_11_(cropped).jpg) Stöger in 2022 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1966-04-11)11 April 1966 (age 59) | ||
| Place of birth | Vienna, Austria | ||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1985–1986 | Favoritner AC Wien | ||
| 1986–1987 | Vorwärts Steyr | 15 | (0) |
| 1987–1988 | First Vienna | 36 | (6) |
| 1988–1994 | Austria Wien | 181 | (52) |
| 1994–1995 | Tirol Innsbruck | 35 | (6) |
| 1995–1997 | Rapid Wien | 84 | (17) |
| 1997–1998 | LASK Linz | 32 | (5) |
| 1999–2000 | Austria Wien | 35 | (4) |
| 2000–2002 | VfB Admira Wacker Mödling | 47 | (6) |
| 2002–2004 | Untersiebenbrunn | 62 | (29) |
| Total | 527 | (125) | |
| International career | |||
| 1988–1999 | Austria | 65 | (15) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2005 | Austria Wien | ||
| 2007–2010 | First Vienna | ||
| 2010–2011 | Grazer AK | ||
| 2011–2012 | Wiener Neustadt | ||
| 2012–2013 | Austria Wien | ||
| 2013–2017 | 1. FC Köln | ||
| 2017–2018 | Borussia Dortmund | ||
| 2020–2021 | Austria Wien | ||
| 2021 | Ferencváros | ||
| 2025 | Rapid Wien | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Peter Stöger (German pronunciation:[ˈpeːtɐˈʃtøːɡɐ];[1][2] born 11 April 1966) is an Austrianfootball coach and a former player.
As a player Stöger played as amidfielder and won theAustrian championship four times and thedomestic cup three times playing forAustria Wien andRapid Wien. As a coach or sporting director, Stöger won the Austrian championship twice and the Austrian Cup twice with Austria Wien; he also won promotion with1. FC Köln, with four years at Austria Wien between 2013 and 2017, was his longest stint at one club.
Stöger started his career at Favoritner AC Wien, and played six years forAustria Wien from 1988 through 1994, winning league three consecutive seasons, with teammates likeRalph Hasenhüttl. After a year atTirol Innsbruck, he joinedRapid Wien in 1995 and won a league title with them. He also played in the 1996UEFA Cup Winners Cup Final againstParis St Germain inBrussels, which Rapid lost. He then returned to Austria after a year atLASK Linz and finished his career at 38 years of age with Untersiebenbrunn.[3][4][5]
He made his debut forAustria in February 1988 againstSwitzerland, missed out on the1990 FIFA World Cup, but was a participant at the1998 FIFA World Cup.[6] He earned 65 caps, scoring 15 goals, including a hat-trick againstIreland in aEuro 96 qualifier in Vienna in September 1995.[7] His last international was a March 1999 friendly match, also againstSwitzerland.
Stöger, along withFrank Schinkels, became coach ofAustria Wien on 6 May 2005 and was scheduled to end his role at the end of the season.[8] However, Stöger continued in the position until December 2005, then became sporting director. After winning the championship in that season, the following season did not start well and both coach and manager were sacked before year's end.[9] Stöger eventually moved for 3 years toFirst Vienna, thenGrazer AK, andWiener Neustadt.[9] Stöger returned to manage Austria Wien on 30 May 2012,[10] stayed for one year and celebrated the Austrian championship with a record number of points, despiteRed Bull Salzburg investing much more money inSchmidt as a coach,Mané,Alan,Soriano andKampl as players.[11][12][13]
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Stöger and his co-trainer Manfred Schmid were bought out of their contracts for 700,000 EUR and a friendly, and thus started at1. FC Köln on 11 June 2013.[14] A couple of weeks later, Köln signedJörg Schmadtke as co-CEO. The Billy Goats continuously improved under their tenure, from 33 points in the first half in the 2. Bundesliga, to 35 points in the second half, followed by promotion. The next half in the German top-flight ended with 19 points, followed by 22 points. The first half of 2015/16 ended with 24 points. In January 2016, Stöger, along with his co-trainer Manfred Schmid, let his contract be extended to 2020, including a buy-out clause.[15][16] During the second half of the season, Köln was not as good, with 19 points, but finished on a single-digit rank for the first time in 24 years.[17][18] In the season 2016/17, Köln reached 26 and 23 points, and was on the lucky end of the congestion for the places which brought international football back into the city after 25 years. Cologne finished 5th and qualified for the Europa League.[19][20] In the 2017/18 season, Köln's poor start was the worst ever start to a Bundesliga season, with only three points from the opening 14 matches. In October, Schmadtke resigned. After a win against Arsenal in the Europa League, a loss against Hertha and a draw against Schalke in the league, Schmidt and Stöger were sacked on 3 December 2017. Stöger was still supported by the fans and the team at the time; he came to a fundraising event for disabled kids the night after his dismissal.[21][22]
