Josef "Jupp" Heynckes (; born 9 May 1945) is a German retired professional
footballer
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and
manager
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Management includes the activities o ...
. The majority of his player career was as a
striker for
Borussia Mönchengladbach
Borussia Verein für Leibesübungen 1900 e. V. Mönchengladbach, commonly known as Borussia Mönchengladbach (), Mönchengladbach () or Gladbach (; abbreviated as Borussia MG, BMG), is a professional Association football, football club based in ...
in its golden era of the 1960s and '70s, when they won many national
championships and the
DFB-Pokal
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, as well as the
UEFA Cup
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. During this period the team played in its only
European Cup final in
1977
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, losing to
Liverpool
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. He is the fourth-highest goalscorer in the
history of the Bundesliga, with 220 goals. He was a member of the
West Germany national team that won the
UEFA Euro 1972
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Only four ...
and the
1974 FIFA World Cup
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titles.
As manager, Heynckes won four
Bundesliga titles with
Bayern Munich
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and two UEFA Champions Leagues; with
Real Madrid
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Founded in 1902 as Madrid Football Club, the club has traditionally wor ...
in
1997–98 and Bayern in
2012–13.
Playing career
Club level
Heynckes played 369 matches in the German
Bundesliga
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, scoring 220 goals. His tally is the third highest in this league, after
Gerd Müller
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's 365 goals and
Klaus Fischer
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's 268.
upHeynckes in 1974
After playing for amateur club Grün-Weiß Holt as a youth, Heynckes started his professional career in 1964 with his
hometown
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club
Borussia Mönchengladbach
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who were then in the
second division
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.
In 1965, the club, managed by
Hennes Weisweiler
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With 11 titles, 8 with ...
, achieved promotion to the
Bundesliga
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,
with the teenaged striker scoring 23 goals in 25 matches in his debut season.
In August 1965, Heynckes scored his first two Bundesliga goals against
SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin
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History
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. He scored 27 Bundesliga goals in two seasons for Borussia
before joining
Hannover 96
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, where he spent three years and scored 25 times in 86 league matches.
[
He returned to Mönchengladbach in 1970, with the club having just won the first league title in its history.][ With Heynckes, who scored 19 times in 33 matches, Gladbach became the first club to retain the Bundesliga title in 1970–71.][
In the 1971–72 European Cup, Heynckes scored twice in an extraordinary 7–1 win against Italian champions ]Inter Milan
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. The match, however, was forced to be replayed after a drinks can
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had been thrown onto the pitch by a spectator, hitting Inter's Roberto Boninsegna
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. Borussia drew the replayed home leg 0–0 and were eliminated 4–2 on aggregate.
In 1973, after eliminating Dutch club Twente
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5–1 on aggregate in the semi-finals, Borussia Mönchengladbach became the first German side to reach the final
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of the UEFA Cup
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.[ Borussia lost the away leg of the final against ]Liverpool
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3–0 at Anfield
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, after the match initially had to be abandoned after 27 minutes due to a waterlogged pitch. During the match, Heynckes had a penalty kick
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saved by Ray Clemence
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, denying his side a decisive away goal
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. In the return leg, Heynckes scored both goals in Gladbach's 2–0 win. The English team, however, prevailed 3–2 on aggregate to lift the trophy. With 12 goals, Heynckes was joint top scorer of the competition with Twente's Jan Jeuring. Despite disappointment in Europe, Gladbach ended the 1972–73 season with success in the DFB-Pokal
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final, beating 1. FC Köln at the Rheinstadion
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in Düsseldorf
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.[
In the 1973–74 season, Heynckes was joint top goalscorer in the Bundesliga, alongside ]Gerd Müller
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, with 30 goals. His Mönchengladbach side finished second in the table, with Müller's Bayern Munich
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winning a record third consecutive Bundesliga title. 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 Milan
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, losing 2–1 on aggregate.
