Alfons Higl

Alfons Higl
Alfons Higl at the championship celebration of VfB Stuttgart 2007
Personnel
birthday	17th December 1964
place of birth	Aindling ,  Germany
size	183 cm
position	Defender
Juniors
Years	station
	TSV Rehling
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
0000-1987	FC Augsburg
1987-1989	Sc freiburg	73 (10)
1989-1995	1. FC Cologne	172 0(5)
1995-1996	SC Fortuna Cologne	11 0(0)
1999-2000	Freiburg FC	10 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
	FC Augsburg Youth
	FC Teningen
07 / 99–11 / 99	FC Augsburg
	VfL Wolfsburg (assistant coach)
	TSV 1860 Munich II
2006-2008	VfB Stuttgart (assistant coach)
2009-2010	VfL Wolfsburg (assistant coach)
2011-2013	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim U19
2013–03 / 14	VfB Stuttgart (assistant coach)
2016-2019	Bahlinger SC
2019-	FC Zurich
1 Only league games are given.

Alfons Higl (born December 17, 1964 in Aindling ) is a former German soccer player .

Career

Alfons Higl was a solid and reliable defender who had his most successful time at 1. FC Köln . After playing at FC Augsburg and SC Freiburg , coach Christoph Daum brought him to the Rhine in 1989. With the Cologne team around Pierre Littbarski , Frank Ordenewitz and Thomas Häßler , the native Swabian became German runner-up in 1990 and reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup against Juventus Turin . He lost the 1991 DFB Cup final with 1. FC Köln against Werder Bremen. In 1995 he moved to local competitor SC Fortuna Köln , where he ended his active career at the end of the season.

Higl then took the coach's path, which first led him to the youth of FC Augsburg and amateur football in southern Baden. After a renewed engagement with FC Augsburg, he celebrated a short comeback as a player in the Landesliga Südbaden in the 1999/2000 season, when the Freiburg FC reactivated him and he played ten games. As second in the table, the team made it through the promotion round at the end of the season the Verbandsliga Südbaden - in the meantime, however, he had moved on to VfL Wolfsburg as an assistant coach , where he supported Wolfgang Wolf until the joint release in March 2003 .

In the summer of 2004, Higl hired TSV 1860 Munich , whose second team he looked after in the Regionalliga Süd . For the 2006/07 season he moved to the first division club VfB Stuttgart , where he worked as an assistant coach under Armin Veh and was German champion in 2007. On January 19, 2007, his contract with VfB was extended to 2008. On November 23, 2008, he and Armin Veh were dismissed from VfB Stuttgart. From July 1, 2009 to January 25, 2010, he trained as assistant coach under Veh for the then reigning German champions VfL Wolfsburg . For the 2011/12 season, Higl took over the U19 team at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim as head coach .

After the 3rd match day of the 2013/14 Bundesliga season, Higl returned to the VfB Stuttgart coaching team. There he became assistant coach of Thomas Schneider , the new VfB head coach. After the 24th matchday of the season, on March 9, 2014, he was released from his duties due to a persistent negative series together with head coach Thomas Schneider and his assistant coach colleague Tomislav Maric .

For the second half of the 2016/17 season, Higl took over the post of head coach at the top division club Bahlinger SC . His son Felix has also been part of the team since the start of the season. Alfons Higl has been assistant coach at FC Zurich since the 2019/20 season .

statistics

• 1st National League

  172 games; 5 goals 1. FC Cologne

• 2nd Bundesliga

  73 games; 10 goals SC Freiburg

  11 games Fortuna Cologne

• DFB Cup

  19 games; 2 goals 1. FC Cologne

• UEFA Cup

  17 games; 2 goals 1. FC Cologne

successes

as a player

• 1990 German vice-champion
• 1991 DFB Cup final

as assistant coach

• 2007 German champion with VfB Stuttgart

Web links

• Alfons Higl in the database of weltfussball.de
• Alfons Higl in the database of fussballdaten.de
• What does ... Alfons Higl actually do? ( Memento from April 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) at fc-koeln.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Schneider is the new head coach. (No longer available online.) VfB Stuttgart 1893 eV, August 26, 2013, archived from the original on November 9, 2013 ; Retrieved August 26, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Press release VfB Stuttgart: Thomas Schneider no longer VfB head coach ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved March 9, 2013 
3. ↑ kicker online, Nuremberg, Germany: Higl becomes Bajramovic's successor . In: kicker online . ( kicker.de [accessed on January 2, 2017]).