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Alfréd Schaffer
Personal information
Date of birth (1893-02-13)13 February 1893
Place of birth Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Date of death 30 August 1945(1945-08-30) (aged 52)
Place of death Prien am Chiemsee, Germany
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Tussen 1908
Typographia SC
Lipótváaros TC
Ferencváros
Budapesti TC
KAOE
Fővárosi TC
FSK
Terézvárosi TC
Tatabanya SK
Budapesti AK
1915–1919 MTK 154 (89)
1919–1920 1. FC Nürnberg
1920-1922 Wacker München 2 (1)
Eintracht Frankfurt
Hamburger SV
Bayern Munich
1920 FC Basel 1 (0)
1923-1925 Amateur Vienna 38 (20)
1925-1926 Sparta Prague
New York Giants
National team
1915–1919 Hungary 15 (17)
Teams managed
DSV München
Wacker München
Hertha BSC Berlin
Wacker München
1932–1935 1. FC Nürnberg
1935–1937 MTK Budapest FC
1938 Hungary
1940 Rapid Bucharest
1940–1942 A.S. Roma
1943–1944 Ferencváros
  • Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Alfréd Schaffer (13 February 1893 – 30 August 1945) was a Hungarian international footballer. He is recorded as having played for a record number of clubs: 21 in a 15-year career which lasted from 1910 to 1925.

Career

Born in Budapest, he joined MTK Budapest in 1915 and helped the club win three consecutive league titles, and in the latter two of those seasons (1917–18 and 1918–19) he was the top European league goalscorer with 42 and 41 goals respectively. Between April and September 1920 Schaffer played for FC Basel. He played one championship game and 19 test matches scoring a total of 27 goals.

After his playing days ended he became a football manager, and coached clubs such as 1. FC Nürnberg (for whom he also played), A.S. Roma and Ferencváros. In the beginning of 1940, Schaffer was coach at Rapid Bucharest, but left after only a few months to sign with A.S. Roma.

He coached Hungary at the 1938 FIFA World Cup.

He became manager of Roma in 1940, and led them to the 1941–42 Serie A title, before leaving the club in 1942.

He died in Prien am Chiemsee, Bavaria, on 30 August 1945.

Honours

  • Hungarian League Championship – 1917, 1918, 1919 (with MTK)
  • German League Championship – 1921 (with 1. FC Nürnberg)
  • Austrian League Championship – 1924 (with Amateur Vienna)
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