Oliver Glasner

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Oliver Glasner
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Personal information
Date of birth (1974-08-28) 28 August 1974 (age 47)
Place of birth Salzburg, Austria
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Defender
Club information
Current team
 Eintracht Frankfurt (manager)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1995–2011 Ried 516 (27)
2003–2004 → LASK (loan) 3 (0)
Total 519 (27)
Teams managed
2014–2015 SV Ried
2015–2019 LASK
2019–2021 VfL Wolfsburg
2021– Eintracht Frankfurt
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Oliver Glasner (born 28 August 1974) is an Austrian professional football manager, currently managing Eintracht Frankfurt. In his playing career, he played as a defender for Austrian Football Bundesliga side SV Ried.[1]

Playing career[]

Glasner started his career at SV Riedau, and joined SV Ried in 1993, in the second Austrian division. 1995 Ried got promoted to Austrian Bundesliga. In the 1997/98 season Glasner won the Austrian Cup with Ried. When Ried went down to second division, Glasner joined LASK for the 2003/04 season, but returned to Ried a year later. 2005 Ried again managed promotion to the Bundesliga, and in the season 2010/11 Glasner a second time won the Austrian Cup with Ried. On 31 July 2011 he suffered a cut above the eye and a slight concussion. in a match between Ried and Rapid in a header duel. Nevertheless, he accompanied his team to the Danish Brøndby near Copenhagen for the return game in qualifying for the Europa League against Brøndby IF. After a final head ball training session, a brain haemorrhage developed on August 4, 2011. This hemorrhage between the brain and the hard meninges was operated on the same day. Glasner survived the operation well, but ended his career on the advice of the doctors on August 23, 2011. Glasner made more than 500 league appearances in his 16-year career.[2]

Coaching career[]

Beginnings in Salzburg and Ried[]

2006 Glasner completed Diplomkaufmann at University of Hagen. He was offered an assistant coach role at Ried in 2012. But Peter Vogl, then honorary president of SV Ried and CEO of Red Bull Salzburg, hired Glasner as management assistant, responsible for sports coordination. Glasner asked Ralf Rangnick for an opportunity in coaching, and in July 2012, he became assistant coach for Roger Schmidt in the first-team squad. After the successful 2 years stint at Salzburg, he was appointed head coach of his former club SV Ried for the 2014/15 season.[3] Glasner won his first match as head coach 3–2 against SC/ESV Parndorf in the first round of the Austrian Cup and won his first league match 3–1 against Wiener Neustadt.[4]

LASK[]

Glasner joined LASK in the 2015–16 season as , and coach. Glasner helped the club earn promotion to the first division following the 2016–17 season. The club finished the 2017–18 Austrian Football Bundesliga season in fourth position, qualifying for the UEFA Europa League. It was the club's first European campaign since 2000.[5] In the 2018–19 season, LASK finished in second place, just behind perennial champions FC Red Bull Salzburg, and qualified for the UEFA Champions League.[5] Following his success with LASK, Jörg Schmadtke hired Glasner to manage VfL Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga, and Valérien Ismaël joined LASK as his replacement.[6]

Vfl Wolfsburg[]

In Glasner's first year with Wolfsburg, the 2019–20 season, the club managed to qualify for the Europa League. In the 2020–21 season, Wolfsburg finished fourth, qualifying for the UEFA champions League.[7]

Eintracht Frankfurt[]

In May 2021, Eintracht Frankfurt announced that Glasner had signed on as head coach on a three-year deal until 30 June 2024.[1] The start at Frankfurt was challenging. Frankfurt had with Axel Hellmann a new chairman of the board, Markus Krösche succeeded Fredi Bobic as managing director sports, Ben Manga succeeded Bruno Hübner as sporting director, and the team lost its top scorer André Silva to RB Leipzig, as well center forward Bas Dost left. Eintracht dropped out of the German Cup in Glasners first game again third tier Waldhof Mannheim. Frankfurt was close to the relegation zone in November. They managed to win only one German championship game during the first months, against Bayern in the Allianz arena. It was the first time after 21 years, and after 16 matches they did so.[8] In November Frankfurt gained a couple of times points scoring in the last minutes of games, and finished the first half of the season with 6 wins out of seven.

Managerial statistics[]

As of match played 21 January 2022
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team From To Record Ref
G W D L GF GA GD Win %
SV Ried 12 May 2014 25 May 2015 37 13 7 17 52 54 −2 035.14 [9]
LASK Linz 1 July 2015 1 July 2019 161 94 32 35 308 173 +135 058.39 [10]
VfL Wolfsburg 1 July 2019 30 June 2021 87 41 22 24 146 110 +36 047.13 [11]
Eintracht Frankfurt 1 July 2021 Present 27 10 10 7 40 38 +2 037.04 [11]
Career total 312 158 71 83 546 375 +171 050.64 —

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Oliver Glasner wird neuer Cheftrainer" (in German). eintracht.de. 26 May 2021. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
  2. ^ "Maierhofer joins Salzburg, Glasner retires". UEFA. 23 August 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
  3. ^ "Oliver Glasner wird neuer Trainer der SV Ried". nachrichten.at. 11 May 2014. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  4. ^ "SV Ried". kicker.de (in German). kicker. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  5. ^ a b "Club Brugge v LASK facts". UEFA. 22 August 2019. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
  6. ^ "Oliver Glasner to take over". vfl-wolfsburg.de. 23 April 2019. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  7. ^ "Oliver Glasner leaves Wolfsburg to coach Frankfurt". AP News. 26 May 2021. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
  8. ^ Eintracht Frankfurt gewinnt beim FC Bayern München: Trapp und Kostic öffnen die Flasche, bundesliga.com, 2021-10-
  9. ^ "SV Ried: Matches". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  10. ^ "LASK Linz: Matches". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  11. ^ a b "VfL Wolfsburg: Matches". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 23 September 2019.

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