Franz Binder
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Franz Binder | ||
Date of birth | 1 December 1911 | ||
Place of birth | St. Pölten, Austria | ||
Date of death | 24 April 1989 | (aged 77)||
Place of death | Vienna, Austria | ||
Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1930–1948 | Rapid Wien | 242 | (267) |
National team | |||
1933–1947 | Austria | 19 | (16) |
1939–1941 | Germany | 9 | (10) |
Teams managed | |||
1949–1951 | Rapid Wien | ||
1952–1954 | SSV Jahn Regensburg | ||
1954–1955 | 1. FC Nürnberg | ||
1960–1962 | PSV Eindhoven | ||
1962–1966 | Rapid Wien | ||
1969–1970 | TSV 1860 Munich | ||
1975–1976 | Rapid Wien | ||
SW Bregenz | |||
FC Kufstein | |||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Franz Binder (1 December 1911 – 24 April 1989) was an Austrian football player and coach who played as a forward.
Club career[]
Binder came from a family of labourers. He had nine siblings. When he was 15 years old he played football for the first team of Sturm 19 St. Pölten.[1] Nicknamed Bimbo, Binder was a prolific goalscorer who played for SK Rapid Wien. He won the national Austrian championship four times and was three times top goalscorer in Austrian league. In 1941 he also won the German championship with a 4–3 victory against Schalke 04, when he scored three goals.
He is the all time leading scorer of Rapid and regarded as one of the greatest Austrian players of all times.[2] In his whole career he would score 1006 goals in 756 matches. With an average-score of 1.33 goals per match, it is among the most prolific scorers in football history. Binder is one of the few players to score more than 1000 goals in his professional career alongside Arthur Friedenreich, Gerd Müller, Ferenc Puskás, Josef Bican and Pelé.
International career[]
Internationally he represented the Austria national football team (19 caps, 16 goals), and the Germany national football team (9 caps, 10 goals) during the Anschluss.[3]
Managerial career[]
After retirement from playing he became a football coach, of teams such as SSV Jahn Regensburg, PSV Eindhoven, 1. FC Nürnberg, TSV 1860 Munich and Rapid Wien.
Player honours[]
Club[]
Rapid Wien
- Austrian Football Bundesliga: 1934–35, 1937–38, 1945–46, 1947–48
- Great Germany Gauliga: 1940, 1941
- Wiener Cup: 1945–46
- DFB-Pokal: 1938
Individual[]
- Austrian Bundesliga top goalscorer: 1933, 1937, 1938[4]
- Gauliga Top Goalscorer: 1939, 1940, 1941
References[]
- ^ "Binder, Franz "Bimbo"". Retrieved 12 August 2020.
- ^ "FIFA : Rapid's 110 glorious years". Retrieved 12 August 2020.
- ^ "Franz Binder – International Goals". RSSSF. Retrieved 21 June 2008.
- ^ "Österreichs Torschützenkönige" (in German). www.oberliga-a.at. Archived from the original on 15 September 2007. Retrieved 21 June 2008.
External links[]
- Franz Binder at Rapidarchiv (in German)
- Franz Binder at National-Football-Teams.com
- Franz Binder at WorldFootball.net
- 1911 births
- 1989 deaths
- People from Sankt Pölten
- Austrian footballers
- Austria international footballers
- German footballers
- Germany international footballers
- Dual internationalists (football)
- SK Rapid Wien players
- Austrian Football Bundesliga players
- Austrian football managers
- SK Rapid Wien managers
- TSV 1860 Munich managers
- 1. FC Nürnberg managers
- Bundesliga managers
- Association football forwards
- Austrian expatriate football managers
- Sportspeople from Lower Austria