Hans Meyer (football)

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Hans Meyer
Personal information
Full name Hans Meyer
Date of birth November 3, 1942 (1942-11-03) (age 65)
Place of birth    Briesen, near Bílina, Czechoslovakia
Playing position Defender (retired)
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1961–1969 FC Carl Zeiss Jena 030 0(1)   
Teams managed
1971–1983
1984–1987
1988–1993
1993–1994
1995
1996–1999
1999–2003
2004
2005–2008		 FC Carl Zeiss Jena
Rot-Weiß Erfurt
FC Karl-Marx-Stadt
FC Carl Zeiss Jena
1. FC Union Berlin
Twente Enschede
Borussia Mönchengladbach
Hertha BSC
1. FC Nuremberg

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Hans Meyer (born 3 November 1942 in Briesen, near Bílina, Czech Republic) is a German former football player and manager. He was most recently under contract with 1. FC Nuremberg. Meyer is the only coach to win both the DFB-Pokal and the FDGB-Pokal. In 2001, Meyer led second-division club Borussia Mönchengladbach to promotion to the 1. Fußball-Bundesliga, the first East German coach to achieve the feat with a West German side. Meyer next took the reins at Hertha BSC Berlin in mid-season in 2003, successfully leading the club through a protracted relegation fight. Following this feat he announced his retirement from coaching, turning down a contract extension with Hertha. Meyer found the thrill of the relegation battle too great to resist, however; he took over at last-place 1. FC Nuremberg in autumn of 2005, leading the squad to an eighth-place finish and firmly establishing his reputation as a "fireman" who could extinguish a team's crisis. His coaching success continued in the following season which ended with a sixth-place showing for Nuremberg and the capture of the DFB-Pokal. In the 2007/2008 season, Meyer's luck had run out, and after a series of bruising defeats Nuremberg found itself in the drop zone once again. Meyer was fired by club management on February 11, 2008.

Besides his talent as a trainer, he is famous for ironic and sarcastic answers in interviews. He ramains very popular in Jena, where his career started, and in Nuremberg for winning the DFB-Cup.

Meyer was featured on the cover of EA Sports' video game FUSSBALL MANAGER 08 (FIFA Manager 08, German version only).


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1. FC Nuremberg – Managers

Spiksley (1913–14) • Kürschner (1921–22) • Spiksley (1927) • Michalke (1927–28) • Konrád (1930–32) • Schaffer (1932–35) • Michalke (1935–36) • Orth (1936–39) • Riemke (1939–41) • Schmidt (1941–45) • Michalke (1946–47) • Schmitt (1947–49) • Schmidt (1950–52) • Riemke (1952–54) • Binder (1955–60) • Widmayer (1960–63) • Csaknády (1963–65) • Baumann (1964–65) • Csaknády (1965–66) • Vincze (1966–67) • Merkel (1967–69) • Klötzer (1969–70) • Thomas (1970–71) • Čajkovski (1971–73) • Tilkowski (1973–76) • Buhtz (1976–78) • Kern (1978–79) • Gebhardt (1979) • Vliers (1979) • Gebhardt (1979–80) • Klug (1981–83) • Kröner (1983) • Höher (1984–88) • Gerland (1988–90) • Haan (1990–91) • Entenmann (1991–93) • Renner (1993–94) • Zobel (1994) • Sebert (1994–95) • Gerland (1995–96) • Entenmann (1996–97) • Magath (1997–98) • Reimann (1998) • Rausch (1998–2000) • Augenthaler (2000–2003) • Wolf (2003–2005) • Meyer (2005–2008) • von Heesen (2008–)