Alfréd Schaffer

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Alfréd Schaffer
Personal information
Full name Alfréd Schaffer
Date of birth February 13, 1893(1893-02-13)
Place of birth    Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Date of death    30 August 1945 (aged 52)
Place of death    Prien am Chiemsee, Germany
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*











1917–1919
1919–1920







Tussen 1908
Tipografia SK
Lipotvaros TC
Ferencváros
Budapest TC
KAOE
Fovarosi TC
FSK
Terecvaros TC
Tatabanya SK
Budapest AC
MTK
1. FC Nuremberg
Wacker München
Eintracht Frankfurt
Hamburger SV
Bayern Munich
FC Basel
Sparta Prague
Austria Vienna
New York Giants











? (83)








   
National team
1915–1919 Hungary 015 (17)
Teams managed




1932–1935
1938
1939
1939
1939–1942
DSV München
Wacker München
Hertha BSC Berlin
Wacker München
1. FC Nuremberg
Hungary
Rapid Bucharest
Ferencváros
AS Roma

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Alfréd Schaffer (13 February 189330 August 1945) was a Hungarian football player who has the distinction of being the player who holds the record for number of professional clubs; he played for a total of 21 clubs in a 15 year career which lasted from 1910–1925.[1] He played for MTK Hungária FC for two seasons between 1917 and 1919, in which he scored 83 goals and won the European Golden Boot for both seasons.

After his playing days ended he became a football manager, and coached clubs such as 1. FC Nuremberg (for whom he also played), AS Roma and Ferencváros. He also coached Hungary at the 1938 FIFA World Cup.

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