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Full name Franz Binder
Date of birth (1911-12-01)1 December 1911
Place of birth St. Pölten, Austria
Date of death 24 April 1989(1989-04-24) (aged 77)
Place of death Vienna, Austria
Height 1.90 m
Playing position Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1930–1948 Rapid Wien 242 (267)
National team
1933–1947 Austria 19 (16)
1939–1941 Germany 9 (10)
Teams managed
1949–1951 Rapid Wien
1952–1954 SSV Jahn Regensburg
1954–1955 1. FC Nürnberg
1960–1962 PSV Eindhoven
1962–1966 Rapid Wien
1969–1970 TSV 1860 Munich
1975–1976 Rapid Wien
SW Bregenz
FC Kufstein
  • Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Franz Binder (1 December 1911 – 24 April 1989) was an Austrian football player and coach who played as a forward. Internationally he represented the Austria national football team and the Germany national football team during the Anschluss.

Club career

Binder came from a family of labourers. He had nine siblings. When he was 15 years old he played football for the first team of Sturm 19 St. Pölten. Binder was a prolific goalscorer who played for SK Rapid Wien. He won the national Austrian championship four times and was three times top goalscorer in the Austrian league. In 1941 he also won the German championship with a 4–3 victory against Schalke 04, where he scored three goals. From 1930 to 1937, Binder scored more than 700 goals For Rapid Vienna, including the reserves;

  • 1930 - First team - 3 goals in 2 games. Reserve team - 14 goals in 9 games. Total - 17 games 11 goals.
  • 1931 - First team - 19 goals in 14 games. Reserve team 54 goals in 23 games. Total - 73 goals 37 games.
  • 1932 - First team - 62 goals in 48 games. Reserve team - 41 goals in 12 games. Total - 103 goals in 60 games.
  • 1933 - First team - 104 goals in 68 games.
  • 1934 - First team - 93 goals in 56 games.
  • 1935 First team - 95 goals in 58 games.
  • 1936 - First team - 93 goals in 61 games.
  • 1937 - First team - 122 goals in 72 games.
  • Total Reserve - 109 goals in 44 games.
  • Total First team - 591 goals in 378 games.
  • Total Rapid Vienna, 1930-1937 - 700 goals in 422 games with a ratio of 1.65 goals per game.

He is the all time leading scorer of Rapid Vienna with 1006 goals in 757 games and regarded as one of the greatest Austrian players of all times. In his whole career he would score 1202 goals in 831 matches. With an average-score of 1.44 goals per match, he is among the most prolific scorers in football history. Binder is one of only a few players to score more than 1200 goals in his professional career alongside Lajos Tichy, Josef Bican, Gerd Müller, Ferenc Puskás, Ferenc Deák, Erwin Helmchen and Pelé.

Career statistics

Club Season Austrian First League German football championship Cup Mitropa Cup Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Rapid Vienna 1930–31 1 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 3 2
1931–32 8 6 0 0 2 6 0 0 10 12
1932–33 20 25 0 0 2 7 0 0 22 32
1933–34 22 20 0 0 5 7 4 6 31 33
1934–35 22 22 0 0 6 13 0 0 20 28
1935–36 20 17 0 0 2 4 2 3 21 31
1936–37 22 29 0 0 4 8 0 0 26 37
1937–38 17 22 0 0 1 0 0 0 18 22
1938–39 17 27 0 0 4 4 0 0 21 31
1939–40 13 18 9 14 7 18 0 0 34 50
1940–41 18 27 8 11 5 6 0 0 34 44
1941–42 8 6 0 0 2 4 0 0 10 10
1942–43 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
1943–44 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 4
1944–45 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
1945–46 13 16 0 0 3 7 0 0 16 23
1946–47 15 12 0 0 2 4 0 0 17 17
1947–48 17 11 0 0 3 2 0 0 20 13
1948–49 6 2 0 0 1 2 0 0 7 3
Total 242 267 17 25 52 93 8 10 319 395

