Werner Bickelhaupt (born 2 December 1939) is a German professional football coach who has managed at both national and international level in Europe, Asia and Africa.

Career

Born in

Ober-Ramstadt Ober-Ramstadt is a town in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district, in Hessen, Germany. It is situated 9 km southeast of Darmstadt. As of 2020, its population was 15,127. Geography Location Ober-Ramstadt is situated 9 km away from Darmstadt ...

, Bickelhaupt has managed SpVgg Greuther Fürth,

Freiburger FC Freiburger FC () is a German association football club based in Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg. Freiburger FC were one of the founding clubs of the DFB ( German Football Association) in 1900. History Founded in 1897, for many decades FFC were t ...

, Spvgg Freudenstadt,

Würzburger FV FV 04 Würzburg is a German association football club from the city of Würzburg, Bavaria founded in 1904 as ''1. Würzburger FV 04''. The club emerged as ''WFV'' in 1923 after leaving a short-lived union formed with a gymnastics club. __TOC__ ...

SC Young Fellows Juventus Sportclub Young Fellows Juventus is a professional Swiss football club based in Zürich. It was founded in 1992 following a merger between Young Fellows Zürich (established in 1903) and Società Calcistica Italiana Juventus Zurigo (1922). The t ...

Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is b ...

FV Biberach FV Biberach is a German association football club from the city of Biberach an der Riß, Baden-Württemberg. The origins of the club are with the gymnastics club ''Turngemeinde 1847 Biberach'', which first formed a football department in 1903, a ...

and Al Ittihad. In 1978 he became the first foreign coach of

Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mo ...

. In October 2003 he became the new head coach of the

Swaziland national football team The Eswatini national football team, nicknamed ''Sihlangu Semnikati'' (King's Shield), represents Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland, in international football and is controlled by the Eswatini Football Association. It has never qualified ...

. In December 2003 Bickelhaupt was sacked as manager after Swaziland lost to the Cape Verde Islands in the preliminaries of the 2006 World Cup qualifiers.

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* 1939 births Living people German football managers SpVgg Greuther Fürth managers Al Ittihad Alexandria Club managers Sakaryaspor managers Bangladesh national football team managers Thailand national football team managers Eswatini national football team managers German expatriate football managers German expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Expatriate football managers in Switzerland German expatriates in Bangladesh Expatriate football managers in Bangladesh German expatriate sportspeople in Thailand Expatriate football managers in Thailand German expatriate sportspeople in Egypt Expatriate football managers in Egypt German expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Expatriate football managers in Turkey German expatriate sportspeople in Eswatini Expatriate football managers in Eswatini VfR Aalen managers Freiburger FC managers {{Germany-footy-bio-stub