Christian Mayrleb

**Christian Mayrleb** (born 8 June 1972) is an Austrian retired professional footballer. He played as striker for different clubs. He also played for the Austrian football national team. After his professional career he became football manager.

## Club career

Mayrleb started his professional career at Second Division side FC Stahl Linz and SV Ried .Then he moved to the  Austrian Bundesliga club Admira/Wacker in 1994. He then played for FC Tirol Innsbruck and Premier League club Sheffield Wednesday. He returned to Austria after half a season on the  bench.

After four years with Austria Vienna he played for SV Pasching, Red Bull Salzburg and ended his career in Linz again with LASK Linz.

In November 2006 Mayrleb failed a drug test but was cleared by a League disciplinary panel because no evidence was found he was taking performance-enhancing drugs.

## International career

Mayrleb made his debut for the Austria national team in an August 1998 friendly match against France and came on as a substitute in his first six matches for the national team. He scored his first goal two months after his debut game. He earned 29 caps, scoring six goals. His last international was a September 2005 World Cup qualification match against Azerbaijan.

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="7"|Austria|1998|4|1|
|1999|7|2|||
|2000|6|2|||
|2001|3|0|||
|2002|1|0|||
|2004|2|1|||
|2005|6|0|||

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

|scope="col"|No.|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Opponent|scope="col"|Score|scope="col"|Result|scope="col"|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|14 October 1998|Stadio Olimpico,    Serravalle,  San Marino||2-0|4-1|UEFA Euro 2000 qualification||||||||
|2|28 April 1999|Liebenauer Stadium, Graz, Austria||1-0|7-0|UEFA Euro 2000 qualification||||||||
|3|4-0|||||||||||||
|4|1   September 2000|Ernst-Happel-Stadion,   Vienna ,  Austria||3-1|5-1|Friendly||||||||
|5|5-1|||||||||||||
|6|13 October 2004|Windsor Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland||2-2|3-3|2006 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||

## Honours

**Individual**
- Austrian Bundesliga top scorer: 2004–05

## Other websites

- Profile - Austria Archive

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Christian Mayrleb
- **height**: 1.76 m
- **birth place**: Wels, Austria
- **position**: Striker (association football), Striker
- **youthyears1**: 1981–1991
- **youthclubs1**: FC Linz, SK VOEST Linz
- **years1**: 1992–1993
- **clubs1**: FC Linz, Stahl Linz
- **caps1**: 2
- **goals1**: 0
- **years2**: 1993–1994
- **clubs2**: SV Ried
- **caps2**: 76
- **goals2**: 35
- **years3**: 1994–1996
- **clubs3**: VfB Admira Wacker Mödling, Admira/Wacker
- **caps3**: 66
- **goals3**: 15
- **years4**: 1996–1997
- **clubs4**: FC Tirol Innsbruck
- **caps4**: 53
- **goals4**: 17
- **years5**: 1998
- **clubs5**: Sheffield Wednesday
- **caps5**: 3
- **goals5**: 0
- **years6**: 1998–2002
- **clubs6**: Austria Vienna
- **caps6**: 134
- **goals6**: 65
- **years7**: 2003–2005
- **clubs7**: SV Pasching
- **caps7**: 75
- **goals7**: 38
- **years8**: 2005–2006
- **clubs8**: FC Red Bull Salzburg, Red Bull Salzburg
- **caps8**: 28
- **goals8**: 7
- **years9**: 2006–2007
- **clubs9**: SV Pasching
- **caps9**: 30
- **goals9**: 11
- **years10**: 2007–2010
- **clubs10**: LASK Linz
- **caps10**: 108
- **goals10**: 33
- **years11**: 2011
- **clubs11**: FC Pasching
- **caps11**: 9
- **goals11**: 3
- **totalcaps**: 584
- **totalgoals**: 224
- **nationalyears1**: 1998–2005
- **nationalteam1**: Austria national football team, Austria
- **nationalcaps1**: 30
- **nationalgoals1**: 6
- **manageryears1**: 2012
- **managerclubs1**: ATSV Stadl-Paura (sporting director)
- **manageryears2**: 2012–2016
- **managerclubs2**: ATSV Stadl-Paura
- **manageryears3**: 2016–2018
- **managerclubs3**: ASKÖ Oedt
- **manageryears4**: 2019– 2021
- **managerclubs4**: ASKÖ Donau Linz