Austria national football team: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Team colours
Home 　 Away
Association
Austrian Football Association
Current coach
Hans Krankl, ?-
Most capped player
Andreas Herzog: 103
Highest goalscorer
Anton Polster: 44
First International
Austria 5 - 0 Hungary (Vienna, Austria; 12 October, 1902)
Largest win
Austria 9 - 0 Malta (Salzburg, Austria; 30 April, 1977)
Largest defeat
Austria 1 - 11 England (Vienna, Austria; 8 June, 1908)
World Cup
Finals appearances: 7* (First: 1934) Best result: Third place 1954
European Championships
Finals appearances: None (yet) (First: 2008) Best result: N/A

The Austria national football team has qualified for seven World Cups, most recently in 1998. It has not yet qualified for a European Championship; it will play in the tournament for the first time in 2008 when it co-hosts the event with Switzerland.

In the 1938 finals, Austria qualified but withdrew and did not play any matches because of Anschluss.

World Cup record

• 1930 - Did not enter
• 1934 - Fourth place
• 1938 - Withdrew from finals
• 1950 - Did not qualify
• 1954 - Third place
• 1958 - Round 1
• 1962 - Did not qualify
• 1966 - Did not qualify
• 1970 - Did not qualify
• 1974 - Did not qualify
• 1978 - Quarter-finals
• 1982 - Quarter-finals
• 1986 - Did not qualify
• 1990 - Round 1
• 1994 - Did not qualify
• 1998 - Round 1
• 2002 - Did not qualify

• 1960-2004 - Did not qualify
• 2008 - Qualify automatically as co-host