Florian Flecker (born 29 October 1995) is an Austrian professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club

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Career

Early career

Flecker began his career at SVU Murau. In 2010, he moved to the youth department of

Kapfenberger SV Kapfenberger SV is an Austrian association football club from Kapfenberg. They won the 2007–08 Austrian Football First League and advanced to the Austrian Bundesliga. The club was founded in 1919 as ''Kapfenberger SC''. The club was renamed ...

. From the season 2012–13, he played for the club's third team, ASC Rapid Kapfenberg, in the fifth-tier Oberliga. In August 2014, he made his debut for Kapfenberg's second team in the fourth-tier

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, when he was in the starting eleven on the first matchday of the 2014–15 season against SV Anger. In October 2014, he scored his first goal in the fourth tier in a 3–0 win over

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. In May 2015, he was included in the first-team squad of Kapfenberg for the first time for a match against

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, but he did not make an appearance. In July 2015, Flecker made his debut in the 2. Liga, when he came on as a substitute in the 81st minute of the 2015–16 season against Lustenau for João Victor. In August 2015, he was in the starting lineup for the first time for the first team in the match against

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, being before replaced by

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at halftime. In March 2016, he scored his first goal in the second tier in a 2–1 win over

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. In his first season as a professional, he made 31 league appearances, scoring three goals. In the following season – 2016–17 – he played in 35 games and scored seven goals.

Austrian Bundesliga

In May 2017, Flecker joined

club

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, where he signed a two-year contract. In July, he made his debut for the

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ns in the Bundesliga, when he came on as a substitute in the 70th minute for Mario Leitgeb in the first matchday of that season against Red Bull Salzburg in the 70th minute. In the following match, Wolfsberger AC faced

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with Flecker in the starting lineup for the first time. He scored his only goal in the Bundesliga for WAC in a 5–1 loss to Mattersburg in December 2017. In his first season in the Bundesliga, he made 31 appearances. On 2 July 2018, despite an ongoing contract with WAC, he moved to recently promoted

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on a free transfer. He signed a one-year contract. He scored his first goal for Hartberg on 11 August 2018; again against Mattersburg. For Hartberg, he played in all 32 games during his sole season at the club, scoring seven goals. He was able to help sustain Hartberg in the Bundesliga for the following season.

In Germany

After the expiry of his contract with Hartberg, Flecker moved to recently promoted German

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club

Union Berlin 1. Fußballclub Union Berlin e. V., commonly known as 1. FC Union Berlin () or Union Berlin, is a professional German football club in Köpenick, Berlin. The club's origins can be traced to 1906, when its predecessor FC Olympia Oberschöneweid ...

ahead of the 2019–20 season, signing a two-year contract. In his season at the capital club, he hardly played a role and ended up with no appearances; during the entire season, he only appeared in the matchday squad six times. For the 2020–21 season, he joined

Würzburger Kickers Würzburger Kickers is a German association football club playing in Würzburg, Bavaria. In pre-World War II football, the club competed briefly at the highest level in the Bezirksliga Bayern, and during the war, in the Gauliga Bayern. Post-war, ...

in the

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, where he signed a two-year contract.

Career statistics

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Flecker, Florian 1995 births Living people Austrian men's footballers Men's association football wingers Kapfenberger SV players Wolfsberger AC players TSV Hartberg players 1. FC Union Berlin players FC Würzburger Kickers players Austrian Football Bundesliga players 2. Liga (Austria) players 2. Bundesliga players Austrian expatriate men's footballers Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Expatriate men's footballers in Germany People from Voitsberg Footballers from Styria