Diethelm Ferner

Diethelm Ferner
Diethelm Ferner (1985)
Personnel
birthday	July 13, 1941
place of birth	Kragau ,  German Empire
size	168 cm
position	Defensive Midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	Rhenania Bottrop
0000-1963	VfB Bottrop
1963-1969	Werder Bremen	188 (20)
1969-1973	Red and white food	114 (12)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1963-1964	Germany U-23	3 0(0)
1963-1964	Germany	2 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1973-1975	Red and white food
1975-1976	Wuppertal SV
1976-1988	FC St. Pauli
1978-1979	Red and white food
1979-1982	Hannover 96
1983-1986	FC Schalke 04
1986-1987	Iraklis Thessaloniki
1987	Alemannia Aachen
1988-1989	FC Schalke 04
1990-1995	Apollon Limassol
1995-1996	AEL Limassol
1996-1997	Zamalek Cairo
1997-1998	al-Jahra
1998	Lebanon
1998-2000	Apollon Limassol
2000-2003	Etahad Alexandria
2003-2004	al-Merreikh
2004-2006	Olympiacos Nicosia
2008	Al Ahli Tripoli
1 Only league games are given.

Diethelm Ferner (born July 13, 1941 in Kragau , East Prussia ) is a German football coach and former player in the defensive midfield .

Career

player

The midfielder Diethelm Ferner, who came from Rhenania Bottrop to VfB Bottrop in the 2nd League West , became champions with the black and whites from the Jahnstadion in 1962/63 and was in the 1963/64 round from coach Willi Multhaup to Werder Bremen in the newly founded Bundesliga fetched. He is one of the players who were active on August 24, 1963, the premier match day of the Bundesliga. Werder opened the round with a 3-2 home win against Borussia Dortmund and the newcomer from the 2nd League West made his debut on half right. The Werder attack was occupied by the players Klaus Hänel , Ferner, Dieter Meyer , Willi Soya and Theo Klöckner . Furthermore, they played 24 games in this round and scored three goals for Werder, who finished tenth in the table. On September 25, 1963, he played his first international match , which he lost with the U-23 national team in Karlsruhe with 0: 1 against the selection of Bulgaria. He had his second use on November 27, 1963 in Liverpool in the 1: 4 defeat against England.

When the senior national team played two friendly matches against Morocco and Algeria in North Africa at the end of 1963, the Bremen player was also a member of the DFB squad. Furthermore, on December 29, 1963 in Casablanca , in the 4-1 victory against Morocco , and on January 1, 1964 in Algiers , in the 2-0 defeat against Algeria , each substitute. On March 4, 1964, he played in Ankara , in the 1: 2 defeat against Turkey, his third and last international match for the U-23 national team. When Werder Bremen became German champions in their second year in the Bundesliga, 1964/65 , with a goal difference of 54:29 goals in 30 point games, the midfielder played in 29 games with a talent for combination and entered the scorers list once. For the 1969/70 season , the ex-Bottrop returned to the football west and joined Rot-Weiss Essen . In the second year on Hafenstrasse, he was relegated to the Regionalliga West with RWE , but then returned to the Bundesliga by winning the championship in the 1972/73 series and success in the promotion round. From 1971 to 1973 also completed 63 regional league games and scored eleven goals. Essen went into the 1973/74 Bundesliga season with coach Horst Witzler . After eight match days and a yield of 4:12 points and standing in 18th place, Witzler was dismissed and Diethelm Ferner took over the role of coach at RWE. Furthermore, under Witzler he had played all eight game days from August 11 to September 22 as an active player and was responsible for the first time as a responsible coach in the 3-1 win in the home game against Werder Bremen on September 28, 1973. From 1963 to 1973 he also played 239 Bundesliga games and scored 21 goals. After the 34th matchday, RWE was 13th in the table with 31:37 points.

Player data and achievements

• 1962/63 champion in the 2nd League West with VfB Bottrop
• 1963–1969: Werder Bremen (188 games / 20 goals); 1965 German champion
• 1969–1973: Rot-Weiss Essen (114 games / 12 goals); 1973 Champion in the Regionalliga West

Coaching career

In 1973, also moved to the coaching bench at Rot-Weiss Essen. For the 1975/76 season he went to Wuppertaler SV . In 1976 FC St. Pauli signed him. At the end of the 1976/77 season, St. Pauli took first place after only three defeats in 38 games and was promoted to the Bundesliga - but relegated again after the next 1978 season. He then went back to Rot-Weiss Essen. But at the end of the next season, Ferner left the club, although a passable eighth place in the 2. Bundesliga North was achieved, and joined Hannover 96 . In the next three seasons, the team missed promotion to the Bundesliga three times and on November 28, 1982, Furthermore, was dismissed for lack of success.

For the new 1983/84 season, FC Schalke 04 made use of its services. He remained loyal to the club until 1986 and in 1984 he made the jump from the 2nd to the 1st Bundesliga. There the club was able to establish itself and occupied two places in the middle of the table until 1986. Schalke also left Aachen for Alemannia , where he was released again in January 1987. After a stint abroad at Iraklis Thessaloniki in Greece , he returned to FC Schalke 04 in September 1988, only to end his engagement in April 1989.

From 1990 to 1995 he worked for Apollon Limassol in Cyprus , during which time he was two Cypriot champions and one cup winner. In 1995 he moved to city rivals AEL Limassol , with whom he reached fourth place in Cyprus' first division. In 1996 he moved to the Egyptian soccer club Zamalek Cairo , with which he won the Supercup and the African Champions League . Nevertheless, he joined the Al-Jahra club in Kuwait in 1997 .

In January 1998 he left the club to take over the post of national coach of the Lebanese national team in February of the same year . He held this position for six months, and in August 1998 the employment relationship was terminated. Furthermore, in October of the same year he took over the coaching position at Apollon Limassol in Cyprus.

This time he stayed with the club until 2000, then went back to Egypt to Etahad Alexandria and reached second place with the team. In 2003 he changed countries again when he joined the Al-Merreikh club in Sudan . There, too, he landed with the team in second place before he went back to Cyprus and took over the capital city club Olympiakos Nicosia . The team reached 8th place, and left the club in 2006.

From March to July 2008 he worked as a coach for Al Ahli Tripoli in Libya , where he reached second place in the national league.

literature

• Matthias Weinrich: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 3: 35 years of the Bundesliga. Part 1. The founding years 1963–1975. Stories, pictures, constellations, tables. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89784-132-0 .
• Matthias Weinrich: Second League Almanac. All players. All clubs. All results. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-89784-190-8 .

Web links

• Diethelm Ferner in the weltfussball.de database
• Diethelm Ferner in the database of fussballdaten.de