Horst Köppel

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Horst Köppel
Personnel
birthday May 17, 1948
place of birth Stuttgart ,  Germany
size 177 cm
position Sturm
midfield
Juniors
Years station
1953-1958 SpVgg Neuwirtshaus
1958-1964 FV Zuffenhausen
1964-1966 VfB Stuttgart
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1966-1968 VfB Stuttgart 61 (25)
1968-1971 Borussia M'gladbach 100 (23)
1971-1973 VfB Stuttgart 63 (19)
1973-1979 Borussia M'gladbach 84 (16)
1976 →  Vancouver Whitecaps  (loan) 12 0(1)
1977 → Vancouver Whitecaps (loan) 8 0(0)
1979-1981 1. FC Viersen
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1962-1963 Germany U-15 1 0(0)
1964-1966 Germany U-18 10 0(1)
1966 Germany amateurs 2 0(1)
1966-1972 Germany U-23 9 0(2)
1972 Germany B 1 0(2)
1968-1973 Germany 11 0(2)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1979-1981 1. FC Viersen (player-coach)
1981-1982 1. FC Köln (assistant coach)
1982-1983 Arminia Bielefeld
1983-1987 Germany (assistant coach)
1987 Bayer 05 Uerdingen
1988-1991 Borussia Dortmund
1992 Fortuna Dusseldorf
1993-1994 FC Tirol Innsbruck
1994-1995 Eintracht Frankfurt (assistant coach)
1997 Urawa Red Diamonds
2001-2004 Borussia Dortmund amateurs
2004-2005 Borussia Mönchengladbach II
2004 → Borussia Mönchengladbach (interim)
2005-2006 Borussia Monchengladbach
2006 Al Wahda FC
2009 FC Ingolstadt 04
1 Only league games are given.

Horst Köppel (born May 17, 1948 in Stuttgart ) is a former German soccer player and coach .

Career as a player

As a striker , he was active in the 1st Bundesliga from 1966 to 1979 for VfB Stuttgart and Borussia Mönchengladbach . With Borussia he was German champion in 1970, 1971, 1975, 1976 and 1977 . He also won the UEFA Cup with Gladbach in 1975 and 1979 . In between, Köppel played in the summer of 1976 and 1977 in the North American professional league NASL for the Vancouver Whitecaps .

In the national team from 1968 to 1973 Köppel played eleven times and scored two goals. He was part of the German national team, which became European champions in Belgium in 1972 .

For more than 50 years, Köppel was the Bundesliga player with the most goals under the age of 20 (24 goals), until this record, which Kai Havertz had also set in the meantime, was replaced by Jadon Sancho in 2020 .

Career as a coach

After his active time he coached 1. FC Viersen (as a player- coach ), Arminia Bielefeld , Bayer 05 Uerdingen , Borussia Dortmund , Fortuna Düsseldorf and Borussia Mönchengladbach. Köppel was also employed as an assistant coach at 1. FC Köln and Eintracht Frankfurt . He was also active as a coach for the DFB (including at the 1986 World Cup). With Borussia Dortmund he won the DFB Cup in 1989 as a coach and on March 26, 1992, he succeeded Hans-Jürgen Gede at Fortuna Düsseldorf, where Köppel had originally started as sports director on January 30, 1992. Under Köppel's direction, Fortuna could not avert relegation from the Bundesliga to the 2nd Bundesliga at the end of that season. On August 10, 1992, Köppel was relieved of his office there. He was followed on August 16, 1992 by Aleksandar Ristic .

After stays abroad and coaching stations in Austria at FC Tirol Innsbruck and Japan ( Urawa Red Diamonds ), Köppel signed a contract with Borussia Dortmund as a talent scout, which was followed by a commitment as the club's amateur coach . Born in Swabia, he was promoted to the Regionalliga Nord in 2002 with the BVB amateur team and managed to stay up in the summer of 2003 and summer of 2004 with the team, which consisted primarily of young players. In the summer of 2004, Köppel then took over the vacant coaching position in his home town of Mönchengladbach for the amateur team of his ex-club Borussia Mönchengladbach, now called U23, which has been under different coaches (one after the other: Norbert Meier , Holger Fach , Manfred Stefes ) since the promotion from the association league fought the Regionalliga promotion.

After Holger Fach was dismissed as coach of the Gladbach Bundesliga licensing team, Köppel replaced him as interim coach from October 28 to November 1, 2004 and won his first and only game against FC Bayern Munich 2-0. Around a week after Fach was fired, Mönchengladbach signed Dick Advocaat as the new head coach. Accordingly, Köppel oriented himself back to Borussia's U23. After Advocaat's resignation on April 18, 2005, Köppel was again interim coach for Borussia Mönchengladbach. His successor at Borussia Mönchengladbach's U23 was Horst Wohlers , former Köppel's assistant at Urawa Red Diamonds. On May 18, 2005 Horst Köppel signed a two-year contract with Borussia Mönchengladbach as head coach.

Less than a year later, on May 14, 2006, Borussia Mönchengladbach and Horst Köppel parted ways prematurely after finishing the 2005/06 season in 10th place in the table. This was Borussia's best final placement since 1996 and up to a surprising fourth place in the 2011/12 season.

On August 5, 2006, Köppel signed a contract with Al Wahda ( Abu Dhabi ), the reigning vice-champion of the United Arab Emirates . There he was dismissed on October 11, 2006 after 4 competitive games (record: 1 win, 3 defeats).

On April 26, 2009 Horst Köppel was introduced as the new coach of relegation-threatened second division club FC Ingolstadt 04 in order to save them from relegation with a placement on the penultimate place in the table during the remaining five game days. He thus succeeded Thorsten Fink .

But even Köppel could not stop the Schanzer descent . On May 14th, 2009 Ingolstadt lost 1-0 to FC St. Pauli in front of their home crowd and was finally relegated. Nevertheless, they stuck to Horst Köppel and wanted to aim for a direct ascent with him. But the start of the 2009/2010 season was more than bumpy, and so Horst Köppel was released from his duties on November 8, 2009 after a 2-0 home defeat against Wuppertaler SV, only two points behind the table runner-up. The team he put together finally made it back to the second division under his former assistant coach Michael Wiesinger .

literature

  • Bernd Rohr , Günter Simon : Football Lexicon . Copress, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-7679-0330-X , p. 209.
  • Bernd Rohr, Günter Simon: Football Lexicon. Updated edition. Copress, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-7679-0410-1 , p. 228.
  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Encyclopedia of German League Football. Volume 9: Player Lexicon 1963-1994. Bundesliga, regional league, 2nd league. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 , p. 268.
  • Fritz Tauber: German national soccer player. Player statistics from A to Z. 3., updated and extended Edition. AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-89784-397-4 , p. 67.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Horst Köppel - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . RSSSF . July 12, 2017. Retrieved July 12, 2017.
  2. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Horst Köppel - International Appearances . RSSSF . July 12, 2017. Retrieved July 12, 2017.
  3. ↑ FNP.de: Sancho youngest Bundesliga player with 25 goals. Accessed February 1, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Köppel takes over in Ingolstadt . In: kicker online . April 26, 2009. Retrieved April 26, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Köppel, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart , Germany