Dietmar Constantini

**Dietmar "Didi" Constantini** (30 May, 1955 – 18 December, 2024) was an Austrian football player and coach.

## Career

Constantini started playing with FC Wacker Innsbruck. With the team he won the Austrian Championship two times. After one year with LASK Linz, he went to Greece. This was the only time he spent with a squad from abroad. In 1982, he came back to Austria and played with different clubs from the first and second league. After his time with the Wiener Sportclub, he ended his career as player.

He played 198 league matches, scoring five goals, winning two Austrian championships, and one Austrian Cup. He played matches for the Austrian Under 18 team and the amateur national team.

## Coaching career

His first experiences as coach was in Saudi-Arabia and for SK Rapid Wien as assistant coach. Then he went to the ÖFB where he became coach of the Under 21 national team and at the same time assistant coach with the national team. After the demotion of head coach Alfred Riedl he did not become coach of the team, so he went on to different clubs in Austria and Germany. (FSV Mainz 05, LASK, Admira Wackerand FC Tirol Innsbruck.)

In 1998, he started football camps for children so he could not became coach of a team. He was only caretaker for FK Austria Wien, FC Kärnten and manager of SV Austria Salzburg. He worked in the meantime as expert for the football broadcast of ATV and organized his camps. In 2006/07, he was coach of FC Superfund Pasching.

### Team coach

On 4 March 2009, Constantini became coach of the Austrian national football team. In the six last qualification matches the team scored 10 points but could not qualify for the 2010 World Cup. In September his contract was prolonged until 2012. Constantini had troubles with some players but he also gave young players a chance to play in the team (Aleksandar Dragović, Yasin Pehlivan, Julian Baumgartlinger or Jakob Jantscher).

Austria did not qualify for Euro 2012 and Constantini's contract was not renewed.

## Death

Constantini died on 18 December 2024, at the age of 69, from problems caused by dementia.

## Managerial statistics

|rowspan="2"|Team|rowspan="2"|From|rowspan="2"|To|colspan="6"|Record|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Austria|16 October 1991|13 November 1991||||||
|Austria|18 November 1992|18 November 1992||||||
|LASK Linz|12 March 1993|30 June 1993||||||
|Admira Wacker|1 July 1993|30 June 1995||||||
|Tirol Innsbruck|1 July 1995|30 June 1997||||||
|Mainz 05|16 September 1997|8 April 1998||||||
|Austria Wien|22 December 2001|30 June 2002||||||
|Kärnten|27 October 2003|18 January 2004||||||
|Pasching|7 March 2006|5 June 2006||||||
|Pasching|25 October 2006|31 May 2007||||||
|Austria Wien|20 March 2008|31 May 2008||||||
|Austria|4 March 2009|31 December 2011||||||

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Dietmar Constantini
- **image**: Dietmar Constantini, Österreichische Fußballnationalmannschaft (02).jpg
- **upright**: 1.1
- **caption**: Constantini with Austria national football team, Austria in 2009
- **birth place**: Innsbruck, Austria
- **height**: 1.85 m
- **position**: Central defender, midfielder
- **years3**: 1974–1979
- **years4**: 1979–1980
- **years6**: 1981–1982
- **years7**: 1982–1983
- **clubs1**: FC Wacker Innsbruck, Wacker Innsbruck
- **clubs2**: Sportverein Innsbruck, ESV Austria Innsbruck
- **clubs3**: FC Wacker Innsbruck, SSW Innsbruck
- **clubs4**: LASK
- **clubs5**: Sportverein Innsbruck, SPG Raika Innsbruck
- **clubs6**: Kavala F.C., Kavala
- **clubs7**: FC Union Wels
- **clubs8**: Favoritner AC
- **clubs9**: Wiener Sportclub
- **totalcaps**: 198
- **nationalteam1**: Austria U18
- **manageryears3**: 1989–1991
- **manageryears4**: 1991–1992
- **manageryears5**: 1991
- **manageryears6**: 1992
- **manageryears7**: 1992
- **manageryears8**: 1993
- **manageryears9**: 1993–1995
- **manageryears10**: 1995–1997
- **manageryears11**: 1997–1998
- **manageryears12**: 1999–2001
- **manageryears13**: 2001–2002
- **manageryears14**: 2003
- **manageryears15**: 2006
- **manageryears16**: 2006–2007
- **manageryears17**: 2008
- **manageryears18**: 2009–2011
- **managerclubs1**: Wiener Sportclub (assistant)
- **managerclubs2**: Al-Ittihad (Jeddah) (assistant)
- **managerclubs3**: SK Rapid Wien, Rapid Wien (assistant)
- **managerclubs4**: Austria national under-21 football team, Austria U21
- **managerclubs5**: Austria national football team, Austria (caretaker)
- **managerclubs6**: Austria (assistant)
- **managerclubs7**: Austria (caretaker)
- **managerclubs8**: LASK
- **managerclubs9**: VfB Admira Wacker Mödling, Admira Wacker Mödling
- **managerclubs10**: FC Tirol Innsbruck, Tirol Innsbruck
- **managerclubs11**: 1. FSV Mainz 05, Mainz 05
- **managerclubs12**: Austria (assistant)
- **managerclubs13**: FK Austria Wien, Austria Wien (caretaker)
- **managerclubs14**: FC Kärnten (caretaker)
- **managerclubs15**: ASKÖ Pasching (caretaker)
- **managerclubs16**: Pasching
- **managerclubs17**: Austria Wien
- **managerclubs18**: Austria