Christian Ilzer

Austrian association football manager

Christian Ilzer (born 21 October 1977) is a former Austrian football player and now manager of Sturm Graz.

Christian Ilzer
Ilzer in 2018
Personal information
Full name Christian Ilzer
Date of birth (1977-10-21) 21 October 1977 (age 46)
Place of birth Puch bei Weiz, Austria
Club information
Current team
Sturm Graz (Manager)
Youth career
1986–1998 USK Raiffeisen Puch
1998–1999 SV Ada Anger
2001–2004 USK Raiffeisen Puch
2004–2006 SC Sparkasse Weiz
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006–2007 USK Raiffeisen Puch
Teams managed
2006–2007 USK Raiffeisen Puch (player-manager)
2007–2011 TSV Hartberg (assistant)
2012–2013 SC Weiz
2013–2014 TSV Hartberg (assistant)
2014–2015 Wiener Neustadt (assistant)
2014 Wiener Neustadt (caretaker)
2015 TSV Hartberg
2015–2017 Wolfsberger AC (assistant)
2017–2018 TSV Hartberg
2018–2019 Wolfsberger AC
2019–2020 Austria Wien
2020– Sturm Graz
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career change

He started his career with USK Raiffeisen Puch. Soon his career was stopped by three cruciate ligament injuries. He started managing the U17 squad of Puch and in addition to his job as an electronics technician a second education as a coach. 2006 and 2007 he was player-manager of USK Raiffeisen Puch.

2007 he became assistant coach of TSV Hartberg under Bruno Friesenbichler.[1] In September 2011 he became fitness manager of the Austrian U19 national team and 2012–13 season also was the manager of SC Weiz.[1] After another season as asssistance coach with Hartberg he went on to SC Wiener Neustadt in the same position. After coach Heimo Pfeifenberger was fired he became caretaker of the club for one match. After the season he left Wiener Neustadt and became coach of TSV Hartberg. After the season he left and became assistance coach of Wolfsberger AC under Heimo Pfeifenberger. In the 2019-20 season he was coach of FK Austria Wien but at the end he was fired and became coach of SK Sturm Graz.[2]

Statistics as manager change

As of match played 12 December 2021
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team Nat From To Record
G W D L GF GA GD Win %
SC Weiz   1 July 2012 8 June 2013 30 19 3 8 60 33 +27 063.33
Wiener Neustadt (caretaker)   12 November 2014 23 November 2014 1 1 0 0 2 0 +2 100.00
TSV Hartberg   5 June 2015 25 November 2015 17 12 2 3 40 24 +16 070.59
TSV Hartberg   1 July 2017 1 June 2018 40 22 9 9 76 41 +35 055.00
Wolfsberger AC   1 June 2018 29 May 2019 35 14 10 11 53 51 +2 040.00
Austria Wien   29 May 2019 17 July 2020 39 14 12 13 65 60 +5 035.90
Sturm Graz   17 July 2020 Present 66 33 14 19 123 78 +45 050.00
Total 228 115 50 63 419 287 +132 050.44

References change

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Portrait of Ilzer (German)". Archived from the original on 2019-06-22. Retrieved 2021-12-24.
  2. "SK Sturm Graz Official page". Archived from the original on 2021-05-10. Retrieved 2021-12-24.