UEFA NATIONS LEAGUE - 2018/19 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Windsor Park - Belfast Sunday 18 November 2018 18.00CET (17.00 local time) Northern Ireland Group B3 - Matchday 6 Austria Last updated 18/11/2018 10:12CET Previous meetings 2 Squad list 4 Head coach 6 Match officials 7 Competition facts 8 Match-by-match lineups 11 Legend 12 1 Northern Ireland - Austria Sunday 18 November 2018 - 18.00CET (17.00 local time) Match press kit Windsor Park, Belfast Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Nations League Stage Date Match Result Venue Goalscorers reached 12/10/2018 GS-FT Austria - Northern Ireland 1-0 Vienna Arnautović 71 FIFA World Cup Stage Date Match Result Venue Goalscorers reached 12/10/2005 QR (GS) Austria - Northern Ireland 2-0 Vienna Aufhauser 44, 90 Healy 36, Murdock 13/10/2004 QR (GS) Northern Ireland - Austria 3-3 Belfast 60, Elliott 90; Schopp 14, 72, Mayrleb 61 EURO '96 Stage Date Match Result Venue Goalscorers reached O'Neill 27, 76, Dowie 32 (P), Hunter 53, 15/11/1995 PR (GS) Northern Ireland - Austria 5-3 Belfast Gray 64; Schopp 56, Stumpf 70, Wetl 80 Polster 24; Gillespie 12/10/1994 PR (GS) Austria - Northern Ireland 1-2 Vienna 2, Gray 35 EURO '92 Stage Date Match Result Venue Goalscorers reached Dowie 18, Black 42; 16/10/1991 PR (GS) Northern Ireland - Austria 2-1 Belfast Lainer 44 14/11/1990 PR (GS) Austria - Northern Ireland 0-0 Vienna 1984 UEFA European Championship Stage Date Match Result Venue Goalscorers reached Hamilton 28, 21/09/1983 PR (GS) Northern Ireland - Austria 3-1 Belfast Whiteside 67, O'Neill 89; Gasselich 83 13/10/1982 PR (GS) Austria - Northern Ireland 2-0 Vienna Schachner 3, 39 FIFA World Cup Stage Date Match Result Venue Goalscorers reached Pezzey 49, 01/07/1982 GS-FT Austria - Northern Ireland 2-2 Madrid Hintermaier 67; Hamilton 27, 75 2 Northern Ireland - Austria Sunday 18 November 2018 - 18.00CET (17.00 local time) Match press kit Windsor Park, Belfast Final Qualifying Total tournament Home Away Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Total Northern Ireland 4 3 1 0 4 1 1 2 2 0 1 1 10 4 3 3 17 16 Austria 4 2 1 1 4 0 1 3 2 1 1 0 10 3 3 4 16 17 3 Northern Ireland - Austria Sunday 18 November 2018 - 18.00CET (17.00 local time) Match press kit Windsor Park, Belfast Squad list Northern Ireland League phase No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Goalkeepers 1 Trevor Carson 05/03/1988 30 Motherwell - 0 0 12 Michael McGovern 12/07/1984 34 Norwich - 0 0 23 Conor Hazard 05/03/1998 20 Celtic - 0 0 Defenders 2 Conor McLaughlin 26/07/1991 27 Millwall - 1 0 4 Gareth McAuley 05/12/1979 38 Rangers - 0 0 5 Jonny Evans 03/01/1988 30 Leicester - 3 0 17 Paddy McNair 27/04/1995 23 Middlesbrough - 2 0 18 Aaron Hughes 08/11/1979 39 Hearts - 0 0 20 Craig Cathcart 06/02/1989 29 Watford - 3 0 22 Michael Smith 04/09/1988 30 Hearts - 0 0 Midfielders 3 Jordan Thompson 03/01/1997 21 Blackpool - 0 0 6 George Saville 01/06/1993 25 Middlesbrough - 3 0 8 Steven Davis 01/01/1985 33 Southampton - 3 0 11 Shane Ferguson 12/07/1991 27 Millwall - 1 0 13 Corry Evans 30/07/1990 28 Blackburn - 2 0 14 Stuart Dallas 19/04/1991 27 Leeds - 3 0 15 Jordan Jones 24/10/1994 24 Kilmarnock - 0 0 21 Josh Magennis 15/08/1990 28 Bolton - 2 0 Forwards 7 Niall McGinn 20/07/1987 31 Aberdeen - 1 0 9 Liam Boyce 08/04/1991 27 Burton - 2 0 10 Kyle Lafferty 16/09/1987 31 Rangers - 1 0 16 Gavin Whyte 31/01/1996 22 Oxford - 1 0 19 Kyle Vassell 17/02/1993 25 Rotherham - 2 0 Coach - Michael O'Neill 05/07/1969 49 - 3 0 4 Northern Ireland - Austria Sunday 18 November 2018 - 18.00CET (17.00 local time) Match press kit Windsor Park, Belfast Austria League phase No. Player DoB Age Club D Pld Gls Goalkeepers 1 Heinz Lindner 17/07/1990 28 Grasshoppers - 3 0 12 Richard Strebinger 14/02/1993 25 Rapid Wien - 0 0 13 Cican Stankovic 04/11/1992 26 Salzburg - 0 0 Defenders 2 Andreas Ulmer 30/10/1985 33 Salzburg - 1 0 3 Aleksandar Dragović 06/03/1991 27 Leverkusen - 2 0 4 Martin Hinteregger 07/09/1992 26 Augsburg - 3 0 5 Kevin Wimmer 15/11/1992 26 Hannover - 0 0 8 David Alaba 24/06/1992 26 Bayern - 2 0 20 Stefan Lainer 27/08/1992 26 Salzburg - 3 0 Midfielders 6 Stefan Ilsanker 18/05/1989 29 Leipzig - 2 0 9 Thomas Goiginger 15/03/1993 25 LASK - 0 0 10 Louis Schaub 29/12/1994 23 Köln - 1 0 14 Julian Baumgartlinger 02/01/1988 30 Leverkusen - 1 0 16 Peter Žulj 09/06/1993 25 Sturm - 3 0 17 Florian Kainz 24/10/1992 26 Bremen - 2 0 18 Alessandro Schöpf 07/02/1994 24 Schalke - 2 0 19 Stefan Hierländer 03/02/1991 27 Sturm - 0 0 22 Valentino Lazaro 24/03/1996 22 Hertha - 3 0 23 Xaver Schlager 28/09/1997 21 Salzburg - 1 0 Forwards 7 Marko Arnautović 19/04/1989 29 West Ham - 3 1 11 Michael Gregoritsch 18/04/1994 24 Augsburg - 2 0 21 Marc Janko 25/06/1983 35 Lugano - 1 0 Coach - Franco Foda 