Roman Mählich

**Roman Mählich** (born 17 September 1971) is an Austrian football manager and a former player. He played for different Austrian football clubs as midfielder.

## Club career

Mählich started his career in the youth ranks of FC Hellas Kagran and Wiener Sport-Club. At Wiener Sport-Club he also started  his professional career. Then he moved to FC Tirol Innsbruck in 1994. After one season he went to SK Sturm Graz. With this team he had his most successful time. He won 2 league titles and 3 Cups. He played also  in the UEFA Champions League.

After 8 seasons in Graz, he played for some lower league sides as well as for the Austria Wien Amateure.

## International career

He made his debut for Austria in a September 1992 friendly match against Portugal . He played in the 1998 FIFA World Cup. He earned 20 caps. His last international was a May 2002 friendly match against Germany.

### International statistics

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="5"|Austria|1992|1|0|
|1997|5|0|||
|1998|9|0|||
|1999|4|0|||
|2002|1|0|||

## Coaching career

From August 2009, Mählich trained the first team of SC-ESV Parndorf 1919 in the Austrian Regionalliga Ost. From December 2009 to June 2012 he worked as a trainer at SC Lassee. After having coached SC Mannsdorf and SV St. Margarethen, he was coach of the amateurs at Wiener Austria from March 2015 until the end of the season. From 2016 he acted as an assistant coach.

In June 2017  Mählich became coach of the second division club SC Wiener Neustadt. In November 2018 he became coach of Bundesliga club SK Sturm Graz for which he had already played. In June 2019 they separated from Mählich. In September 2019 he became coach of the second division club SC Austria Lustenau. In June 2020 he left Lustenau. After that he became expert for  Austrian television.

## Honours

- **Austrian Football Bundesliga (2):**
    - 1998, 1999
- **Austrian Cup (3):**
    - 1996, 1997, 1999

## Other websites

- Roman Mählich at Footballdatabase

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Roman Mählich
- **image**: Roman Mählich - SC Wiener Neustadt (01).jpg
- **full name**: Roman Mählich
- **height**: 1.72 m
- **birth place**: Wiener Neustadt, Austria
- **position**: Midfielder
- **years1**: 1989–1994
- **years2**: 1994–1995
- **years3**: 1995–2003
- **years4**: 2003–2004
- **years5**: 2005–2006
- **years6**: 2007
- **years7**: 2008
- **years8**: 2008
- **years9**: 2009
- **clubs1**: Wiener Sport-Club
- **clubs2**: FC Tirol Innsbruck
- **clubs3**: Sturm Graz
- **clubs4**: SC Untersiebenbrunn
- **clubs5**: Austria Wien, Austria Wien II
- **clubs6**: ASK Schwadorf
- **clubs7**: SV Wienerberger
- **clubs8**: SCU Kilb
- **clubs9**: SC Lassee
- **caps1**: 135
- **caps2**: 30
- **caps3**: 196
- **caps4**: 31
- **caps5**: 45
- **caps6**: 17
- **caps7**: 13
- **caps8**: 7
- **caps9**: 13
- **goals1**: 4
- **goals2**: 0
- **goals3**: 15
- **goals4**: 1
- **goals5**: 2
- **goals6**: 0
- **goals7**: 1
- **goals8**: 2
- **goals9**: 0
- **nationalyears1**: 1992–2002
- **nationalteam1**: Austria national football team, Austria
- **nationalcaps1**: 20
- **nationalgoals1**: 0
- **manageryears1**: 2008–2009
- **managerclubs1**: FK Austria Wien (U19 director of sports)
- **manageryears2**: 2009
- **managerclubs2**: SC-ESV Parndorf 1919
- **manageryears3**: 2010–2012
- **managerclubs3**: SC Lassee
- **manageryears4**: 2012–2013
- **managerclubs4**: FC Marchfeld Mannsdorf
- **manageryears5**: 2014–2015
- **managerclubs5**: SV St. Margarethen
- **manageryears6**: 2015
- **managerclubs6**: FK Austria Wien II
- **manageryears7**: 2015–2017
- **managerclubs7**: FK Austria Wien (U18)
- **manageryears8**: 2016–2017
- **managerclubs8**: FK Austria Wien II (assistant)
- **manageryears9**: 2017–2018
- **managerclubs9**: SC Wiener Neustadt
- **manageryears10**: 2018–2019
- **managerclubs10**: SK Sturm Graz, Sturm Graz
- **manageryears11**: 2019–2020
- **managerclubs11**: SC Austria Lustenau