Reinhard Löffler (soccer player)

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Reinhard Loeffler
Personnel
birthday February 22, 1942
place of birth HamburgGerman Empire
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1966 Harburger TV
1966-1968 Hamburger SV 24 0(1)
1968-1973 FC St. Pauli 130 (13)
1 Only league games are given.

Reinhard Löffler (born February 22, 1942 in Hamburg ) is a former German soccer player . The midfielder has at Hamburger SV 1966-1968 in the Bundesliga 24 league games (1 goal) and after his subsequent switch to FC St. Pauli in the second-class Regionalliga Nord graduated from 1968 to 1973 a total of 130 Regional Games with 13 goals. With St. Pauli he won the championship in the Regionalliga Nord in 1972 and 1973 .

Career

Löffler came to the amateur team of Hamburger SV via the starting point Harburger TV. For the 1966/67 season he got a contract for the licensed team. In addition, HSV signed the players Hans Schulz (Werder Bremen), Elmar May (Borussia Neunkirchen) and Hans-Jürgen Hellfritz (SV Munster). Under coach Josef Schneider , Löffler had his first appearance in the upper house of German football on September 10, 1966 in a 1-1 draw at Rot-Weiss Essen. This was followed by matches against Hannover 96 (0: 1), Eintracht Braunschweig (0: 2), VfB Stuttgart (1: 1), MSV Duisburg (1: 2), FC Schalke 04 (1: 1), 1. FC Kaiserslautern (1: 2) and on the last match day (June 3, 1967) of the round in the 2: 1 win against Fortuna Düsseldorf. In the DFB Cup , the former HSV amateur played on March 25 in the quarter-final match at Kickers Offenbach (0-0 afterwards) as well as in the replay on April 12, 1967 in a 2-0 home win. His participation in the semi-final match of the Cup on May 6th in Hamburg in front of 34,000 spectators against Alemannia Aachen became the sporting highlight . Löffler and colleagues prevailed 3: 1 and the "Rautträger" moved into the cup final on June 10, 1967 in Stuttgart against FC Bayern Munich. Löffler was not used and FC Bayern prevailed 4-0. Nevertheless, Hamburg was qualified for the European Cup, as the Munich team took part as a cup defender in the competition for the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1968.

In the following season, 1967/68, Löffler came on more time, he completed 16 more games (1 goal) in the league and two European Cup games against Wisla Krakow. The midfielder played his last Bundesliga game on May 11, 1968 under coach Kurt Koch in a 1-0 away win at Munich 1860. He came on for Franz-Josef Hönig in the 70th minute . For the 1968/69 season he moved to FC St. Pauli in the second-rate Regionalliga Nord.

In the first three rounds with the Millerntor team, he achieved the best placement under coach Erwin Türk by reaching the runner-up in 1970/71 . In the promotion round he was used in all eight games (1 goal), but it was not enough for promotion. In his last two years with St. Pauli he won the championship in the Regionalliga Nord under the coaches Edgar "Edu" Preuss (1971/72) and Karl-Heinz Mülhausen (1972/73), but he did not succeed in promotion to the Bundesliga . After a total of 130 regional league appearances with 13 goals, 16 games in the Bundesliga promotion round (2 goals) and five appearances in the DFB Cup (1 goal), Löffler ended his career at St. Pauli in the summer of 1973.

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