Franz Binder

**Franz Binder** (1 December 1911 – 24 April 1989) was an Austrian football player and coach. He played for SK Rapid Wien as a forward. He was born in St. Pölten and died in Vienna.

### As player

Binder played his whole career for SK Rapid Wien, where he started at the age of 19. With Rapid he won 3 times the Austrian Championship and in 1941 the German Championship, bacause Austria was then occupied by Germany. In the match versus Schalke 04 he scored three of the four goals for Rapid.

He played in the Austrian national football team  14 times before the Second World War and five times after the war. For Germany he played between 1938 and 1941 nine times and scored 10 goals. For Austria he scored 16 times in 19 matches.

### As coach

After the end of his career he became coach in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. (SSV Jahn Regensburg, PSV Eindhoven, 1. FC Nuremberg, 1860 München and Rapid Wien)

## League statistics

|rowspan=2|Club|rowspan=2|Season|colspan=2|Austrian First League|colspan=2|German football championship|colspan=2|National Cup|colspan=2|Mitropa Cup|colspan=2|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=20|Rapid Vienna|1930–31|1|2|-|-|2|0|-|-|3|2||
|1931–32|8|6|-|-|2|6|-|-|10|12||||
|1932–33|20|25|-|-|2|7|-|-|22|32||||
|1933–34|22|20|-|-|5|7|4|6|31|33||||
|1934–35|21|21|-|-|6|13|2|1|29|35||||
|1935–36|20|17|-|-|2|4|2|3|24|24||||
|1936–37|22|29|-|-|4|8|-|-|26|37||||
|1937–38|17|22|-|-|1|0|-|-|18|22||||
|1938–39|17|27|-|-|4|4|-|-|21|31||||
|1939–40|13|18|9|14|7|18|-|-|29|50||||
|1940–41|18|27|8|11|5|6|-|-|31|44||||
|1941–42|8|6|-|-|2|5|-|-|10|11||||
|1942–43|1|1|-|-|-|-|-|-|1|1||||
|1943–44|2|4|-|-|-|-|-|-|2|4||||
|1944–45|-|-|-|-|1|0|-|-|1|0||||
|1945–46|13|17|-|-|3|7|-|-|16|24||||
|1946–47|15|12|-|-|2|4|-|-|17|16||||
|1947–48|17|11|-|-|3|2|-|-|20|13||||
|1948–49|6|2|-|-|1|2|-|-|7|4||||

## International statistics

- for Austria

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="8"|Austria|1933|3|2|
|1934|3|2|||
|1935|2|0|||
|1936|4|5|||
|1937|2|2|||
|1945|1|0|||
|1946|2|2|||
|1947|2|3|||
- for Germany

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="2"|Germany|1939|4|7|
|1940|5|3|||

### Goals for Austria

- _Austria score listed first, score column indicates score after each Austria goal._

|scope=col|No.|scope=col|Cap|scope=col|Date|scope=col|Venue|scope=col|Opponent|scope=col|Score|scope=col|Result|scope=col|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|11 June 1933|Praterstadion, Vienna, Austria||**2**–1|4–1|Friendly||||||||||
|align=center|**4**–1|||||||||||||||
|4|11 February 1934|Stadio Municipale Benito Mussolini, Turin, Italy||**3**–0|4–2|1933-35 Central European Cup||||||||||
|6|23 September 1934|Praterstadion, Vienna, Austria||**1**–0|2–2|||||||||||
|9|19 January 1936|Estadio Metropolitano, Madrid, Spain||**2**–2|5–4|Friendly||||||||||
|10|26 January 1936|Estádio do Lima, Porto, Portugal||**2**–0|3–2|||||||||||
|11|27 September 1936|Üllői úti stadion, Budapest, Hungary||**1**–0|3–5|1936-38 Central European Cup||||||||||
|12|8 November 1936|Hardturm, Zürich, Switzerland||**1**–0|3–1|||||||||||
|align=center|**3**–0|||||||||||||||
|13|24 January 1937|Parc des Princes, Paris, France||**2**–1|2–1|Friendly||||||||||
|14|5 October 1937|Praterstadion, Vienna, Austria||**2**–1|2–1|1938 World Cup qualification||||||||||
|16|27 October 1946||**1**–1|3–4|Friendly|||||||||||
|align=center|**2**–1|||||||||||||||
|18|14 September 1947||**3**–3|4–3||||||||||||
|align=center|**4**–3|||||||||||||||
|19|5 October 1947|Stadion Letná, Prague, Czechoslovakia||**1**–1|2–3|||||||||||

### Goals for Germany

- _Germany score listed first, score column indicates score after each Binder goal._

|scope=col|No.|scope=col|Cap|scope=col|Date|scope=col|Venue|scope=col|Opponent|scope=col|Score|scope=col|Result|scope=col|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|29 January 1939|Stade du Centenaire, Brussels, Belgium||**1**–0|4–1|Friendly||||||||||
|3|12 November 1939|Stadion Olimpijski, Wrocław, Poland||**1**–3|4–4|||||||||||
|align=center|**2**–3|||||||||||||||
|align=center|**3**–4|||||||||||||||
|4|26 November 1939|Olympiastadion, Berlin, Germany||**1**–1|5–2|||||||||||
|align=center|**2**–2|||||||||||||||
|align=center|**5**–2|||||||||||||||
|5|7 April 1940||**2**–1|2–2||||||||||||
|7|5 May 1940|San Siro, Milan, Italy||**1**–2|2–3|||||||||||
|align=center|**2**–2|||||||||||||||

## Player honours

- Austrian Football Bundesliga (4):
    - 1935, 1938, 1946, 1948
- Great Germany Gauliga (2):
    - 1940, 1941
- Wiener Cup (1):
    - 1946
- German Cup (1):
    - 1938
- Austrian Bundesliga Top Goalscorer (3):
    - 1933, 1937, 1938
- Gauliga Top Goalscorer (3):
    - 1939, 1940, 1941

## Other websites

- Franz Binder international goals

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Franz Binder
- **fullname**: Franz Binder
- **height**: 1.90 m
- **birth place**: St. Pölten, Austria
- **death place**: Vienna, Austria
- **position**: Forward (association football)#Striker, Striker
- **years1**: 1930–1948
- **clubs1**: Rapid Wien
- **caps1**: 241
- **goals1**: 267
- **nationalyears1**: 1933–1947
- **nationalteam1**: Austria national football team, Austria
- **nationalcaps1**: 19
- **nationalgoals1**: 16
- **nationalyears2**: 1939–1941
- **nationalteam2**: Germany national football team, Germany
- **nationalcaps2**: 9
- **nationalgoals2**: 10
- **manageryears1**: 1949–1951
- **managerclubs1**: Rapid Wien
- **manageryears2**: 1952–1954
- **managerclubs2**: SSV Jahn Regensburg
- **manageryears3**: 1954–1955
- **managerclubs3**: 1. FC Nürnberg
- **manageryears4**: 1960–1962
- **managerclubs4**: PSV Eindhoven
- **manageryears5**: 1962–1966
- **managerclubs5**: Rapid Wien
- **manageryears6**: 1969–1970
- **managerclubs6**: TSV 1860 Munich
- **manageryears7**: 1975–1976
- **managerclubs7**: Rapid Wien
- **managerclubs8**: SW Bregenz
- **managerclubs9**: FC Kufstein