Jupp Heynckes

Jupp Heynckes

Heynckes with Leverkusen in 2011.
Personal information
Full name	Josef Heynckes
Date of birth	(1945-05-09) 9 May 1945
Place of birth	Mönchengladbach, Germany
Position(s)	Striker
Team information
Current team	Bayern Munich (Head coach)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1963–1967	Borussia Mönchengladbach	82	(50)
1967–1970	Hannover 96	86	(25)
1970–1978	Borussia Mönchengladbach	226	(168)
Total		394	(243)
International career
1967–1976	West Germany	39	(14)
Managerial career
1979–1987	Borussia Mönchengladbach
1987–1991	Bayern Munich
1992–1994	Athletic Bilbao
1994–1995	Eintracht Frankfurt
1995–1997	Tenerife
1997–1998	Real Madrid
1999–2000	Benfica
2001–2003	Athletic Bilbao
2003–2004	Schalke 04
2006–2007	Borussia Mönchengladbach
2009	Bayern Munich
2009–2011	Bayer Leverkusen
2011–	Bayern Munich
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Josef "Jupp" Heynckes (born 9 May 1945 in Mönchengladbach) is a German football coach and former player. As player he belonged to the core of the team of Borussia Mönchengladbach in its golden era of the 1960s and 1970s where he won many national championships and the Cup as well as the UEFA Cup. He was a member of the West German national squad that won the European Championship and the World Cup in the first half of the 1970s. As manager he won two German championships with Bayern Munich and the 1997–98 UEFA Champions League with Real Madrid, their first title in the competition in more than thirty years.

Playing career

Club level

Heynckes played 369 matches in the German Bundesliga, scoring 220 goals. His tally is the third highest in this league, after Gerd Müller's 365 goals and Klaus Fischer's 268 goals.

He started his playing career in 1964 with Borussia Mönchengladbach who were in the second division. In 1965 the club, managed by the legendary Hennes Weisweiler, achieved promotion to the Bundesliga. Heynckes stayed on for two more years and then left for Hannover 96, where he spent three years.

He returned to Mönchengladbach in 1970, and stayed there until the end of his career in 1978. In the years 1971, 1975, 1976 and 1977 he won four championships, the national cup in 1973 and the UEFA Cup in 1975. He was top scorer in the Bundesliga in 1974 with 30 goals (level with Gerd Müller) and in 1975 with 27 goals.

In 1973, after eliminating FC Twente from the Netherlands with an aggregate score of 5–1 in the semifinals, Borussia Mönchengladbach became the first German side to reach the final of the UEFA Cup. The German club lost the away leg of the final against Liverpool 3–0, after the match initially had to be abandoned after 27 minutes due to a waterlogged pitch. In the return leg Heynckes scored both goals in Borussia's 2–0 win. With 12 goals Heynckes was joint top scorer of the competition with Twente's Jan Jeuring. In 1975 he won the UEFA Cup with Borussia Mönchengladbach. After a 0–0 draw in the home leg of the final against FC Twente, Heynckes, who missed the home match, contributed three goals to the 5–1 away win in Enschede and helped ensure the first German triumph in this competition. Again, Heynckes was tournament top scorer, this time with 10 goals. Altogether Jupp Heynckes scored 23 goals in 21 games in the UEFA Cup, making him one of the best goalscorers of all times of this competition.

In the 1975–76 European Cup Jupp Heynckes was top scorer with six goals. In the following season Heynckes reached the European Cup final with Borussia, losing 3–1 to Liverpool in Rome.

Heynckes was also the top scorer of the 1973–74 European Cup Winners' Cup with eight goals. In this competition Borussia Mönchengladbach were knocked out in the semi-finals by AC Milan, losing 2–1 on aggregate. Altogether, Jupp Heynckes scored 51 goals in 64 matches in European club competitions. His average of 0.8 goals per match is only bettered by compatriot Gerd Müller, who achieved an average of 0.89 goals per match.

International level

Heynckes made 39 appearances for the West German national team and scored 14 goals. He won the 1972 European Championship with West Germany, appearing in the 3–0 win over the USSR in the final. He was also part of the squad that won the 1974 World Cup in West Germany, but he featured for only half a game during the tournament.