upHeynckes playing for Mönchengladbach in 1975
In 1974–75, ''die Fohlen'' won their third Bundesliga title, with Heynckes finishing as the league's outright top goalscorer with 27 goals. The club also won its first European trophy with success in the UEFA Cup
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. After a 0–0 draw in the home leg of the final
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against Twente, Heynckes, who missed the home match, scored a hat-trick
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in a 5–1 away win in Enschede
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. This victory made Gladbach the first German winners of the UEFA Cup. Again, Heynckes was tournament top scorer, this time with ten goals. Altogether, Heynckes scored 23 goals in 21 games in the UEFA Cup, making him the ninth-highest goalscorer in the history of the competition, and the only member of the top ten to have scored at a ratio of over a goal per game.
After regaining the title, Weisweiler left Borussia to become manager of Barcelona
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. He was replaced by Udo Lattek
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Lattek is one of the most successful coaches in the history of the game, having won 15 major titles, most famously with Bayern Munich. He also ...
, under whom Heynckes would later begin his coaching career. Borussia Mönchengladbach went on to win the 1975–76 and 1976–77 Bundesliga titles, matching Bayern's feat of three titles in a row set earlier in the decade. In 1977, Borussia also reached its first European Cup final. In the previous season's competition, Heynckes had been top scorer with six goals. In 1976–77 European Cup
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, he was less prolific, scoring only one goal in the first round match against Austria Wien. In the final
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, Gladbach again lost out to Liverpool, losing 3–1 at Rome
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's Stadio Olimpico
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.
Heynckes scored 18 goals in the 1977–78 Bundesliga season, including five in the record[ 12–0 win against ]Borussia Dortmund
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on the final day of the season. However, this was not enough to secure a fourth successive title, as 1. FC Köln won their final match against FC St. Pauli
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5–0 to take first place on goal difference
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.[ Heynckes scored four goals in the ]1977–78 European Cup
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as the team reached the semi-finals, where they were again defeated by Liverpool. Altogether, 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 ended his playing career in 1978 and began studying for his coaching licence at the Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln
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.
During his club career, he won four Bundesliga titles, one DFB-Pokal
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and one UEFA Cup. He is the third-highest goalscorer in Bundesliga history and Borussia Mönchengladbach's top goalscorer in the competition with 195 goals.
International level
Heynckes made 39 appearances for the West Germany national team and scored 14 goals.
In February 1967, he made his international debut at age 21, scoring in a 5–1 friendly win against Morocco
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.
Heynckes was a member of the West Germany team that won the 1972 UEFA European Championship, playing 90 minutes in the 3–0 win over the Soviet Union
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in the final
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. He was named by UEFA
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as one of seven German players in the official Team of the Tournament.
Heynckes was included in West Germany's squad for the 1974 FIFA World Cup
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, which was held in West Germany. Despite his excellent form at club level, however, he spent most of the tournament on the bench as Gerd Müller, the national team's all-time top goalscorer, was used as the starting centre forward by coach Helmut Schön
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.[ Heynckes was in the starting line-up for West Germany's opening two fixtures against ]Chile
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and Australia
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but then played no further part due to injury and ''die Nationalelf'' won their second World Cup, beating the Netherlands
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2–1 in the final
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at Munich
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's Olympiastadion
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. In 2013, Heynckes said of his experience at the 1974 World Cup, "I was in the starting lineup for the German national team competing for the World Cup, but after an injury I was sidelined for the entire final. This was the greatest disappointment of my life, but it spurred me on and became my greatest source of motivation."
Managerial career
1979–91: Early career
Borussia Mönchengladbach
After his playing career, Heynckes stayed with Borussia Mönchengladbach and served the club for eight more years, first as an assistant and then as a manager, succeeding Udo Lattek
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Lattek is one of the most successful coaches in the history of the game, having won 15 major titles, most famously with Bayern Munich. He also ...
in this position in 1979 at age 34. Heynckes took over on 1 July 1979 and in the 1979–80 season, Heynckes led Mönchengladbach to the 1980 UEFA Cup final, where they lost to Eintracht Frankfurt
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. They won the first leg 3–2 and lost the second leg 1–0. in the league
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, Mönchengladbach finished in seventh place.
