Marcel Koller

Marcel Koller

Koller managing Austria in 2014
Personal information
Full name	Marcel Martin Koller
Date of birth	(1960-11-11) 11 November 1960
Place of birth	Zürich, Switzerland
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
1970–1972	FC Schwamendingen
1972–1978	Grasshoppers
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1978–1997	Grasshoppers	428	(59)
International career
1982–1996	Switzerland	57	(3)
Managerial career
1997–1998	FC Wil
1999–2002	St. Gallen
2002–2003	Grasshoppers
2003–2004	1. FC Köln
2005–2009	VfL Bochum
2011–2017	Austria
2018–2020	Basel
2022–2025	Al Ahly
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Marcel Koller (born 11 November 1960 in Zürich) is a former Swiss football player. His playing position was defender.

Career

Player

His entire professional player career was with the Grasshoppers Zürich in the Swiss league. In 24 years he won seven Swiss championships and five Swiss cups. He appeared 56 times for the Switzerland national football team. He made 3 goals and was in the team at the 1996 UEFA European Championship.

Coach

Koller's career as coach began in the Swiss club FC Wil in the season 1997/98. In January 1999 he went to FC St. Gallen in the Swiss Super League. The next year the club consecutively won the championship for almost 100 years. In the UEFA Cup the Swiss team would eliminate English top club FC Chelsea. Koller was voted Swiss manager of the year in 2000. From 2002 to 2003 he managed his former club Grasshoppers Zürich. His first club abroad was in the German Bundesliga where he managed 1. FC Köln. Being unsuccessful he resigned after seven months. At this time Lukas Podolski made his first match in the Bundesliga.

From 2005 on he was coach of the VfL Bochum in the 2.Bundesliga. They promoted to the Bundesliga. The next year he planned to stay in the league. The club finished that year in 8th place, the third-best season ever for Bochum. After poor results at the start of the 2009–10 season, Koller was dismissed.

On 4 October 2011, Koller was announced as under contract as the new coach of the Austria national team (ÖFB) until December 2013. After his nomination, there was heavy criticism, he being from abroad. During the long history of the team, he is the third coach who was not from Austria. He took over on 1 November. His first match as new coach was an unsuccessful friendly match versus Ukraine.

Managerial record

As of match updated 11 November 2023

Team	From	To	Record
			G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
FC Wil	1 July 1997	30 June 1998	41	15	16	10	63	49	+14	036.59
St. Gallen	1 July 1998	8 January 2002	151	66	40	45	261	201	+60	043.71
Grasshoppers	9 January 2002	2 October 2003	70	40	18	12	160	85	+75	057.14
1. FC Köln	2 November 2003	16 June 2004	24	4	5	15	24	40	−16	016.67
VfL Bochum	23 May 2005	20 September 2009	152	56	38	58	220	220	+0	036.84
Austria	1 November 2011	31 December 2017	54	25	13	16	80	58	+22	046.30
Basel	2 August 2018	31 August 2020	101	61	19	21	214	114	+100	060.40
Al Ahly	9 September 2022	Present	73	51	15	7	136	44	+92	069.86
Total			669	315	167	187	1,148	820	+328	047.09

Honours

Player

Grasshoppers

• Swiss Championship: 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1989–90, 1990–91, 1994–95, 1995–96
• Swiss Cup: 1982–83, 1987–88, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1993–94
• Swiss Super Cup: 1989

Manager

St Gallen

• Swiss Championship: 1999–2000

Grasshoppers

• Swiss Championship: 2002–03

Vfl Bochum

• 2. Bundesliga: 2005–06

Basel

• Swiss Cup: 2018–19

Al Ahly

• Egyptian Premier League: 2022–23
• Egypt Cup: 2021–22
• Egyptian Super Cup: 2021–22, 2022–23
• CAF Champions League: 2022–23