page_title: Erwin Hoffer
section_title: Rapid Wien
hierarchical_section_title: Erwin Hoffer / Club career / Rapid Wien
caption_attribution_description: Erwin Hoffer at Rapid's Open Day 2009 in Vienna
context_page_description: Erwin "Jimmy" Hoffer is an Austrian professional football striker who plays for Admira Wacker. He also played for the Austrian national team.
context_section_description: After a two-year spell, he moved to Rapid Wien where he was a replacement for Muhammet Akagündüz, who left for Turkish side Kayserispor.
  Hoffer made his Rapid Wien debut on 29 July 2006, coming on as a second-half substitute, in a 1–0 loss against SV Ried. Having spent most of the season with the reserve, Hoffer then scored a brace on 13 May 2007, in a 2–0 win over Grazer AK. In his first season, Hoffer made 21 appearance and scored 4 times.
  Having missed the start of the 2007–08 season, due to international commitment, Hoffer made his first appearance of the season, where he set up the only goal in the game, in a 1–0 win over SC Rheindorf Altach on 1 August 2007. On 3 November 2007, he scored his first goal of the season, as well as, setting up a goal, in a 4–0 win over SV Ried. He then scored twice on 16 February 2008, in a 2–0 win over Austria Kärnten. On 23 March 2008, he scored a hat-trick in their 7–0 victory against Red Bull Salzburg and assisting two times during the match as well. In the last three matches of the season, Hoffer scored three goals in three matches, including scoring decisive goal, in a 3–0 win over Rheindorf Altach on 21 April 2008, a victory that saw Rapid Wien win the Austrian Football Bundesliga title in the 2007–08 season. For this, Hoffer had his contract extended, keeping him until 2011.
  In the 2008–09 season, Hoffer started the season well when he score 7 times in all competitions against Austria Kärnten, Anorthosis Famagusta, Rheindorf Altach (four times), and LASK Linz. After three months without scoring, Hoffer, once again, went on a goalscoring form throughout the end of the year, scoring against LASK Linz, Sturm Graz (twice), Rheindorf Altach (hat–trick), and Austria Wien. From 8 March 2009 to 21 March 2009, Hoffer scored five goals in three appearances, including two braces against Kapfenberger SV and Austria Kärnten. After suffering a muscle injury that kept him out on a short term, Hoffer then scored two hat–tricks against Red Bull Salzburg and Kapfenberger SV in May 2009. Finishing the 2008–09 season as second top scorer in the league behind Marc Janko, Hoffer made a total of 39 appearances scoring 29 times in all competitions.
  At the end of the 2008–09 season, Hoffer attracted interests from clubs around Europe. Amid to the transfer move, Hoffer made two appearance for the side in the UEFA Europa League Qualification Round campaign against Vllaznia Shkodër, scoring in the first leg, with the result was 8–0 on aggregate for Rapid Wien. After Rapid Wien had denied that any clubs were interested in Hoffer, the agreement between Rapid Wien and Napoli was agreed.
caption: Hoffer attending the club’s Open Day in 2009.
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