Patrick Pentz
Squad number 13 · Brøndby
Their 2026 World Cup
Patrick Pentz travelled to the 2026 World Cup with Austria, wearing number 13, 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.
The goalkeeping job went to A. Schlager (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
Patrick Pentz (born 2 January 1997) is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Danish Superliga club Brøndby and the Austria national team.
Pentz played youth football at SV Bürmoos in the state of Salzburg before joining Red Bull Salzburg's academy in 2006. He moved to Austria Wien in 2013 and was first listed with the club's Regionalliga squad that August, making his debut for Austria Wien II in September 2014. He received his first senior call-up in April 2015 and, with both first-choice goalkeepers unavailable, made his Bundesliga debut on the final matchday of the 2015–16 season: a 3–0 win over Sturm Graz on 15 May 2016. From the 2017–18 season, he established himself as Austria Wien's starting goalkeeper, aside from a brief spell during the 2019–20 season, when Ivan Lučić held the position, and totalled 129 Bundesliga appearances for the club. He was voted the league's best goalkeeper in both the 2020–21 and 2021–22 seasons. After nine years with Austria Wien, he left at the end of the 2021–22 campaign.
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) · text adapted from the article.
See all the tournament stats on the World Cup data hub.
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