COACHES from Austria

Top 3

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Austrian Coaches of all time. This list of famous Austrian Coaches is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

1. Ernst Happel (1925 - 1992)

With an HPI of 66.04, Ernst Happel is the most famous Austrian Coach.  His biography has been translated into 42 different languages on wikipedia.

Ernst Franz Hermann Happel (29 November 1925 – 14 November 1992) was an Austrian football player and manager. Happel is regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time, winning both league and domestic cup titles in the Netherlands, Belgium, West Germany, and Austria. Happel won the European Cup twice, in 1970 with Feyenoord and 1983 with Hamburger SV, managed Club Brugge to a European Cup runner-up finish in 1978, and won a runners-up medal with the Netherlands at the 1978 FIFA World Cup. This is the best result ever for a non-domestic manager in a World Cup alongside Englishman George Raynor's Swedish runner-up campaign in 1958. He was the first of the six managers to have won the European Cup with two clubs (Carlo Ancelotti, Ottmar Hitzfeld, José Mourinho, Pep Guardiola and Jupp Heynckes being the other five). He is also one of six managers–– along with Ancelotti, Mourinho, Giovanni Trapattoni, Tomislav Ivić, and Eric Gerets–– to have won top-flight domestic league championships in at least four countries.

2. Otto Barić (1933 - 2020)

With an HPI of 57.96, Otto Barić is the 2nd most famous Austrian Coach.  His biography has been translated into 29 different languages.

Otto Barić (Croatian pronunciation: [bǎːritɕ]; 19 June 1933 – 13 December 2020) was an Austrian-Croatian professional football player and manager.

3. Alfred Riedl (1949 - 2020)

With an HPI of 51.08, Alfred Riedl is the 3rd most famous Austrian Coach.  His biography has been translated into 18 different languages.

Alfred Riedl (2 November 1949 – 8 September 2020) was an Austrian football player and manager. As a player he was a striker.