Heimo Pfeifenberger

**Heimo Pfeifenberger** (born 29 December 1966 in Zederhaus, Salzburg) is a former professional footballer from Austria. He played mainly for SV Austria Salzburg and also in the Austrian national football team. With 74 goals for Salzburg and 43 for Rapid he is one of the best scorers in Austrian football history.

## Career

He started playing football in the youth teams of his local club USV Zederhaus. After scoring 56 goals for Zederhaus in the 1987 season he was transferred to Austria Salzburg. Later he played for SK Rapid Wien and Werder Bremen in the German Bundesliga. He spent the most successful time of his career with Austria Salzburg in the mid 90s. He became an Austrian Champion for two times (1994 and 1995) and in 1994, he was Austria's top scorer. He was also awarded the Footballer of the year award. After playing for Bremen, he returned to Austria and played again for Salzburg. In 2004, he ended his active career as a professional footballer. Afterwards, he started his managerial career and in 2007, he became the coach for SV Seekirchen in the Regionalliga West(3rd level) and afterwards did also manage SV Grödig. Overall, Both of his careers (as a footballer and as a manager) were successful and he became one of the most influential Austrian player ever.

## Manager career

He started as a youth coach for FC Red Bull Salzburg in 2005. After two years, in 2007, he became the coach of SV Grödig in the Reginalliga West and helped the team getting promoted to Erste Liga(2nd level). In the next season, he got replaced as the coach of the team so Andreas Herzog offered him the job of an assistant coach in Austria's under 21 team . After a short time with SPG Axams-Götzens, he became the coach of SV Grödig again in 2010.

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="10"|Austria|1989|2|1|
|1990|4|0|||
|1991|3|1|||
|1992|4|1|||
|1993|6|3|||
|1994|5|1|||
|1995|6|1|||
|1996|1|0|||
|1997|6|1|||
|1998|6|0|||

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

|scope="col"|No.|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Opponent|scope="col"|Score|scope="col"|Result|scope="col"|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|23 August 1989|Lehener Stadion,    Salzburg,  Austria||1-0|2-1|1990 FIFA World Cup Qualification||||||||
|2|22 May 1991|Lehener Stadion,    Salzburg,  Austria||1-0|3-0|UEFA Euro 1992 Qualification||||||||
|3|19 August 1992|Tehelne Pole,   Bratislava,  CSFR||2-0|2-2|Friendly match||||||||
|4|10 March 1993|Ernst-Happel-Stadion,   Vienna,  Austria||1-0|2-1|Friendly match||||||||
|5|14 April 1993|Ernst-Happel-Stadion,   Vienna ,  Austria||1-0|3-1|1994 FIFA World Cup Qualification||||||||
|6|25 August 1993|Ernst-Happel-Stadion,   Vienna ,  Austria||2-0|3-0|1994 FIFA World Cup Qualification||||||||
|7|23 March 1994|Linzer Stadion,   Linz ,  Austria||1-1|1-1|Friendly match||||||||
|8|29 March 1995|Lehener Stadion,    Salzburg,  Austria||2-0|5-0|UEFA Euro 1996 Qualification||||||||
|9|10 September 199t|Dinamo-Stadion,  Minsk, Belarus||1-0|1-0|FIFA World Cup 1998 Qualification||||||||

### National

- Austrian Football Bundesliga (2):        1994, 1995
- Austrian Bundesliga Top Goalscorer (1):        1994
- Austrian Footballer of the Year(1): 1994

### International

- Member of the Austrian Team: FIFA World Cup 1990 and 1998
- UEFA Cup final with Austria Salzburg: 1994
- Champions League 1994/95

### Manager

- Champion Regionalliga West with SV Grödig: 2007/08, 2009/10

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Heimo Pfeifenberger
- **image**: SCWN00 - Heimo Pfeifenberger (Trainer) 8636a.jpg
- **caption**: Pfeifenberger as SC Wiener Neustadt, Wiener Neustadt manager in August 2014
- **fullname**: Heimo Pfeifenberger
- **height**: 1.83 m
- **birth place**: Zederhaus, Austria
- **position**: Forward (association football), Striker, Winger (football), winger
- **youthyears1**: 1971–1987
- **youthclubs1**: USV Zederhaus
- **years1**: 1987–1988
- **clubs1**: SV Austria Salzburg, Austria Salzburg
- **caps1**: 30
- **goals1**: 13
- **years2**: 1988–1992
- **clubs2**: SK Rapid Wien, Rapid Wien
- **caps2**: 117
- **goals2**: 42
- **years3**: 1992–1996
- **clubs3**: SV Wüstenrot Salzburg
- **caps3**: 122
- **goals3**: 58
- **years4**: 1996–1998
- **clubs4**: SV Werder Bremen, Werder Bremen
- **caps4**: 43
- **goals4**: 5
- **years5**: 1998–2005
- **clubs5**: Austria Salzburg
- **caps5**: 91
- **goals5**: 15
- **years6**: 2007
- **clubs6**: SV Seekirchen 1945
- **caps6**: 4
- **goals6**: 4
- **years7**: 2007
- **clubs7**: SV Grödig
- **caps7**: 2
- **goals7**: 1
- **totalyears**: 1987–2007
- **totalcaps**: 409
- **totalgoals**: 138
- **nationalyears1**: 1989–1998
- **nationalteam1**: Austria national football team, Austria
- **nationalcaps1**: 40
- **nationalgoals1**: 9
- **manageryears1**: 2005–2007
- **managerclubs1**: FC Red Bull Salzburg, Red Bull Salzburg (youth)
- **manageryears2**: 2007–2009
- **managerclubs2**: SV Grödig
- **manageryears3**: 2009–2010
- **managerclubs3**: Austria national under-21 football team, Austria U-21 (assistant)
- **manageryears4**: 2010
- **managerclubs4**: SPG Axams-Götzens
- **manageryears5**: 2010–2012
- **managerclubs5**: SV Grödig
- **manageryears6**: 2012–2014
- **managerclubs6**: SC Wiener Neustadt
- **manageryears7**: 2015–2018
- **managerclubs7**: Wolfsberger AC
- **manageryears8**: 2020
- **managerclubs8**: FK Sūduva
- **manageryears9**: 2020- 2022
- **managerclubs9**: SV Grödig