International career

Binder was a very prolific goal scorer for both club and country, scoring 16 goals in 19 international matches for Austria, and later 10 goals in just 9 matches for Germany. He made his international debut on 11 June 1933 in a friendly against Belgium, scoring twice in a 4-1 win. In 1934, he scored a goal against both Italy and Czechoslovakia, the 1934 World Cup champions and runner-ups respectively. In January 1936, he scored a goal against both Iberian teams, Spain and Portugal, in 5-4 and 3-2 wins respectively. In 1937, he scored winners against France and Latvia (both 2-1 victories), with the latter being the most important as it assured Austria a ticket to the 1938 World Cup.

His debut with Germany was remarkably similar to Austria's, as he scored against Belgium in a 4-1 win again. He then scored two back-to-back hat-tricks against Bohemia and Moravia and the then World Champions Italy, with the former salvaging his side a 4-4 draw while the latter helped to a 5-2 win. In the following year he scored two more goals against Italy in a 3-2 win at the San Siro, which were the last he scored for Germany. After an 8-year hiatus, he returned to an Austria line-up in 1945, and despite being in his late 30s he still managed to score a further 5 goals for Austria before retiring from international football.

International goals

Goals for Austria

Austria score listed first, score column indicates score after each Austria goal.
List of international goals scored by Franz Binder
No. Cap Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 1 11 June 1933 Praterstadion, Vienna, Austria  Belgium 2–1 4–1 Friendly
2 4–1
3 4 11 February 1934 Stadio Municipale Benito Mussolini, Turin, Italy  Italy 3–0 4–2 1933-35 Central European Cup
4 6 23 September 1934 Praterstadion, Vienna, Austria  Czechoslovakia 1–0 2–2
5 9 19 January 1936 Estadio Metropolitano, Madrid, Spain  Spain 2–2 5–4 Friendly
6 10 26 January 1936 Estádio do Lima, Porto, Portugal  Portugal 2–0 3–2
7 11 27 September 1936 Üllői úti stadion, Budapest, Hungary  Hungary 1–0 3–5 1936-38 Central European Cup
8 12 8 November 1936 Hardturm, Zürich, Switzerland  Switzerland 1–0 3–1
9 3–0
10 13 24 January 1937 Parc des Princes, Paris, France  France 2–1 2–1 Friendly
11 14 5 October 1937 Praterstadion, Vienna, Austria  Latvia 2–1 2–1 1938 World Cup qualification
12 16 27 October 1946  Czechoslovakia 1–1 3–4 Friendly
13 2–1
14 18 14 September 1947  Hungary 3–3 4–3
15 4–3
16 19 5 October 1947 Stadion Letná, Prague, Czechoslovakia  Czechoslovakia 1–1 2–3

Goals for Germany

Germany score listed first, score column indicates score after each Binder goal.
List of international goals scored by Franz Binder
No. Cap Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 1 29 January 1939 Stade du Centenaire, Brussels, Belgium  Belgium 1–0 4–1 Friendly
2 3 12 November 1939 Stadion Olimpijski, Wrocław, Poland  Bohemia and Moravia 1–3 4–4
3 2–3
4 3–4
5 4 26 November 1939 Olympiastadion, Berlin, Germany  Italy 1–1 5–2
6 2–2
7 5–2
8 5 7 April 1940  Hungary 2–1 2–2
9 7 5 May 1940 San Siro, Milan, Italy  Italy 1–2 2–3
10 2–2

Managerial career

After retirement from playing he became a football coach, of teams such as SSV Jahn Regensburg, PSV Eindhoven, 1. FC Nürnberg, TSV 1860 Munich and Rapid Wien.

Player honours

Club

Rapid Wien

Individual

  • Austrian Bundesliga top goalscorer: 1933, 1937, 1938
  • Gauliga Top Goalscorer: 1939, 1940, 1941

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Franz Binder para niños

  • List of men's footballers with 500 or more goals
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