Oliver Glasner
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Glasner in 2022 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 28 August 1974 | ||
| Place of birth | Schärding, Austria | ||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Crystal Palace (manager) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1992–2011 | SV Ried | 516 | (27) |
| 2003–2004 | → LASK (loan) | 3 | (0) |
| Total | 519 | (27) | |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2014–2015 | SV Ried | ||
| 2015–2019 | LASK | ||
| 2019–2021 | VfL Wolfsburg | ||
| 2021–2023 | Eintracht Frankfurt | ||
| 2024– | Crystal Palace | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Oliver Glasner (born 28 August 1974) is an Austrian professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Premier League club Crystal Palace.
A defender by trade, he spent almost all of his professional career with Austrian Bundesliga club SV Ried, winning the Austrian Cup in 1998 and 2011. Following his retirement, Glasner worked as an assistant manager at Red Bull Salzburg before returning to Ried as manager in 2014. He then spent four seasons as manager of former club LASK, winning promotion to the Austrian top flight, and helping the club finish as runners-up in his final season.
From 2019 until mid 2023 Glasner worked in German Bundesliga, at VfL Wolfsburg and Eintracht Frankfurt. With Frankfurt he won the UEFA Europa League and led them to the Champions League knockout stages and DFB-Pokal final. In 2024, he was named manager of Crystal Palace, where he won the FA Cup, the club's first ever major trophy, in his first full season and qualified them for the Europa League for the first time.