Erich Hof

**Erich Hof** (3 August 1936 – 25 January 1995) was an Austrian footballer and coach. played as a forward mostly for Wiener Sport-Club.

## Career

He was born in the Brigittenau district of Vienna. Hof began playing football as a striker with SCR Hochstädt. In 1952 he went to Wiener Sport-Club. There he played until 1969. Only 1964/65 he played for FK Austria Wien. In 1959 and 1961 he was top scorer of the Austrian league with 32 and 21 goals.  Hof was a leading Austrian footballer in the 1960s and was known as "The Professor of Football" (_Der Professor des Fußballs_).

Hof made 37 appearances and scored 28 goals for the Austria national football team from 1957 to 1968. He made his debut in a friendly match against West Germany on 10 March 1957.

## International statistics

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="11"|Austria|1957|1|0|
|1958|3|1|||
|1959|5|6|||
|1960|7|7|||
|1961|5|2|||
|1962|4|2|||
|1963|4|0|||
|1964|1|0|||
|1965|2|1|||
|1967|2|2|||
|1968|3|7|||

- _Scores and results list Austria's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Hof goal._

|scope="col"|No.|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Opponent|scope="col"|Score|scope="col"|Result|scope="col"|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|15 October 1958|Praterstadion,   Vienna,  Austria||1-0|1-2|Friendly match||||||||
|2|20 May 1959|Ullevaal Stadion,   Oslo,  Norway||1-0|1-0|UEFA Euro 1960||||||||
|3|14 June 1959|Praterstadion,  Vienna, Austria||2-2|4-2|Friendly match||||||||
|4|3-2|||||||||||||
|5|23 September 1959|Praterstadion,  Vienna, Austria||1-0|5-2|UEFA Euro 1960||||||||
|6|3-1|||||||||||||
|7|22 November 1959|Mestalla Stadium ,   Valencia,   Spain||1-3|3-6|Friendly match||||||||
|8|29 May 1960|Praterstadion,  Vienna, Austria||3-0|4-1|Friendly match||||||||
|9|4-0|||||||||||||
|10|22 November 1959|Ullevaal Stadion ,   Oslo,   Norway||1-2|1-2|Friendly match||||||||
|11|4 September 1960|Praterstadion,  Vienna, Austria||1-1|3-1|Friendly match||||||||
|12|4-0|||||||||||||
|13|30 October 1960|Praterstadion,  Vienna, Austria||3-0|3-0|Friendly match||||||||
|14|10 December 1960|Stadio San Paolo ,   Naples,  Italy||1-0|2-1|Friendly match||||||||
|15|27 May 1961|Praterstadion,  Vienna, Austria||1-0|3-1|Friendly match||||||||
|16|8 October 1961|Praterstadion,  Vienna, Austria||1⁻1|2-1|Friendly match||||||||
|17|8 April 1962|Dalymount Park,   Dublin,  Ireland||3-2|3-2|Friendly match||||||||
|18|6 May 1962|Praterstadion,  Vienna, Austria||1-0|2-0|Friendly match||||||||
|19|25 April 1964|Praterstadion,  Vienna ,   Austria||1-0|1-1|1966 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|20|11 June 1967|Leninstadion,   Moscow,   USSR||1-2|3-4|UEFA Euro 1968 qualification||||||||
|21|6 September 1967|Praterstadion,  Vienna ,   Austria]||1-3|1-3|Friendly match||||||||
|22|19 May 1968|Praterstadion,  Vienna, Austria||1-0|7-1|1970 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|23|3-0|||||||||||||
|24|4-1|||||||||||||
|25|5-1|||||||||||||
|26|7-1|||||||||||||
|27|16 June 1968|Kirovstadion,   Leningrad,   USSR]||1-1|1-3|Friendly match||||||||
|28|6 September 1967|Dalymount Park,  Dublin,   Ireland]||2-0|2-2|Friendly match||||||||

## Coaching career

He was coach of Wiener Sport-Club (1969–70, 1974–1979, and 1985–86), Austria Salzburg and  FK Austria Wien (1980–1982 and 1989-90). From 1982 to 1984 he was coach of the Austrian national football team. He also managed Diagoras Rhodos in Greece.

## Personal life

Hof died from lung cancer in a Vienna hospital on 25 January 1995. He was the brother of retired footballer Norbert Hof.

### Player

- Austrian Bundesliga: 1958, 1959
- Austrian Bundesliga top scorer: 1959, 1963
- Austrian Cup: 1969 (finalists)

### Coach

- Austrian Bundesliga: 1980, 1981
- Austrian Cup: 1982

## Other websites

- Austria Archiv as player
- Austria Archiv as coach
- National Team stats as player
- National Team stats as coach

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Erich Hof
- **birth place**: Vienna, Austria
- **death place**: Vienna, Austria
- **position**: Forward (association football)#Striker, Striker
- **years1**: –1952
- **years2**: 1952–1964
- **years3**: 1964–1965
- **years4**: 1964–1969
- **clubs1**: SCR Hochstädt Wien, SCR Hochstädt
- **clubs2**: Wiener Sport-Club
- **clubs3**: FK Austria Wien
- **clubs4**: Wiener Sport-Club
- **caps2**: 209
- **caps3**: 5
- **caps4**: 93
- **goals2**: 177
- **goals3**: 1
- **goals4**: 44
- **nationalyears1**: 1957–1968
- **nationalteam1**: Austria national football team, Austria
- **nationalcaps1**: 37
- **nationalgoals1**: 28
- **manageryears1**: 1969–1970
- **manageryears2**: 1971
- **manageryears3**: 1974–1979
- **manageryears4**: 1980–1982
- **manageryears5**: 1982–1984
- **manageryears6**: 1985–1986
- **manageryears7**: 1987
- **manageryears8**: 1989–1990
- **managerclubs1**: Wiener Sport-Club
- **managerclubs2**: FC Red Bull Salzburg, Austria Salzburg
- **managerclubs3**: Wiener Sport-Club
- **managerclubs4**: FK Austria Wien
- **managerclubs5**: Austria national football team, Austria
- **managerclubs6**: Wiener Sport-Club
- **managerclubs7**: Diagoras F.C.
- **managerclubs8**: FK Austria Wien