Karl Adamek

**Karl Adamek** (23 July 1910 in Vienna – 8 January 2000) was an Austrian footballer and manager. He played as defender for different teams in Vienna and from 1933 till 1935 for Le Havre AC in France.

## Career

Karl  Adamek was a trained butcher and  waiter. He began his career as a football player with Brigittenauer AC and switched to the well-known Wiener AC for two years in 1929. After a short time with Floridsdorfer AC, he went back to Brigittenau. !932-22 he played for Austria Wien. In this time he debuted for the Austrian national football team in a 4-3 away win on 17 July 1932. He played eight matches for Austria.

In the winter of 1933 he left Austria and played for Le Havre, France, in the second division. However, his international career was interrupted by this transfer, as footballers playing abroad were rarely named in the national team at that time. Before he ended his active career after the 1946/47 season, Adamek celebrated his third runner-up title in the second post-war championship with Austria Wien and reached  the cup final for the last time, which they lost 4-3 to SC Wacker Wien.

After the end of his playing career, Karl Adamek turned into a successful coach. From 1952 to 1957 managed  IFK Norrköping in Sweden. Then he coached Austria Wien. 1958 he took over the second division club Atalanta Bergamo in Italy and led it back into the first division. Other coaching stations Adameks abroad were Norway  (	Örgryte IS, Bodø/Glimt, HamKam)  and Switzerland (FC Biel). Adamek's next stop was at Sturm Graz, with whom he was promoted to the Staatsliga in July 1966 after taking over the club in January 1965. At the beginning of the 1970s he coached SV Heid Stockerau.

## International statistics

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="3"|Austria|1932|1|0|
|1936|2|0|||
|1937|5|0|||

## Other websites

- Player profile at Austria-Archiv.at
- Manager profile at Austria-Archiv.at

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Karl Adamek
- **image**: Karl Adamek (G.) en 1933 au FK Austria de Vienne (victoire en coupe d'Autriche; D. Johann Billich).jpg
- **caption**: Karl Adamek (l.) with Johann Billich
- **birth place**: Vienna, Austria-Hungary
- **position**: Defender (association football), Defender
- **years1**: 1927–1929
- **clubs1**: Brigittenauer AC
- **years2**: 1929–1931
- **clubs2**: Wiener AC
- **years3**: 1931
- **clubs3**: Floridsdorfer AC
- **years4**: 1931–1932
- **clubs4**: Brigittenauer AC
- **years5**: 1932–1933
- **clubs5**: FK Austria Wien, Austria Wien
- **years6**: 1933–1935
- **clubs6**: Le Havre AC
- **years7**: 1935–1937
- **clubs7**: FK Austria Wien, Austria Wien
- **nationalyears1**: 1932–1937
- **nationalteam1**: Austria national football team, Austria
- **nationalcaps1**: 8
- **nationalgoals1**: 0
- **manageryears1**: 1948–1949
- **managerclubs1**: FC Biel-Bienne, FC Biel
- **manageryears2**: 1950–1957
- **managerclubs2**: IFK Norrköping
- **manageryears3**: 1957–1958
- **managerclubs3**: FK Austria Wien, Austria Wien
- **manageryears4**: 1958–1959
- **managerclubs4**: Atalanta B.C., Atalanta
- **manageryears5**: 1960
- **managerclubs5**: Örgryte IS
- **manageryears6**: 1965–1966
- **managerclubs6**: SK Sturm Graz, Sturm Graz
- **managerclubs7**: SV Stockerau
- **manageryears8**: 1970
- **managerclubs8**: Bodø/Glimt
- **manageryears9**: 1971
- **managerclubs9**: Hamarkameratene, HamKam