Markus Suttner (born 16 April 1987) is a retired Austrian professional

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who played as a

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Club career

Austria Wien

Suttner came through the youth system at

Austria Wien Fußballklub Austria Wien AG (), known in English as Austria Vienna, and Austria Wien in German-speaking countries, is an Austrian professional association football club from the capital city of Vienna. It has won the most trophies of any Aust ...

before making his breakthrough season at the

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n club in his first professional season, in the 2008–09 season where he made 22 league appearances. He also made two appearances in the

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in which they won. He made five appearances in the

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in 2009 where Wien qualified through the third round and the play off round but finished bottom of the group finishing with two points. He scored his first goal in football in the 2010–11 season. Suttner won his first Austria national team cap whilst at the club in 2012. Suttner played in 35 league games, scoring three in the 2012–13 campaign where Austria Wien won the league title for the first time in seven years. Wien were to compete in the Champions League in the 2013–14 campaign after being crowned champions of the Austrian league in previous season. They managed to qualify to the group stages from the third round of qualifying. However, they finished bottom of their group. Suttner played in one more season for the club where they finished 7th before moving to Germany.

FC Ingolstadt 04

Suttner signed for newly promoted

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in the summer of 2015. In his first season he made 18 league appearances as the team finished 11th in the table. Suttner scored his first German

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goal in the 2016–17 season where he finished with four goals to his name in 31 appearances. However, the season ended in relegation for the

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n side.

Brighton & Hove Albion

On 13 July 2017, Suttner signed for another newly promoted side,

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of the

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. Just 12 days beforehand his Ingolstadt teammate Pascal Gross signed for the Sussex club. Suttner made his debut for Brighton on 12 August 2017 in the opening game of the season at home to

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in which The Seagulls lost 2–0 to the eventual champions. He played in the following game in another 2–0 scoreline, this time in an away defeat to

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. Suttner played in Brighton's first ever win in the Premier League in a 3–1 home win over West Brom on 9 September 2017 in which Pascal Gross scored two with

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netting the other. Suttner made his

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debut in a 1–0 away win over

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with Glenn Murray scoring a 90th-minute winner. Suttner played in three FA Cup matches where they were eventually knocked out by

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in the Quarter Finals. Brighton finished the season in 15th place securing safety in a 1–0 home win over Manchester United on 4 May 2018 where Gross scored a header that only just crossed the line from a José Izquierdo cross. Suttner was absent from this match squad however. In his first season at Brighton he played 14 Premier League matches and three FA Cup matches. Suttner played in his first

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match on 28 August 2018 in a 1–0 home defeat against south coast rivals,

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. This turned out to be his only appearance for the Sussex club this season being sent out on loan in January 2019.

Loan to Fortuna Düsseldorf

Suttner signed for

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on loan on 18 January 2019 who were playing their first season in the German top flight since the

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. He made his debut on 6 February in a

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match where he started and played the full match in the 4–1 away defeat to

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. The next game he played in was a league game away against

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where Fortuna lost 2–0 on 17 February. On 27 April Suttner scored against

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to make it 4–1 and to seal the win.

Fortuna Düsseldorf

On 30 July 2019, Suttner joined

on a year-long contract.

International career

Suttner made seven appearances for the Austria U21 national team Under-21 side, before making his full debut for

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on 1 June 2012, in the 3–2 win over

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in a

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. Suttner was a part of the squad for the

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but did not make an appearance in any of the three games where Austria finished bottom of their group. After 20 caps, it was announced on 10 May 2017, that he had retired from international football.https://twitter.com/oefb1904/status/862214514988732417 - ÖFB Twitter post (German)

Career statistics

Club

Honours

Austria Wien *

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: 2008–09

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Suttner, Markus 1987 births Living people Austrian men's footballers Men's association football fullbacks Austria men's international footballers Austria men's under-21 international footballers Austria men's youth international footballers 21st-century Austrian sportsmen UEFA Euro 2016 players Austrian Football Bundesliga players Bundesliga players Premier League players FK Austria Wien players Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. players FC Ingolstadt 04 players Fortuna Düsseldorf players Austrian expatriate men's footballers Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Expatriate men's footballers in Germany Austrian expatriate sportspeople in England Expatriate men's footballers in England People from Hollabrunn Footballers from Lower Austria