Dietmar Kühbauer

**Dietmar "Didi" Kühbauer** (born 4 April 1971) is a former Austrian footballer. He played as a midfielder. Kühbauer played in the Austrian national football team.

## Career

He made his Bundesliga debut for Admira Wacker in 1987 at the age of 16. In 1992 he went on to SK Rapid Wien. With this club he won one champions' title and one Austrian cup. With Rapid he also played in the 1996 UEFA Cup Winners Cup Final against Paris St. Germain in Brussels. By the fans of SK Rapid he was elected into Rapid's team of the century. He played abroad for five years, three years for Real Sociedad in Spain and two years in the German Bundesliga for VfL Wolfsburg. Then he came back to Austria and played the last years of his career for his youth team SV Mattersburg.

## International

Dietmar Kühbauer played 55 matches for the Austrian national football team and scored 5 goals. His debut was in May 1992 in a friendly match versus Poland.  He was  a member of the Austrian team for the FIFA World Cup 1998 and played two matches, versus Italy and Chile. His final match was in September 2005 also against Poland in a qualifying match for the FIFA World Cup 2006.

## International statistics

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="12"|Austria|1992|4|0|
|1993|5|2|||
|1994|3|0|||
|1995|6|1|||
|1996|2|0|||
|1997|3|0|||
|1998|11|0|||
|1999|3|0|||
|2000|5|0|||
|2001|5|0|||
|2004|5|0|||
|2005|2|0|||

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

|scope="col"|No.|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Opponent|scope="col"|Score|scope="col"|Result|scope="col"|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|14 April 1993|Ernst-Happel-Stadion,  Vienna, Austria||2-0|3-1|1994 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|2|25 August 1993|Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna, Austria||1-0|3-0|1994 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|3|26 April 1995|Lehener Stadion,  Salzburg, Austria||1-0|7-0|UEFA Euro 1996 qualification||||||||
|4|2 June 1998|Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna, Austria||2-0|6-0|Friendly match||||||||
|5|1 September 2000|Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna, Austria||4-1|5-1|Friendly match||||||||

## Coaching career

He started as coach of the second team of VfB Admira Wacker Mödling. In 2010 he became manager of the first squad which reached the title in the First league and was promoted to the Austrian Bundesliga. In his first year he reached the 3rd place. Then he went on to the Bundesliga team Wolfsberger AC. In his first season he reached fifth place. The next season Wolfsberg was after 16 rounds the last team in the table and the contract was dissolved. 2018 he became coach of SKN St. Pölten after the half of the season he went on to SK Rapid Wien where he was also player. In 2021 his contract was dissolved. In 2022 he became head coach of LASK. After just one season the contract was dissolved in June 2023 due to differences of opinion.

### Player

- **Austrian Football Bundesliga (1):**
    - 1996
- **Austrian Cup (1):**
    - 1995
- **UEFA Cup Winners Cup Final**
    - 1996
- **Member of the Austrian Squad FIFA World Cup**:
    - 1998
- **Rapid-Team of the century**

### Coach

- **Austrian Football First League :**
    - 2011
- **Austrian Cup :**
    - 2025

## Other websites

- Dietmar Kühbauer Rapid Archiv

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Dietmar Kühbauer
- **image**: SM-RV (4).jpg
- **caption**: Kühbauer with SK Rapid Wien in 2018
- **fullname**: Dietmar Kühbauer
- **height**: 1.73m
- **birth place**: Heiligenkreuz im Lafnitztal, Austria
- **position**: Midfielder
- **youthclubs1**: SV Mattersburg
- **years1**: 1987–1992
- **clubs1**: Admira Wacker
- **caps1**: 121
- **goals1**: 7
- **years2**: 1992–1997
- **clubs2**: SK Rapid Wien, Rapid Wien
- **caps2**: 148
- **goals2**: 33
- **years3**: 1997–2000
- **clubs3**: Real Sociedad
- **caps3**: 47
- **goals3**: 2
- **years4**: 2000–2002
- **clubs4**: VfL Wolfsburg
- **caps4**: 49
- **goals4**: 8
- **years5**: 2002–2008
- **clubs5**: SV Mattersburg
- **caps5**: 181
- **goals5**: 24
- **totalcaps**: 546
- **totalgoals**: 74
- **nationalyears1**: 1992–2005
- **nationalteam1**: Austria national football team, Austria
- **nationalcaps1**: 55
- **nationalgoals1**: 5
- **manageryears1**: 2008–2010
- **managerclubs1**: VfB Admira Wacker Mödling, Trenkwalder Admira II
- **manageryears2**: 2010–2013
- **managerclubs2**: FC Admira Wacker Mödling, FC Admira Mödling
- **manageryears3**: 2013–2015
- **managerclubs3**: Wolfsberger AC
- **manageryears4**: 2018
- **managerclubs4**: SKN St. Pölten
- **manageryears5**: 2018–2021
- **managerclubs5**: SK Rapid Wien, Rapid Wien
- **manageryears6**: 2022–2023
- **managerclubs6**: LASK