Christian Ilzer (born 21 October 1977) is an Austrian

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manager who manages Sturm Graz.

Coaching career

As a teenager, three cruciate ligament injuries stopped his career and at the age of only 17, where became coach of USK Raiffeisen Puch's U17 squad. In addition to his job as an electronics technician, he started a second education as a trainer. From 2006 to 2007, he was in charge of the first team of USK Raiffeisen Puch as a playing manager.CHRISTIAN ILZER IM PORTRÄT
fk-austria.at, 28 May 2019 From July 2007 to July 2011, he was assistant manager under manager Bruno Friesenbichler at

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. In September 2011, he worked with the Austrian U19 national team as a fitness coach, while he in the 2012–13 season also was the manager of SC Weiz. From the summer 2013, once again he became assistant manager under manager Bruno Friesenbichler at

. After one season at TSV Hartberg, he joined SC Wiener Neustadt as assistant manager. On 12 November 2014,

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was fired at Neustadt and Ilzer took over as caretaker manager. Ilzer was in charge for one game which he won 2–0 against

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, before Helgi Kolviðsson was appointed as manager on 23 November 2014. Ilzer continued his role as assistant manager at the club, before he left at the end of the season and then became manager of TSV Hartberg. He left his position already on 25 November 2015, to become assistant manager at Wolfsberger AC under

. On 29 May 2019, Ilzer was appointed manager of FK Austria Wien for the 2019–20 season. On 17 July 2020, he was hired as manager of Sturm Graz.

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Christian Ilzer
at OEFB {{DEFAULTSORT:Ilzer, Christian 1977 births Living people Austrian footballers Association football midfielders SC Weiz players Austrian football managers Austrian Football Bundesliga managers SC Wiener Neustadt managers FK Austria Wien managers SK Sturm Graz managers