
23 December 2019 | 4 March 2021 | 46 | 20 | 10 | 16 | 43.48 | [5] |
| Rapid Wien |
|
29 November 2021 | 16 October 2022 | 42 | 17 | 11 | 14 | 40.48 | [6] |
| Dinamo Tbilisi | 
|
16 June 2024 | 10 December 2024 | 25 | 8 | 6 | 11 | 32.00 | [7] |
| Total | 234 | 107 | 57 | 70 | 45.73 | — | |||
Honours
[edit]As player
[edit]- Austrian Football Bundesliga: 1997-98, 1998–99, 2010-11 (Sturm Graz) and 2004–05 (Rapid Vienna)
- Austrian Cup: 1998–99, 2009–10 (Sturm Graz)
As coach
[edit]- Austrian Regionalliga Central: 2017-18 (SV Lafnitz)
References
[edit]- ^ "Änderungen im Trainerteam der Profis" (in German). SK Rapid Vienna. 16 October 2022. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
- ^ "Ferdinand Feldhofer is the head coach of Dinamo Tbilisi". fcdinamo.ge. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
- ^ "ფერდინანდ ფელდჰოფერი დინამოს დაემშვიდობა". fcdinamo.ge (in Georgian). FC Dinamo Tbilisi. 11 December 2024. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
- ^ "SV Lafnitz: Matches". Soccerway. DAZN Group. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
- ^ "Wolfsberger AC: Matches". Soccerway. DAZN Group. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
- ^ "SK Rapid Wien: Matches". Soccerway. DAZN Group. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
- ^ "Georgia - FC Dinamo Tbilisi - Results and fixtures - Soccerway". uk.soccerway.com. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
- http://www.laola1.at/de/fussball/bundesliga/news/feldhofer-beendet-seine-karriere/page/58650-32-48---7.html Archived 29 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- https://web.archive.org/web/20161012100515/http://www.collegeweiz-stfv.at/trainer/ferdinand-feldhofer/
- http://sportnet.at/home/fussball/international/4840537/Fussball-Live_ExSturmKicker-Ferdinand-Feldhofer-hat-neuen-Job
- https://www.laola1.at/de/red/fussball/2--liga/news/2--liga--lafnitz-trainer-feldhofer-erhaelt-uefa-pro-lizenz/
- https://www.rzpelletswac.at/2019/12/23/feldhofer-neuer-cheftrainer/
- https://www.laola1.at/de/red/fussball/oefb-cup/news/wac-boss-riegler-zur-causa-feldhofer-liendl---eine-ungute-sache-/
- https://www.rzpelletswac.at/2021/03/04/feldhofer-tritt-zurueck/
- https://www.laola1.at/de/red/fussball/bundesliga/news/feldhofer-neuer-rapid-coach/
External links
[edit]- Ferdinand Feldhofer at National-Football-Teams.com
- Player stats at Rapid Archiv (in German)
- 1979 births
- Living people
- People from Hartberg District
- Men's association football defenders
- Austrian men's footballers
- Austria men's international footballers
- SK Sturm Graz players
- SK Rapid Wien players
- FC Wacker Innsbruck (2002) players
- Austrian Football Bundesliga players
- Footballers from Styria
- Austrian football managers
- Wolfsberger AC managers
- SK Rapid Wien managers
- FC Dinamo Tbilisi managers
- Cercle Brugge K.S.V. managers
- Austrian Football Bundesliga managers
- Erovnuli Liga managers
- Austrian expatriate football managers
- Expatriate football managers in Georgia (country)
- Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Georgia (country)
- Expatriate football managers in Belgium
- Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium