Italy 2-1 Austria Player Ratings: Super subs send Azzurri through after extra-time. Anchored by Herbert Prohaska and striker Hans Krankl, and backed up by Bruno Pezzey, Austria reached the World Cup in 1978 and 1982 and both times reached the second round, held in team group matches that replaced the knockout quarter-finals. North Macedonia stun Italy as Portugal survive scare, FIFA Womens World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023, Patterns emerge as European qualifying reaches midway point, Hat-trick heroes and favourites in top form, Tuesday's FIFA World Cup qualifying results, Saturday's FIFA World Cup qualifying results, A flurry of emphatic wins and a few surprises, Matchday 2 at the Women's Olympic Football Tournament, How the FIFA Foundation helps refugees through football. The matchratings (which displays the performance/form) range from zero to 10 and are calculated via our algorithms. The Euro 2016 qualifying campaign was even more successful. SUS Suspended in official matches, .mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}Positive Record All rights reserved. ", "Ralf Rangnick nominiert Kader fr UEFA Nations League Spiele", "Austria-France | UEFA Nations League 2023 | UEFA.com". This page displays a detailed overview of the club's current squad. Rubin Okotie scored the deciding goal in the closing 20 minutes of the match after a previous Austrian goal a minute before was controversially disallowed. Austria however, opened their campaign with a shocking 02 loss to its neighbor Hungary, in which defender Aleksandar Dragovi was sent off. Herzog has the most caps for his country with 103, while their top goalscorer is Polster. Austria was drawn into UEFA Euro 2020 Group C alongside the Netherlands, Ukraine and debutants North Macedonia. [10] Nonetheless, Austria ended up losing 12 to debutant Iceland and was shockingly eliminated with just a point. Austria qualified for their third European Championship Finals. Austria suffered another couple of years of botched qualifying campaigns, despite playing some entertaining football in the closing stages of UEFA Euro 1996 qualification. Italy scored twice after half-time: a header from Christian Vieri and a tap-in from Roberto Baggio. Austria struggled in the first few games after a loss to Poland at home and a shocking loss to Israel and another to minnows Latvia. In their two outings in the Euros they have failed to win a single match. However, the previous nightmare in UEFA Euro had a great impact on the Austrian side, and Austria ended the qualification in 4th place in the group, failing to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. In the 1934 FIFA World Cup, Austria finished fourth after losing 10 to Italy in the semi-finals and 32 to Germany in the third place play-off. They faced Italy in the round of 16 at Wembley Stadium and lost 21 after extra time with Sasa Kalajdzic scoring their only goal of the game in the 114th minute. Algeria had also won two matches, including a shocking surprise over West Germany in the opener, but among the three teams that had won two matches, was eliminated based on goal difference, having conceded two late goals in their 32 win over Chile.

The all-German team led the Swiss 20 after 15 minutes, but eventually lost 42 in Paris in front of a rather anti-German French and Swiss crowd, as few German supporters were able to travel to France due to German restrictions on foreign currency exchange. It also contains a table with average age, cumulative market value and average market value for each player position and overall. Austria qualified automatically for Euro 2008 as co-hosts. Pos 33. At the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, the Austrian team was a disappointment. Over the years, a strong yet mainly lopsided rivalry with Germany developed. As a result, five players from Austria Wien, Rapid Wien and Vienna Wien were part of the team that only managed a 11 draw in Round 1 against Switzerland, which required a rematch. A week later, the team played a friendly away game against favored Brazil, losing 21. Austria and Northern Ireland were eliminated by losing to France in the second round group stage of three teams. Their first major tournament in a decade, most commentators regarded them as outsiders and whipping-boys for Germany, Croatia and Poland in the group stage. Due to the great popularity of the Austrian team, on 20 October 1965, Austria succeeded as the third team of the continent to defeat England at home. France's winless start to the Nations League continued as they needed substitute Kylian Mbappe to rescue a 1-1 draw against Austria. RET Retired from international football https://www.weibo.com/FIFAWorldCup?is_hot=1. This page was last edited on 17 July 2022, at 14:45. Karel Brckner, who had resigned as head coach of the Czech Republic after that country's first round exit from Euro 2008, was soon named as his replacement. It was also the second time Austria qualified for a major tournament consecutively since back to back since the 1954 and 1958 World Cup. Squad size: Northern Ireland captain Marissa Callaghan insisted her side will play their upcoming Euro 2022 match against Austria for injured striker Simone Magill.

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Still holding to the great popularity in the country, under new coach Decker they again made an international sensation in the era.

Against Cameroon, Pierre Njanka's goal was cancelled out by Toni Polster's late strike. Austria also recorded a pair of victories over Moldova (21 in Chiinu) and Montenegro (10 in Vienna). Theoretically, a united team could have been an even stronger force than each of the separate ones, but German coach Sepp Herberger had little time and very few matches to prepare and merge the very different styles of play and attitude. Austria has qualified for seven FIFA World Cups, most recently in 1998. The Austrians also denied the defending world champion a trip to the third place match, beating them 32 by two goals of Hans Krankl, plus an own goal. Max Scheuer, a Jewish defender who played for the Austria national football team in 1923, was subsequently killed during the Holocaust in Auschwitz concentration camp. It was the first win for Austria at a European Championship and first time scoring more than one goal in a group stage game. Austria finished its Euro 2016 qualifying campaign by topping the group undefeated, leading the Austrians to be enthusiastic over a new golden generation to begin. [7] Instead, the German team would represent the former Austrian territory. With Rapid Wien's forward Hans Pesser having been sent off, and not satisfied with two others, Herberger had to alter the line-up on six positions to fulfill the 6:5 quota again. In the final group stage match, Austria needed a win to secure second place and defeated Ukraine 10. After only eight months, Brckner was released in March 2009 and the position was subsequently taken by Didi Constantini. became famous in Austria, where it is considered the "Miracle of Cordoba", while the West Germans regard the game and the Austrian behaviour as a disgrace. Again, the Austrians battled and drew with the Swedes 11, before beating the same opponent in a 41 win right in Swedish soil. After ten minutes of furious attack, Horst Hrubesch scored for West Germany and the two teams mainly kicked the ball around for 80 minutes with few attempts to attack. In 2006, Josef Hickersberger became coach of the Austria national team, which included some respectable results such as a 10 victory against Switzerland in 2006. Austria was drawn into UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying Group G alongside Poland, North Macedonia, Slovenia, Israel and Latvia. The abrupt end of Austria's success in the post-war period led to the clear 06 loss against Czechoslovakia in 1962, from which many players and also Karl Decker did not recover. They failed to qualify for the 2002 World Cup and Euro 2000, and suffered embarrassment (similar to the Faroe Islands loss) when they lost 90 to Spain and 50 to Israel in 1999. Austria were not so fortunate in their crucial, final match at the Stade de France. Their best performance at the World Cup came back in 1954 when they finished third in the home of their neighbours, Switzerland, largely due to the performance of their star striker, Erich Probst. the worst embarrassment in any Austrian team sport ever, and one of the biggest upsets in footballing history. The following players were called up for the UEFA Nations League matches against Croatia, Denmark, France and Denmark on 3, 6, 10 and 13 June 2022. Supported by a large football euphoria, Austria came very close to qualifying for the 1974 World Cup in Germany. The Austria national football team is renowned for its solidity and organisation, and has used these qualities to qualify for seven World Cup tournaments. Austria was grouped in group F with Hungary, Portugal and Iceland, and was tipped favorite to progress. In the 1998 World Cup, Austria were drawn in Group B alongside Italy, Cameroon and Chile. In the summer of 1968, Leopold astn, the successful Slovak coach of Wacker Innsbruck, took over the national team. A number of players from the 2007 U-20 team that finished fourth in the World Cup that year ended up developing and becoming full starters for the senior squad, including Sebastian Prdl, Markus Suttner, Martin Harnik, Veli Kavlak, Erwin Hoffer, Zlatko Junuzovi and Rubin Okotie. On 28 March, FIFA was notified that the FB had been abolished, resulting in the nation's withdrawal from the World Cup. The match-up between Austria and Hungary is the second most-played international match in football; only Argentina and Uruguay, another two neighboring countries, have met each other in more matches. In the 1978 World Cup in Argentina, they had lost two matches and would almost surely finish last in their second round group of four teams, but they put in a special effort for their last game in Crdoba against West Germany, which had still chances of qualifying for the final. In their second match, it was Ivica Vasti who curled a last minute equalizer, cancelling out Marcelo Salas' disputed opener.

