Andreas Ulmer

**Andreas Ulmer** (born October 30, 1985) is an Austrian football player playing for F.C. Red Bull Salzburg in the Austrian Bundesliga as defender. His father,Gerhard Ulmer, and his uncle, Fritz Ulmer, were also footballplayers, playing for SK Voest Linz.

## Career

He started playing football in the local clubs SK Asten and LASK Linz. At the age of 14 he went to the Frank Stronach Academy in Hollabrunn (a school, where you can also visit a school beside your football education). He got his A-levels and then played for the second squad of FK Austria Wien after his debut for Austria Wien in the 2004/05 season. 2008/09 he played for  SV Ried and then went to F.C. Red Bull Salzburg.

For Red Bull Salzburg he played regularly as left defender. In the 2009/10 season he played all matches of Red Bull Salzburg. This year he even played 37 matches in the league, because he came in Winter to Red Bull Salzburg which had to play a match from the first half of the season in the second half, so Andreas Ulmer played this year 22 matches for SV Ried and 15 for Red Bull Salzburg. So far he is the only player in the whole football history of Austria who did one match more than the regular 36. During the warm-up for a Championsleague qualifing match versus Omonia Nikosia he was badly injured so he missed the first half of the season 2010/11.  During the 2017–18 season, Salzburg and Ulmer had their best ever European campaign. They finished top of their Europa League group before beating Real Sociedad, Borussia Dortmund and Lazio Rom and reached for the first time the UEFA Europa League semi-final.

2022 he signed another year for FC Red Bull Salzburg. After 582 competitive appearances, Ulmer left Salzburg after the 2023/24 season.  He did not find a new club in the following six months. So in February 2025, Ulmer ended his playing career at the age of 39.

## International career

On 11th February 2009 he played his first match for the Austrian national team versus Sweden. 2015 he had a break in the team but 2017 he played again for the national team. He was part of the team for the European championship an played two matches in the tournament.

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="13"|Austria|2009|2|0|
|2014|2|0|||
|2011|8|0|||
|2012|8|0|||
|2013|6|0|||
|2014|8|0|||
|2017|1|0|||
|2018|5|0|||
|2019|8|0|||
|2020|4|0|||
|2021|9|0|||
|2022|1|0|||
|2023|1|0|||

## Honours

**Austria Wien**
- Austrian Bundesliga: 2006
- Austrian Cup (1):2006
**Red Bull Salzburg**
- Austrian Bundesliga (13): 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
- Austrian Cup (9): 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022

## Other websites

- Official homepage-Profile Andreas Ulmer

## Infobox (football biography)

- **playername**: Andreas Ulmer
- **image**: RB Salzburg gegen FK Austria Wien (18. März 2018) 13.jpg
- **image size**: 250px
- **fullname**: Andreas Ulmer
- **birth place**: Linz, Austria
- **currentclub**: FC Red Bull Salzburg
- **clubnumber**: 17
- **position**: defender (football), left back
- **youthclubs1**: SK Lenze Asten
- **youthclubs2**: LASK Linz
- **years1**: 2004-2007
- **years2**: 2008
- **years3**: 2009-2024
- **clubs1**: Austria Wien
- **clubs2**: SV Ried
- **clubs3**: FC Red Bull Salzburg
- **caps1**: 3
- **caps2**: 22
- **caps3**: 395
- **goals1**: 0
- **goals2**: 1
- **goals3**: 16
- **nationalyears1**: 2009-2023
- **nationalteam1**: Austria national football team, Austria
- **nationalcaps1**: 62
- **nationalgoals1**: 0
- **pcupdate**: 25 December 2025
- **ntupdate**: 25 December 2025