Sepp Piontek

Sepp Piontek

Sepp Piontek, June 1, 2011. (Photo: Lars Schmidt)
Personal information
Full name	Josef Emanuel Hubertus Piontek
Date of birth	5 March 1940 (1940-03-05)
Place of birth	Wroclaw, Poland (Then Germany)
Club information
Current club	None
Youth career
1949–1960	VfL Germania Leer
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1960–1972	Werder Bremen	278	(16)
National team
1965–1966	West Germany	6	(0)
Teams managed
1971–1975	Werder Bremen
1975–1976	Fortuna Düsseldorf
1976–1978	Haiti
1978–1979	FC St. Pauli
1979–1990	Denmark
1990–1993	Turkey
1993	Bursaspor
1995–1996	Aalborg BK
1997–1999	Silkeborg IF
2000–2002	Greenland
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Sepp Piontek, fullname Josef Emanuel Hubertus Piontek (born 5 March 1940 in Wroclaw) is a former German football manager and player.

Piontek started his playing career with VfL Germania Leer. Between 1963 and 1972, the full-back played 203 Bundesliga matches with 15 goals for SV Werder Bremen (he previously registered 75 matches and 1 goal with the side in Oberliga (1960–1963), prior to the creation of Bundesliga), adding 6 caps (0 goals) for the West German national team. After retiring he managed, in Germany, Werder Bremen (1971–1975), and later Fortuna Düsseldorf (1975–1976) and FC St. Pauli (1978–1979).

In 1979 Piontek became Danish national team coach after having previously managed Haiti. He sat through 115 international matches, leading Denmark to their first ever World Cup participation in the 1986 tournament. His period as national team coach came just after the introduction of professional players in the national team, and under his reign the Denmark team became known as "Danish Dynamite". He quit as Denmark coach in 1990, and later coached Turkey.

In the 1990s, Piontek returned to Denmark, where he coached Danish clubs Aalborg BK and Silkeborg IF, and subsequently worked with the Greenland national team. He currently earns a living as a lecturer.

Honours as a player

• Bundesliga champion: 1965.
• Bundesliga runner-up: 1968.
• DFB-Pokal winner: 1961.

External links

• Danish national team profile
• Bundesliga statistics