Gerhard Kleppinger

Gerhard Kleppinger
Personnel
birthday	March 1, 1958
place of birth	Ober-Ramstadt ,  Germany
size	186 cm
position	Defense
Juniors
Years	station
	SKG Ober-Ramstadt
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1975	SKG Ober-Ramstadt
1975-1980	SV Darmstadt 98	94 0(5)
1980-1982	Hannover 96	79 (16)
1982-1984	Karlsruher SC	69 0(7)
1984-1987	FC Schalke 04	97 (12)
1987-1988	Borussia Dortmund	33 0(1)
1988-1991	Bayer Uerdingen	92 0(5)
1991-1996	SV Darmstadt 98	77 0(4)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1986	Germany U-21	1 0(0)
1988	Olympic team	8 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1994-1996	SV Darmstadt 98
1996-1997	Viktoria Griesheim
1997-1999	FC St. Pauli
1999-2000	FC Gütersloh
2000-2001	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen
2002-2005	FC Schalke 04 II
2005	FSV Frankfurt
2006-2009	SV Darmstadt 98
2009-2011	FSV Frankfurt (assistant trainer)
2012–	SV Sandhausen (assistant coach)
2018	SV Sandhausen (interim)
1 Only league games are given.

Gerhard Kleppinger (born March 1, 1958 in Ober-Ramstadt ) is a German soccer coach and former professional soccer player with 287 games in the first and 254 games in the second division .

Player career

In the club

Gerhard Kleppinger learned to play football at his home club, the SKG Ober-Ramstadt. From there he moved to SV Darmstadt 98 , where he stayed for five years and played 31 times (one goal) in the 1st Bundesliga and 63 times (four goals) in the 2nd Bundesliga South .

From Darmstadt he moved to Hannover 96 in the 2. Bundesliga North, where he had 79 missions in two years, in which he scored 16 goals, but could not crown this good record with promotion. Therefore, he moved to Bundesliga club Karlsruher SC for the 1982/83 season , with whom he was relegated the following year. Although he was immediately promoted again, he moved to fellow promoted FC Schalke 04 in 1984 , where he stayed for three years and played 97 times in the Bundesliga. After the relegation of Schalke, he moved to big competitor Borussia Dortmund , where he only stayed for a year.

After three more years in the Bundesliga with Bayer Uerdingen , Kleppinger moved back to his first professional club, SV Darmstadt 98, in the 2nd Bundesliga in 1991. This time was marked by two relegations, so that Kleppinger found himself with Darmstadt in the league , in which he ended his career in 1996.

In the national team

Kleppinger won with Deutsche selection bronze at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul . Apart from one assignment for the German U-21s , he has not played any other games for the DFB .

For winning the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in 1988 he received - like all German medalists - the silver laurel leaf.

Coaching career

Kleppinger (right) and Hendrik Weiß (Mainz 05) in the DFB Cup game on August 30, 1986

While still active at Darmstadt, he was appointed player-coach in 1994 and held this position until he retired in 1996.

He then worked for a year as a coach at the Hessian national division club SC Viktoria Griesheim , until he joined FC St. Pauli in 1997 as an assistant coach . In November 97 he was appointed head coach, he held this position for 15 months until he was dismissed on January 31, 1999. He then went to FC Gütersloh in the Regionalliga in the summer , where he only stayed eight months and was released from his position in February 2000.

After spending a year at Rot-Weiß Oberhausen , Kleppinger joined the second team at Schalke 04 in the summer of 2002, where he commuted between the regional and major leagues in his three years.

After he had coached the Hessian league club FSV Frankfurt in the preliminary round of the 2005/06 season , he was head coach of SV Darmstadt 98 since October 6, 2006 . With the "Lilien" he was relegated to the Hessenliga in 2007 and in 2008 to the new Regionalliga Süd .

On April 20, 2009, he was prematurely dismissed because of a series of unsuccessful games in the second half of the season after it was previously announced that the contract, which ended in June of the same year, would not be extended because the objectives between the club and Kleppinger were not compatible.

Instead, he returned to FSV Frankfurt as an assistant coach , initially at the side of Tomas Oral and, after his resignation, by Hans-Jürgen Boysen . On December 28, 2011, he announced his resignation as assistant coach at FSV Frankfurt.

In November 2012 Kleppinger took over the position of goalkeeping coach at SV Sandhausen again under Hans-Jürgen Boysen. In October 2018, after the release of head coach Kenan Kocak , Kleppinger temporarily took over the management of training at Sandhausen.

Kleppinger also runs a football school together with Richard Haša .

Trivia

Gerhard Kleppinger caused a stir at a game played by his former club Bayer Uerdingen against 1.FC Nürnberg when he scored three goals in the 1989/90 season: first the 1-1, then the 1-2 by own goal and finally the 3rd : 2. The game ended in a 3: 3 draw.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics on the U21 international match against Bulgaria on October 29, 1986 ( Memento from May 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Lilien parted ways with Trainer Kleppinger  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Darmstädter Echo from April 21, 2009  
3. ↑ Kleppinger does not extend contract ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Darmstädter Echo Online from March 12, 2009
4. ↑ Frankfurt: New assistant coach wanted. Kleppinger leaves the FSV , accessed on December 29, 2011
5. ↑ svs1916.de: Gerhard Kleppinger for Uwe Nägele in SV coaching staff , November 23, 2012 Retrieved on November 23, 2012
6. ↑ Sandhausen separates from Kenan Kocak , swr.de, accessed on October 9, 2018.
7. ↑ Team Kleppinger Hasa Online ( Memento of the original from May 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed March 13, 2009