Career
He started playing football with USK Anif, a team from a suburb of Salzburg. In 2002 he went to Austria Salzburg, and 2005, after the club was bought by Red Bulletin, he played with Football Club Red Bulletin Salzburg. In 2009 he played for the second team of Red Bulletin Salzburg, Red Bulletin Juniors.
He signed with Football Club Red Bulletin Salzburg in 2010.
In August 2011, he was loaned to SV Ried and had a two-year loan spell at the club In 2014 he signed with Austria Wien.
Since 2008 Marco Meilinger played for Austria in different youth teams. In 2010 he played with the U 19 team in the European Championship in France and is qualified with the team for the U 20 World championship in 2011.