Christian Ilzer

**Christian Ilzer** (born 21 October 1977) is a former Austrian football player and now manager of Sturm Graz.

## Career

He started his career with 	USK Raiffeisen Puch. Soon his career was stopped by three cruciate ligament injuries. He started managing the U17 squad of Puch and in addition to his job as an electronics technician a second education as a coach. 2006 and 2007 he was player-manager of USK Raiffeisen Puch.

2007 he became assistant coach of TSV Hartberg under Bruno Friesenbichler. In September 2011 he became fitness manager of the Austrian U19 national team and 2012–13 season also was the manager of SC Weiz. After another season as asssistance coach with Hartberg he went on to SC Wiener Neustadt in the same position. After coach Heimo Pfeifenberger was fired he became caretaker of the club for one match. After the season he left Wiener Neustadt and became coach of TSV Hartberg. After the season he left and became assistance coach of Wolfsberger AC under Heimo Pfeifenberger. In the 2019-20 season he was coach of FK Austria Wien but at the end he was fired and became coach of SK Sturm Graz.

Ilzer won the ÖFB Cup with Sturm Graz in the 2022/23 season. It was Sturm's sixth ÖFB Cup title. In the 2023/24 season, Sturm even won the championship and cup double. In November 2024, Ilzer finally left Sturm after more than four years and moved to Germany to TSG 1899 Hoffenheim.

## Statistics as manager

|rowspan=2|Team|rowspan=2|Nat|rowspan=2|From|rowspan=2|To|colspan=8|Record|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align="left"|SC Weiz||align="left"|1 July 2012|align="left"|8 June 2013||||
|align="left"|Wiener Neustadt (caretaker)||align="left"|12 November 2014|align="left"|23 November 2014||||
|align="left"|TSV Hartberg||align="left"|5 June 2015|align="left"|25 November 2015||||
|align="left"|TSV Hartberg||align="left"|1 July 2017|align="left"|1 June 2018||||
|align="left"|Wolfsberger AC||align="left"|1 June 2018|align="left"|29 May 2019||||
|align="left"|Austria Wien||align="left"|29 May 2019|align="left"|17 July 2020||||
|align="left"|Sturm Graz||align="left"|17 July 2020|align="left"|_Present_||||

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Christian Ilzer
- **image**: Kapfenberger SV vs Wolfsberger AC (42).jpg
- **caption**: Ilzer in 2018
- **fullname**: Christian Ilzer
- **birth place**: Puch bei Weiz, Austria
- **currentclub**: SK Sturm Graz, Sturm Graz (Manager)
- **youthyears1**: 1986–1998
- **youthclubs1**: USK Raiffeisen Puch
- **youthyears2**: 1998–1999
- **youthclubs2**: SV Ada Anger
- **youthyears3**: 2001–2004
- **youthclubs3**: USK Raiffeisen Puch
- **youthyears4**: 2004–2006
- **youthclubs4**: SC Sparkasse Weiz
- **years1**: 2006–2007
- **clubs1**: USK Raiffeisen Puch
- **manageryears1**: 2006–2007
- **managerclubs1**: USK Raiffeisen Puch (player-manager)
- **manageryears2**: 2007–2011
- **managerclubs2**: TSV Hartberg (assistant)
- **manageryears3**: 2012–2013
- **managerclubs3**: SC Weiz
- **manageryears4**: 2013–2014
- **managerclubs4**: TSV Hartberg (assistant)
- **manageryears5**: 2014–2015
- **managerclubs5**: SC Wiener Neustadt, Wiener Neustadt (assistant)
- **manageryears6**: 2014
- **managerclubs6**: Wiener Neustadt (caretaker)
- **manageryears7**: 2015
- **managerclubs7**: TSV Hartberg
- **manageryears8**: 2015–2017
- **managerclubs8**: Wolfsberger AC (assistant)
- **manageryears9**: 2017–2018
- **managerclubs9**: TSV Hartberg
- **manageryears10**: 2018–2019
- **managerclubs10**: Wolfsberger AC
- **manageryears11**: 2019–2020
- **managerclubs11**: FK Austria Wien, Austria Wien
- **manageryears12**: 2020–2024
- **managerclubs12**: SK Sturm Graz, Sturm Graz
- **manageryears13**: 2024-
- **managerclubs13**: TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, Hoffenheim