Horst Häfner
| Horst Häfner | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| birthday | October 5, 1940 | |
| place of birth | Dusseldorf , Germany | |
| date of death | May 11, 2020 | |
| position | Storm | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| BV 04 Düsseldorf | ||
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1959-1960 | BV 04 Düsseldorf | |
| 1960-1963 | Hamborn 07 | 85 (18) |
| 1963-1967 | Fortuna Dusseldorf | 114 (9) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Horst Häfner (born October 5, 1940 in Düsseldorf ; † May 11, 2020 ) was a German football player .
Career
The young half-forward Häfner came from BV 04 Düsseldorf to Hamborn 07 in the Oberliga West for the 1960/61 season . He made his debut on August 14, 1960 in a 3-1 away win at Borussia Mönchengladbach in what was then the first-class Oberliga West. He played in the team of coach Fred Harthaus in the World Cup system at the time on half left. With players like Horst Podlasly (goalkeeper), Rolf Schafstall , Rainer Plich , Werner Rinass , Horst Jesih and Johann Sabath , the black and yellow “lions” reached seventh place. The newcomer from Düsseldorf had played all 30 league games and scored three goals. In the 1961 DFB Cup he distinguished himself in the first main round on July 29, 1961 in a 3-1 home win at August Thyssen Stadium against SV Waldhof as a three-time goalscorer. In the semi-final game on August 23 (1: 2) against 1. FC Kaiserslautern, he was unable to play due to an injury. In these years, in addition to Hamborn 07, two other teams from Duisburg were represented in the Oberliga West: Meidericher SV and the Duisburger Spielverein. In the last two rounds of the old Oberliga era, 1961 to 1963, Hamborn ranked 12th and could not qualify for the football Bundesliga introduced from the 1963/64 season. Häfner played the last league game with Hamborn on May 11, 1963 in a 4-0 defeat at champions 1. FC Cologne. Overall, he was led from 1960 to 1963 with 85 league games and 18 goals. For the 1963/64 season he moved to league competitor Fortuna Düsseldorf in the West Regional Football League .
It was the first season of the second-rate regional league, the foundation of the newly introduced Bundesliga. Häfner played under coach Kuno Klötzer and at the side of goal scorer Peter Meyer (36-30) with Fortuna for the top positions, but in the end the promotion round was narrowly missed. It was third place, behind the champions Alemannia Aachen and the Wuppertaler SV . In the next season, 1964/65, a third place followed again behind master Mönchengladbach and runner-up Aachen. In the 1965/66 season , Häfner won the championship with his teammates ahead of Rot-Weiss Essen and Aachen. The half-forward with playmaker qualities had played 34 league games and scored four goals. In the subsequent round of promotion to the Bundesliga, the leap into the highest class against the competition from Offenbach, Hertha BSC and Pirmasens was made perfect. Häfner has played a total of 97 regional league games for Düsseldorf and scored nine goals.
In his Bundesliga season 1966/67 he completed 17 games and rose again at the end of the season in the regional league. On the start day of the season, he landed a 2-1 away win at Borussia Dortmund with Fortuna. He played his last Bundesliga game on March 18, 1967 in the 0-1 away defeat against Werder Bremen. The Düsseldorf attack had accumulated in the occupation with Hilmar Hoffer , Reinhold Straus , Peter Meyer, Häfner and Waldemar Gerhardt . After relegation, Fortuna Düsseldorf made massive changes to the squad and Häfner ended his higher-class career. He switched to FC Unterrath as an amateur player .
For more than 40 years he ran a pub called "Irenenstube" in Düsseldorf-Unterrath. Häfner died on May 11, 2020.
literature
- Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963 - 1994 . Bundesliga, regional league, 2nd league. In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 9 . AGON, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 (571 pages).
- Michael Bolten, Marco Langer: Everything else is just football. The story of Fortuna Düsseldorf. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2005. ISBN 978-3-89533-711-6
Web links
- Horst Häfner in the database of fussballdaten.de
- Horst Häfner in the database of kicker.de
- Player statistics on the Fortuna Düsseldorf website
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Häfner, Horst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 11, 2020 |