Thomas Murg
Murg playing for PAOK in 2023
Personal information
Date of birth (1994-11-14) 14 November 1994
Place of birth Voitsberg, Austria
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Attacking midfielder
Wide midfielder / Right winger
Team information
Current team
 PAOK
Number 10
Youth career
2005–2008 Atus Bärnbach
2008 Grazer AK
2008 Sturm Graz
2009–2010 Atus Bärnbach
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2012 Grazer AK 52 (13)
2012–2014 Austria Wien II 23 (13)
2012–2014 Austria Wien 19 (2)
2014–2016 Ried 40 (6)
2016–2020 Rapid Wien 122 (26)
2020– PAOK 65 (13)
International career‡
2012 Austria U17 3 (0)
2012–2013 Austria U19 14 (9)
2014–2016 Austria U21 6 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21 December 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 26 June 2016

Thomas Murg (German pronunciation: [ˈtoːmas ˈmʊɐ̯k];[1][2] born 14 November 1994) is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or a right winger for Greek Super League club PAOK.[3]

Career

Early career

Thomas Murg was born on 14 November 1994 in Voitsberg, and at just age six he joined the youth academy at Atus Bärnbach, where he remained until 2010, moving on later to Sturm Graz.

Grazer and Austria Vienna

He soon moved on to Grazer AK, where he made his professional debut in 2010. He stayed at the club for two years, making 49 appearances and scoring 13 goals in the Austrian lower divisions, before then making a big step up and joining Austria Vienna.

There he made 19 appearances and scored two goals, playing for both the reserve and first teams, while he also won a league title in the 2012-13 season.

SV Ried

In 2014 he moved on to SV Ried, where his career took off. In two seasons at the club, he chalked up 44 games, eight goals, and six assists, establishing himself as one of the league's best attacking midfielders.

Rapid Wien

In January 2016 Rapid Wien came calling and signed him. Murg immediately took on a leading role in the team and has played a major part in the team's rise to prominence in recent years.

Overall, Murg made 163 appearances in a Rapid shirt, scoring 35 goals and contributing another 40 assists. [4]

PAOK

On 5 October 2020, Murg signed a four-year contract with Superleague Greece club PAOK for an estimated fee of €2,200,000.[5] In his first year for the club, he played in 35 games with 4 goals and 3 assists. His contribution in the first semifinal of the cup, against AEK, was important, as with his own, very beautiful foul, the team of PAOK left the match victorious with a score of 1-0. The team of Thessaloniki qualified for the final, after beating AEK in the second semifinal with 2-1. With PAOK, Murg finally celebrated the Greek Cup for 2020-2021. In the final, PAOK faced OSFP and prevailed with a score of 2-1. He was on the team mission, but did not play.

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 17 December 2023
Club Season League National cup[lower-alpha 1] Europe Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Austria Wien 2012–13 Austrian Bundesliga 7000—70
2013–14 122106[lower-alpha 2]0192
Total 1921060262
Ried 2014–15 Austrian Bundesliga 29320—313
2015–16 11322—135
Total 40642—448
Rapid Wien 2015–16 Austrian Bundesliga 711020101
2016–17 263627[lower-alpha 3]0395
2017–18 331051—3811
2018–19 3275211[lower-alpha 3]24811
2019–20 20312—215
2020–21 42102[lower-alpha 2]072
Total 1222619722216335
PAOK 2020–21 Super League Greece 242516[lower-alpha 3]1354
2021–22 2544012[lower-alpha 4]1415
2022–23 4010—50
2023–24 116108[lower-alpha 4]1207
Total 64121112439916
Career total 24546361052533361

Honours

Grazer AK

FK Austria Wien

PAOK

References

  1. ↑ Dudenredaktion; Kleiner, Stefan; Knöbl, Ralf (2015) [First published 1962]. Das Aussprachewörterbuch [The Pronunciation Dictionary] (in German) (7th ed.). Berlin: Dudenverlag. pp. 617, 835. ISBN 978-3-411-04067-4.
  2. ↑ Krech, Eva-Maria; Stock, Eberhard; Hirschfeld, Ursula; Anders, Lutz Christian (2009). Deutsches Aussprachewörterbuch [German Pronunciation Dictionary] (in German). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. pp. 762, 984. ISBN 978-3-11-018202-6.
  3. ↑ Thomas Murg at Soccerway
  4. ↑ "Austria Wien vs. Wolfsberger AC - 9 November 2013 - Soccerway".
  5. ↑ "ΠΑΟΚ: Ανακοίνωσε τον Μουργκ". sport24.gr. 5 October 2020.
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