Stefan Lexa

Stefan Lexa

Personal information
Full name	Stefan Lexa
Date of birth	1 November 1976
Place of birth	Klagenfurt, Austria
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position	right winger
Youth career
1983–1989	SV Heimstetten
1989–1995	TSV 1860 München
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1995–1996	SpVgg Landshut	22	(0)
1996	SV Heimstetten
1996–1998	SV Wacker Burghausen	49	(2)
1998–1999	SV Wehen	31	(4)
1999–2001	SSV Reutlingen	59	(9)
2001–2002	SpVgg Unterhaching	28	(6)
2002–2003	CD Tenerife	11	(0)
2003–2006	Eintracht Frankfurt	56	(2)
2006–2007	1. FC Kaiserslautern	24	(1)
2007	1. FC Kaiserslautern II	4	(0)
2008	1. FC Kaiserslautern	15	(0)
2008–2012	SV Ried	121	(13)
2012–2013	SV Grödig	34	(4)
National team^‡
2001–2009	Austria	6	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18 January 2014. † Appearances (goals) ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 4 August 2009

Stefan Lexa (born 1 November 1976 in Klagenfurt, Austria) is an Austrian retired football player.^[1]

Club career

Much-travelled Lexa was born in Klagenfurt but was raised in Germany. At the age of seven years he started at SV Heimstetten. As youth player he also played for TSV 1860 München. He spent a couple of years in the German Second division before winning promotion to the Fußball-Bundesliga with Eintracht Frankfurt after he got relegated with them the season before. With Eintracht he also lost the 2006 DFB-Pokal final. After that final he moved back to the second division to play for 1. FC Kaiserslautern before making his debut in the Austrian Football Bundesliga with SV Ried in 2008. In 2002–03, he also played 11 games for Spanish Second Division side CD Tenerife.

The Carinthian was classified as a good dribbler and mostly played on the right wing.

International career

He debuted for Austria in an October 2001 World Cup qualification match against Israel under manager Otto Barić. As of April 2012, Lexa was capped six times, in doing so not being capped for four years between 2002 and 2006. His last international was a May 2006 friendly match against Croatia.

National team statistics

Austria national team
Year	Apps	Goals
2001	3	0
2002	1	0
2003	0	0
2004	0	0
2005	0	0
2006	1	0
2007	0	0
2008	0	0
2009	1	0
Total	6	0

Honours

Club

Eintracht Frankfurt

• DFB-Pokal Runner-up: 2005–06

SV Grödig

• Erste Liga Champions: 2012–13

References

1. "Lexa, Stefan" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 2 May 2012.

External links

• Stefan Lexa at SV Ried
• Stefan Lexa at National-Football-Teams.com