The German succeeds his compatriot Franco Foda in the ÖFB. Rangnick will nevertheless take on his advisory mandate in the Premier League club Manchester United from the summer.
Will have two functions from summer: the new ÖFB head coach Ralf Rangnick.
(sda) Rangnick signed an initial two-year contract with the Austrian Football Association (ÖFB). If Austria qualifies for the 2024 European Championships in Germany, the cooperation will automatically be extended by two years.
Rangnick will continue to work as an interim coach for Manchester United until the end of the season. He will continue to be available to the Premier League club as an advisor in the future. This was confirmed by both the Austrian association as “part of a creative solution” and the club officials from ManU. According to the ÖFB, Rangnick is available to the English six days a month.
Austria’s national team will play their first international matches under Rangnick’s leadership in June as part of the Nations League against Croatia, Denmark and France.
With Rangnick, the ÖFB selection received the third foreign team boss in a row after Zurich’s Marcel Koller and Foda. Foda resigned after failing to qualify for this year’s World Cup in Qatar. Peter Stöger and the former Swiss national coach Vladimir Petkovic were named as other promising candidates for the post of national coach.