Oliver Glasner profile
- Club
- Nottingham Forest
- Position
- Manager
- Nationality
- Austria
- Date of birth
- 1974-08-28
- Birthplace
- Schärding, Austria
- Height
- 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
About Oliver Glasner
Oliver Glasner (born 28 August 1974) is an Austrian professional football manager and former player who is currently head coach of Premier League club Nottingham Forest.
A defender by trade, he spent almost all of his professional career with Austrian Bundesliga club SV Ried, winning the Austrian Cup in 1998 and 2011. Following his retirement, Glasner worked as an assistant manager at Red Bull Salzburg before returning to Ried as manager in 2014. He then spent four seasons as manager of former club LASK, winning promotion to the Austrian top flight, and helping the club finish as runners-up in his final season.
From 2019 until 2023, Glasner worked in Germany's Bundesliga, at VfL Wolfsburg and Eintracht Frankfurt. With Frankfurt he won the UEFA Europa League and led them to the Champions League knockout stages and DFB-Pokal final. From 2024 to 2026 Glasner coached Crystal Palace, where they won the FA Cup, the club's first ever major trophy, the Community Shield and the UEFA Conference League.