The 1980–81 season started with a 2–1 loss to Fortuna Düsseldorf
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. During the 1980–81 season, Mönchengladbach defeated OSV Hannover
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, TuS Langerwehe
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, Bünder SV, and Atlas Delmenhorst
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to get to the quarter-final of the DFB-Pokal where they lost to 1. FC Kaiserslautern. Their seventh-place finish in the previous season failed to qualify them for a place in Europe. Mönchengladbach finished the league season in sixth place.
The 1981–82 season started with a 4–2 loss to Werder Bremen
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on 8 August 1981. Then they went on a six-match undefeated streak. This included a 7–2 win against SSV Dillenburg in the DFB-Pokal. Again they reached the quarter-final of the DFB-Pokal. This time they were knocked out by 1. FC Nürnberg. They finished the league season in seventh place. They were knocked out of the UEFA Cup
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in the second round by Dundee United
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. They had knocked out 1. FC Magdeburg in the first round.
Mönchengladbach finished the 1982–83 season in 12th place. Under Heynckes, Mönchengladbach had finished in seventh place in 1980, sixth place in 1981 and seventh place in 1982. For the third consecutive season, Mönchengladbach was eliminated in the quarter-final of the DFB-Pokal.
In the 1983–84 season, ''Die Fohlen'' finished third in the Bundesliga, missing out on the league title to VfB Stuttgart
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on goal difference
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. The team also reached the DFB-Pokal final, losing to Bayern Munich on penalties
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.
Mönchengladbach finished the 1984–85 season in fourth place. They were eliminated in the second round of the UEFA Cup
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by Widzew Łódź
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and in the semi-final of the DFB-Pokal by Bayern Munich.
Mönchengladbach finished the 1985–86 season in fourth place in the league. In the third-round of the UEFA Cup
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, Gladbach beat Real Madrid
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5–1 at the Rheinstadion
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. However, a 4–0 loss at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium
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in the second leg saw Borussia eliminated on the away goals rule
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. In 2013, Heynckes described it as "the worst night of my career".
In his final season in charge, Heynckes led Mönchengladbach to another third-place finish and the UEFA Cup
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semi-final. Despite not winning a trophy during his spell as manager of his hometown club, a record that earned him the nickname "the champion without a title",[ he was appointed as manager of Bayern Munich in the summer of 1987, where he again succeeded the outgoing Udo Lattek.
Heynckes finished with a record of 169 wins, 77 draws and 97 losses.]
Bayern Munich
Heynckes was manager of Bayern Munich between 1 July 1987 and 8 October 1991. In his first season, Bayern won the DFB-Supercup. Bayern defeated Hamburger SV
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2–1. During the season, Bayern went on to lose out on the league title by four points to Werder Bremen and were eliminated in the quarter-finals of the DFB-Pokal and the European Cup
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.
Bayern won back-to-back titles in 1988–89 and 1989–90 seasons. In the 1988–89 season, Bayern were eliminated in the round of 16 in the DFB-Pokal and the semi-final in the UEFA Cup
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. Bayern started the 1989–90 season with a 4–3 loss to Borussia Dortmund in the DFB-Supercup on 25 July 1989. Then they defeated 1. FC Nürnberg 3–2 on matchday one on 29 July 1989. They were knocked out of the DFB-Pokal in the round of 16 and they were knocked out once again in the semi-final of the European Cup
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. This time by Milan.
Bayern started the 1990–91 season by defeating 1. FC Kaiserslautern 4–1 in the DFB-Supercup on 31 July 1990. Then they were eliminated in the first round of the German Cup on 4 August 1990. In the European Cup
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Bayern were knocked out of a European semi-final for the third time in a row. This time by Red Star Belgrade
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. The club then achieved another second-placed finish in 1990–91 league season.
