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Attila Sekerlioglu
Personal information
Date of birth	27 January 1965 (age 59)
Place of birth	Vienna, Austria
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Defender, midfielder
Youth career
	Elektra Vienna
Senior career*
Years	Team
1985–1987	Austria Wien
1988–1995	Austria Wien
1995	FC Tirol Innsbruck
1995–1998	St Johnstone
1998–2001	SC Untersiebenbrunn
2001–2002	FC Oslip
Managerial career
2002–2003	Maccabi Vienna
2003–2004	SC Himberg
2005	SV Horn
2005–2007	ASK Schwadorf
2008	VfB Admira Wacker Mödling
2009	Tema Youth
2010	Berekum Chelsea
2011–2012	SV Stockerau
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Attila Sekerlioglu (born 27 January 1965) is an Austrian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. After retiring, he moved into management. He has most recently been manager of Austrian club SV Stockerau. He is now a scout for Bayern Munich.

Club career

During his career he played for Elektra Vienna, Austria Vienna (1988–1995),^[1] VSE St. Pölten, FC Tirol Innsbruck (1995), St Johnstone (1995–1998), SC Untersiebenbrunn and FC Oslip.^[2]

Coaching career

Since retirement, he has moved into coaching and management, in the early 2000s, Sekerlioglu managed Maccabi Vienna, SC Himberg and, until January 2005, SV Horn. Sekerlioglu was appointed manager of ASK Schwadorf, then in the Austrian Regionalliga (Austrian third-tier), in 2005.^[3] Schwadorf hosted English giants Arsenal in a pre-season friendly on 31 July 2006. The visitors won 8–1.^[4]

Sekerlioglu guided ASK Schwadorf to the championship Austrian Regionalliga East in 2006–07, thus seeing the club promoted for the fifth time in six years, after winning 22 of their 30 league games, but he was fired in August 2007 after the club failed to win their first two games of the 2007–08 season.^[5]

He went on to manage VfB Admira Wacker Mödling during the 2007–08 season, but was dismissed in April 2008. He signed for Ghanaian Premier League side Tema Youth in early 2009, but left at the end of the season. He remained in Ghana to become manager of Berekum Chelsea in October 2010.^[6]

On 22 August 2011, he was named as head coach of the Austrian Landesliga side SV Stockerau, before leaving the following year to take up his current role with Bayern Munich.

In November 2014, it was reported that he is one of the coaches who applied for India U17 job to manage in 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup. ^[7]

Personal life

Sekerlioglu of Turkish descent.^[8]

His brother, Cem, is also a footballer. He has a son, also named Attila.

In October 2013, he paid a visit to his former club St Johnstone where he remains well loved and his celebration fondly remembered. He Tweeted the fans that he is returning again in December 2018.^[9]