Alfréd Schaffer

Alfréd Schaffer (13 February 1893 – 30 August 1945) was a Hungarian international footballer.[3] He is recorded as having played for a record number of clubs: 21 in a 15-year career which lasted from 1910 to 1925.[4]

Alfréd Schaffer
Personal information
Date of birth (1893-02-13)13 February 1893
Place of birth Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Date of death 30 August 1945(1945-08-30) (aged 52)
Place of death Prien am Chiemsee, Germany
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Tussen 1908
Typographia SC
Lipótváaros TC
Ferencváros
Budapesti TC
KAOE
Fővárosi TC
FSK
Terézvárosi TC
Tatabanya SK
Budapesti AK
1915–1919 MTK 154 (89)
1919–1920 1. FC Nürnberg
1920-1922 Wacker München 2 (1[1])
Eintracht Frankfurt
Hamburger SV
Bayern Munich
1920 FC Basel 1 (0)
1923-1925 Amateur Vienna 38 (20[2])
1925-1926 Sparta Prague
New York Giants
International career
1915–1919 Hungary 15 (17)
Managerial career
DSV München
Wacker München
Hertha BSC Berlin
Wacker München
1932–1935 1. FC Nürnberg
1935–1937 MTK Budapest FC
1938 Hungary
1940 Rapid Bucharest
1940–1942 A.S. Roma
1943–1944 Ferencváros
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
The native form of this personal name is Schaffer Alfréd. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Career

Born in Budapest,[5][6] he joined MTK Budapest in 1915 and helped the club win three consecutive league titles,[3] and in the latter two of those seasons (1917–18 and 1918–19) he was the top European league goalscorer with 42 and 41 goals respectively.[7] Between April and September 1920 Schaffer played for FC Basel. He played one championship game and 19 test matches scoring a total of 27 goals.[8]

After his playing days ended he became a football manager, and coached clubs such as 1. FC Nürnberg (for whom he also played), A.S. Roma and Ferencváros.[9] In the beginning of 1940, Schaffer was coach at Rapid Bucharest, but left after only a few months to sign with A.S. Roma.[10][11]

He coached Hungary at the 1938 FIFA World Cup.[12]

He became manager of Roma in 1940, and led them to the 1941–42 Serie A title, before leaving the club in 1942.[6]

He died in Prien am Chiemsee, Bavaria, on 30 August 1945.[13]

Honours
  • Hungarian League Championship – 1917, 1918, 1919 (with MTK)[3]
  • German League Championship – 1921 (with 1. FC Nürnberg)[3]
  • Austrian League Championship – 1924 (with Amateur Vienna)[3]

References
  1. "Alfréd Schaffer - Spielerprofil". DFB Datencenter.
  2. "Fussball in Österreich SpielerstatstikSchaffer Alfred". www.austriasoccer.at.
  3. "Schaffer, Alfred 'Spezi'". Encyclopedia of Jews in sports. Jewsinsports.org. Archived from the original on 6 March 2012. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
  4. Maxim Olenev (14 June 2007). "OTHER SOCCER RECORDS". RSSSF. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
  5. "Schaffer Alfréd keresztelési anyakönyvi bejegyzése. Budapest, Óbuda, 89/1893". familysearch.org (in Hungarian).
  6. "Allenatori dell' AS Roma 1927" (in Italian). ASR Talenti. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
  7. "European Topscorers before 1967/68". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 31 December 2008. Retrieved 28 December 2008.
  8. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv". "Alfréd Schaffer – FCB-Statistik". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv". Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  9. "Alfréd Schaffer". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
  10. "Antrenorul legendar al lui AS Roma, convins de soţie să plece de la Rapid Bucureşti! Povestea emoţionantă a lui Alfred Schaffer" [The legendary coach of AS Roma, convinced by his wife to leave Rapid Bucharest! Alfred Schaffer's moving story] (in Romanian). Fanatik.ro. 7 November 2018. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  11. "Povestea lui Alfred Schaffer, antrenorul care a scris istorie pe "Olimpico"! A plecat de la Rapid la AS Roma" [The story of Alfred Schaffer, the coach who wrote history on "Olimpico"! He left Rapid for AS Roma] (in Romanian). Fanatik.ro. 26 November 2020. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  12. "Football's Greatest Managers…#9 Vittorio Pozzo". The Equaliser. 9 September 2010. Archived from the original on 16 December 2010. Retrieved 19 December 2010.
  13. Heimann, Helmut (2001). Tarzan, Puskás, Hansi Müller: Stelldichein donauschwäbischer (in German). Oswald Hartmann Verlag. pp. 157–170. ISBN 3-925921-49-4. Archived from the original on 14 October 2013. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
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