Horst Leupold

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Horst Leupold
Personnel
birthday January 30, 1942
place of birth Nuremberg,  Germany
size 174 cm
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
1952-1961 1. FC Nuremberg
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1961-1972 1. FC Nuremberg 314 (3)
1972-1979 ASV Herzogenaurach
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1. SC moist
1979– TSV Röthenbach
1 Only league games are given.

Horst "Leo" Leupold (born January 30, 1942 in Nuremberg) is a former German football player who celebrated his greatest successes at 1. FC Nuremberg in the 1960s .

Career

Leupold joined 1. FC Nürnberg at the age of ten and played in the school and youth teams of the Franconian club. With the two-time South German championship title with the A-youth, he recommended himself for the first team and in 1961 belonged for the first time to the circle of the team that won the German cup competition in 1962. In the 1962/63 season, the defender played from the tenth game day in the trunk of the league team in the then top division. He was in the final round of the eight best teams for the German championship and reached the semi-finals of the European Cup Winners' Cup with the club .

In the following years he was an integral part of the club's first team in the right-back position in the Bundesliga, which had existed since 1963 . Although his style of play represented the prototype of the modern offensive defender and flanker, it lasted until September 17, 1966, until he scored his first first division goal. But it was also the winning goal to make it 1-0 at Hamburger SV.

With his second goal, Leupold prevented the first season defeat of 1. FCN in the successful season 1967/68 on matchday 12 with the equalization to the 3: 3 final score against 1. FC Köln . The season ended with the club's championship title, the greatest success in Leupold's career.

The following year turned out to be catastrophic: The reigning champions became relegation candidates and, of all things, in the nerve-wracking end of the season, the defender got the only red card in his 167 Bundesliga games - because of a referee insult, which he said was just a misunderstanding. At the end of the season there was relegation to the second-class regional league. Famous are the photographs of Leo Leupold crying unrestrainedly after the decisive defeat in the last game.

After another year in the club jersey, he fell victim to the rebuilding of a young team after missing promotion. He left the club in 1972 after more than 400 appearances in the club jersey, but always remained true to his home in Central Franconia. Until 1979 he played for the third division ASV Herzogenaurach . He then also worked as a football coach at 1. SC Feucht and TSV Röthenbach.

Horst Leupold is a trained technical draftsman, but gave up his profession in favor of a football career. After his football career, he continued to run a shop with a lottery acceptance point, which he had opened in the southern part of Nuremberg in his early professional years, when footballers received little money. Later he suffered a permanent knee disability in a very serious traffic accident.

Since 1. FCN honored its most deserving players by renaming the stadium blocks for the 2006/07 season, block 10 of the Nuremberg stadium in the upper tier of the fan curve has been named Horst Leupold.

statistics

Stations

  • 1. FC Nürnberg (1952 to 1972)
  • ASV Herzogenaurach (from 1972)

as a trainer

  • 1. SC moist
  • TSV Röthenbach (from 1979 as player-coach)

Calls

  • 22 appearances in the Oberliga Süd (until 1963)
  • 167 appearances in the Bundesliga (1963 to 1969), 2 goals
  • 25 appearances in the Regionalliga Süd (1969/70), 1 goal
  • 402 games for 1. FC Nürnberg in total

Title / Achievements

  • German football champion 1967/68

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Leupold - player profile. Retrieved June 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Leupold, Horst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leupold, Leo (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1942