Franjo Wölfl (18 May 1918 – 8 July 1987) was a Croatian footballer who played as a forward.[1]
 Wölfl in 1951 holding the Yugoslav Cup trophy. | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 18 May 1918 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Zagreb, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 8 July 1987 (aged 69) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| Concordia Zagreb | |||||||||||||||||
| 1935–1937 | Viktoria Plzeň | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1937–1938 | Viktoria Plzeň | ||||||||||||||||
| 1938–1945 | Građanski Zagreb | 125 | (136) | ||||||||||||||
| 1945–1953 | Dinamo Zagreb | 100 | (80) | ||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1938–1951 | Yugoslavia | 12 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
| 1940 | Banovina of Croatia | 4 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1941–1944 | Independent State of Croatia | 14 | (12) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1954 | Yugoslavia (co-manager) | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Club career
editWölfl spent much of his career with Građanski Zagreb. With Građanski he was the top scorer in the Croatian First League's 1943 season. After World War II, Građanski was disbanded by the communist authorities and Wölfl moved to the regime's newly formed club Dinamo Zagreb. With Dinamo, Wölfl was the Yugoslav First League's top scorer in 1947 and 1948.
International career
editWölfl played international football first with the Kingdom of Yugoslavia national team from 1938 and then the Croatia national team from 1940 to 1944. He played 4 of those for the Jozo Jakopić-led Banovina and the other 14 games under the flag of the Independent State of Croatia, a World War II-era puppet state of Nazi Germany. Finally, Wölfl suited up for communist Yugoslavia's national team from 1945 to 1951.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Franjo Wölfl". Olympedia. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
- ^ "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
External links
edit- Franjo Wölfl at WorldFootball.net
- Franjo Wölfl at National-Football-Teams.com
- Franjo Wölfl at kicker (in German)
- Franjo Wölfl at EU-Football.info
- Franjo Wölfl at Olympedia
- Franjo Wölfl at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)
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