Nikolas Polster
_64.jpg) Polster in 2025 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 7 July 2002 | ||
| Place of birth | Vienna, Austria[1] | ||
| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Wolfsberger AC | ||
| Number | 12 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2009–2018 | Rapid Wien | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2018–2020 | Rapid Wien II | 1 | (0) |
| 2020–2024 | LASK | 0 | (0) |
| 2020–2022 | →Juniors OÖ (loan) | 25 | (0) |
| 2023 | →Vorwärts Steyr (loan) | 9 | (0) |
| 2023–2024 | →Horn (loan) | 26 | (0) |
| 2024– | Wolfsberger AC | 30 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2017 | Austria U15 | 4 | (0) |
| 2017–2018 | Austria U16 | 4 | (0) |
| 2018–2019 | Austria U17 | 7 | (0) |
| 2019–2020 | Austria U18 | 4 | (0) |
| 2022–2024 | Austria U21 | 17 | (0) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 15:26, 7 July 2025 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 15:26, 7 July 2025 (UTC) | |||
Nikolas Polster (born 7 July 2002) is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Austrian Football Bundesliga club Wolfsberger AC.
Career
[edit | edit source]Polster is a youth product of Rapid Wien since 2009, and signed his first contract with the club on 20 January 2018.[2] He debuted with their reserves in the Austrian Regionalliga in 2018. On 2 June 2020, he transferred to LASK on a contract until 2023. He shortly after joined Juniors OÖ on loan in the Austrian 2. Liga for the 2020–21 season, and again for the 2021–22 season. On 17 January 2023, he went on loan with Vorwärts Steyr for the second half of the 2022–23 season.[3] On 16 May 2023, he extended his contract with LASK until 2026.[4] On 18 July 2023, he joined Horn on loan for the 2023–24 season.[5]
On 10 July 2023, Polster transferred to Wolfsberger AC in the Austrian Football Bundesliga on a contract until 2027.[6] He was the starting goalkeeper as they won their first ever trophy, the 2024–25 Austrian Cup.[7]
International career
[edit | edit source]Polster is a youth international for Austria, having played from the Austria U15s to the Austria U21s.[8] He made the Austria U17s for the 2019 UEFA European Under-17 Championship.[9] He was called up to the senior Austria national team for a set of 2024–25 UEFA Nations League promotion/relegation play-offs matches in June 2025.[10]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Outside of football, Nikolas Polster was a talented skier who won a few regional championships.[8] His goalkeeper role-model is Jan Oblak.[7]
Honours
[edit | edit source]Wolfsberger AC
References
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External links
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- 2002 births
- Living people
- 21st-century Austrian sportsmen
- Austrian men's footballers
- Footballers from Vienna
- Men's association football goalkeepers
- SK Rapid Wien players
- LASK players
- FC Juniors OÖ players
- SK Vorwärts Steyr players
- SV Horn players
- Wolfsberger AC players
- Austrian Football Bundesliga players
- 2. Liga (Austria) players
- Austrian Regionalliga players