ÖFB Team with Positive Record in Year Openers Under Rangnick

Under ÖFB head coach Ralf Rangnick, the ÖFB team won the first international matches of the year. Last year, Christoph Baumgartner scored a world record goal after 6.3 seconds, leading to a 2-0 victory in Slovakia. This winning streak is set to continue on Thursday (8:45 PM/live ORF 1) in the play-off first leg for promotion in the Nations League in Vienna against Serbia.

ÖFB Team with Eight Wins in Year Openers Since the End of the Koller Era

Of the past five year-opening international matches, the ÖFB team has lost only one - a very crucial 1-2 in the World Cup play-off 2022 in Cardiff against Wales. Since the beginning of the era of Rangnick's predecessor Marcel Koller at the end of 2011, there have been eight ÖFB victories in 13 matches at the start of a calendar year and only three defeats. The overall record of Austria's men's first international matches of the year since the end of World War II in 1945 is slightly negative with 31 wins and 32 losses with 17 draws.

The first international matches of the ÖFB men in the calendar year in this millennium:

Overall record of the official first international matches of the year of the ÖFB men since 1945: 80 games - 31 wins, 17 draws, 32 losses (goal difference 112:108)

(APA/Red)

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