Alessandro Schöpf
Squad number 26 · Wolfsberger AC
Their 2026 World Cup
Alessandro Schöpf travelled to the 2026 World Cup with Austria, wearing number 26, without ever getting on the pitch. His side played 4 matches (1 win, 1 draw and 2 defeats) and bowed out in the round of 32, beaten by Spain 3-0.
Midfield went to K. Laimer (4 matches, 360′) and M. Sabitzer (4 matches, 360′).
Another 5 players in the Austria squad ended up the same way, without a single minute. The full run is on the Austria team page.
Biography
Alessandro André Schöpf (German pronunciation: [aleˈsandʁo ˈʃœpf]; born 7 February 1994) is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Austrian Bundesliga club Wolfsberger AC and the Austria national team.
Bayern Munich II Schöpf joined Bayern Munich in 2009 and spent three years in the junior team before being promoted to the reserve squad in 2012. He made his debut on the opening day of the 2012–13 season in a 1–1 draw with Augsburg II, and would go on to make another 28 appearances as Bayern II finished in second place in the Regionalliga Bayern. His eleven goals that season made him the team's top scorer, behind Marius Duhnke with fourteen. The following season, Schöpf made 34 appearances, again scoring 11 goals, as Bayern II won the Regionalliga Bayern title, but missed out on promotion after losing on away goals in a playoff against SC Fortuna Köln. In November 2013, Schöpf along with teammate Julian Green was given a first-team contract, although he made no appearances during the 2013–14 season as Bayern went on to win the Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal.
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Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) · text adapted from the article.
See all the tournament stats on the World Cup data hub.
Photo: Sandro Halank, Wikimedia Commons · Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)