Martin Ehrenreich (born 10 May 1983) is an

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n footballer, who plays as a

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for USV Hof and is also the team manager of

SK Sturm Graz Sportklub Sturm Graz is an Austrian professional association football club, based in Graz, playing in the Austrian Football Bundesliga. The club was founded in 1909. Its colours are black and white. In its history, Sturm Graz has won the Austr ...

Career

Club career

Ehrenreich started his career at

DSV Leoben DSV Leoben is an Football in Austria, Austrian association football club based in Leoben. It was founded in 1928. The club currently play in Austrian Regionalliga Central, Regionalliga Central, one of the third tiers of Austrian Football. They ...

, for which he played until the winter break of 2002/2003. In January 2003 he moved to FC St. Veit. After the end of the season he moved on to SV Bad Aussee, for which he completed one season. In 2004/05 he moved to

FC Lustenau 07 FC Lustenau 07 is a football club based in Lustenau, Vorarlberg. They currently compete in the Vorarlbergliga, one of the fourth tiers of Austrian football. Until the 2012–13 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It i ...

and also played one season there. Then he came back to

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for

FC Gratkorn FC Gratkorn is an Austrian association football club from Gratkorn Gratkorn () is a municipality in the district of Graz-Umgebung in the Austrian state of Styria. It is an industrial suburb of Graz Graz () is the capital of the Austrian F ...

. At the end of the 2008/09 season he moved to the two-time Austrian champions

. Ehrenreich made his

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debut on 30 August 2009 in a 2-1 away win over

SV Ried SV Ried, commonly known as SV Guntamatic Ried for sponsorship reasons, is an Austrian association football club based in Ried im Innkreis, Upper Austria. The team plays its home matches at Josko Arena, a stadium with a capacity of 7,680. The t ...

, which suffered a defeat for the first time after more than 20 unbeaten home games in a row. In the game he was substituted on in the 81st minute for

Andreas Hölzl Andreas Hölzl (born 16 March 1985) is an Austrian footballer who currently plays for SV Brixen in the Landesliga Ost (Tyrol). Club career In summer 2014, Hölzl returned to Wacker Innsbruck after having spent six years with Sturm Graz Spo ...

and five minutes later gave the also substitute Haris Bukva the winning ball for the 2-1 goal. Ehrenreich scored his first two goals in the Bundesliga on 27 November 2011 when he played against

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. After his substitution at break, he scored two goals within eleven minutes.

Later career

In the summer of 2016, he finished his professional career, in order to switch to the management of SK Sturm and continue to play for the club's reserve team. Since then he became involved in marketing and sponsoring at the club, as a part of the club's marketing staff. In the summer 2019, Ehrenreich was appointed assistant coach of the club's reserve team, which he also still was active for as a player. A year later, in the summer 2020, Ehrenreich moved to USV Hof and was, at the same time, also hired in a new role at Sturm as team manager for the club's team in the

.Leitgeb überlegt noch/Ehrenreich wechselt in die Unterliga
sturmnetz.at, 15 July 2020

References

1983 births Living people DSV Leoben players FC St. Veit players SV Bad Aussee players FC Lustenau 07 players FC Gratkorn players SK Sturm Graz players Austrian men's footballers Men's association football defenders SK Sturm Graz non-playing staff {{austria-footy-defender-stub