Anthony Schmid

Anthony Schmid
Personal information
Date of birth (1999-01-18) 18 January 1999 (age 25)
Place of birth Strasbourg, France
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Floridsdorfer AC
Number 7
Youth career
Strasbourg
Offenburger FV
2013–2018 SC Freiburg
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2018–2020 SC Freiburg II 19 (2)
2020–2022 Floridsdorfer AC 33 (15)
2022–2024 Austria Lustenau 46 (6)
2024 Swift Hesperange 3 (1)
2024– Floridsdorfer AC 10 (1)
International career‡
2016 Austria U18 4 (0)
2018 Austria U19 4 (2)
2018 Austria U21 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 6 December 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 02:01, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

Anthony Schmid (born 18 January 1999) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Floridsdorfer AC. Born in France, he is a youth international for Austria.

Club career

Schmid is a youth product of the academy of the French club Strasbourg. He then moved to Germany with the youth academy of Offenburger FV, before moving to SC Freiburg's youth side in 2013. He began his senior career with the SC Freiburg reserves in 2018. On 25 August 2020, he moved to the Austrian club Floridsdorfer AC.[1] On 20 May 2021, he extended his contract with the club for one more year after 3 goals in 25 games in his debut season in the 2. Liga.[2] He broke out his second season with Floridsdorfer with 11 goals in 28 appearances, and came in second in the 2. Liga narrowly avoiding promotion. He transferred to their newly promoted rivals Austria Lustenau on 27 May 2022 for their campaign in the 2022–23 Austrian Football Bundesliga, signing a three-year contract.[3]

After a short stint in Luxembourg in the summer of 2024 with Swift Hesperange, he left Swift for personal reasons. On 4 September 2024, Schmid returned to Floridsdorfer AC.[4]

International career

Born in France, Schmid elected to represent Austria internationally in 2016. He has played up to the Austria U21s.[5]

Personal life

Schmid was born in Strasbourg, France to an Austrian father[6] and a French mother from Alsace.[7] His maternal grandfather is Algerian.[8] He is the brother of the French professional footballer Jonathan Schmid.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Bienvenue, Anthony Schmid!". 25 August 2020.
  2. ^ "Anthony Schmid verlängert". 20 May 2021.
  3. ^ "Anthony Schmid wechselt zum SC Austria Lustenau". www.austria-lustenau.at.
  4. ^ "FAC holt Anthony Schmid zurück in die Hopfengasse" [FAC brings Anthony Schmid back to Hopfengasse] (in German). Floridsdorfer AC. 4 September 2024. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
  5. ^ "Anthony Schmid vom SC Freiburg soll für Österreich spielen". SPORT1.
  6. ^ "Ein Ex-Offenburger sorgt für Furore". Nachrichten der Ortenau - Offenburger Tageblatt.
  7. ^ "Austro-Franzose Schmid: "Eher kein Arnautovic-Double"". Kronen Zeitung. 10 August 2012.
  8. ^ "Algérie : Jonathan Schmid (Fribourg) en contact avec Belmadi !". Afrik-Foot. 5 June 2020.
  9. ^ "Footballeur transfrontalier". www.20minutes.fr. 26 April 2012.