Friedrich Koncilia

Friedrich (Friedl) Koncilia (born 25 February 1948) is a former Austrian football player mainly for FK Austria Wien. He has also played for Austria national team.

Career
At the age of 14 he came to KAC, an ice hockey club, but the coach of the football department brought him to football. He played in Austria for  Austria Klagenfurt, SSW Innsbruck and Austria Wien. Abroad he played for RSC Anderlecht. He is one of the most successful goalkeepers in Austria. During his career he was 8 times Austrian Champion and six times Cup winner and played 526 league matches, 76 Cup matches and  51 matches in European cups.

For Austria he played 85 matches, his first international match was on 27 September 1970 versus Hungary. His last match was in 1985. For Austria he played in the FIFA World Cup 1978 where he played in the legendary match versus Germany in Cordoba and 1982.

He was chosen as goalkeeper for a FIFA-selection playing versus Argentinia on 25 June 1979  He was goalkeeper in the 2nd half time. He was also goalkeeper in an UEFA-team playing versus CSSR, which celebrated the 70th anniversary.

After the end of his playing career he became coach for Austria Wien, Gamba Osaka and Brandl-Bau Ischl.
Club career statistics

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|1969/70||rowspan="2"|Wattens||rowspan="2"|Championship||30||0
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|1970/71||30||0
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|1971/72||rowspan="8"|Wacker Innsbruck||rowspan="3"|Championship||15||0
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|1972/73||30||0
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|1973/74||24||0
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|1974/75||rowspan="5"|Bundesliga||34||0
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|1975/76||34||0
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|1976/77||36||0
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|1977/78||36||0
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|1978/79||27||0

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|1979/80||Anderlecht||First Division||8||0

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|1979/80||rowspan="6"|Austria Wien||rowspan="6"|Bundesliga||19||0
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|1980/81||24||0
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|1981/82||35||0
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|1982/83||30||0
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|1983/84||29||0
|-
|1984/85||26||0
459||0
8||0
467||0
|}

International career statistics

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|1970||3||0
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|1971||0||0
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|1972||1||0
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|1973||5||0
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|1974||1||0
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|1975||7||0
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|1976||8||0
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|1977||8||0
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|1978||11||0
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|1979||8||0
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|1980||4||0
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|1981||3||0
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|1982||9||0
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|1983||6||0
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|1984||6||0
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|1985||4||0
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!Total||84||0
|}
Honours
Member of the Austrian squad FIFA World Cup: 1978,1982
Member:Austria Wien team of the century (elected 2001)
Member of the FIFA World selection:1979
8 × Austrian Champion: 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1984 und 1985
6 × Austrian Cup: 1973, 1975, 1978, 1980, 1982 und 1984;

Manager career
Goalkeeper coach  Austria Wien (1993/94)
Coach of Gamba Osaka (1997/98)
Manager of Austria Wien (1998/99–Nov 2000)
Coach of  Austria Wien (2 April 1999–30 May 1999)
Coach of  Brandl-Bau Bad Ischl (2002–2007)
References

Category:1948 births
Category:Living people
Category:Austrian football goalkeepers
Category:People from Klagenfurt
Category:Players of the Austrian national football team
Category:FK Austria Wien players
Category:Austrian football champions