Dieter Müller

Dieter Müller

Personal information
Birth name	Dieter Kaster
Date of birth	(1954-04-01) 1 April 1954
Place of birth	Offenbach, West Germany
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Youth career
1964–1969	SG Götzenhain
1969–1972	Kickers Offenbach
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1972–1973	Kickers Offenbach	2	(0)
1973–1981	1. FC Köln	248	(159)
1981–1982	VfB Stuttgart	30	(14)
1982–1985	Girondins Bordeaux	93	(43)
1985	Grasshopper Club Zürich	7	(3)
1985–1986	1. FC Saarbrücken	23	(4)
1986–1989	Kickers Offenbach	51	(26)
Total		454	(249)
International career
1973–1974	West Germany Amateur	6	(2)
1975–1981	West Germany B	6	(6)
1976–1978	West Germany	12	(9)
Managerial career
2000	Kickers Offenbach (joint with Oliver Roth)
Medal record Representing West Germany UEFA European Championship Runner-up 1976 Yugoslavia
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Dieter Müller (né Kaster; 1 April 1954) is a German former professional footballer who played as a forward. He achieved his greatest success playing for 1. FC Köln in the Bundesliga in the late 1970s. Müller scored 177 goals in 303 games in the German league, including 6 goals in one game in August 1977, a record that still stands. He also played 12 times for West Germany from 1976 to 1978, scoring 9 goals.

Career

Müller played and scored in the UEFA Euro 1976 final, which West Germany lost on penalties to Czechoslovakia. He was again in the national team in the 1978 FIFA World Cup, though the campaign ended in disappointment when West Germany, the defending champions, did not qualify for the tournament's final. In his spell with 1. FC Köln he set a record for the most goals scored by a player in a single Bundesliga match. On 17 August 1977, he tallied six goals (scoring in the 12th, 23rd, 32nd, 52nd, 73rd and in the 85th minute) in Köln's 7–2 victory over Werder Bremen in front of a crowd of 19,000 at Köln's Müngersdorfer Stadion. However, since television cameramen were on strike on that day, there are no known film of Müller's goals. He was crowned Bundesliga topscorer that season (24 goals in 33 games), as he had the season before (34 goals in 34 appearances).

After he left Köln, he played for several seasons in France and Switzerland, before returning to West Germany.

Müller is the son of Heinz Kaster, who played as a defender for FC St. Pauli and Kickers Offenbach in the early 1950s. The striker had already been a schoolboy international, when his stepfather's adoption turned his surname into Müller.

Career statistics

Club

Club performance			League
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals
Germany			League
1972–73	Kickers Offenbach	Bundesliga	2	0
1973–74	1. FC Köln		31	17
1974–75			34	24
1975–76			19	14
1976–77			34	34
1977–78			33	24
1978–79			29	8
1979–80			34	21
1980–81			34	17
1981–82	VfB Stuttgart		30	14
France			League
1982–83	Girondins Bordeaux	Division 1	29	17
1983–84			28	14
1984–85			36	12
Switzerland			League
1985–86	Grasshopper Zürich	Super League	7	3
Germany			League
1985–86	1. FC Saarbrücken	Bundesliga	23	4
Germany			League
1986–87	Kickers Offenbach		0	0
1987–88		2. Bundesliga	24	16
1988–89			27	10
1989–90			0	0
Country	Germany		354	203
	France		93	43
	Switzerland		7	3
Total			454	249

Personal life

Müller's son Alexander, aged 16, died of a brain tumor in 1997.

Müller suffered a severe heart attack on 5 October 2012 and fell into a five-day coma.

External links

• Dieter Müller at fussballdaten.de (in German)
• Dieter Müller at WorldFootball.net
• Dieter Müller at National-Football-Teams.com