Hans Krankl

**Johann "Hans" Krankl** (born 14 February 1953) is an Austrian football player who played for SK Rapid Wien and the Austrian national team. He is regarded as one of the best Austrian footballers in history.

## Career

He started his professional career with SK Rapid Wien at the age of 17. But he played not very often so he went to Wiener AC where he shot 27 goals in 26 matches. So he was transferred back to SK Rapid. In the next years he shot in 201 matches for the club 160 goals. In the 1977/78 season he shot 41 goals and got the European Golden Shoe as Europs best scorer. This is still the record in the Austrian League.

In 1978 he was transferred to FC Barcelona where he shot in his first season 29 goals and won the Pichichi, the trophy for the best Spain scorer. With FC Barcelona he won also the UEFA Cup Winners Cup in 1979.

1981 he went back to Rapid where he shot another 107 goals for the club. The last years of his career he played with Wiener Sportklub, Kremser SC and SV Austria Salzburg.In his career he played 478 matches and scored 355 goals.

## International

Krankl played 69 matches for the national team and scored 34 goals. He was member of the team for the 1978 and 1982 FIFA World Cup. In 1978 he became a legend in Austria for scoring two goals against Germany - the first victory after 47 years. The radio commentary ("Tor Tor Tor Tor Tor Tor, I werd' narrisch" – "Goal goal goal goal goal goal, I'm going crazy") is known by almost all Austrian football supporters.

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="12"|Austria|1973|4|0|
|1974|5|2|||
|1975|6|4|||
|1976|8|6|||
|1977|6|7|||
|1978|13|6|||
|1979|5|3|||
|1980|5|1|||
|1981|6|2|||
|1982|7|2|||
|1983|3|0|||
|1985|1|0|||

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

|scope="col"|No.|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Opponent|scope="col"|Score|scope="col"|Result|scope="col"|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|27 March 1974|Feyenoord Stadion,   Rotterdam,  Netherlands||1-0|1-1|Friendly match||||||||
|2|4 September 1974|Praterstadion,   Vienna,  Austria||2-1|2-1|UEFA Euro Qualification||||||||
|3|28 September 1974|Praterstadion,   Vienna ,  Austria||1-0|1-0|Friendly match||||||||
|4|16 March 1975|Stade Municipal,    Luxembourg, Luxembourg||2-1|2-1|UEFA Euro Qualification||||||||
|5|24 September 1975|Népstadion,    Budapest, Hungary||1-1|1-2|UEFA Euro Qualification||||||||
|6|15 October 1975|Praterstadion, Vienna, Austria||2–2|6–2|UEFA Euro Qualification||||||||
|7|5-2|||||||||||||
|8|22 September 1976|Linzer Stadion,    Linz, Austria||1-0|3-1|Friendly match||||||||
|9|13 October 1976|Praterstadion, Vienna, Austria||1–2|2-4|Friendly match||||||||
|10|2-2|||||||||||||
|11|10 November 1976|Nationalstadion,    Kavala,  Greece||2-0|3-0|Friendly match||||||||
|12|5 December 1976|Empire Stadium,    Gzira,  Malta||1-0|1-0|FIFA World Cup  1978 qualification||||||||
|13|15 December 1976|National Stadion,    Ramat Gan,  Israel||3-1|3-1|Friendly match||||||||
|14|30 April 1977|Lehener Stadion,  Salzburg, Austria||1–0|9-0|FIFA World Cup  1978 qualification||||||||
|15|2-0|||||||||||||
|16|3-0|||||||||||||
|17|4-0|||||||||||||
|18|6-0|||||||||||||
|19|8-0|||||||||||||
|20|24 August 1977|Praterstadion,   Vienna ,  Austria||2-0|2-1|Friendly match||||||||
|21|15 February 1978|Nea Filadelfia Stadion,    Athens,  Greece||1-1|1-1|Friendly match||||||||
|22|3 June 1978|Velez Sarsfield Stadium,    Buenos Aires,  Argentina||2-1|2-1|FIFA World Cup 1978||||||||
|23|7 June 1978|Velez Sarsfield Stadium, Buenos Aires, Argentina||1-0|1-0|FIFA World Cup 1978||||||||
|24|21 June 1978|Estadio Chateau Carreras,   Córdoba,  Argentina||2-1|3-2|FIFA World Cup 1978||||||||
|25|3-2|||||||||||||
|26|30 August 1978|Ullevaal Stadium,  Oslo,  Norway||2-0|2-0|UEFA Euro 1980 qualification||||||||
|27|28 March 1979|Astridpark,  Brussels,  Belgium||1-1|1-1|UEFA Euro 1980 qualification||||||||
|28|29 August 1979|Praterstadion,   Vienna ,  Austria||4-0|4-0|UEFA Euro 1980 qualification||||||||
|29|17 October 1979|Hampden Park,    Glasgow,   Scotland||1-0|1-1|UEFA Euro 1980 qualification||||||||
|30|15 November 1980|Praterstadion,   Vienna ,  Austria||5-0|5-0|FIFA World Cup 1982  qualification||||||||
|31|28 May 1981|Praterstadion,   Vienna ,  Austria||1-0|2-0|FIFA World Cup 1982  qualification||||||||
|33|17 June 1981|Linzer Stadion,   Linz,  Austria||3-0|5-1|FIFA World Cup 1982  qualification||||||||
|34|24 March 1982|Népstadion, Budapest, Hungary||1-0|3-2|Freiendly match||||||||

## Manager career

Although he coached different teams he was not as successful as a player. With his teams he never reached a European competition. As manager of the national team failed to qualify for the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

## Honours

- Rapid Wien
- Austrian Bundesliga:1982, 1983
- Austrian Cup:1976, 1983, 1984, 1985

- Barcelona
- UEFA Cup Winners' Cup:1979
- Copa del Rey:1981

- Individual honours
- Runner up European footballer of the year 1978
- Austrian Footballer of the year 1973, 1974, 1977, 1982, 1988
- Part of the 20th century Austrian team
- Part of Rapids team of the century
- Pichichi Trophy: 1979
- European Golden Shoe: 1978
- Austrian coach of the Year: 1999

## Musical career

After his football career he began to sing and had some hits in Austria.

### Discography

- Singles
- "Ohne Ball'n und ohne Netz" (1974)
- "Vor, vor noch ein Tor …" (1974)

- Under the name Johann K.
- "Rostige Flügel" (1984, mit Kottans Kapelle)
- "Lonely Boy" (1985)
- "Ka Platz im Herz" (1986)
- "Aspirin" (1986)
- "Der Bätmän bin i" (1989)
- "Rudi" (2002)
- "Jingle Bells" (2003)

- Albums
- Under the name Johann K.
- _Des war schon alles?_ (1985)
- _A scheena Bua_ (2003)
- _Best of – Wo san nur die Zeiten hin_ (2008)