Franjo Wölfl (18 May 1918 – 8 July 1987) was a
Croatian footballer.
He played international football first with the
Kingdom of Yugoslavia national team from 1938 and then the
Croatian national team from 1940 to 1944. Finally, Wölfl suited up for
communist Yugoslavia's national team from 1945 to 1951.
Wölfl spent much of his career with
Građanski Zagreb. With Građanski he was the top scorer in the
Croatian First League
The Hrvatska nogometna liga () ( en, Croatian football league), also known as HNL or for sponsorship reasons the SuperSport HNL, is the top Croatian professional football (soccer), football league competition, established in 1992. Previously, i ...
's 1943 season. After
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
, Građanski was disbanded by the communist authorities and Wölfl moved to the regime's newly formed club
Dinamo Zagreb
Građanski nogometni klub Dinamo Zagreb ( en, Dinamo Zagreb Citizens' Football Club, link=yes, italics=yes), commonly referred to as GNK Dinamo Zagreb or simply Dinamo Zagreb (), is a Croatian professional football club based in Zagreb. Dinamo ...
. With Dinamo, Wölfl was the
Yugoslav First League
The Yugoslav First Federal Football League ( Serbian: Прва савезна лига у фудбалу / ''Prva savezna liga u fudbalu'', hr, Prva savezna liga u nogometu, sl, Prva zvezna nogometna liga, mk, Прва сојузна лига, ...
's top scorer in 1947 and 1948.
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1918 births
1987 deaths
Footballers from Zagreb
Croatian footballers
Yugoslav footballers
Yugoslavia international footballers
Croatia international footballers
Dual internationalists (football)
FC Viktoria Plzeň players
Expatriate footballers in Czechoslovakia
HŠK Građanski Zagreb players
GNK Dinamo Zagreb players
Yugoslav First League players
Footballers at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Olympic footballers of Yugoslavia
Olympic silver medalists for Yugoslavia
Croatian football managers
Yugoslav football managers
Croatian people of German descent
Olympic medalists in football
Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery
Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Association football forwards
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