Dietmar Kühbauer

Dietmar "Didi" Kühbauer (born 4 April 1971) is a former Austrian footballer. He played as midfielder. Kühbauer played also in the Austrian national football team. At the moment he works as coach of FC Admira Wacker Mödling.

Didi Kühbauer

Personal information
Full name	Dietmar Kühbauer
Date of birth	(1971-04-04) 4 April 1971
Place of birth	Heiligenkreuz, Niederösterreich, Austria
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Playing position	midfielder (retiered)
Youth career
	SV Mattersburg
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1987–1992 1992–1997 1997–2000 2000–2002 2002–2008	Admira Wacker Rapid Wien Real Sociedad VfL Wolfsburg SV Mattersburg
National team
1992 - 2005	Austria
Teams managed
2008 -2010 2010 - 2013 2013-2015 2018 2018-2021 2022-2023	VfB Admira Wacker Mödling II VfB Admira Wacker Mödling Wolfsberger AC SKN St. Pölten SK Rapid Wien LASK
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

He made his Bundesliga debut for Admira Wacker in 1987 at the age of 16. 1992 he went on to SK Rapid Wien. With this club he won one champion title and one Austrian cup. With Rapid he also played in the 1996 UEFA Cup Winners Cup Final against Paris St. Germain in Brussels. By the fans of SK Rapid he was elected into Rapids team of the century.He played five years abroad, 3 years for Real Sociedad in Spain and two years in the German Bundesliga for VfL Wolfsburg. Then he came back to Austria and played the last years for his youth team SV Mattersburg.

Dietmar Kühbauer played also 55 matches for the Austrian national football team and scored 5 goals. His debut was in May 1992 in a friendly match versus Poland. He was member of the Austrian team for the FIFA World Cup 1998 and played two matches versus Italy and Chile. His final match was in September 2005 also against Poland in a qualifing match for the FIFA World Cup 2006.

Coaching career

He started as coach of the second team of VfB Admira Wacker Mödling. In 2010 he became manager of the first squad which reached the title in the First league and was promoted to the Austrian Bundesliga. In his first year he reached the 3rd place. Then he went on to the Bundesliga team Wolfsberger AC. In his first season he reched the 5th place. The next season Wolfsberg was after 16 rounds the last team in the table and the contract was dissolved. 2018 he became coach of SKN St. Pölten after the half of the season he went on to SK Rapid Wien where he was also player. In 2021 his contract was dissolved. In 2022 he became head coach of LASK. After just one season the contract was dissolved in June 2023 due to differences of opinion.

Player

• Austrian Football Bundesliga (1):
  • 1996
• Austrian Cup (1):
  • 1995
• UEFA Cup Winners Cup Final
  • 1996
• Member of the Austrian Squad FIFA World Cup:
  • 1998
• Rapid-Team of the century

Coach

• Austrian Football First League :
  • 2011

Other websites

• Dietmar Kühbauer Rapid Archiv (in German)

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