Harald Nickel

Harald Nickel
Personnel
birthday	July 21, 1953
place of birth	Espelkamp ,  Germany
date of death	4th August 2019
position	attack
Juniors
Years	station
	FC Luebbecke
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1971-1972	Arminia Bielefeld	5 0(0)
1972-1975	KFC Turnhout	88 (43)
1975-1976	Royale Union Saint-Gilloise	30 (22)
1976-1977	KV Kortrijk	32 (14)
1977-1988	Standard Liege	32 (23)
1978-1979	Eintracht Braunschweig	27 (16)
1979-1981	Borussia Monchengladbach	65 (32)
1981-1982	FC Basel	20 0(6)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1978-1980	Germany B	5 0(3)
1979-1980	Germany	3 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Harald Nickel (born July 21, 1953 in Espelkamp ; † August 4, 2019 ) was a German football player .

Life

Harald Nickel started at his home club FC Lübbecke . During his active time, he played 97 times in the Bundesliga for Arminia Bielefeld , Eintracht Braunschweig and Borussia Mönchengladbach, among others , and scored 48 goals. From 1972 to 1978 he played for Belgian clubs. In 1979 and 1980 the striker wore the jersey of the German national soccer team three times . A particular specialty of Nickel was penalty kicks from the stand.

Nickel died of cancer on August 4, 2019.

successes

• UEFA Cup finalist: 1979/80
• UEFA Cup top scorer : 1979/80 (together with Dieter Hoeneß with 7 goals each)
• Belgian league top scorer : 1977/78 (23 goals for Standard Liège)
• In 1979, Harald Nickel also scored goal of the year in Germany.

Web links

• Portrait photo
• Goal of the year 1979 (with video). In: www.sportschau.de. 
• Harald Nickel in the database of weltfussball.de
• Harald Nickel in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Harald Nickel in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Harald Nickel in the database of the German Football Association
• Harald Nickel in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Harald Nickel in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Borussia mourns Harald Nickel. Borussia Mönchengladbach, August 5, 2019, accessed on August 5, 2019 .