Philipp Offenthaler (born 03 March 1997) is an Austrian professional

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who plays as a

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for

Austrian Football Second League The Austrian Football Second League (german: 2. Liga) is the second-highest professional division in Austrian football. It was formerly called the First League (''Erste Liga''), from 2002 to 2018. The division currently contains 16 teams, and t ...

club

SKU Amstetten Sportklub Union Ertl Glas Amstetten is a professional association football club based in the town of Amstetten, Lower Austria, that competes in the Austrian Football Second League, the second tier of the Austrian football league system. Founde ...

Career

Early career

Offenthaler began his career at TSV Grein in Austria, joining AKA St. Pölten from 2011 to 2012, before returning to Grein. Later in 2012 he moved to SG Waidhofen.

SCU Ardagger

At the start of the 2014–15 he moved to SCU Ardagger, debuting in April 2015; while at SCU Ardagger he was nominated and then named the 2016 Austrian amateur player of the year.

SV Wacker Burghausen

For the 2016–17 season, Offenthaler moved to

SV Wacker Burghausen SV Wacker Burghausen is a Football in Germany, German football club based in Burghausen, Altötting, Burghausen, Bavaria and is part of one of the nation's largest sports clubs with some 6,000 members participating in two dozen different sports. ...

who play in the

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in Germany; he made his debut playing against

TSV 1860 Munich II The TSV 1860 Munich II (german: TSV 1860 München II) is the reserve team of German football club TSV 1860 Munich, from the city of Munich, Bavaria. Until 2005, the team played under the name of TSV 1860 München Amateure. In the 2018–19 seaso ...

SKN St. Pölten II

He returned to Austria for 2017–18, playing for SKN St. Pölten II.

SKU Amstetten

In the 2018–19 season he joined

where his coach in an interview stated that Offenthaler only lived fifteen kilometres from the club, which mostly featured local players. During his first season, he played seven times for the club at league, with his first start on 5 August 2018, against

FC Wacker Innsbruck FC Wacker Innsbruck was an Austrian association football club from Innsbruck, Tyrol. History The ''Fußball-Club Wacker'' ("Valiant") ''Innsbruck'' was established in 1915 by Jakob Hanspeter, Benedikt Hosp, Josef Leitner, Josef Albrecht and o ...

. On 26 October 2020, Offenthaler scored his first goal for the club in a 3–3 draw against

FC Juniors OÖ FC Juniors OÖ is an Football in Austria, Austrian association football club, from Pasching, Upper Austria. It was newly founded after the move of ASKÖ Pasching, who last appeared as FC Superfund, to Carinthia and the associated renaming in SK A ...

after an assist by Daniel Scharner.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Offenthaler, Philipp Living people 1997 births Austrian footballers 2. Liga (Austria) players SKU Amstetten players Association football midfielders People from Amstetten, Lower Austria SV Wacker Burghausen players Regionalliga players SKN St. Pölten players Austrian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Germany Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Footballers from Lower Austria