Nikolas Polster

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Nikolas Polster
FC Red Bull Salzburg gegen Wolfsberger AC (2025-03-16 Bundesliga) 64.jpg
Polster in 2025
Personal information
Date of birth (2002-07-07) 7 July 2002 (age 23)
Place of birth Vienna, Austria [1]
Height 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Wolfsberger AC
Number 12
Youth career
2009–2018 Rapid Wien
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(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)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15:26, 7 July 2025 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 15:26, 7 July 2025 (UTC)

Nikolas Polster (born 7 July 2002) is an Austrian professional football player who plays as a goalkeeper for Austrian Football Bundesliga club Wolfsberger AC.

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Career

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

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

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

Wolfsberger AC

References

  1. ↑ "WAC: Torhüter Nikolas Polster - Vom Reservisten zum Meisteranwärter". www.kleinezeitung.at. 18 May 2025.
  2. ↑ "Youngsters: Grün-Weißer Sechser". SK Rapid.
  3. ↑ "Polster kommt als Kooperationsspieler". 17 January 2023.
  4. ↑ "LASK verlängert Vertrag mit Torwart-Talent". 16 May 2023.
  5. ↑ "Herzlich Willkommen NIKOLAS POLSTER beim SV HORN! | SV HORN". www.svhorn.at.
  6. ↑ "WAC holt U-21-Teamtorhüter Polster". kicker.
  7. 1 2 "Nikolas Polster: "Da kommen schon viele Emotionen hoch"". www.90minuten.at.
  8. 1 2 "11 Fragen an Nik Polster: „Cool, dass man auch als Tormann einmal Held sein kann"". www.bundesliga.at.
  9. ↑ "U17 trifft heute zum Auftakt der UEFA U17 EURO auf Spanien". oefb.at. Archived from the original on 4 May 2019. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
  10. ↑ "Neue Gesichter im Kader für das Auftakt-Doppel in der WM-Quali". oefb.at.
  11. ↑ "RZ Pellets WAC - TSV Egger Glas Hartberg". oefb.at.
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