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Michael Baur
2026-11-14 06:10:41 · Cedar Herald Index
Michael Baur (born 16 April 1969) is a former Austrian football player He played mainly for FC Wacker Innsbruck as defender He has also played for Austria national team.
Career
Michael Baur started playing with SV Innsbruck where he was discovered by Ernst Happel, the coach of FC Swarovski Tirol. 1989 Buar started his professional career here. He played 12 seasons for Innsbruck. In 1997 he went for a short break to Japan and also played a season in the German Bundesliga for Hamburger SV. At the age of 34 he signed with FC Pasching. After they sold their license to Austria Kärnten he went on to LASK Linz where his career ended. Afterwards he started a career as assistance coach for LASK Linz.

He played 40 matches for the Austrian national football team and scored five goals. He was member of the team for the 1990 FIFA World Cup but did not play.

Honours
4 x Austrian Champion: 1989/90, 1999/2000, 2000/01, 2001/02
1 x Austrian Cup: 1992/93
40 matches and 5 goals for the National football team between 1990 and 2002
Member of the 1990 FIFA World cup squad
Club career statistics
|-
|1989/90||rowspan="4"|Swarovski Tirol||rowspan="4"|Bundesliga||22||2
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|1990/91||36||1
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|1991/92||33||3
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|1992/93||33||3
|-
|1993/94||rowspan="4"|Tirol Innsbruck||rowspan="4"|Bundesliga||34||6
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|1994/95||30||1
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|1995/96||33||1
|-
|1996/97||12||1
|-
|1997||Urawa Red Diamonds||J. League 1||7||1
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|1997/98||rowspan="5"|Tirol Innsbruck||rowspan="5"|Bundesliga||28||3
|-
|1998/99||27||4
|-
|1999/00||19||4
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|2000/01||34||6
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|2001/02||31||6
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|2002/03||Hamburger SV||Bundesliga||10||0
|-
|2003/04||rowspan="4"|Pasching||rowspan="4"|Bundesliga||31||4
|-
|2004/05||29||1
|-
|2005/06||34||3
|-
|2006/07||34||3
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|2007/08||rowspan="2"|LASK Linz||rowspan="2"|Bundesliga||35||2
|-
|2008/09||31||3
566||57
7||1
10||0
583||58
|}
International career statistics
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|1990||2||0
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|1991||7||0
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|1992||7||1
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|1993||6||1
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|1994||1||0
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|1995||0||0
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|1996||0||0
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|1997||0||0
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|1998||0||0
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|1999||0||0
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|2000||2||1
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|2001||8||2
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|2002||7||0
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!Total||40||5
|}
References
1969 births
Living people
Austrian football managers
Austrian footballers
Sportspeople from Innsbruck
Players of the Austrian national football team
SV Grödig managers
Austrian football defenders
Austrian football champions