Bayern started the 1991–92 season with a 1–1 draw against Werder Bremen. Bayern advanced to the second round of the UEFA Cup
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after eliminating Cork City
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. The first leg finished in a 1–1 draw and the second leg finished in a 2–0 win for Bayern. Heynckes was fired by Bayern on 4 October 1991, after the team had won only four of its first 12 Bundesliga
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matches. His final match as coach was a 4–1 home defeat to Stuttgarter Kickers
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. Bayern were in 12th place at the time of his sacking. The team continued to struggle after his departure, eventually finishing five points clear of relegation in tenth place. The decision to sack Heynckes was later described by general manager Uli Hoeneß
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as "the biggest mistake of my career".
Under Heynckes, Bayern reached the semi-finals of the 1988–89 UEFA Cup, the 1989–90 European Cup and the 1990–91 European Cup. In each campaign, they were knocked out by the team which went on to win the competition.
Heynckes finished with a record of 113 wins, 46 draws and 39 losses.
1992–98: Coaching in Spain and return to Bundesliga
Athletic Bilbao
In 1992, he was appointed manager of Athletic Bilbao
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, becoming only the third German manager in Spain's La Liga
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after Hennes Weisweiler
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With 11 titles, 8 with ...
and Udo Lattek, both of whom managed Barcelona
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. Heynckes managed his first match against Cádiz
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on 5 September 1992. He led them to an eighth-placed finish in his first season. They were eliminated in the third round of Copa del Rey
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.
He led the Basque
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club to fifth spot in the league and qualification for the UEFA Cup
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in 1993–94. They were eliminated in the fourth round of the Copa del Rey
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. His final match was a 3–2 win against Tenerife
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.
Eintracht Frankfurt
On 1 July 1994, Heynckes returned to Germany to become manager of Eintracht Frankfurt
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and was manager until 2 April 1995. His first match was a 6–0 win against I. SC Göttingen 05
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in the first round of the German Cup.
Heynckes' spell at the Eintracht was problematic and he clashed with the club's star players Anthony Yeboah
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, Jay-Jay Okocha and Maurizio Gaudino
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As a player, he was a midfielder who notably played in the Bunde ...
. In December 1994, the three players were punished for a perceived lack of effort with extra training sessions. Because of this the players refused to play in Eintracht's next match against Hamburger SV and were suspended indefinitely by the club. Gaudino was loaned out to Manchester City
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later in the month and Yeboah was sold to Leeds United
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in January 1995. Okocha was later allowed to return to the team before leaving for Fenerbahçe S.K. in 1996. Heynckes left the club on 2 April 1995 after a 3–0 home defeat to Schalke 04
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with the team in 13th place in the table. Heynckes finished with a record of 12 wins, 10 draws and 12 losses.
Tenerife and Real Madrid
In 1995, Heynckes returned to Spain to take over at Tenerife. He won his first match as manager against Sevilla
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on 2 September 1995. In his first season he led the team from the Canary Islands
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into the UEFA Cup
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with a fifth-placed finish in La Liga
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. In the Copa del Rey
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, they got to the quarter-finals where they lost to Atlético Madrid
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. The following season the club finished ninth in La Liga and reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup
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, where they were beaten by eventual winners Schalke 04. In the Copa del Rey
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, Tenerife had a bye until the fourth round where they were eliminated by Real Betis
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after losing both legs of the tie.
In June 1997, Heynckes was hired by the Spanish champions Real Madrid
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. His first match was a 2–1 loss to Barcelona
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in the first leg of the Spanish Super Cup
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. Real Madrid would go on to win the Super Cup after winning the second leg 4–1. Real Madrid were knocked out of the Copa del Rey
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in the round of 16. There, he celebrated one of his greatest triumphs, as Madrid beat Juventus
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1–0 in the UEFA Champions League
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for their first European Cup
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victory since 1966
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. However, the lack of domestic success – finishing fourth, eleven points behind champions Barcelona – saw his tenure terminated at the end of the season.
