Ferdinand Feldhofer

Ferdinand Feldhofer (born 23 October 1979) is an Austrian football coach and a former player.

Ferdinand Feldhofer

Personal information
Full name	Ferdinand Feldhofer
Date of birth	(1979-10-23) 23 October 1979
Place of birth	Vorau, Austria
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Defender
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)
National team
2002–2007	Austria	13	(1)
Teams managed
2015–2019	SV Lafnitz
2019–2021	Wolfsberger AC
2021– 2022	SK Rapid Wien
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

Feldhofer started his career with TuS Vorau and TSV Pöllau in Styria. Then he went on to Sturm Graz. With them he won the double in 1999. He moved then to Rapid Wien in 2002. He won another league title with Rapid in 2005 and then left for Wacker Innsbruck. In summer 2008 returned to Sturm. He ended his career in 2013. Between 2002 and 2007 he also played 13 matches for the Austrian national football team.

In June 2012 he got the UEFA A Licence as manager. He worked as the coach for different youth teams. In 2015 he became coach of SV Lafnitz in the Regionalliga. The team became champions and were promoted to the Second League. In October 2019 Feldhofer acquired his UEFA Pro Licence. December 2019 he became coach of the Bundesliga side Wolfsberger AC. In the 2019-20 season they finished 3rd and played in the Europa League where they reached the knock out stage. He resigned after the Cup loss against LASK. On 28 November 2021, Feldhofer became manager of Austrian club SK Rapid Wien. Feldhofer was fired by the team on 16 October 2022.

Managerial statistics

As of match played 15 October 2022

Managerial record by team and tenure

Team	Nation	From	To	Record					Ref
				G	W	D	L	Win %
SV Lafnitz		10 October 2015	23 December 2019	132	66	34	32	050.00
Wolfsberger AC		23 December 2019	4 March 2021	46	20	10	16	043.48
Rapid Wien		29 November 2021	16 October 2022	42	17	11	14	040.48
Total				220	103	55	62	046.82	—

Honours

As player

• Austrian Football Bundesliga: 1998, 1999, 2011 (Sturm Graz); 2005 (Rapid Vienna)
• Austrian Cup:1999, 2010 (Sturm Graz)

As coach

• Austrian Regional League Central: 2017-18 (SV Lafnitz)