Christoph Knasmüllner (born 30 April 1992) is an Austrian professional

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who plays as an

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for

Admira Wacker Admira Wacker is an Austrian professional Association football, football club based in Maria Enzersdorf, a town in the Mödling District of Lower Austria. The team competes in the 2. Liga (Austria), 2. Liga, the second tier of the Football in Au ...

Career

He began his career with

Austria Wien Fußballklub Austria Wien AG (), known in English as Austria Vienna, and Austria Wien in German-speaking countries, is an Austrian professional association football club from the capital city of Vienna. It has won the most trophies of any Aust ...

and played for the reserves, making his debut 1–3 loss against AKA Austria Kärnten and scored his first goal. He scored his second goal in FSA Austria Wien's 5–0 win against Fußballakademie Linz. In the 2007–08 season, he played 12 games for the reserve team and scored five goals. In July 2008, he moved to

Bayern Munich Fußball-Club Bayern München e. V. (FCB, ), commonly known as Bayern Munich (), FC Bayern () or simply Bayern, is a German professional sports club based in Munich, Bavaria. They are most known for their men's professional football team, ...

Under-17. He made his debut in a 3–1 win against

Eintracht Frankfurt Eintracht Frankfurt e.V. () is a German professional sports club based in Frankfurt, Hesse. It is best known for its football club, which was founded on 8 March 1899. The club currently plays in the Bundesliga, the top tier of the German footb ...

U17 and scored his first goal. He scored his second goal in the second match. He made his debut for Bayern's Under 19 team in their 8–0 win against

SSV Jahn Regensburg Sport- und Schwimmverein Jahn Regensburg e. V., commonly known as SSV Jahn Regensburg, Jahn Regensburg, SSV Jahn or simply Jahn, is a German football club based in Regensburg, Bavaria. The club plays their home games at Jahnstadion Regen ...

U19. In November 2009, a number of suspensions caused Knasmüllner to be called up to Bayern's

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, and he made his debut in a

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match against

Eintracht Braunschweig Braunschweiger Turn- und Sportverein Eintracht von 1895 e.V., commonly known as Eintracht Braunschweig () or BTSV (), is a German football and sports club based in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony. They compete in the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier o ...

. He immediately became a regular at that level and was named in Bayern's first-team squad for the

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, where he was given the number 29, and was named on the substitutes' bench for a

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match against

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in October 2010. He moved to

Internazionale Football Club Internazionale Milano, commonly referred to as Internazionale () or simply Inter, and colloquially known as Inter Milan in English-speaking countries, is an Italian professional football club based in Milan, Lombardy. Since 1 ...

in January 2011 to play for their Primavera team. After half a season without appearance in the first squad, he moved on 31 August 2011 to

Ingolstadt Ingolstadt (; Austro-Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian: ) is an Independent city#Germany, independent city on the Danube, in Upper Bavaria, with 142,308 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2023). Around half a million people live in the metropolitan ...

in the 2. Bundesliga. Three years later he returned to Austria, signing for

. On 31 January 2018, he signed for

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on a -year deal for an undisclosed fee. Five months later, on 15 June, he returned to Austria to sign for

Rapid Wien Sportklub Rapid (), commonly known as Rapid Wien or Rapid Vienna in English, is an Austrian professional football club playing in the country's capital city of Vienna. Rapid has won the most Austrian championship titles (32), including the f ...

. On 30 August 2023, Knasmüllner signed a two-year deal with Polish

III liga III liga (Trzecia liga), currently named Betclic III liga due to its sponsorship by Betclic, is a Polish football league that sits in the fourth tier of the Polish football league system. Until the end of the 2007–08 season, III liga ref ...

club

Wieczysta Kraków Wieczysta Kraków is a Polish Association football, football club, based in Kraków. They will compete in I liga in the 2025–26 II liga, 2025–26 season, after winning the 2024–25 II liga promotion play-offs. History During the Occupation o ...

. After appearing sporadically throughout the 2023–24 season, he left the club by mutual consent on 2 August 2024.

Career statistics

Club

Honours

Wieczysta Kraków *

III liga, group IV III liga, group IV is one of the four groups of III liga, which are competitions of the fourth tier of the Polish football league system. This group was established in 2016, when, after the 2015–16 season, as a result of the reorganization of th ...

: 2023–24

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Knasmullner, Christoph 1992 births Living people Footballers from Vienna Austrian men's footballers Austria men's youth international footballers Men's association football midfielders FC Bayern Munich II players Inter Milan players FC Ingolstadt 04 players Admira Wacker players Barnsley F.C. players SK Rapid Wien players Wieczysta Kraków players 2. Bundesliga players 3. Liga players Regionalliga players Austrian Football Bundesliga players English Football League players III liga players Austrian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in England Expatriate men's footballers in Germany Expatriate men's footballers in Italy Expatriate men's footballers in Poland Austrian expatriate sportspeople in England Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Italy Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Poland 21st-century Austrian sportsmen