1999–2003: Benfica and return to Athletic
After his dismissal by Real Madrid, Heynckes took a year out of football before joining Portuguese club Benfica for the 1999–2000 season. Heynckes replaced Graeme Souness
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. Benfica finished third in Heynckes' only full season in charge and were knocked out of the UEFA Cup
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at the third round with an 8–1 aggregate defeat by Celta de Vigo
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, losing the first leg 7–0. They were knocked out in the round of 16 of the Portuguese Cup.
After releasing club icon and captain
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João Pinto, who then joined Lisbon
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rivals
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Sporting CP
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, after transfer listing him. Heynckes became unpopular with the Benfica fans and left the club by mutual agreement in September 2000. His final match at the club was a 2–1 win against Estrela Amadora on 17 September 2000. Benfica were tied for seventh place at the time of his departure.
In 2001, Heynckes returned to Athletic Bilbao for a second spell as coach. In the 2001–02 season, Athletic finished tenth in La Liga, missing out on qualification to the UEFA Cup
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by a point, and reached the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey
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. The following season, Athletic secured a seventh-place finish, again finishing one point short of UEFA Cup
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qualification. They were eliminated in the second round of the Copa del Rey
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. In June 2003, Heynckes left Athletic to become head coach of Schalke 04.
2003–07: Return to the Bundesliga
Schalke
In 2003, after eight years managing in Iberia
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, Heynckes returned to Germany to manage Schalke 04. Upon joining ''die Königsblauen'' Heynckes said "Schalke is something special, for many it is like a religion, for me it is an absolutely ideal position." His first match was a 1–0 win against Dacia Chișinău on 19 July 2003 in the Intertoto Cup
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. His first league match was a 2–2 draw against Borussia Dortmund on 2 August 2003. Despite targeting a top five finish upon his appointment,[ Schalke were eliminated in the second round of the German Cup by ]SC Freiburg
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. Freiburg won 7–3 and scored four goals in extra time. Schalke finished the 2003–04 season in seventh place in the Bundesliga
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.
Schalke started 2004–05 season with a 5–0 win against Vardar
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on 17 July 2004 in the Intertoto Cup
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. Schalke defeated Hertha BSC II
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in the first round of the DFB-Pokal. Schalke started the league season in the relegation zone after losing three of their opening four league matches. On 15 September 2004, Heynckes was fired by the club's general manager Rudi Assauer
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. Heynckes finished with a record of 28 wins, 14 draws and 15 losses.
Borussia Mönchengladbach
In May 2006, Heynckes returned to manage Borussia Mönchengladbach, the club where he had begun his career as both a player and manager.
Heynckes' first match was a 2–0 win against Energie Cottbus
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on 12 August 2006. Heynckes' comeback started well, with Gladbach in fifth position in the Bundesliga
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at the end of the seventh matchday after winning each of their opening four home matches. He resigned on 31 January 2007, however, after 14-straight Bundesliga matches without a win saw Borussia drop to 17th place in the table. with the coach requiring police protection for matches against VfL Bochum
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and Energie Cottbus in the previous month. On departing Borussia, Heynckes refused a pay-off and returned his company car to the club office freshly cleaned and with a full tank of petrol. In May 2013, upon returning to Borussia-Park
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for his originally final match as a Bundesliga coach, Heynckes said, "This is my club. It's where I started as a 19-year-old professional, then worked as a coach. Since then I have come full circle. Mönchengladbach is my home town, I spent 23 years at the club, so this will not be just a normal game for me."
The team's fortunes did not improve after Heynckes' departure and the club was relegated at the end of the season, finishing last in the Bundesliga table.
Heynckes finished with a record of 5 wins, 4 draws and 12 losses.
2009–13: Final years
Caretaker role at Bayern Munich
After over two years out of football, Heynckes came out of retirement and returned to football in April 2009, becoming caretaker manager
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of his former club Bayern Munich, replacing the sacked Jürgen Klinsmann
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. Bayern were in danger of missing out on qualification for the Champions League upon Heynckes' appointment, but the team won four and drew one of its remaining matches, finishing second in the Bundesliga
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, two points behind champions
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VfL Wolfsburg
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.