23/04/1966 52 - 3 0 5 Northern Ireland - Austria Sunday 18 November 2018 - 18.00CET (17.00 local time) Match press kit Windsor Park, Belfast Head coach Michael O'Neill Date of birth: 5 July 1969 Nationality: Northern Irish Playing career: Coleraine, Newcastle, Dundee United, Hibernian, Coventry, Aberdeen (loan), Reading (loan), Wigan, Saint Johnstone, Portland Timbers, Clydebank, Glentoran, Ayr United Coaching career: Brechin City, Shamrock Rovers, Northern Ireland • A midfielder and forward during a 20-year playing career, O'Neill spent the bulk of his time in Scotland, most notably with Dundee United and Hibernian. Enjoyed late success when winning a Northern Irish league and League Cup double with Glentoran in 2002/03. • Made 31 appearances for his country, scoring four goals, two of which came in a memorable 5-3 victory against Austria during EURO '96 qualifying. • Moved into coaching as assistant manager of Scottish club Cowdenbeath in 2005 before taking the reins at Brechin in March 2006. Was named coach of Shamrock Rovers in the Republic of Ireland in December 2008, guiding the Hoops to a second-place finish in his debut season before clinching their first title since 1994 in 2010. • Made history as Rovers became the first Irish side to qualify for the group stage of a European competition, beating Partizan in the 2011/12 UEFA Europa League play-offs. Also led the Hoops to a second successive domestic championship in 2011. • Appointed coach of his country in December 2011 and helped Northern Ireland record several notable results in 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying, including a 1-1 draw in Portugal and a home win against Russia. Even better was to come as O'Neill steered his charges to UEFA EURO 2016, their first UEFA European Championship appearance, taking Northern Ireland to the last 16 at the finals in France, and agreed a new contract despite losing out to Switzerland in the 2018 World Cup play-offs. Franco Foda Date of birth: 23 April 1966 Nationality: German Playing career: Kaiserslautern (twice), Arminia Bielefeld, Saarbrücken, Bayer Leverkusen, Stuttgart, Basel, Sturm Graz Coaching career: Sturm Graz (three times), Kaiserslautern, Austria • Born in Mainz to a German mother and Italian father, Foda started his playing career at Weisenau and joined Mainz, then in the third tier, in his youth. As a professional he played in 321 German Bundesliga games, winning the German Cup with both Kaiserslautern and Leverkusen. • In 1987, the defender was called up by the West German national team for a South America tour. He played against Argentina and Brazil, his only two international caps. • Foda ended his career with a highly successful four-year spell at Austrian club Sturm Graz, with whom he won three league titles and also reached the UEFA Champions League group stage three years running. • After hanging up his boots, Foda remained in Styria and moved into coaching, initially as an assistant to the experienced Ivan Osim before taking over as Sturm's head coach in 2002. • He would spend the best part of the next decade and a half at Sturm, punctuating his tenure only with a single season back in Germany with Kaiserslautern (2012/13) after leading Sturm to victories in the 2009/10 Austrian Cup and the following season's Bundesliga. In October 2017 he was appointed Marcel Koller's successor as head coach of the Austrian national team, taking over the reins in January 2018. 6 Northern Ireland - Austria Sunday 18 November 2018 - 18.00CET (17.00 local time) Match press kit Windsor Park, Belfast Match officials Referee Jonathan Lardot (BEL) Assistant referees Frédéric Godelaine (BEL) , Laurent Conotte (BEL) Additional assistant referees Alexandre Boucaut (BEL) , Nathan Verboomen (BEL) Fourth official Vito Di Vincenzo (BEL) UEFA Delegate Edy Kindle (LIE) UEFA Referee observer David R. Elleray (ENG) Referee Name Date of birth UEFA matches Jonathan Lardot 31/01/1984 0 45 UEFA Nations League matches between the two teams No such matches refereed Other matches involving teams from either of the two countries involved in this match Stage Date Competition Home Away Result Venue reached 12/07/2012 UEL 1QR Rosenborg BK Crusaders FC 1-0 Trondheim 19/07/2016 UCL 2QR FK Liepāja FC Salzburg 0-2 Liepaja 04/10/2016 U19 QR Austria Azerbaijan 4-1 Marijampole 11/09/2018 U21 QR Spain Northern Ireland 1-2 Albacete 7 Northern Ireland - Austria Sunday 18 November 2018 - 18.00CET (17.00 local time) Match press kit Windsor Park, Belfast Competition facts What is the background to the UEFA Nations League? The rejuvenation of national team football – and the UEFA Nations League – stems from the desire of UEFA and its 55 member associations to improve the quality and standing of national team football.