Rainer Ernst

Rainer Ernst
Personal information
Date of birth	(1961-12-31) 31 December 1961
Place of birth	Neustrelitz, East Germany
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position	Striker
Youth career
1968–1975	Dynamo Neustrelitz
1975–1979	BFC Dynamo
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1979–1990	BFC Dynamo	216	(91)
1990–1991	1. FC Kaiserslautern	18	(2)
1991–1992	Girondins Bordeaux	24	(7)
1992–1993	AS Cannes	7	(0)
1993–1994	FC Zürich	17	(2)
1994–1997	FSV Salmrohr	52	(5)
National team
1981–1990	East Germany	56	(20)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Rainer Ernst (born 31 December 1961 in Neustrelitz) is a former German footballer who amassed 56 caps for East Germany.^[1]

Career

Hendrik Herzog, Matthias Sammer, Rainer Ernst

Until the age of 14, Ernst played in the Dynamo Neutrelitz youth side. He then transferred to BFC Dynamo, where he played in 203 league games, scoring 88 goals, until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1990, when he was signed by 1. FC Kaiserslautern. He stayed with the club for just one season, playing 18 games and scoring two goals, before moving to the French league with Girondins Bordeaux for the 1991–92. With Bordeaux he scored seven goals in 24 games during the club's return to the French top-flight. Ernst didn't, however, return with the club, as in the summer of 1992 he moved to AS Cannes in Ligue 2. He played just seven games in Cannes and scored no goals, a record which saw him transfer to FC Zürich the following season. He then moved to Servette FC in 1993–94, before returning to Germany in 1994 to spend two years in the regional league with FSV Salmrohr. He retired from professional football in 1996.

Honours

With BFC Dynamo, Ernst was DDR-Oberliga champion for ten consecutive years (1978–79 to 1987–88), and also German Bundesliga champion with Kaiserslautern in the 1990–91 season.

FDGB Pokal winners 1987–88 and 1988–89
DDR-Oberliga top goalscorer 1983–84 (20 goals) and 1984–85 (24 goals)

References

↑ "Ernst, Rainer" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 16 April 2011.

External links

Rainer Ernst at the German Football Association website (German)

DDR-Oberliga Top Scorer

1949–50: Satrapa 1950–51: Schöne 1951–52: Krause 1952–53: Arlt 1953–54: Satrapa 1954–55: Tröger 1955: Seligow 1956: Lindner 1957: Kaulmann 1958: Müller 1959: Bauchspieß 1960: Bauchspieß 1961–62: Bialas 1962–63: Ducke 1963–64: Backhaus 1964–65: Bauchspieß 1965–66: Frenzel 1966–67: Rentzsch 1967–68: Kostmann 1968–69: Kostmann 1969–70: Skrowny 1970–71: Kreische 1971–72: Kreische 1972–73: Kreische 1973–74: Matoul 1974–75: Vogel 1975–76: Kreische 1976–77: Streich 1977–78: Havenstein 1978–79: Streich 1979–80: Kühn 1980–81: Streich 1981–82: Schnuphase 1982–83: Streich 1983–84: Ernst 1984–85: Ernst 1985–86: Sträßer 1986–87: Pastor 1987–88: Thom 1988–89: Gütschow 1989–90: Gütschow 1990–91: Gütschow