The four Bayern wins were against Borussia Mönchengladbach, Energie Cottbus, Bayer Leverkusen
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, and VfB Stuttgart. The draw was against 1899 Hoffenheim.
Bayer Leverkusen
On 5 June 2009, Heynckes signed a two-year contract to manage Bayer Leverkusen. Heynckes' first match was a 1–0 German Cup win against SV Babelsberg 03
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on 31 July 2009. Bayer Leverkusen were eventually eliminated by Kaiserslautern in the second round. The team started the season with a record 24 Bundesliga
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matches unbeaten, challenging Bayern Munich for the league title. The team's unbeaten record finally came to an end in March 2010 with a 3–2 defeat at 1. FC Nürnberg, after which Leverkusen only won two of their final nine matches and finished in fourth place.
In the 2010–11 season, Leverkusen finished runner-up in the Bundesliga
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to Borussia Dortmund, thus qualifying for the Champions League for the first time since 2005
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. It was also the club's highest final league position since the 2001–02 season. They were knocked out in the second round of the DFB-Pokal for the second consecutive season. They also reached the round of 16 in the Europa League
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.
Despite his success, Heynckes decided not to extend his contract and left Bayer Leverkusen in the 2011 close season to take over at Bayern Munich for a third time.
On 25 March 2011, it was announced that Heynckes would be replacing Louis van Gaal
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as the manager of Bayern Munich at the beginning of the 2011–12 season. At the age of 66, he was the oldest coach in the Bundesliga. Heynckes took over a team which had finished third in the 2010–11 Bundesliga
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, three points behind his Bayer Leverkusen side. He finished with a record of 44 wins, 26 draws and 14 losses at Bayer Leverkusen.
2011–13: Third stint at Bayern Munich
=2011–12 season
=
Heynckes' first match was a 3–0 win against Eintracht Braunschweig
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in the first round of the 2011–12 DFB-Pokal
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Since both finalists ...
. Bayern started the league season with a surprise 1–0 defeat to Heynckes' former club Borussia Mönchengladbach at the Allianz Arena
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, before six consecutive Bundesliga
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wins without conceding took them to the top of the table. In all competitions, Bayern kept 12 consecutive clean sheets, including four Champions League matches, the last of which came in a 4–0 win over Hertha BSC
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. This run of good form ended with a 2–1 defeat to Hannover 96
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, and losses to Borussia Dortmund and Mainz 05
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soon followed, allowing Dortmund, the previous season's champions, to overtake Bayern at the top of the table. Bayern briefly regained top spot in January and February, but after the Bavaria
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ns' draw with Hamburger SV on matchday 20, Dortmund again gained first position and went on to retain their title by eight points, ending the season on a 28-match unbeaten run.
On 17 March 2012, Heynckes oversaw his 600th Bundesliga match as manager, a 6–0 victory over Hertha BSC. His opposing coach that day, Otto Rehhagel
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, is the only coach who has managed more Bundesliga matches, with over 800.
After finishing the Bundesliga season in second place, Bayern faced champions Dortmund in the 2012 DFB-Pokal final, losing 5–2.
Despite their disappointments in domestic competitions, Heynckes' Bayern had qualified for the 2012 Champions League Final in April 2012, defeating Real Madrid
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on penalty kicks in the semi-finals
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. In the final, held at the Allianz Arena, ''die Roten'' faced English club Chelsea
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. Despite controlling most of the match and taking a 1–0 lead in the 83rd minute, Bayern lost the match 4–3 on penalties
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. This meant that Bayern had finished as runners-up in all three major competitions in which they had competed in 2011–12.
=2012–13 season
=
Bayern started the 2012–13 season by defeating Borussia Dortmund 2–1 in the DFL-Supercup. It was a significant result as the Bavarians had lost all three encounters with ''die Schwarzgelben'' in the previous season, and the last five encounters between the clubs overall. Bayern's Bundesliga campaign began with a record-breaking eight consecutive wins before they suffered their only league defeat of the season at Bayer Leverkusen. Bayern quickly regained form and went into the winter break nine points clear at the top of the table.
