Gustav Wieser

**Gustav Wieser** (24 June 1898 – 1960) was an Austrian footballer. He played as forward for  Rapid Wien, Würzburger Kickers and Wiener Amateur SV and the Austrian national football team. After his career he was a successful coach in Germany and Poland.

## Career

He started his career with SK Rapid Wien in 1915. With the team he was Austrian champion five times until 1921 and also won the first two Austrian cup competitions. After the success at Rapid, Gustav Wieser went to the Würzburger Kickers in 1921, but returned to Vienna in 1923 and now played for Rapids rivals, Wiener Amateur SV.

With Amateur SV he  won the championship in 1924, a year later the cup and in 1926 the double. In each of these three seasons, Gustav Wieser was crowned Austria's top scorer.

## National team

He debuted on 7 May 1916 in a 3-1 win versus Hungary. Till 1921 he played 9 matches. During his time in Germany he was not allowed to play in the team. As a player for the Amateur SV,  Wieser played a total of 18 international matches. His last match was versus France in 1926. He played a total of 27 matches for Austria and scored 12 goals.

## International statistics

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="8"|Austria|1916|4|0|
|1917|1|0|||
|1919|2|0|||
|1920|2|1|||
|1923|4|3|||
|1924|7|6|||
|1925|5|2|||
|1926|2|0|||

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

|scope="col"|No.|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Opponent|scope="col"|Score|scope="col"|Result|scope="col"|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|2 May 1920|WAC-Platz,  Vienna, Austria||1-1|2-2|Friendly match||||||||
|2|10 June 1923|Slottsskogsvallen,   Göteborg,  Sweden||2-2|2-1|Friendly match||||||||
|3|15 August 1923|Hohe Warte,  Vienna, Austria||1-0|2-1|Friendly match||||||||
|4|2-1|||||||||||||
|5|20  January 1924|Stadio Marassi,  Genoa, Italy||1-0|4-0|Friendly match||||||||
|6|3-0|||||||||||||
|7|10 February  1924|Concordia-Stadion,  Zagreb, Yugoslavia||1-0|4-1|Friendly match||||||||
|8|3-1|||||||||||||
|9|4-1|||||||||||||
|10|4 May 1924|Hungária út,   Budapest,  Hungary||2-2|2-2|Friendly match||||||||
|11|19 April 1925|Stade Joseph Pershing,  Paris,  France||2-0|4-0|Friendly match||||||||
|12|13 December 1925|Pont d'Ougrée,   Liège, Belgium||1-1|4-3|Friendly match||||||||

## Manager career

After his active career  Gustav Wieser worked as a coach. In 1927 he was coach of  Eintracht Frankfurt , supported by a fitness trainer and a doctor, which was unusual at the time. 1928 he became coach of FC Schalke 04.

After working in Germany, Gustav Wieser first went to Czechoslovakia, where he was again an active player at Teplitzer FK and then to Poland. He coached Legia Warsaw  from October 1933 to September 1934. Then he spent the next two years in Chorzów, where he won the Polish championship with Ruch Chorzów in 1934 and 1935. He then worked as a coach in Luxembourg.

After the end of the Second World War he went back to Germany and coached  Bremerhaven 93. His commitment ended there in the spring 1950 when his team was accused of corruption after a defeat in Göttingen. He distanced himself from the events and gave up his coaching position.

## Honours

**as player:**
- 7 × Austrian Champion: 1916, 1917, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1924, 1926
- 5 × Austrian Cup winner: 1919, 1920, 1924, 1925, 1926
- 3 × Top scorer:  1924, 1925, 1926

- 27 matches and 12 goals for the Austrian national football team

**as manager**
- 2 × Polish champion: 1934, 1935

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Gustav Wieser
- **birth date**: 14 June 1898
- **death date**: 1960
- **position**: Forward (association football), Striker
- **years1**: 1914–1921
- **years2**: 1921–1923
- **years3**: 1923–1927
- **clubs1**: SK Rapid Wien
- **clubs2**: Würzburger Kickers
- **clubs3**: FK Austria Wien, Wiener Amateur SV
- **caps1**: 82
- **goals1**: 62
- **nationalyears1**: 1916–1926
- **nationalteam1**: Austria national football team, Austria
- **nationalcaps1**: 27
- **nationalgoals1**: 12
- **manageryears1**: 1927–1928
- **manageryears2**: 1928–1929
- **manageryears5**: 1933–1934
- **manageryears6**: 1934–1935
- **managerclubs1**: Eintracht Frankfurt
- **managerclubs2**: FC Schalke 04
- **managerclubs3**: OSC Bremerhaven, TuS Bremerhaven
- **managerclubs4**: Jeunesse Esch
- **managerclubs5**: Legia Warsaw
- **managerclubs6**: Ruch Chorzów