Wolfgang Rolff (born 26 December 1959) is a German football manager and former player.

Playing career

Rolff played in 356

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matches (47 goals) for

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, Bayer 04 Leverkusen,

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Karlsruher SC Karlsruher SC is a German association football club, based in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg that currently plays in the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of German football. Domestically, the club was crowned German champion in 1909, and won the DF ...

and 1. FC Köln. He further took part in 126

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matches (23 goals) for OSC Bremerhaven and

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, having a spell in France with RC Strasbourg for whom he scored four goals in 30 games in Ligue 2. In his years with his clubs, he won the Bundesliga title with Hamburg in 1983 and was part of the Hamburg side that clinched the European Cup against Juventus in Athens the same summer, five years later he won the

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with Bayer 04 Leverkusen in 1988. Reputed as a tireless

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, Rolff debuted for

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in 1983 and was part of the

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and the

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squad of his nation. On both occasions he featured twice each in games of West Germany, making also two appearances for the West Germans in their runner-up campaign at the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. In total he played in 37 international matches until 1989.

Coaching career

His former Hamburg teammate

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appointed Rolff as assistant at

in 1997. In 1998 Rolff took sole charge of SV Meppen for six months until the club's relegation from the

. He went on working as assistant to his former

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manager

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and was, shortly after, named caretaker manager of Die Schwaben. In 2000–01, he worked in the coaching staff of former

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coach Berti Vogts during Vogts' reign as manager of Bayer 04 Leverkusen, also one of Rolff's ex-clubs. Subsequent to Vogts' departure from Leverkusen in 2001, Rolff worked as assistant to Vogts after Vogts had been hired to guide

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. Rolff did not follow Vogts to

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, indeed, and was in July 2004 employed by SV Werder Bremen as assistant manager. After the sacking of

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, Rolff, along with Matthias Hönerbach, was interim head coach from 15 May 2013 until 27 May 2013, when

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became the new head coach.

Coaching record

Honours

Player

Hamburger SV * European Cup: 1982–83 *

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: runner-up

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* Intercontinental Cup: runner-up

Bayer Leverkusen *

: 1987–88 West Germany *

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: runner-up

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Manager

Al-Salmiya *

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: 2015–16

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rolff, Wolfgang 1959 births Living people German expatriate footballers German footballers Germany international footballers Germany under-21 international footballers Association football midfielders OSC Bremerhaven players Hamburger SV players Bayer 04 Leverkusen players Karlsruher SC players 1. FC Köln players RC Strasbourg Alsace players Expatriate footballers in France UEFA Euro 1984 players 1986 FIFA World Cup players UEFA Euro 1988 players Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players KFC Uerdingen 05 players SC Fortuna Köln players VfB Stuttgart managers Bundesliga managers UEFA Cup winning players SV Meppen managers German football managers Shandong Taishan F.C. non-playing staff Eintracht Frankfurt non-playing staff SV Werder Bremen non-playing staff Hannover 96 non-playing staff Hamburger SV non-playing staff Bayer 04 Leverkusen non-playing staff VfB Stuttgart non-playing staff