On 16 January 2013, Bayern announced that former Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola
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would replace Heynckes in July 2013.[ General manager ]Uli Hoeneß
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later stated that it was not Heynckes' decision to leave Bayern at the end of the season and was forced by the club's wish to appoint Guardiola. Though the club's press release announcing Bayern's agreement with Guardiola had claimed Heynckes would be retiring on the expiration of his contract, he stated he would not make a decision on his future until the end of the season.
After returning from the winter break, Bayern only dropped two points in the entire second half of the Bundesliga season, winning 14 consecutive matches from January onwards and being confirmed as champions
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on 6 April 2013. This was the earliest a team had ever won the Bundesliga, and Bayern broke several other records during the season including; most points in a season (91), highest league winning points margin (25), most wins in a season (29), longest winning streak in a season (14), most clean sheets in a season (21), best goal difference in a season (+80) and fewest goals conceded in a season (18). The team scored in every match and suffered only one defeat.
On 23 February 2013, Heynckes participated in his 1,000th Bundesliga match as player and manager combined, making him the man with the second most appearances in Bundesliga history. On 14 May 2013, he took charge of a Bundesliga match for what he claimed to be the final time. Fittingly, the match was away at Borussia Mönchengladbach, Heynckes' hometown club who he served for over 20 years as a player and coach.[
In the Champions League, Bayern faced Barcelona at the semi-final stage, thrashing the favourites 7–0 on aggregate to reach a second successive ]final
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. The performance was seen as a display of physical and tactical superiority of Bayern over Barcelona. In the 2013 Champions League final, Heynckes' Bayern defeated Bundesliga rivals Borussia Dortmund 2–1 at Wembley Stadium
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, making him the fourth manager (after Ernst Happel
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, Ottmar Hitzfeld
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, and José Mourinho
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) to win the competition with two clubs.
On 1 June 2013, Heynckes took charge of Bayern for the last time in the 2013 DFB-Pokal final against VfB Stuttgart. Bayern won the match 3–2, becoming the first German club to complete the treble
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of the domestic league, the domestic cup and the European Cup. Former Bayern and West Germany
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captain
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Franz Beckenbauer
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, who led ''die Roten'' to three consecutive European Cup wins in the 1970s, called Heynckes' 2012–13 side "the best Bayern team ever", a view shared by the club's legendary forward
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Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
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. He finished with a record of 83 wins, 12 draws, and 14 losses.
Consequently, he won the FIFA World Coach of the Year 2013 finishing ahead of Jürgen Klopp
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(second) and Sir Alex Ferguson
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(third).
On 4 June 2013, Heynckes announced he would not coach a team during the 2013–14 season. On 21 June, in an interview with ''Der Spiegel
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'', Heynckes said, "After everything that's happened over the past two years, I'm ready for some peace and quiet. After this string of successes, I could transfer to just about any club in Europe. I have a problem with the finality of saying 'never'. But I can assure you that I have no intention of coaching again. I had a worthy ending."[ He was replaced by ]Pep Guardiola
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, who had his first training session on 26 June 2013.
2017–18: Return to management
Fourth stint at Bayern
Heynckes coaching Bayern Munich in 2018
On 6 October 2017, Heynckes was appointed Bayern Munich manager until the end of the 2017–18 season. Carlo Ancelotti
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was dismissed and Willy Sagnol
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managed the team on 1 October against Hertha BSC
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. Heynckes officially took the role on 9 October. His first match in his fourth stint was a 5–0 win against Freiburg.
On 4 April 2018, Heynckes set a new Champions League record of most consecutive wins as a manager with twelve wins by defeating Sevilla in the quarter-final 1st leg match in 2017–18 UEFA Champions League
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, surpassing the record of ten wins in a row set by Louis van Gaal and Carlo Ancelotti.
Bayern president Uli Hoeneß
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said numerous times in interviews that he wanted Heynckes to stay as manager for the 2018–19 season. Heynckes said in an interview with Sport Bild
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that he was only going to manage Bayern until the end of the season.
