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| Date of birth | June 13, 1937 | ||
| Place of birth | Wuppertal, Germany | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| Viktoria Köln | |||
| Teams managed | |||
| 1967–1968 | Rot-Weiss Essen | ||
| 1968–1973 | Eintracht Frankfurt | ||
| 1973–1978 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | ||
| 1984–1985 | Borussia Dortmund | ||
| 1985–1988 | Bayer Leverkusen | ||
| 1992–1993 | Bayern Munich | ||
| 1995–1996 | Bayer Leverkusen | ||
| 1998–2000 | Germany | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). | |||
Erich Ribbeck (born June 13, 1937 in Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) is a former football player and manager, best known for coaching in the German Bundesliga.
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As a player, Ribbeck had a career spanning most of the 1950s into the early 1960s with SSV 1904 Wuppertal, which has since merged with TSG Vohwinkel to form Wuppertaler SV. The highest level Ribbeck played was the Oberliga, part of the first tier of Germany which was then split into five regional divisions.
His very first coaching position he held at the age of 30 in 1967/68, when he took Rot-Weiss Essen to the second place in the western division of Germany's Level 2 league and thus to the promotion tournament, where the club ended up losing out against Hertha Berlin.
The next ten years he shared evenly with enagegements with Eintracht Frankfurt and 1. FC Kaiserslautern. In the Bundesliga these clubs remained on mediocre levels during his tenure. With Kaiserlautern he reached the German Cup final of 1976, losing 0-2 to Hamburger SV.
He achieved his only trophy when he won the UEFA Cup 1988 with Bayer Leverkusen. In the finals Leverkusen came back from 0-3 away to Espanyol Barcelona to win the eventual penalty shoot-out at home.
He was also runner-Up in the German Championship of 1993 with Bayern Munich.
Erich Ribbeck was originally considered as a candidate for the national team manager role after the resignation of Helmut Schön in 1978. Instead, Jupp Derwall was selected and it was not until 20 years later in 1998 that Ribbeck emerged from retirement in the Canary Islands to take over the German national team when other candidates had declined. At 61, he was the oldest appointee to the job. His two-year tenure marked the worst period in the modern history of Germany's national side. Ribbeck resigned after a string of results culminating in a group-stage exit from Euro 2000.
His results as Germany's coach were 10 wins, 6 draws and 8 losses, the worst managerial performance of all time for a coach of the German national team.
These days Ribbeck shares his residence between Pulheim and Tenerife.
| Preceded by Gunder Bengtsson |
UEFA Cup Winning Coach 1987-1988 |
Succeeded by Ottavio Bianchi |
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