Karl Daxbacher

Karl Daxbacher (born 15 April 1953) is an Austrian football manager and a former player.

Karl Daxbacher

Personal information
Date of birth	(1953-04-15) 15 April 1953 (age 72)
Place of birth	St. Pölten, Austria
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
	ASV Statzendorf
	Kremser SC
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1971–1985	FK Austria Wien	393	(42)
International career
1972–1976	Austria	6	(0)
Managerial career
1988	Kremser SC
	Leistungszentrum St. Pölten
	ASV Statzendorf
1994–1995	SV Horn
1997–1999	SV Würmla
2000–2002	SKN St. Pölten
2002–2006	FK Austria Wien II
2006–2008	LASK Linz
2008–2011	FK Austria Wien
2012–2015	LASK Linz
2015–2016	SKN St. Pölten
2017–2019	Wacker Innsbruck
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Private

Daxbacher was born in St. Pölten, Austria, in 1953. He has four daughters.

Playing career

Daxbacher started his career at the ASV Statzendorf (close to St. Pölten) at the age of 15. After having played for Kremser SC for one season, he switched to FK Austria Wien in 1971. During the next 14 years he played about 400 national, and 40 international games for this team, as well as 6 games for the Austria national football team. In 1985, he switched to Kremser SC again (in the second highest division), where he ended his active career in 1986.

Coaching career

Daxbacher has been working as a coach for SV Horn, SKN St. Pölten, FK Austria Wien II, LASK Linz, and Austria Wien.

Austria Wien hired Daxbacher for the 2008–09 season^[1] and sacked him on 22 December 2011.^[2] Austria Wien had one league win in their last nine league matches at the time of the sacking.^[2]

On 12 June 2012, he returned to LASK Linz.^[3] He was sacked on 16 March 2015.^[4] He had won two of his last eight matches^[4] and lost one of his last six.^[5] Martin Hiden was named interim head coach.^[4]

Coaching record

As of 27 May 2016

Team	From	To	Record
			G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %	Ref.
Kremser SC	1 July 1988[6]	15 January 1989[6]	3	1	1	1	2	6	−4	033.33	[7]
SV Horn	20 September 1994	30 June 1995	—
SV Würmla	22 October 1998	19 November 1999	47	20	11	16	77	59	+18	042.55	-
SKN St. Pölten	1 July 2000[8]	30 June 2002[8]	30	21	4	5	70	23	+47	070.00	-
Austria Wien (A)	1 July 2002[9]	31 May 2006	132	62	36	34	231	158	+73	046.97	[10][11] [12][13]
LASK Linz	1 June 2006	20 May 2008	72	40	15	17	137	89	+48	055.56	[14] [15]
Austria Wien	1 June 2008[1]	22 December 2011[2]	163	80	43	40	282	198	+84	049.08	[16] [17][18]
LASK Linz	12 June 2012[3]	16 March 2015[4]	95	61	21	13	213	72	+141	064.21	[19] [20]
SKN St. Pölten	1 June 2015	-	41	30	2	9	68	34	+34	073.17	[21]
Total			506	274	118	114	933	557	+376	054.15	—

Honours

As player

• Austrian champion: 7 times (all with FK Austria Wien).
• Austrian Cup winner: 4 times (all with FK Austria Wien).
• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup finalist: 1 time (FK Austria Wien).

As manager

• Austrian Regional League East winner (3rd highest division): 1 time (FK Austria Wien II).
• Austrian Football First League winner (2nd highest division): 3 times (LASK Linz, SKN St. Pölten, Wacker Innsbruck ).
• Austrian Cup winner: 1 time (FK Austria Wien).