Josef Adelbrecht

Josef Adelbrecht (8 January  1910 – 15 September 1941) was an Austrian football player at the position of a striker.
Career
Josef Adelbrecht began his professional career at Vienna in 1928. The striker won the Austrian Cup (1929, 1930) and the championship (1931, 1933) twice with Döblinger. His greatest success  was winning the Mitropacup, the forerunner of today's European Cup, in 1931. In the final  Josef Adelbrecht scored a goal to win 2:3 in the first leg in Zurich against Wiener AC. Vienna also won the second leg on the Viennese Hohe Warte. In 1934  Josef Adelbrecht  decided to go to France. There he was rarely used at Racing Club de Paris. He left the club in 1935. He then worked in Switzerland at the Grasshopper Club Zurich.

After a year and a half abroad, Josef Adelbrecht returned to Vienna in January 1936. Then he played for FK Austria Wien for a season and a half. In 1937 he moved to SK Rapid Wien. This season he was able to become Austrian champion for the third time with Rapid. In the years that followed, the striker played a few more games for Austro Fiat, Red Star Vienna and Floridsdorfer AC.

International statistics
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+ Appearances and goals by national team and yearNational teamYearAppsGoalsAustria193011193110193310Total31

Scores and results list Austria's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each  Adelbrecht goal.

+ List of international goals scored by Josef AdelbrechtNo.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition1 1 June 1930 Hungaria ut,  Budapest,  Hungary  1-21-2   Friendly match

Death
In March 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht. On 15 September   1941 he was killed during the invasion of Russia at Ivashkovo, about a hundred kilometers northwest of Moscow. Bernhard Hachleitner, Matthias Marschik, Rudolf Müllner, Johann Skocek: Ein Fußballverein aus Wien. Der FK Austria im Nationalsozialismus 1938–1945, Böhlau Verlag, Wien-Köln-Weimar 2019, S. 278–279.
Honours
 1 × Mitropa Cup: 1931
 3 × Austrian Champion: 1931, 1933, 1938
 2 × Austrian Cup:  1929, 1930
 3  matches for the Austrian national football team

References

Other websites
 Josef Adelbrecht im Rapidarchiv (German) 
 Josef Adelbrecht im Austriaarchiv (German)

Category:1910 births
Category:1941 deaths
Category:Association football forwards
Category:Austrian footballers
Category:Players of the Austrian national football team
Category:SK Rapid Wien players
Category:Austrian football forwards
Category:Austrian football champions
Category:First Vienna FC players