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{{Short description|Austrian footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}}
{{Infobox football biography            
| name = Erich Probst
| image = 
| fullname = Erich Probst
| height = 
| birth_date = {{birth date|1927|12|5|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Vienna]], [[Austria]] 
| death_date =  {{death date and age|1988|3|16|1927|12|5|df=y}}
| position = [[Striker (association football)|Striker]] 
| youthyears1 =   
| youthclubs1 =   
|  years1 =   1945–1949 
| years2 =  1950 
| years3 =  1950–1956 
| years4 =  1956–1958 
| years5 =  1958–1959 
| years6 =  1959–1960 
| years7 =  1960–1962 
| years8 =  1962–1963
| clubs1 =  [[SK Admira Wien|Admira Wien]] 
| clubs2 =  [[First Vienna]] 
| clubs3 =  [[SK Rapid Wien|Rapid Wien]] 
| clubs4 =  [[Wuppertaler SV]] 
| clubs5 =  [[FC Zürich]] 
| clubs6 =  [[Austria Salzburg]] 
| clubs7 =  [[Salzburger AK 1914|ASK Salzburg]] 
| clubs8 =  [[First Vienna FC|First Vienna]]
| caps1 =  81   
| caps2 =  3 
| caps3 =  112  
| caps4 =  50  
| caps5 =  11  
| caps6 =  9  
| caps7 =  39
| caps8 =  5
| goals1 =  89
| goals2 =  3
| goals3 =  107 
| goals4 =  43
| goals5 =  6
| goals6 =  8
| goals7 =  37
| goals8 =  6
| totalcaps = 310 | totalgoals = 299
| nationalyears1 =   1951–1960
| nationalteam1 =   [[Austria national football team|Austria]]
| nationalcaps1 =    19  
| nationalgoals1 =   18 
|medaltemplates =
{{MedalCountry|{{fb|AUT}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[FIFA World Cup]]}}
{{Medal|3rd|[[1954 FIFA World Cup|1954 Switzerland]]|}}
}}
'''Erich Probst''' (5 December 1927 – 16 March 1988) was an [[Austria]]n [[Association football|footballer]] who played as a [[Striker (association football)|striker]].

==International career==
Probst made his debut for [[Austria national football team|Austria]] in a May 1951 friendly match against [[Scotland national football team|Scotland]] and was a participant at the [[1954 FIFA World Cup]] tournament <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080529161913/http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/statisticsandrecords/players/player=56458/index.html Record at FIFA Tournaments] - FIFA</ref> 1954 in [[Switzerland]], where he was one of the foremost strikers. Austria reached third place and Probst ended second in the scorer list with six goals, behind the [[Hungary|Hungarian]] [[Sandor Kocsis]] and jointly with [[Max Morlock]] of Germany and the Swiss [[Josef Hügi]].

Probst earned 19 caps, scoring 18 goals.<ref>[https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/oost-recintlp.html Goalscoring for Austrian National Team] - RSSSF</ref> His final international was a March 1960 European Championship qualification match against [[France national football team|France]].

==Honours==
*'''[[Austrian Football Bundesliga]] (4):'''
** 1951, 1952, 1954, 1956
*'''[[Mitropa Cup|Zentropa Cup]] (1):'''
** 1951

==International goals==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! No. !! Date !! Venue !! Opponent !! Score !! Result !! Competition
|-
| 1. || rowspan=5| 27 September 1953 || rowspan=7| [[Vienna]], [[Austria]] || rowspan=5| {{fb|POR}} || align=center|'''2'''–0 || rowspan=5 align=center| 9–1 || rowspan=5| [[1954 FIFA World Cup qualification Group 5|1954 FIFA World Cup qualification]]
|-
| 2. || align=center|'''3'''–0
|-
| 3. || align=center|'''4'''–0
|-
| 4. || align=center|'''5'''–0
|-
| 5. || align=center|'''7'''–1
|-
| 6. || rowspan=2| 30 May 1954 || rowspan=2| {{fb|NOR}} || align=center|'''3'''–0 || rowspan=2 align=center| 5–0 || rowspan=2| [[Exhibition match|Friendly]]
|-
| 7. || align=center|'''4'''–0
|- 
| 8. || 16 June 1954 || rowspan=4| [[Zürich]], [[Switzerland]] || {{fb|SCO}} || align=center|'''1'''–0 || align=center| 1–0 || rowspan=6| [[1954 FIFA World Cup]]
|-
| 9. || rowspan=3| 19 June 1954 || rowspan=3| {{fb|TCH}} || align=center|'''2'''–0 || rowspan=3 align=center| 5–0
|-
| 10. || align=center|'''3'''–0
|-
| 11. || align=center|'''4'''–0
|-
| 12. || 26 June 1954 || [[Lausanne]], Switzerland || {{fb|SUI}} || align=center|'''7'''–5 || align=center| 7–5
|-
| 13. || 30 June 1954 || [[Basel]], Switzerland || {{fb|FRG}} || align=center|'''1'''–2 || align=center| 1–6
|-
| 14. || 27 March 1955 || [[Brno]], [[Czechoslovakia]] || {{fb|TCH}} || align=center|'''1'''–2 || align=center| 2–3 || rowspan=4| [[1955–60 Central European International Cup]]
|-
| 15. || rowspan=2| 24 April 1955 || rowspan=2| Vienna, Austria || rowspan=2| {{fb|HUN|1949}} || align=center|'''1'''–1 || rowspan=2 align=center| 2–2
|-
| 16. || align=center|'''2'''–2
|-
| 17. || 1 May 1955 || [[Bern]], Switzerland || {{fb|SUI}} || align=center|'''3'''–2 || align=center| 3–2
|-
| 18. || 27 March 1960 || Vienna, Austria || {{fb|FRA}} || align=center|'''2'''–2 || align=center| 2–4 || [[1960 European Nations' Cup quarter-finals]]
|-
|}

==External links==
* [http://rapidarchiv.at/spieler/probst_erich.html Rapid stats] - Rapid Archive
* {{NFT player|pid=22113}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Mitropa Cup top scorers}}
{{Austria Squad 1954 World Cup}}
{{FC Red Bull Salzburg managers}}

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[[Category:1927 births]]
[[Category:1988 deaths]]
[[Category:Footballers from Vienna]]
[[Category:Austrian men's footballers]]
[[Category:Austria men's international footballers]]
[[Category:1954 FIFA World Cup players]]
[[Category:First Vienna FC players]]
[[Category:SK Rapid Wien players]]
[[Category:Wuppertaler SV players]]
[[Category:FC Zürich players]]
[[Category:Expatriate men's footballers in Germany]]
[[Category:Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland]]
[[Category:Men's association football forwards]]
[[Category:20th-century Austrian sportsmen]]