| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Josef Heynckes | ||
| Date of birth | 9 May 1945 | ||
| Place of birth | Mönchengladbach, Germany | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | 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) | |
| National team | |||
| 1967–1976 | West Germany | 39 | (14) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 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 | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). |
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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.
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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 29 goals in the UEFA Cup, which puts him in joint third rank with compatriot Dieter Müller behind Valencia's Walter Machado da Silva with 31 and Henrik Larsson, who started for Celtic and Helsingborg, with 40 goals.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.[1]
Heynckes took over as caretaker coach of Bayern Munich on 27 April 2009[2] following the sacking of Jürgen Klinsmann.[3][4] On 5 June 2009, Bayer 04 Leverkusen announced his appointment. He replaced Bruno Labbadia who moved to Hamburger SV. On 25 March 2011, it was announced that Heynckes would be resuming his coaching duties with Bayern Munich beginning in July 2011.[5]
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.[6] Later, the nickname became universally known among German football aficionados and has been used by the media as well.[7]
| Preceded by Ottmar Hitzfeld |
UEFA Champions League Winning Coach 1997–1998 |
Succeeded by Alex Ferguson |
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