Michael Baur

{{Short description|Austrian footballer (born 1969)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Michael Baur

| image = SV Grödig gegen FC Red Bull Salzburg Mai 2015 44.JPG

| caption = Baur in 2015

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1969|4|16|df=y}}

| birth_place = Innsbruck, Austria

| height = 1.81 m

| position = Defensive midfielder

| currentclub =

| youthyears1 =

| youthclubs1 = SV Innsbruck

| years1 = 1989–1996

| clubs1 = Tirol Innsbruck

| caps1 = 233

| goals1 = 18

| years2 = 1997

| clubs2 = Urawa Reds

| caps2 = 2

| goals2 = 0

| years3 = 1997–2002

| clubs3 = Tirol Innsbruck

| caps3 = 139

| goals3 = 23

| years4 = 2002–2003

| clubs4 = Hamburger SV

| caps4 = 10

| goals4 = 0

| years5 = 2003–2007

| clubs5 = SV Pasching

| caps5 = 128

| goals5 = 11

| years6 = 2007–2009

| clubs6 = LASK Linz

| caps6 = 66

| goals6 = 5

| totalcaps = 578

| totalgoals = 57

| nationalyears1 = 1990–2002

| nationalteam1 = Austria

| nationalcaps1 = 40

| nationalgoals1 = 5

| manageryears1 = 2012–2014 | managerclubs1 = Red Bull Salzburg (youth team)

| manageryears2 = 2014–2015 | managerclubs2 = SV Grödig

}}

Michael Baur (born 16 April 1969) is an Austrian former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.{{cite web | url = http://www.fussballdaten.de/spieler/baurmichael/ | title = Michael Baur | language = German | publisher = fussballdaten.de | accessdate = 1 May 2010}}

Club career

Born in Innsbruck, Baur started his career with Tirol Innsbruck and played 12 seasons for them, winning four league titles and a domestic cup. In 1997, he went for a short break to Japan and also played a season in the German Bundesliga for Hamburger SV. At 34 years of age, he signed for SV Pasching, and after another four seasons there he decided to make another move and switched to LASK Linz.

International career

Baur made his debut for the Austria national team in a May 1990 friendly match against the Netherlands as a substitute for Kurt Russ and was a non-playing squad member at the 1990 FIFA World Cup. His last international match was an October 2002 European Championship qualifying match, also against the Netherlands. He earned a total of 40 caps, scoring five goals.{{cite web | url = https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/oost-recintlp.html |title = Appearances for Austrian National Team | website = RSSSF | accessdate = 1 May 2010}}

Coaching career

Baur was announced as the new head coach of SV Grödig on 7 May 2014,{{cite news|title=Michael Baur neuer Grödig-Trainer|url=http://sport.oe24.at/fussball/Michael-Baur-neuer-Groedig-Trainer/142324645|accessdate=7 May 2014|newspaper=Österreich|date=7 May 2014|language=German}} four days before the final match of the end of the 2013–14 season.{{cite web|title=SV Grödig|url=https://www.kicker.de/sv-groedig/spielplan/bundesliga-oesterreich/2013-14|publisher=kicker|access-date=7 May 2014|language=German}} He begins in the 2014–15 season. He had been the head coach of the reserve team of Red Bull Salzburg from the summer of 2012{{cite web|title=RB Salzburg (A)/FC Anif » Manager history|url=http://www.worldfootball.net/teams/rb-salzburg-a-fc-anif/9/|publisher=World Football|accessdate=7 May 2014}} to end of November 2013. He was sacked on 4 June 2015.{{cite news|title=Grödig feuert Trainer Michael Baur|url=http://sport.oe24.at/fussball/fussball-national/Groedig-feuert-Trainer-Michael-Baur/191098929|accessdate=4 June 2015|publisher=Österreich|date=4 June 2015|language=German}}

Career statistics

=Club=

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

|+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition{{cite web |title=Michael Baur » Club matches |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/michael-baur/2/ |website=worldfootball.net |access-date=15 July 2022}}

rowspan="2"|Club

!rowspan="2"|Season

!colspan="3"|League

DivisionAppsGoals
rowspan="9"|Tirol Innsbruck{{efn|"Swarovski Tirol" until 1993}}

|1989–90

|rowspan="8"|Austrian Bundesliga

|22

2
1990–91

|36

1
1991–92

|33

3
1992–93

|33

3
1993–94

|34

6
1994–95

|30

1
1995–96

|33

1
1996–97

|12

1
colspan="2"|Total

!233

18
Urawa Reds

|1997

|J1 League

|2

0
rowspan="6"|Tirol Innsbruck

|1997–98

|rowspan="5"|Austrian Bundesliga

|28

3
1998–99

|27

4
1999–2000

|19

4
2000–01

|34

6
2001–02

|31

6
colspan="2"|Total

!139

23
Hamburger SV

|2002–03

|Bundesliga

|10

0
rowspan="5"|Pasching

|2003–04

|rowspan="4"|Austrian Bundesliga

|31

3
2004–05

|29

1
2005–06

|34

4
2006–07

|34

3
colspan="2"|Total

!128

11
rowspan="3"|LASK

|2007–08

|rowspan="2"|Austrian Bundesliga

|35

2
2008–09

|31

3
colspan="2"|Total

!66

5
colspan="3"|Career total

!578||57

{{notelist}}

=International=

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

|+ Appearances and goals by national team and year{{NFT player|10083|accessdate=}}

National teamYearAppsGoals
rowspan="13"|Austria

|1990

20
199170
199271
199361
199410
199500
199600
199700
199800
199900
200021
200182
200270
colspan="2"|Total405

=Coaching record=

{{updated|4 June 2015}}

class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
rowspan="2"| Team

!rowspan="2"| From

!rowspan="2"| To

!colspan="9"| Record

{{Tooltip|G|Games managed}}

!{{Tooltip|W|Games won}}

!{{Tooltip|D|Games drawn}}

!{{Tooltip|L|Games lost}}

!{{Tooltip|GF|Goals for}}

!{{Tooltip|GA|Goals against}}

!{{Tooltip|GD|Goal difference}}

!{{Tooltip|Win %|Winning percentage}}

!{{Tooltip|Ref.|Reference}}

Red Bull Salzburg II

| June 2012

| November 2013

{{WDL|46|17|13|16|for=74|against=71|diff=yes}}

|

Grödig

| 1 June 2014

| 4 June 2015

{{WDL|45|16|7|22|for=65|against=73|diff=yes}}

| {{cite web|title=SV Grödig|url=https://www.kicker.de/sv-groedig/spielplan/bundesliga-oesterreich/2014-15|website=Kicker|publisher=kicker|access-date=4 June 2015|language=German}}

colspan="3"| Total

{{WDLtot|91|33|20|38|for=139|against=144|diff=yes}}

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Honours

References

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