Lukas Aurednik

Lukas Aurednik (20 February 1918 in Vienna – 2 June 1997) was an Austrian football player. In Austria he played as striker mainly for Austria and Rapid. He also played in France. He also played for the Austrian national football team. He later continued his career as a coach. As coach he worked mainly in Greece.

Lukas Aurednik

Personal information
Full name	Lukas Aurednik
Date of birth	(1918-02-20)20 February 1918
Place of birth	Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Date of death	2 June 1997(1997-06-02) (aged 79)
Position(s)	Striker, right back
Youth career
1933–1935	SC Staatsfabrik Wien
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1935–1938	Rapid Vienna	34	(4)
1938–1940	TuS Neuendorf
1940–1942	MSV Brno
1942–1943	Rapid Vienna	3	(1)
1943–1944	LSV Markersdorf
1944–1946	Rapid Vienna	22	(28)
1946–1948	CO Roubaix-Tourcoing
1948–1953	Austria Vienna	108	(46)
1954–1956	RC Lens	29	(6)
1956–1958	Le Havre AC	60	(12)
National team
1948–1950	Austria	14	(2)
Teams managed
1959–1961	AEK Athens
1961–1962	Pierikos
1962–1963	Ethnikos Piraeus
1963–1965	Anorthosis Famagusta
1965	Panetolikos
1967–1969	1. Wiener Neustädter SC
1970–1971	Royal Charleroi SC
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

Lukas Aurednik began his football career as a goalkeeper Sportclub Staatsfabrik. Soon he was used on the field due to his playing skills. From the right wing-back position he changed into a successful center forward. He got his first professional contract with Rapid Vienna in 1935. In 1938 they became the last football champion in Austria before its annexation to the German Reich. From 1938 he played for several years in different teams before moving to the military SV Brünn in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. He played with the Brno team in the Gauliga Sudetenland, which he won with his club in 1943 and played therefore in the final round of the German championship. But Aurednik was transferred to the Markersdorf Air Force Sports Club in Markersdorf an der Pielach in the same year. There were already players as Karl Durspekt, Karl Sesta, Max Merkel, Walter Dzur and Paul Zielinski. They reached the sixth place in the Gauliga Ostmark in the 1943–44 season.

In 1944 Aurednik was able to return to Rapid, where he remained until 1946. With them he became the first Austrian football champion and cup winner in post-war Austria in the 1945–46 season. As a left winger, he contributed 28 goals in 20 championship games and 7 goals in 3 cup games. In 1946 he went abroad to Club Olympique Roubaix-Tourcoing in France. He returned to Austria in 1948 and played for FK Austria Wien . With Austria Wien he won the Austrian championship title three times in 1949, 1950 and 1953 and also the cup competition in 1949.

After becoming player-coach at the lower-class SC Austria Lustenau in 1953, the striker went again to France again in 1954. He played in Lens for two years and scored six goals in 29 appearances in the French Division 1 in his first season. In the 1955–56 season he and his team reached the runner-up position together with Erich Habitzl. From 1956 to 1958 he was active in Division 2 at Le Havre AC and scored 12 goals in 60 championship games.

International

Aurednik made it into the Austrian national team in 1948 when he was already 30 years old. He made his debut for Austria in the game against Czechoslovakia on 31 October 1948 in Preßburg. His last match was on 13 December 1950 versus Scotland. In total, he played 14 international matches for the national team and scored two goals.

Manager

In 1953–54 he was the player-manager of SC Austria Lustenau. After he stopped playing in 1958, he went to Greece, where he became manager of the first division club AEK Athens between July 1959 and December 1960 as head coach and until the end of the 1960–61 season as a tactical advisor in the coaching team. With AEK Athens he reached the runners-up position in 1960.

With the exception of his time with Anorthosis Famagusta in Cyprus, he remained in Greece until 1967. He then returned to Austria and looked after 1. Wiener Neustädter SC for two years.

For the 1970–71 season he was hired by Sporting Charleroi under whom the Belgians became runners-up in 1969, which was the best placement in the club's history. On Aurednik's initiative, the midfielder Gerhard "Bobby" Böhmer was signed by Vienna's Admira, who was to acquire legendary status at Charleroi.

Honours

Player

• 5 × Austrian champion: 1938, 1946 (Rapid), 1949, 1950, 1953 (Austria)
• 2 × Austrian Cup: 1938 (Rapid), 1949 (Austria)
• 1 × Sudetendeutscher champion: 1943 (Brünn)
• 1 × French championship runner-up: 1956 (Lens)
• 14 matches and 2 goals for the Austrian national football team 1948-1950

Coach

• Cypriot Cup: 1964 (Anorthosis)