Sepp Piontek

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Personal information
Sepp Piontek
Full name	Josef Emanuel Hubertus Piontek
Date of birth	March 5, 1940 (1940-03-05) (age 68)
Place of birth	Breslau, Germany (today Poland)
Club information
Current club	None
Youth clubs
1949-1960	Germania Leer
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1960-1972	Werder Bremen	278 (16)
National team
1965-1966	West Germany	6 (0)
Teams managed
1971-1975 1975-1976 1976-1978 1978-1979 1979-1990 1990-1993 1993 1995-1996 1997-1999 2000-2002	Werder Bremen Fortuna Düsseldorf Haiti FC St. Pauli Denmark Turkey Bursaspor Aalborg BK Silkeborg IF Greenland
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Sepp Piontek, fullname Josef Emanuel Hubertus Piontek (born March 5, 1940 in Breslau (Wroclaw), today Poland), 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.

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Sporting positions
Preceded by Kurt "Nikkelaj" Nielsen	Denmark national football team manager 1979 – 1990	Succeeded by Richard Møller Nielsen
Preceded by Tınaz Tırpan	Turkey national football team manager 1990 – 1993	Succeeded by Fatih Terim

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SV Werder Bremen – Managers

Multhaup (1963–65) • Brocker (1965–67) • Langner (1967–69) • Rebell (1969–70) • Tilkowski (1970) • Gebhardt (1970–71) • Multhaup (1971) • Piontek (1971–75) • Langner (1972) • Burdenski (1975–76) • Rehhagel (1976) • Tilkowski (1976–77) • Assauer & Schulz (1978–79) • Weber (1978–80) • Assauer & Langner (1980) • Klötzer (1980–81) • Rehhagel (1981–95) • de Mos (1995–96) • Dörner (1996–97) • Sidka (1997–98) • Magath (1998–99) • Schaaf (1999–)

v • d • e Denmark squad – UEFA Euro 1984 semi-finalists

1 Kjær • 2 O. Rasmussen • 3 Busk • 4 M. Olsen • 5 Nielsen • 6 Lerby • 7 Bertelsen • 8 J. Olsen • 9 Simonsen • 10 Elkjær • 11 Berggreen • 12 Mølby • 13 Lauridsen • 14 Laudrup • 15 Arnesen • 16 T. Rasmussen • 17 Thychosen • 18 Sivebæk • 19 Brylle • 20 Qvist • Coach: Piontek

v • d • e Denmark squad – 1986 FIFA World Cup

1 Rasmussen • 2 Sivebæk • 3 Busk • 4 M. Olsen • 5 I. Nielsen • 6 Lerby • 7 Mølby • 8 J. Olsen • 9 Berggreen • 10 Elkjær Larsen • 11 Laudrup • 12 Bertelsen • 13 Frimann • 14 Simonsen • 15 Arnesen • 16 Qvist • 17 K. Nielsen • 18 Christensen • 19 Eriksen • 20 Bartram • 21 Andersen • 22 Høgh • Coach: Piontek

v • d • e Denmark squad – UEFA Euro 1988

1 Rasmussen • 2 Sivebæk • 3 Busk • 4 M. Olsen • 5 Nielsen • 6 Lerby • 7 Helt • 8 Frimann • 9 Heintze • 10 Elkjær • 11 Laudrup • 12 L. Olsen • 13 Jensen • 14 J. Olsen • 15 Povlsen • 16 Schmeichel • 17 Berggreen • 18 Eriksen • 19 Kristensen • 20 Vilfort • Coach: Piontek

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Denmark national football team – Managers

Williams (1908–10) • Byrval (1913–15) • Byrval (1917–18) • Carr (1920) • Magner (1939) • S. Nielsen (1940) • Butler (1946) • Bjerregaard & Bøje (1948) • Mountford (1948) • Bjerregaard (1952) • Young (1956) • Szendrödi (1956) • Sørensen (1956–61) • Petersen (1962–66) • E. Hansen & Netuka (1967) • E. Hansen & From (1968–69) • J. Hansen & From (1968–69) • Strittich (1970–75) • K. Nielsen (1976–79) • Piontek (1979–90) • R. Nielsen (1990–96) • Johansson (1996–2000) • Olsen (2000–)

v • d • e AaB – Managers

Rudbæk (1987–89) • Andreasen (1990–95) • Piontek (1995–96) • Westergaard (1996–97) • Søndergaard (1997) • Backe (1998–2000) • Rudbæk (2000–02) • Andreasen (2002–03) • Kusk (2003) • Hamrén (2003–2008) • Rioch (2008–)

v • d • e Silkeborg IF – Managers

Jensen (1987–92) • Johansson (1992–94) • Nielsson (1994–95) • Elkjær (1995–96) • Piontek (1997–1999) • Johansen (1999–01) • Bruun (2001–02) • Jensen (2002–06) • Lundbye (2007) • Knudsen (2007–)