Franz Swoboda

{{short description|Austrian footballer}}

{{for|the Austrian Olympic gymnast|Franz Swoboda (gymnast)}}

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{{Infobox football biography

| name = Franz Swoboda

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1933|02|15|df=y}}

| birth_place = Austria

| death_date = {{death date and age|2017|07|27|1933|02|15|df=y}}

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| position = Defender

| years1 = 1950–1961| clubs1 = FK Austria Wien| caps1 = 398

|goals1 = 27

| nationalyears1 = 1955–1960| nationalteam1 = Austria| nationalcaps1 = 23| nationalgoals1 = 0

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File:Österrike 1958.jpg in 1958 with the following players – from left to right, standing; Walter Horak, Ernst Happel, Karl Koller, Alfred Körner, Paul Halla, Walter Schleger; crouched: Helmut Senekowitsch, Gerhard Hanappi, Rudolf Szanwald, Franz Swoboda and Johann Buzek.]]

Franz Swoboda (15 February 1933 – 27 July 2017{{cite web|website=oefb.at|title=ÖFB trauert um Franz Swoboda|language=de|url=https://www.oefb.at/News/OeFB-trauert-um-Franz-Swoboda-NN27068|access-date=2018-06-26|date=2017-08-03|archive-date=2022-03-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220308030501/https://www.oefb.at/News/OeFB-trauert-um-Franz-Swoboda-NN27068|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|website=FK Austria Wien|title=Wir trauern um Franz Swoboda|url=http://www.fk-austria.at/de/n/news/2017/07/wir-trauern-um-franz-swoboda/|accessdate=2018-06-26|last=|date=|year=|language=de|archive-date=2018-06-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180626030404/http://www.fk-austria.at/de/n/news/2017/07/wir-trauern-um-franz-swoboda/|url-status=dead}}) was an Austrian football defender who played for the Austria in the 1958 FIFA World Cup.{{cite web|url=http://pt.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/edition=15/teams/team=43934.html|title=Copa do Mundo da FIFA Suécia 1958|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323121203/http://pt.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/edition%3D15/teams/team%3D43934.html |archivedate=March 23, 2012|url-status=unfit|website=FIFA }} He also played for the FK Austria Wien.