Marcel Koller

Marcel Koller (born 11 November 1960 in Zürich) is a former Swiss football player. His playing position was defender.

Career
Player
His entire professional player career was with the Grasshoppers Zürich in the Swiss league. In 24 years he won seven Swiss championships and five Swiss cups. He appeared 56 times for the Switzerland national football team. He made 3 goals and was in the team at the 1996 UEFA European Championship.

Coach
Koller's career as coach began in the Swiss club FC Wil in the season 1997/98. In January 1999 he went to FC St. Gallen in the Swiss Super League. The next year the club consecutively won the championship for almost 100 years. In the UEFA Cup the Swiss team would eliminate English top club FC Chelsea. Koller was voted Swiss manager of the year in 2000. From 2002 to 2003 he managed his former club Grasshoppers Zürich. His first club abroad was in the German Bundesliga where he managed 1. FC Köln. Being unsuccessful he resigned after seven months. At this time Lukas Podolski made his first match in the Bundesliga.

From 2005 on he was coach of the VfL Bochum in the 2.Bundesliga. They promoted to the Bundesliga. The next year he planned to stay in the league. The club finished that year in 8th place, the third-best season ever for Bochum. After poor results at the start of the 2009–10 season, Koller was dismissed.

On 4 October 2011, Koller was announced as under contract as the new coach of the Austria national team (ÖFB) until December 2013. After his nomination, there was heavy criticism, he being from abroad. During the long history of the team, he is the third coach who was not from Austria. He took over on 1 November. His first match as new coach was an unsuccessful friendly match versus Ukraine.

Managerial record

 Team From ToRecordGWDLGFGAGDWin % FC Wil 1 July 1997 30 June 1998 St. Gallen 1 July 1998 8 January 2002 Grasshoppers 9 January 2002 2 October 2003 1. FC Köln 2 November 2003 16 June 2004 VfL Bochum 23 May 2005 20 September 2009 Austria 1 November 2011 31 December 2017 Basel 2 August 2018 31 August 2020 Al Ahly 9 September 2022 Present Total

Honours
Player
Grasshoppers
 Swiss Championship: 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1989–90, 1990–91, 1994–95, 1995–96
 Swiss Cup: 1982–83, 1987–88, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1993–94
 Swiss Super Cup: 1989

Manager
St Gallen
 Swiss Championship: 1999–2000

Grasshoppers
 Swiss Championship: 2002–03

Vfl Bochum
 2. Bundesliga: 2005–06

Basel
 Swiss Cup: 2018–19

Al Ahly
Egyptian Premier League: 2022–23
 Egypt Cup: 2021–22
 Egyptian Super Cup: 2021–22, 2022–23
 CAF Champions League: 2022–23

References

Category:Swiss footballers
Category:Swiss football managers
Category:1960 births
Category:Austria national football team managers
Category:Living people
Category:Sportspeople from Zürich
Category:1. FC Köln managers
Category:FC St. Gallen managers
Category:Switzerland at UEFA Euro 1996
Category:Austria at UEFA Euro 2016