Erich Ribbeck
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | June 13, 1937 | ||
| Place of birth | Wuppertal, Germany | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| Viktoria Köln | |||
| Teams managed | |||
| 1965–1967 | Borussia Mönchengladbach (assistant) | ||
| 1967–1968 | Rot-Weiss Essen | ||
| 1968–1973 | Eintracht Frankfurt | ||
| 1973–1978 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | ||
| 1978–1984 | Germany (assistant) | ||
| 1984–1985 | Borussia Dortmund | ||
| 1985–1988 | Bayer Leverkusen | ||
| 1992–1993 | Bayern Munich | ||
| 1995–1996 | Bayer Leverkusen | ||
| 1998–2000 | Germany | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). | |||
Erich Ribbeck (born June 13, 1937 in Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) is a former football player and manager, best known for coaching in the German Bundesliga.
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[edit] Biography
As a player, Ribbeck had a career spanning most of the 1950s into the early 1960s with SSV 1904 Wuppertal, which has since merged with TSG Vohwinkel to form Wuppertaler SV. The highest level Ribbeck played was the Oberliga, part of the first tier of Germany which was then split into five regional divisions.
[edit] Club management
His very first coaching position he held at the age of 30 in 1967/68, when he took Rot-Weiss Essen to the second place in the western division of Germany's Level 2 league and thus to the promotion tournament, where the club ended up losing out against Hertha Berlin.
The next ten years he shared evenly with enagegements with Eintracht Frankfurt and 1. FC Kaiserslautern. In the Bundesliga these clubs remained on mediocre levels during his tenure. With Kaiserlautern he reached the German Cup final of 1976, losing 0-2 to Hamburger SV.
He achieved his only trophy when he won the UEFA Cup 1988 with Bayer Leverkusen. In the finals Leverkusen came back from 0-3 away to Espanyol Barcelona to win the eventual penalty shoot-out at home.
He was also runner-Up in the German Championship of 1993 with Bayern Munich.
[edit] National team
Erich Ribbeck was originally considered as a candidate for the national team manager role after the resignation of Helmut Schön in 1978. Instead, Jupp Derwall was selected and it was not until 20 years later in 1998 that Ribbeck emerged from retirement in the Canary Islands to take over the German national team when other candidates had declined. At 61, he was the oldest appointee to the job. His two-year tenure marked the worst period in the modern history of Germany's national side. Ribbeck resigned after a string of results culminating in a group-stage exit from Euro 2000.
His results as Germany's coach were 10 wins, 6 draws and 8 losses, the worst managerial performance of all time for a coach of the German national team.
[edit] Retirement
These days Ribbeck shares his residence between Pulheim and Tenerife.
[edit] Career overview (coaching)
- 1965–1967 Borussia Mönchengladbach (assistant to Hennes Weisweiler)
- 1967–1968 Rot-Weiss Essen (second division)
- 1968–1973 Eintracht Frankfurt
- 1973–1978 1. FC Kaiserslautern
- 1978–1984 Germany - National Team (assistant to Jupp Derwall)
- 1984–1985 Borussia Dortmund
- 1985–1988 Bayer Leverkusen
- 1992–1993 FC Bayern Munich
- 1995–1996 Bayer Leverkusen
- 1998–2000 Germany - National Team
[edit] See also
[edit] References
| Preceded by Gunder Bengtsson |
UEFA Cup Winning Coach 1987-1988 |
Succeeded by Ottavio Bianchi |
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- UEFA Cup winning managers
- 1937 births
- Living people
- Wuppertaler SV Borussia players
- German football managers
- Germany national football team managers
- Borussia Dortmund managers
- FC Bayern Munich managers
- Bayer 04 Leverkusen managers
- Eintracht Frankfurt managers
- 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup managers
- UEFA Euro 2000 managers
- Fußball-Bundesliga managers
- 1. FC Kaiserslautern managers
- FC Viktoria Köln 1904 players
