Oliver Glasner
Glasner in 2022
Personal information
Date of birth (1974-08-28) 28 August 1974 (age 49)
Place of birth Schärding, Austria
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1992–2011 SV Ried 516 (27)
2003–2004 → LASK (loan) 3 (0)
Total 519 (27)
Managerial career
2014–2015 SV Ried
2015–2019 LASK
2019–2021 VfL Wolfsburg
2021–2023 Eintracht Frankfurt
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Oliver Glasner (born 28 August 1974) is an Austrian professional football manager and former player who was most recently the head coach of Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt. In his playing career, he played as a defender, mainly for Austrian Bundesliga club SV Ried.[1] Glasner won the Austrian Cup two times, and two times promotion into the Bundesliga, and played for the Austrian U21 team.[2]

As coach, as well as manager, Glasner's teams qualified for European competitions every year from 2017 until 2023, and with Frankfurt he won the Europa League in 2022.

Playing career

Glasner (middle) with his teammate Herwig Drechsel

Glasner started his career at SV Riedau, and joined the second Austrian division team SV Ried in 1993. Ried got promoted to the Austrian Bundesliga in 1995. During the 1997/98 season [de] he won the Austrian Cup with the club. When Ried went down to second division again in 2003, Glasner joined First League team LASK for the next season, but returned to Ried a year later. Ried returned to the Bundesliga in 2005, and in the 2010–11 season, Glasner won the Austrian Cup for the second time. On 31 July 2011, he suffered a cut above the eye and a slight concussion during a header duel in a league match between Ried and Rapid Wien. Nevertheless, he accompanied his team during the Europa League third qualifying round second leg against Brøndby IF. After the final head ball training session, a brain haemorrhage developed on August 4, 2011. He 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. He made more than 500 league appearances in his 16-year career.[3]

Coaching career

Beginnings in Salzburg and Ried

In 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. 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 two-year spell at Salzburg, finishing Austrian champions, Glasner did not follow Schmid towards Leverkusen in the German Bundesliga, but instead was appointed head coach at his former club Ried for the 2014–15 season.[4] He started the campaign with two wins: 3–2 against Parndorf in the first round of the Austrian Cup, on 11 July 2014; and 3–1 against Wiener Neustädter in a league match, on 19 July.[5]

LASK

Glasner joined LASK in the 2015–16 season as a director of sport, as well as head coach. He helped the team earn promotion to the first division in his second season. LASK finished the 2017–18 Austrian Football Bundesliga season in fourth position, earning a place in the 2018–19 Europa League third qualifying round. It was club's first European campaign since 2000.[6] In the 2018–19 season, LASK finished in second place, just behind perennial champions Red Bull Salzburg, which allowed them to participate in the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round.[6] Following his success with LASK, Jörg Schmadtke hired Glasner to manage VfL Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga, and Valérien Ismaël joined LASK as his replacement.[7]

Vfl Wolfsburg

In his first season with Wolfsburg, the club managed to qualify for the Europa League, finishing seventh in the league. Glasner also guided them to the Europa League round of 16 phase, where they lost 5–1 on aggregate against Shakhtar Donetsk. In the 2020–21 Bundesliga, Wolfsburg finished fourth, qualifying for the UEFA Champions League.[8]

Eintracht Frankfurt

In May 2021, Eintracht Frankfurt announced that Glasner had signed as head coach on a three-year deal until 30 June 2024.[1] The start at Frankfurt was challenging. Frankfurt appointed Axel Hellmann as the new chairman of the board, Markus Krösche succeeded Fredi Bobic as managing director for sport, Ben Manga replaced Bruno Hübner as sporting director and the team lost its top scorer, André Silva, to RB Leipzig. The team lost 2–0 in the first round of DFB-Pokal against third tier Waldhof Mannheim. Frankfurt was close to the relegation zone in November, managing to win only one league game during the first months – against Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena. It was the first time after 21 years, and after 16 matches they did so.[9]

Between November and December, Frankfurt won six out of seven, and was placed sixth at the end of Hinrunde. The second half of the season was inconsistent, Frankfurt finished the league at 11th place. Their continental campaign was successful, they advanced to the Europa League final, for the third time in the club's history (after 1960 and 1980) – defeating Barcelona and West Ham en route[10][11] – and won the match 5–4 on penalties against Scottish club Rangers. Frankfurt stayed undefeated for 13 UEL games, and qualified for the Champions League the first time.[12]

The following season, Glasner led Frankfurt to finish second in the Champions League group stage against Tottenham, Sporting and Marseille, but lost in the round of 16 against dominating later Italian champions Napoli.[13] Frankfurt improved in the league after the first half of the season; they were fourth and finished seventh, qualifying for the Europa Conference League.[13] They also reached the DFB-Pokal final against RB Leipzig, and lost 2–0.[14] Glasner departed Frankfurt at the end of the 2022–23 season.[13]

Managerial statistics

As of match played 3 June 2023
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 [15]
LASK 1 July 2015 1 July 2019 161 94 32 35 308 173 +135 058.39 [16]
VfL Wolfsburg 1 July 2019 30 June 2021 87 41 22 24 146 110 +36 047.13 [17]
Eintracht Frankfurt 1 July 2021 30 June 2023 97 38 30 29 145 137 +8 039.18 [17]
Career total 382 186 91 105 651 474 +177 048.69 —

Honours

Manager

Eintracht Frankfurt

References

  1. ^ a b "Oliver Glasner wird neuer Cheftrainer". Eintracht.de (in German). Eintracht Frankfurt. 26 May 2021. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
  2. ^ "Die unglaubliche Trainerkarriere des Oliver Glasner". Oberösterreichisches Volksblatt (in German). 19 May 2022. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
  3. ^ "Maierhofer joins Salzburg, Glasner retires". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 23 August 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
  4. ^ "Oliver Glasner wird neuer Trainer der SV Ried". nachrichten.at. 11 May 2014. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  5. ^ "SV Ried". kicker.de (in German). kicker. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  6. ^ a b "Club Brugge v LASK facts". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 22 August 2019. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
  7. ^ "Oliver Glasner to take over". vfl-wolfsburg.de. 23 April 2019. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  8. ^ "Oliver Glasner leaves Wolfsburg to coach Frankfurt". AP News. 26 May 2021. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
  9. ^ Eintracht Frankfurt gewinnt beim FC Bayern München: Trapp und Kostic öffnen die Flasche, bundesliga.com, 2021-10-
  10. ^ "BREAKING: Frankfurt smash Barcelona 3-2 at Camp Nou to setup semi-final vs West Ham". GiveMeSport. 14 April 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  11. ^ Hinteregger verpasst Saisonfinish und Finale, orf.at, 2022-05-06.
  12. ^ a b Conroy, Alison (19 May 2022). "Eintracht Frankfurt 1-1 Rangers (AET): Aaron Ramsey misses spot-kick as Ibrox side lose Europa League final on penalties". Sky Sports. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
  13. ^ a b c "Zusammenarbeit mit Oliver Glasner endet nach der Saison". eintracht.de. 9 May 2023. Retrieved 9 May 2023.
  14. ^ "Christopher Nkunku-inspired RB Leipzig beat Eintracht Frankfurt to win DFB Cup". Bundesliga. 3 June 2023. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
  15. ^ "SV Ried: Matches". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  16. ^ "LASK Linz: Matches". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  17. ^ a b "VfL Wolfsburg: Matches". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 23 September 2019.

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