Erich Probst

**Erich Probst** (5 December 1927 – 16 March 1988) was an Austrian footballer. He played as striker for different teams in Vienna and also abroad.

## Career

He started with Admira Wien at 17 years old. After a year with Vienna he signed with SK Rapid Wien. In this time he won the Austrian Championship four times. In his first season with Rapid he scored 28 goals in 23 matches. Although he was always a top scorer he never shot the highest number of goals in the league.

After his time with Rapid he went to Wuppertaler SV in Germany. After the relegation of Wuppertal he went on to Switzerland playing for FC Zürich. In winter 1959 he came back to Austria to SV Austria Salzburg. The club paid 90 000 Austrian schillings, which was the highest till this time. He shot 15 goals and the team could stay in the top league. During his time with Salzburg he played his last match in the national football team. He was the first player of SV Austria Salzburg who ever played for the team.

In the 1960/61 season he was coach of SV Austria but not successful. So he went on to play as striker again. His last clubs were the SAK 1914 in Salzburg and First Vienna FC in Vienna. At all he scored 150 goals in Austrias top league.

## International

He played 19 times for the Austrian national football team and scored 17 goals. His first match was on  27 May 1951 (4:0 versus Scotland)  In the qualification match for the FIFA World Cup 1954 versus Portugal he scored 5 goals for the 9:1 win. He was member of the 1954 FIFA World Cup squad which reached the third place. During the tournament he scored six goals and was together with Max Morlock of Germany and Josef Hügi of Switzerland second in the scorer list. During his time abroad he was not player of the team. But in 1960 he played his last match versus France (2:4) where he also scored his last goal for the team. So he was the first national football team player coming from SV Austria Salzburg.

## International statistics

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="6"|Austria|1951|3|0|
|1952|1|0|||
|1953|3|5|||
|1954|7|8|||
|1955|4|4|||
|1960|1|0|||

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

|scope="col"|No.|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Opponent|scope="col"|Score|scope="col"|Result|scope="col"|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|27 September 1953|Prater Stadion, Vienna, Austria||2–0|9–1|1954 FIFA World Cup Qualification||||||||
|2|3-0|||||||||||||
|3|4-0|||||||||||||
|4|5-0|||||||||||||
|5|7-1|||||||||||||
|6|30 May 1954|Prater Stadion ,  Vienna, Austria||3–0|5-0|Friendly match||||||||
|7|4-0|||||||||||||
|8|16 June 1954|Hardturm,  Zürich,   Switzerland||1-0|1-0|1954 FIFA World Cup||||||||
|9|19 June 1954|Hardturm,  Zürich,   Switzerland||2–0|5-0|1954 FIFA World Cup||||||||
|10|3-0|||||||||||||
|11|4-0|||||||||||||
|12|26 June 1954|Stade Olympique de La Pontaise,   Lausanne,  Switzerland||7-5|7-5|1954 FIFA World Cup||||||||
|13|30 June 1954|St. Jakob Stadion,Basel ,  Switzerland||1-2|1-6|1954 FIFA World Cup||||||||
|14|27 March 1955|Za Luzankami  ,  Brno  ,  Czechoslovakia||1-2|2-3|Gerö-Cup||||||||
|15|24 April 1955|Prater Stadion ,  Vienna, Austria||1-1|2-2|Gerö-Cup||||||||
|16|2-2|||||||||||||
|17|1 May 1955|Wankdorfstadium, Bern ,  Switzerland||3-2|3-2|Gerö-Cup||||||||

## Honours

- **Austrian Football Bundesliga (4):**
    - 1951, 1952, 1954, 1956
- **Mitropa Cup (1):**
    - 1951
- Member of the Austrian team for the 1954 FIFA World Cup

## Infobox (football biography)

- **playername**: Erich Probst
- **fullname**: Erich Probst
- **birth place**: Vienna, Austria
- **position**: Striker (football), Striker
- **years1**: 1945–1949
- **years2**: 1950
- **years3**: 1950–1956
- **years4**: 1956–1958
- **years5**: 1958–1959
- **years6**: 1959–1960
- **years7**: 1961
- **years8**: 1962–1963
- **clubs1**: SK Admira Wien, Admira Wien
- **clubs2**: First Vienna
- **clubs3**: SK Rapid Wien, Rapid Wien
- **clubs4**: Wuppertaler SV Borussia, Wuppertal
- **clubs5**: FC Zürich, Zürich
- **clubs6**: Austria Salzburg
- **clubs7**: ASK Salzburg
- **clubs8**: First Vienna FC, First Vienna
- **caps3**: 112
- **goals3**: 107
- **nationalyears1**: 1951–1960
- **nationalteam1**: Austria national football team, Austria
- **nationalcaps1**: 19
- **nationalgoals1**: 17
- **manageryears1**: 1960
- **managerclubs1**: SV Austria Salzburg