Olaf Marschall (born 19 March 1966) is a German former professional footballer who played as a forward.

In 1990 he went to FC Admira Wacker Mödling in Austria and in 1993 to Dynamo Dresden in the German Bundesliga.

Marschall started playing soccer in the GDR at BSG Chemie Torgau and was soon transferred to 1.

[1] There he made his debut in the DDR-Oberliga on 22 October 1983, at the age of 17, against Dynamo Dresden (2–2), when he was substituted on by his coach Harro Miller in the 62nd minute for Hans Richter.

Marschall was regarded as a strong header which deft ballhandling skills, allowing him to play center-striker, hole and offensive midfield with equal effectiveness.

Under the coaches Thomas Parits and Sigfried Held, the team achieved sixth, fourth and third place during this period.

[7] Marschall moved to his native Saxony because he had signed with SG Dynamo Dresden, which played in the Bundesliga.

[11] By signing Marschall for 2.8 million marks, FCK made the most expensive purchase in the club's history to date.

Marschall won the DFB Cup with Kaiserslautern in 1996 after being relegated from the Bundesliga with the Palatinate days earlier.

[13] Like almost the entire core of the team,[14] he remained loyal to the club after being relegated to the second division and scored ten goals in 16 games, where he again had to take a break of almost six months due to injury.

[15] After direct resurgence in 1997, he won the German championship in 1998 with Otto Rehhagel's team, where Marschall scored 21 goals[16] in just 24 games.

[9] In his last season at FCK, he was once again euphorically celebrated by the fans when he headed in the decisive goal in the last minute to make it 3–2 against SV Waldhof Mannheim in the second round of the DFB Cup.

He then completed an internship at the FCK youth center at the "Fröhnerhof" and became assistant coach of the Lauterer amateur team in August 2006.

First, he worked under interim coach Kosta Runjaić, then under Alois Reinhardt, who resigned at the end of October.

Ahead of 2006–07 he joined Al-Nasr Sports Club Dubai to work as assistant-manager under manager Reiner Hollmann.