Robert Dienst

Robert Dienst
Personal information
Full nameRobert Dienst
Date of birth1 March 1928
Place of birthVienna, Austria
Date of death13 June 2000 (aged 72)
Place of deathVienna, Austria
Playing positionStriker
Youth career
1942–1947Floridsdorfer AC
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1947–1948Floridsdorfer AC
1948–1962SK Rapid Wien284(307)
1962–1968SV Schwechat
National team
1949–1957Austria27(12)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Robert Dienst (1 March 1928 – 13 June 2000) was an Austrian football forward. He died in 2000 after a long illness.

Club career

Robert Dienst started his career at Floridsdorfer AC, where he played his first game as a midfielder during World War II. He turned into a prolific striker at Rapid Wien and became one of the most successful Austrian goalscorers in the 1950-s., three times topping the top goalscorers charts and winning 6 league titles. With his 307 Bundesliga goals, he is still Rapid's record league goalscorer.

He scored 323 goals in 351 games in total in the Austrian Football Bundesliga.

International career

He made his debut for Austria in an October 1949 match against Hungary and earned a total of 27 caps, scoring 12 goals.[1] He was a participant at the 1954 FIFA World Cup and 1958 FIFA World Cup.

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