Walter Schachner

Walter Schachner (born 1 February 1957 in Leoben, Austria) is a retired Austrian football striker and former Austrian national team player. He is now working as football coach for LASK Linz for Austrias Erste Liga.
Career
Player
He started his professional career with DSV Leoben in the second division. After one and a half season he was nominated for Austrias national football team although he was playing in the 2. league. After three years with Austria Wien he played seven years in Italy for  AC Cesena, Torino Calcio, SC Pisa and US Avellino. After returning from Italy he played for different clubs in Austria in the upper three divisions. He played his last match in the final round of the 2000/01 season for FC Kärnten whre he was coach at this time.

For Austria he played 64 matches and scored 23 goals. He was member of the squad for the FIFA World Cup 1978 and 1982. 1978 he was in the starting team in the 3:2 win versus Germany (Miracle of Cordoba).
International statistics
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+ Appearances and goals by national team and yearNational teamYearAppsGoals  Austria 1976211977321978731979811980621981411982118198362198451198562198630198710198810199410Total6423
Scores and results list Austria's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Schachner goal.

+ List of international goals scored by Walter SchachnerNo.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition115 December 1976 National Stadion,  Ramat Gan, Israel  2-13-1     Friendly match29 March 1977Praterstadion,  Vienna, Austria    2-02-0    Friendly match317 April 1977Praterstadion,  Vienna, Austria    1-01-0   1978 FIFA World Cup qualification43 June 1978  Velez Sarsfield Stadion,   Buenos Aires,    Argentina    1-02-1  1978 FIFA World Cup520 September 1978 Praterstadion,  Vienna, Austria    2-03-2   UEFA Euro 1980 qualification615 November 1978 Praterstadion,  Vienna, Austria    1-11-2  UEFA Euro 1980 qualification721 November 1979  Estádio da Luz,   Lisbon,  Portugal    1-21-2  UEFA Euro 1980 qualification825 November 1980  Praterstadion,  Vienna, Austria  2-05-0  1982 FIFA World Cup qualification93-01014 October 1981 Praterstadion,  Vienna, Austria    1-01-3  1982 FIFA World Cup qualification1124 March 1982  Nepstadion ,   Budapest,  Hungary    2-03-2  Friendly match1228 April 1982  Praterstadion,  Vienna, Austria  1-02-0    Friendly match132-01417 June 1982  Estadio Carlos Tartiere,   Oviedo,  Spain   1-01-0   1982 FIFA World Cup1521 June 1982 Estadio Carlos Tartiere,  Oviedo, Spain   1⁻02-0  1982 FIFA World Cup1628 April 1982  Praterstadion,  Vienna, Austria  1-02-0  UEFA Euro 1984 qualification172-01817 November 1982  Gerhard-Hanappi-stadium,  Vienna, Austria  4-04-0   UEFA Euro 1984 qualification198 June 1983 Qemal Stafa,   Tirana,   Albania  1-02-1  UEFA Euro 1984 qualification202-0216 September 1967 Népstadion,  Budapest,   Hungary  1-01-3    1986 FIFA World Cup qualification221 May 1985 Feyenoord Stadion,   Rotterdam,   Netherlands  1-11-1  1986 FIFA World Cup qualification237 May 1985    Liebenauer Stadium,   Graz,  Austria  3-04-0  1986 FIFA World Cup qualification

Manager
His first club was the FC Zeltweg which he promoted from 4th to 3rd division. His first team in professional football was FC Kärnten in the First league. They promoted to the Bundesliga. 2002 he was coach of FK Austria Wien but was replaced by Christoph Daum in October despite the fact that the team was 7 points ahead of the second in the league. Only a few days later he became coach of the GAK from Graz. With GAK he won the Championship in 2004.

From 2006 till 2007 he was coach of TSV 1860 München then he came back to Austria and managed FC Kärnten again. From 2008 to 2010 he managed Admira Wacker Mödling.  The first year they reached the Cup final. 2010 he was replaced by Dietmar Kühbauer. 
2011 he became coach of LASK Linz but could not avoid the relegation to the First League.

Honours
Playing
Austrian Football Bundesliga (3):
 1979, 1980, 1981
Austrian Cup (1):
 1980
Austrian Bundesliga Top Goalscorer (2):
 1979, 1980 
Italy Cup Top Goalscorer (1):
 1984 (8 goals)
Austrian squad for the FIFA World Cup
1978, 1982

Coaching
Austrian Football Bundesliga (1):
 2004
Austrian Cup (2):
 2001, 2004
Austrian Supercup (1):
 2001

References

Category:1957 births
Category:Living people
Category:Austrian footballers
Category:Players of the Austrian national football team
Category:Austrian football managers
Category:Grazer AK managers
Category:FC Admira Wacker Mödling managers
Category:TSV 1860 Munich managers
Category:LASK managers
Category:FK Austria Wien managers
Category:FK Austria Wien players
Category:Austrian football forwards
Category:Austrian Football Bundesliga top scorers
Category:Austrian football champions