Coaching career

Borussia Mönchengladbach

After his playing career, he stayed on with Borussia Mönchengladbach and served the club for eight more years as coach, succeeding Udo Lattek in this position.

Bayern Munich

Between 1987 and 1991 he coached Bayern Munich. He won the 1989 and 1990 German championships with the club. After the 1990 title Bayern had a major sell-out of star players which led to the team underperforming the following season, which led to Heynckes' contract being prematurely terminated, a decision the then Bayern commercial manager Uli Hoeneß regrets to date, and attributed it to pandering to a hostile press.

Athletic Bilbao

In 1992 he became the only third German coach in Spain's La Liga after Hennes Weisweiler and Udo Lattek (both former Barcelona coaches) when he joined Athletic Bilbao. In his second season with the Basque club he led the team to fifth spot in the league and qualification for the UEFA Cup as a result.

Eintracht Frankfurt

After moving to Eintracht Frankfurt in 1994–95 he clashed with the club's star players Anthony Yeboah, Jay-Jay Okocha and Maurizio Gaudino, which led to their eventual departure from the club. Amongst Eintracht fans his tenure at the club is still considered a major failure. His contract was terminated after only nine months, Heynckes renouncing compensation for the rest of his term.

Tenerife

In 1995 he moved to Tenerife and led the club into the UEFA Cup in his first season. There the team from the Canary Islands were eliminated in the semi-finals by eventual winners Schalke 04. In his second season Tenerife finished ninth in the league.

Real Madrid

In 1997 he was hired by the incumbent Spanish champions Real Madrid after the club failed to secure the services of Ottmar Hitzfeld, their preferred choice. There he celebrated his greatest triumph, when, in 1998 and after a 32-year dry spell, he returned the Champions League trophy to Madrid. However, the lack of domestic success – finishing fourth, eleven point behind new champions FC Barcelona – saw his tenure terminated by the end of that season.

Benfica

Heynckes then joined Benfica for a season before returning once more for two years to Athletic Bilbao, where he could not repeat the success of his first tenure.

Schalke 04

Heynckes made a comeback in the Bundesliga when he took over Schalke 04 at the beginning of the 2003–04 season. His contract there was cut short in September 2004.

Return to Borussia Mönchengladbach

In May 2006, he was announced as the new coach of Borussia Mönchengladbach. On 31 January 2007, he retired after fourteen consecutive Bundesliga matches without a win and Borussia dropping to 17th place in the table.

Return to Bayern Munich

Heynckes took over as caretaker coach of Bayern Munich on 27 April 2009 following the sacking of Jürgen Klinsmann.

Bayer Leverkusen

On 5 June 2009, Bayer 04 Leverkusen announced his appointment. He replaced Bruno Labbadia who moved to Hamburger SV.

Third stint at Bayern Munich

On 25 March 2011, it was announced that Heynckes would be resuming his coaching duties with Bayern Munich beginning in July 2011.

On 17 March 2012, in a 6–0 victory over Hertha BSC, Heynckes had his 600th Bundesliga match as coach. Only Otto Rehhagel, who was the coach of Berlin in that game, has coached more Bundesliga matches (over 800).

"Osram"

Heynckes' face is known to redden noticeably when he is under stress or in a generally agitated state, especially as a coach on the sidelines during a match. This has earned him the nickname "Osram" (in reference to a German lighting manufacturer). Rudi Gores is said to have first used this moniker to describe Heynckes. Later, the nickname became universally known among German football aficionados and has been used by the media as well.

Honours

Player

Club

• Bundesliga: 1970–71, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77
• DFB-Pokal: 1972–73
• UEFA Cup: 1974–75

National team

• European Championship: 1972
• FIFA World Cup: 1974

Coach

Bayern Munich

• Fußball-Bundesliga: 1988–89, 1989–90
• DFL-Supercup: 1987

Real Madrid

• UEFA Champions League: 1997–98
• Supercopa de España: 1997

Schalke 04

• UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2003, 2004

Links

• Jupp Heynckes at eintracht-archiv.de Template:De icon
• Jupp Heynckes at worldfootball.net
• Jupp Heynckes at fussballdaten.de (in German)

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