Franz Weselik

**Franz Weselik** (20 April 1903 in Vienna – 15 March 1962) was a former Austrian football player and coach. He played as forward mainly for SK Rapid Wien. He also played for the Austrian national football team.

## Career

Weselik began his career in 1919 at Blue Star Wien and joined SK Rapid Wien in 1923. In 1927 he celebrated his first major success with the team by winning the Vienna Cup. In 1929 and 1930 he won the Austrian championship title with Rapid and won the Mitropacup. The year 1930 was the most successful for the striker. He scored 24 goals in 20 championship games and was  Austria's top scorer.

In 1934 Weselik signed a contract as a player-coach at FC Mulhouse. Franz Weselik was the third-best league goalscorer of the 1934/35 season with 24 goals. The team finished 6th. After two years he went to Jönköping for a season as coach. In 1938 he returned to Austria. He played for SC Red Star Vienna and then ended his active career.

Weselik was member of the NSDAP. He applied for membership in the NSDAP on February 10, 1940 and was admitted on January 1, 1941 (membership number 8,471,374).

## International career

He made his debut for Austria on 6 May 1928 against Hungary and scored 3 goals in the away match. He earned 11 caps, scoring 13 goals. His final international was an April 1933 match, also against Hungary.

## International statistics

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="5"|Austria|1928|2|4|
|1929|4|5|||
|1930|2|2|||
|1932|1|1|||
|1933|2|1|||

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

|scope="col"|No.|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Opponent|scope="col"|Score|scope="col"|Result|scope="col"|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|6 May 1928|Hungária út,,   Budapest, Hungary||1-2|5-5|Friendly match||||||||
|2|2-3|||||||||||||
|3|3-5|||||||||||||
|4|7 October 1928|Hohe Warte,  Vienna, Austria||3-1|5-1|Svehla-Cup||||||||
|5|17 March 1929|Spartastadion,   Prague, Czechoslovakia||2-0|3-3|Friendly match||||||||
|6|3-3|||||||||||||
|7|7 April 1929|Hohe Warte,  Vienna, Austria||2-0|3-0|Svehla-Cup||||||||
|8|5 May 1929|Hohe Warte,  Vienna, Austria||2-1|2-2|Friendly match||||||||
|9|15 September 1929|Hohe Warte,  Vienna, Austria||2-1|2-1|Friendly match||||||||
|10|21 September 1930|Hohe Warte,  Vienna, Austria||1-0|2-3|Friendly match||||||||
|11|16 November 1930|Hohe Warte,  Vienna, Austria||2⁻1|4-1|Friendly match||||||||
|12|11 December 1932|Stade du Centenaire,   Brussels,    Belgium||6-1|6-1|Friendly match||||||||
|13|12 February 1933|Parc des Princes,   Paris,    France||3-0|4-0|Friendly match||||||||

## Honours

- **Austrian Football Bundesliga (2):**
    - 1929, 1930
- **Austrian Cup (1):**
    - 1927
- **Mitropa Cup (1):**
    - 1930

## Other websites

- Rapid stats  - Rapid Archive

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Franz Weselik
- **image**: Франц Веселик.png
- **caption**: Franz Weselik in 1932
- **birth place**: Vienna, Austria-Hungary
- **position**: Striker (football), Forward
- **years1**: 1919–1923
- **years2**: 1923–1934
- **years3**: 1934–1937
- **years4**: 1937–1938
- **years5**: 1938
- **clubs1**: Blue Star Wien
- **clubs2**: SK Rapid Wien
- **clubs3**: FC Mulhouse
- **clubs4**: Jönköpings Södra IF
- **clubs5**: SC Red Star Wien
- **caps2**: 175
- **goals2**: 160
- **caps3**: 60
- **goals3**: 36
- **nationalyears1**: 1928–1933
- **nationalteam1**: Austria national football team, Austria
- **nationalcaps1**: 11
- **nationalgoals1**: 13
- **manageryears1**: 1934–1935
- **managerclubs1**: FC Mulhouse
- **manageryears2**: 1937–1938
- **managerclubs2**: Jönköpings Södra IF