On 10 December 2017, Stöger was appointed as successor toPeter Bosz to coachBorussia Dortmund until the end of the season. Some colleagues found taking on this challenge a couple of days after leaving Köln, a little hard. With BVB sitting eighth in the league table, Stöger stabilized the team, his squad including young players such asManuel Akanji andJadon Sancho, as well asSergio Gómez.[23][24][25] At the end of the season, BVB finished fourth, qualifying for the UEFA Champions League on the final matchday. He left Dortmund on 12 May 2018.[26]
In July 2019, Stöger returned to Austria Wien, becoming their sporting director.[27] On 31 July 2020, he was appointed as head coach of the club for a third stint.[28] He left the club by the end of the2020–21 season.[29]
On 5 June 2021, Stöger signed as head coach for Hungarian sideFerencváros.[30] Under his tenure, the team managed to get to the group stage of the UEFA Europa League, where they were drawn together withBayer Leverkusen,Celtic andReal Betis. Ferencváros lost five of the six group stage games, finishing last in their group.[31] After suffering its first away loss domestically to newly-promotedDebreceni, he was relieved of his duties by the club on 13 December 2021.[32]
In May 2025, Stöger became the head coach ofRapid Wien, signing a contract until 2027.[33] He was dismissed by Rapid on 28 November 2025 after a 1–4Conference League loss toRaków Częstochowa.[34]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria | 1988 | 4 | 0 |
| 1989 | 3 | 0 | |
| 1990 | 1 | 0 | |
| 1991 | 8 | 0 | |
| 1992 | 9 | 2 | |
| 1993 | 7 | 0 | |
| 1994 | 8 | 3 | |
| 1995 | 4 | 4 | |
| 1996 | 4 | 0 | |
| 1997 | 8 | 4 | |
| 1998 | 8 | 2 | |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 65 | 15 | |
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 19 August 1992 | Tehelné pole,Bratislava |  Czechoslovakia | 1–0 | 2–2 | Friendly |
| 2 | 28 October 1992 | Praterstadion,Vienna |  Israel | 4–1 | 5–2 | 1994 World Cup qualifier |
| 3 | 17 May 1994 | Stadion GKS,Katowice |  Poland | 1–0 | 4–3 | Friendly |
| 4 | 2–1 | |||||
| 5 | 3–2 | |||||
| 6 | 6 September 1995 | Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna |  Republic of Ireland | 1–0 | 3–1 | Euro 1996 qualifier |
| 7 | 2–0 | |||||
| 8 | 3–1 | |||||
| 9 | 11 October 1995 | Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna |  Portugal | 1–0 | 1–1 | Euro 1996 qualifier |
| 10 | 30 April 1997 | Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna |  Estonia | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1998 World Cup qualifier |
| 11 | 8 June 1997 | Daugava Stadium,Riga |  Latvia | 3–0 | 3–1 | 1998 World Cup qualifier |
| 12 | 11 October 1997 | Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna |  Belarus | 2–0 | 4–0 | 1998 World Cup qualifier |
| 13 | 4–0 | |||||
| 14 | 2 June 1998 | Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna |  Liechtenstein | 3–0 | 6–0 | Friendly |
| 15 | 4–0 |
| Team | From | To | Record | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | Win % | Ref. | |||||
| Austria Wien | 6 May 2005[8] | 12 December 2005[35] | 33 | 19 | 8 | 6 | 057.58 | |||
| First Vienna | 14 October 2007[36] | 26 April 2010[36] | 79 | 38 | 13 | 28 | 048.10 | |||
| Grazer AK | 26 November 2010[37] | 25 May 2011[38] | 15 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 060.00 | |||
| Wiener Neustadt | 1 June 2011 | 30 May 2012[10] | 37 | 6 | 15 | 16 | 016.22 | |||
| Austria Wien | 30 May 2012[10] | 11 June 2013[14] | 42 | 30 | 7 | 5 | 071.43 | |||
| 1. FC Köln | 11 June 2013[14] | 3 December 2017 | 168 | 60 | 54 | 54 | 035.71 | [39] | ||
| Borussia Dortmund | 10 December 2017[23] | 12 May 2018 | 24 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 041.67 | |||
| Austria Wien | 31 July 2020[28] | 5 June 2021 | 39 | 17 | 9 | 13 | 043.59 | |||
| Ferencváros | 5 June 2021 | 13 December 2021 | 32 | 19 | 2 | 11 | 059.38 | |||
| Rapid Wien | 2 June 2025 | 27 November 2025 | 27 | 13 | 5 | 9 | 048.15 | |||
| Total | 494 | 218 | 126 | 150 | 044.13 | — | ||||
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