Walter Schachner

**Walter Schachner** (born 1 February 1957 in Leoben, Austria) is a retired Austrian football striker and former Austrian national team player. He is now working as football coach for LASK Linz for Austrias Erste Liga.

### Player

He started his professional career with DSV Leoben in the second division. After one and a half season he was nominated for Austrias national football team although he was playing in the 2. league. After three years with Austria Wien he played seven years in Italy for  AC Cesena, Torino Calcio, SC Pisa and US Avellino. After returning from Italy he played for different clubs in Austria in the upper three divisions. He played his last match in the final round of the 2000/01 season for FC Kärnten whre he was coach at this time.

For Austria he played 64 matches and scored 23 goals. He was member of the squad for the FIFA World Cup 1978 and 1982. 1978 he was in the starting team in the 3:2 win versus Germany (Miracle of Cordoba).

## International statistics

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="14"|Austria|1976|2|1|
|1977|3|2|||
|1978|7|3|||
|1979|8|1|||
|1980|6|2|||
|1981|4|1|||
|1982|11|8|||
|1983|6|2|||
|1984|5|1|||
|1985|6|2|||
|1986|3|0|||
|1987|1|0|||
|1988|1|0|||
|1994|1|0|||
- _Scores and results list Austria's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Schachner goal._

|scope="col"|No.|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Opponent|scope="col"|Score|scope="col"|Result|scope="col"|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|15 December 1976|National Stadion,  Ramat Gan, Israel||2-1|3-1|Friendly match||||||||
|2|9 March 1977|Praterstadion,  Vienna, Austria||2-0|2-0|Friendly match||||||||
|3|17 April 1977|Praterstadion,  Vienna, Austria||1-0|1-0|1978 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|4|3 June 1978|Velez Sarsfield Stadion,   Buenos Aires,    Argentina||1-0|2-1|1978 FIFA World Cup||||||||
|5|20 September 1978|Praterstadion,  Vienna, Austria||2-0|3-2|UEFA Euro 1980 qualification||||||||
|6|15 November 1978|Praterstadion,  Vienna, Austria||1-1|1-2|UEFA Euro 1980 qualification||||||||
|7|21 November 1979|Estádio da Luz,   Lisbon,  Portugal||1-2|1-2|UEFA Euro 1980 qualification||||||||
|8|25 November 1980|Praterstadion,  Vienna, Austria||2-0|5-0|1982 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|9|3-0|||||||||||||
|10|14 October 1981|Praterstadion,  Vienna, Austria||1-0|1-3|1982 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|11|24 March 1982|Nepstadion ,   Budapest,  Hungary||2-0|3-2|Friendly match||||||||
|12|28 April 1982|Praterstadion,  Vienna, Austria||1-0|2-0|Friendly match||||||||
|13|2-0|||||||||||||
|14|17 June 1982|Estadio Carlos Tartiere,   Oviedo,  Spain||1-0|1-0|1982 FIFA World Cup||||||||
|15|21 June 1982|Estadio Carlos Tartiere,  Oviedo, Spain||1⁻0|2-0|1982 FIFA World Cup||||||||
|16|28 April 1982|Praterstadion,  Vienna, Austria||1-0|2-0|UEFA Euro 1984 qualification||||||||
|17|2-0|||||||||||||
|18|17 November 1982|Gerhard-Hanappi-stadium,  Vienna, Austria||4-0|4-0|UEFA Euro 1984 qualification||||||||
|19|8 June 1983|Qemal Stafa,   Tirana,   Albania||1-0|2-1|UEFA Euro 1984 qualification||||||||
|20|2-0|||||||||||||
|21|6 September 1967|Népstadion,  Budapest,   Hungary||1-0|1-3|1986 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|22|1 May 1985|Feyenoord Stadion,   Rotterdam,   Netherlands||1-1|1-1|1986 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|23|7 May 1985|Liebenauer Stadium,   Graz,  Austria||3-0|4-0|1986 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||

### Manager

His first club was the FC Zeltweg which he promoted from 4th to 3rd division. His first team in professional football was FC Kärnten in the First league. They promoted to the Bundesliga. 2002 he was coach of FK Austria Wien but was replaced by Christoph Daum in October despite the fact that the team was 7 points ahead of the second in the league. Only a few days later he became coach of the GAK from Graz. With GAK he won the Championship in 2004.

From 2006 till 2007 he was coach of TSV 1860 München then he came back to Austria and managed FC Kärnten again. From 2008 to 2010 he managed Admira Wacker Mödling.  The first year they reached the Cup final. 2010 he was replaced by Dietmar Kühbauer.
2011 he became coach of LASK Linz but could not avoid the relegation to the First League.

### Playing

- **Austrian Football Bundesliga (3):**
    - 1979, 1980, 1981
- **Austrian Cup (1):**
    - 1980
- **Austrian Bundesliga Top Goalscorer (2):**
    - 1979, 1980
- **Italy Cup Top Goalscorer (1):**
    - 1984 (8 goals)
- **Austrian squad for the FIFA World Cup**
    - 1978, 1982

### Coaching

- **Austrian Football Bundesliga (1):**
    - 2004
- **Austrian Cup (2):**
    - 2001, 2004
- **Austrian Supercup (1):**
    - 2001