Heynckes managed Bayern in 26 Bundesliga matches. He won 22, lost three and one match ended with a draw. In the Champions League, Heynckes was in charge of 10 matches. He won seven, lost one and two matches ended with a draw. His only defeat was against his old club, Real Madrid, in the first leg in the semi-finals.
Retirement
Heynckes retired at the end of the 2017–18 season. In his career, Heynckes managed 1,265 matches in all competitions and in three leagues. He managed 668 Bundesliga
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matches with five clubs, won 343, lost 164 and drew 161 matches. Heynckes managed 200 La Liga
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matches with three clubs. In La Liga, he won 79, lost 62 and drew 59 matches. He also managed 38 matches in the Primeira Liga
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with Benfica, winning 23 matches, losing 8 and drawing 7 matches.
Career statistics
Player
Club
*1.Includes Regionalliga promotion playoffs, DFB-Ligapokal
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and Intercontinental Cup.
*2.https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/jupp-heynckes/europa-league/2/
International
Managerial
Honours
Player
Club
Borussia Mönchengladbach
*UEFA Cup
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: 1974–75
*Bundesliga
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: 1970–71, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77
*DFB-Pokal
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: 1972–73
International
West Germany
*FIFA World Cup
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: 1974
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*UEFA European Championship
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: 1972
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Manager
Bayern Munich
*Bundesliga
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: 1988–89, 1989–90, 2012–13, 2017–18
*DFB-Pokal
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: 2012–13
* DFL-Supercup: 1987
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, 1990
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, 2012
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*UEFA Champions League
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: 2012–13; runner-up: 2011–12
Real Madrid
*UEFA Champions League
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: 1997–98
*Supercopa de España
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: 1997
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Schalke 04
*UEFA Intertoto Cup
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: 2003
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, 2004
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Individual
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*''kicker
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'' Bundesliga
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Team of the Season: 1971–72, 1973–74, 1974–75
* Bundesliga top scorer: 1973–74, 1974–75
* European Cup top scorer: 1975–76
* UEFA Cup Winners' Cup top scorer: 1973–74
* UEFA Cup top scorer: 1972–73, 1974–75
*UEFA European Championship Team of the Tournament At the end of each UEFA European Championship tournament, several awards are attributed to the players and teams which have distinguished from the rest, in different aspects of the game.
Awards
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: 1972
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Manager
*FIFA World Coach of the Year
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: 2013
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*IFFHS World's Best Club Coach
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: 2013
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; runner-up: 1998
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* European Coach of the Year—Alf Ramsey Award: 2013
* European Coach of the Season: 2012–13
*German Football Manager of the Year The title Football Manager of the Year (''Trainer des Jahres'') has been awarded in Germany since 2002. The award is determined by a poll of German football journalists from the Association of German Sports Journalists (''Verband der Deutschen Sport ...
: 2013, 2018
* World Soccer Awards Manager of the Year: 2013
* France Football Magazine 25th Greatest Manager of All time: 2019
References
External links
Jupp Heynckes
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1945 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Mönchengladbach
Footballers from North Rhine-Westphalia
German footballers
Association football forwards
Borussia Mönchengladbach players
Hannover 96 players
Regionalliga players
Bundesliga players
UEFA Cup winning players
Kicker-Torjägerkanone Award winners
Germany under-21 international footballers
Germany international footballers
UEFA Euro 1972 players
1974 FIFA World Cup players
UEFA European Championship-winning players
UEFA Champions League top scorers
FIFA World Cup-winning players
German football managers
Borussia Mönchengladbach managers
FC Bayern Munich managers
Athletic Bilbao managers
Eintracht Frankfurt managers
CD Tenerife managers
Real Madrid CF managers
S.L. Benfica managers
FC Schalke 04 managers
Bayer 04 Leverkusen managers
Bundesliga managers
La Liga managers
Primeira Liga managers
UEFA Champions League winning managers
German expatriate football managers
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Expatriate football managers in Portugal