Uwe Rahn

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Personal information
Uwe Rahn
Full name	Uwe Rahn
Date of birth	May 21, 1962 (age 44)
Place of birth	Mannheim, Germany
Height	184 cm
Playing position	striker, midfielder
Club information
Current club	retired
Youth clubs
	TSV Schönau Waldhof Mannheim
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1980-1988 1988-1990 1990-1991 1991-1992 1992-1993 1993-1994	Borussia Mönchengladbach 1. FC Köln Hertha BSC Berlin Fortuna Düsseldorf Eintracht Frankfurt Urawa Red Diamonds	227 (81) 43 (13) 21 (5) 15 (5) 12 (3) 7 (1)
National team²
1984-1987	West Germany	14 (5)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of June 30, 1995. ² National team caps and goals correct as of June 30, 1995. * Appearances (Goals)

Uwe Rahn (born May 21, 1962 in Mannheim) is a former German football player.

Rahn played 318 Bundesliga matches in his professional career, scoring the majority of his 107 Bundesliga goals in his eight years at Borussia Mönchengladbach where he grew to a West Germany international and lifted the kicker-Torjägerkanone award for scoring the most goals in the Bundesliga of 1986-1987. The attacking midfielder scored 24 goals that season, magnificent fourteen in the course of the final nine weeks of the season. Subsequent to this achievement, Rahn was handed the Fußballer des Jahres award in 1987. Shortly after, he was poised to join PSV Eindhoven as a replacement for Ruud Gullit, but a move stalled and did not take place. Less impressive in scoring the season after, Rahn's form decreased massively then and ended in pittance-like transfers to 1. FC Köln, Hertha BSC Berlin, Fortuna Düsseldorf, Eintracht Frankfurt and finally Urawa Red Diamonds of Japan, the club where he finished his career. All the way through those clubs and years he couldn't get his form (and career) back on, something signified by the decreasing length of his spells.

Uwe Rahn, who was from time to time used as striker, appeared in a total of 14 matches for West Germany in between 1984 and 1987. In those games he scored five goals, the most important of them seconds after coming on as a second-half substitute for Felix Magath on his debut against Sweden in a World Cup qualifier on October 17, 1984. Hampered by injury, he was part of the 1986 FIFA World Cup squad of his nation but did not come to action in the tournament.

Often misinterpreted, Rahn has nothing else than the surname in common with Helmut Rahn, the 1954 FIFA World Cup-winning goalscorer of West Germany.

	West Germany squad - 1986 FIFA World Cup Runners-up
1 Schumacher \| 2 Briegel \| 3 Brehme \| 4 Förster \| 5 Herget \| 6 Eder \| 7 Littbarski \| 8 Matthäus \| 9 Völler \| 10 Magath \| 11 Rummenigge \| 12 Stein \| 13 Allgöwer \| 14 Berthold \| 15 Augenthaler \| 16 Thon \| 17 Jakobs \| 18 Rahn \| 19 Allofs \| 20 Hoeneß \| 21 Rolff \| 22 Immel \| Coach: Beckenbauer