Walter Hörmann

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Walter Hörmann (* 13). September 1961 in Feldbach) is a former Austrian football player and current coach. Most recently, he was under contract with TSV Hartberg in 2012.

Player career

He began his football career at the age of nine at Riegersburg. At the age of 14, he moved to Feldbach in the Styrian Landesliga, where he debuted at the age of 16. In 1980 he moved to SK Sturm Graz. In the 1980/1981 season under coach Otto Barić he became vice champion. He made his team debut on the 2nd. May 1984 against Cyprus in a 2-1 victory in Nicosia. After five years at Sturm, he moved to Switzerland in 1985 to FC St. Gallen. After two years in Switzerland, he returned to Austria in 1987 at FK Austria Wien. With Austria Wien he achieved two championship titles and two cup wins. After five years at Austria, he made his comeback at his first professional club SK Sturm Graz. In the summer of 1996 he moved to SV Austria Salzburg, where he achieved his last great success by winning the Austrian title under coach Heribert Weber. After two successful years at the Salzach he went to FC Kärnten in July 1998 and from January 2000 to DSV Leoben, where he remained only until July 2000. - Hörmann played 15 international matches for the Austrian national football team and completed 429 appearances in the Bundesliga.

Trainer career

Hörmann began his coaching career as assistant coach at FK Austria Wien. When the former head coach Arie Haan was dismissed in 2001, Hörmann took over the training of the combat team together with his former teammate Anton Pfeffer as equal coach from August 2001.

After the duo was released after only four months, he moved to the Principality of Liechtenstein in March 2002 and took over FC Vaduz, who was involved in the second Swiss league. Almost in a double function, he also headed the games as coach of the Liechtenstein national football team from July 2003 and led the amateurs almost to their first victory.

In January 2004 he accepted the offer of Austria Salzburg to become coach there, but was dismissed after two games and high defeats.

In the 2004/05 season he was coach at FC Wil in the Challenge League. In the summer of 2006 he took over the Austrian regional league team and vice-champion of the season 2005/06 SKN St. Pölten. On August 3, 2006, he passed the coach diploma exam. After only 7th place was reached in the winter break 2006/07 and several players had left the club, he was released from the contract at his request. On 1 February 2007 Walter Hörmann took over the position of Sports Coordinator at SK Sturm Graz. From 27 April 2007 to June 2008, he was Sports Director and, after the dismissal of former team manager Hans Lang, he was solely responsible for the fortunes of Graz at manager level.

From 19. December 2008 to August 2010 practiced Hörmann di