France's Nations League woes were worsened as their winless start continued with a 1-0 home defeat to Croatia, while Denmark recovered to beat Austria 2-0. The Algerian supporters were furious, and even the Austrian and West German fans showed themselves to be extremely unhappy with the nature of their progression. [4][5][6] The team enjoyed success in the 1930s under coach Hugo Meisl, becoming a dominant side in Europe and earning the nickname "Wunderteam". They were runners-up in the 1936 Olympics in Germany, again losing to Italy 21, despite having been beaten in the quarter-finals by Peru, following the Peruvians' withdrawal. Led by striker Toni Polster, Austria qualified for the 1990 World Cup but were eliminated in the first round, despite defeating the United States 21. There were a number of notable results, such as home victories over the Republic of Ireland and Sweden, as well as a narrow home defeat to Germany and a 22 draw in Ireland in the rematch. Austria appoint Franco Foda as new national team manager. After 1998, Austria began to decline. Negative Record, This article is about the men's team. The team failed to qualify for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, but finished in third place with a 523 record with 17 points and a +10 goal difference in their qualifying group. ", " 2:5 - ! [11] This failure blew up the myth of a new golden generation for many Austrians. After 1988, the tournament has been restricted to squads with no more than 3 players over the age of 23, and these matches are not regarded as part of the national team's record, nor are caps awarded. The celebrating report of the radio commentator Edi Finger ("I werd narrisch!") However, due to lack of money, Austria decided not to participate at the 1962 World Cup in Chile, and the team fell apart. Below is the Austria first-team squad for the 2022/2023 season ranked by position from goalkeeper to strikers. WD Player withdrew from the squad due to non-injury issue In the 1930s they were deemed to be among the best, most progressive sides in the world, threatening England's position of dominance over the international game. Defeats to the eventual champions Brazil, the emerging Soviet Union and a draw against a weakened England (who were rebuilding after the loss of several of their key players due to the Munich air disaster) prevented the team from reaching the next round. Marko Arnautovi led the team in most goals and tied Robert Lewandowski with nine goals. However, in the same year, Austria failed for the first time to qualify for the World Cup in the 1966 edition, ending third against a still-strong Hungary and East Germany; they only earned a draw. Previous lineup from Austria vs Denmark on Monday 13th June 2022. Copyright 1994 -2022 FIFA. It shows all personal information about the players, including age, nationality, contract duration and market value. In early April, Herberger inquired whether two separate teams could enter anyway, but "Reichssportfhrer" Hans von Tschammer und Osten made clear that he expected to see a 5:6 or 6:5 ratio of players from the two hitherto teams. In a later rematch, the Germans took revenge, winning 91. They managed a 11 draw with Poland and lost 10 to both favoured Croatia and Germany. In the Austria Bundesliga Red Bull Salzburg have been completely dominant in recent seasons, putting the likes of Austria Wien, Rapid Wien, and Sturm Graz in the shade. It was a sign for things to come. Austria also beat Russia twice both home and away with the score 10. Their appearance was brief but eventful, as they managed the curious feat of only scoring in stoppage time in each of their matches. The qualifying round was tied for first place between Austria and Sweden, despite tiebreakers based on points and goal difference, therefore a playoff was needed for qualifying, held in Gelsenkirchen.

Austria kicked off the opener with a 31 victory against North Macedonia. Because the other two teams in the group had played their last match the previous day, both teams knew that a West German win by one goal would see both through, while all other results would eliminate one team or the other. [8] However, Austria performed better than expected. Copyright 2018 - 2022, Footballcritic Inc. All right reserved. Thank you for using Footballcritic. INJ Player withdrew from the squad due to an injury The Austria national football team (German: sterreichische Fuballnationalmannschaft) represents Austria in men's international football competition and it is controlled by the Austrian Football Association (German: sterreichischer Fuball-Bund). Neutral Record The match became known as the "non-aggression pact of Gijn". 26, Average age: In order to have enough time to prepare, the championship round was suspended[clarification needed] and the stadium in Gelsenkirchen was prepared five days before the playoff. During the 1982 World Cup in Spain, Austria and West Germany met again, in the last match of the group stage. COV Player withdrew from the squad due to COVID-19 Andi Herzog's stoppage time penalty kept up Austria's unusual scoring pattern, but was not enough to prevent Austria finishing third in the group, behind the Italians and Chileans. As the group became more competitive, Austria won six of the last nine game matches and finished second in the group with nineteen points. 2492.3 %, Confederation: After the end of Decker era, the team was unable for a long time to connect to the old successes; these were limited mostly only to surprise victories in individual games. In the qualifying campaign for Euro 2012, the Austrians played against Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Turkey and Germany. In front of a record crowd of over 90,000 spectators, made possible by the expansion of Prater Stadium, the team could beat the Soviet Union 31 and Spain 30. As a result of this match, all future tournaments would see the last group matches played simultaneously. However, despite this successful performance in qualification, the tournament itself turned out to be a complete nightmare for the Austrians. Austria finished second in the group and it was the first time they've progressed to the knockout stages at European Championships. Despite failing to qualify for the 1970 World Cup, the new coach emphasized developing new players rather than relying on the old guard. [15], Caps and goals as of 13 June 2022, after match against Denmark. This Austria team, coached by Helmut Senekowitsch, is widely regarded as the best post-World War II Austrian football team ever. The Austrian Football Association ("FB") was founded on 18 March 1904 in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Austria's best result came in 1954 with a team starring midfielder Ernst Ocwirk. The country played in the UEFA European Championship for the first time in 2008, when it co-hosted the event with Switzerland, and most recently qualified in 2020. Much worse was the stunning 10 loss against the Faroe Islands, a team made of amateurs, in the qualifying campaign for the 1992 European Championship, considered[by whom?] [18], PRE Player was named to the preliminary squad A record of the recent fixtures played by Austria with their matchratings. Shortly after Austria's first-round exit from the tournament, Hickersberger resigned as the national team coach. They lost in the semi-finals 61 to eventual champions Germany, but finished third after beating defending champions Uruguay 31. The former Austrian professionals outplayed the rather athletic yet amateur players of the "Old Empire" in a "reunification" derby that was supposed to finish as a draw, yet in the waning minutes, the Austrians scored twice, with Matthias Sindelar also demonstratively missing the German goal, and subsequently declining to be capped for Germany.