and 2001–02 seasons he coached FC Kärnten in the Austrian First League. Under his leadership the team was promoted to the Austrian Bundesliga and won the National Cup in the first year and the National Supercup in the second. At the start of the 2002–03 season Schachner coached FK Austria Wien in the Austrian Bundesliga until he was replaced by Christoph Daum in early October 2002 despite an excellent start to the season. At the time of his dismissal the team led the championship with seven points ahead of the second-place team and had just defeated Ukrainian champions Shakhtar Donetsk 5–2 in the UEFA Cup. A few days after his dismissal he was hired by Grazer AK, which held the penultimate place in the Austrian Bundesliga. The team finished the season in second place behind Austria Wien. In the 2003–04 season Schachner led Grazer AK to win their first and so far their only national champions title. In the same season they also won the Austrian Cup. In 2004–05 the team were runners-up in the Bundesliga and in the 2005 UEFA Champions League faced Liverpool (coached by Rafael Benitez), the future winners of the title, in the third qualification round. Grazer AK managed to win the return leg at Anfield 1-0, after the home defeat of 2–0. In January 2006 he was sacked by Grazer AK, officially to reduce costs, but in reality because he was in talks with several other clubs. Schachner moved to TSV 1860 Munich who were in the 2. Bundesliga at the time and avoided relegation only in the penultimate round. The club was going through difficulties in those years and faced economic problems. On 9 March 2007, he and 1860 Munich agreed to terminate his contract at the end of the 2006–07 season, effective on 30 June of the same year. His successor was Marco Kurz. Schachner signed a new contract at SK Austria Kärnten in April 2007. He did not achieve the desired results with the newly-formed team and was fired by the management in December of that year. In August 2008, Schachner replaced Heinz Peischl, the coach of FC Admira Wacker Mödling (Austrian First League), who had been sacked for gaining only one point in five games which left the team at the bottom of the rankings. With Schachner the team finished the season in the third place. Moreover, Admira Wacker Mödling reached