Adolf "Adi" Hütter (; born 11 February 1970) is an Austrian professional
football
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coach and former player who is the head coach of
Ligue 1
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club
Monaco
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.
As a player, Hütter reached the
1993–94 UEFA Cup final, won the
Austrian championship three times with
Austria Salzburg and won the
Austrian Cup with
Grazer AK
Grazer Athletiksport Klub (; abbreviated as GAK), better known simply as Grazer AK, is an Austrian sports club based in the city of Graz in the federal state of Styria. The football section was once among Austria's most popular clubs, enjoying s ...
.
As a coach, he won the Austrian
double
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, for the renamed Red Bull Salzburg, as well as the
Swiss Super League
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with
Young Boys. He then managed
Eintracht Frankfurt
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from 2018 to 2021, and
Borussia Mönchengladbach
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for the 2021–22 season. In July 2023, he was appointed as manager of Monaco.
Playing career
Hütter played for
SCR Altach
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in his youth before moving to
Grazer AK
Grazer Athletiksport Klub (; abbreviated as GAK), better known simply as Grazer AK, is an Austrian sports club based in the city of Graz in the federal state of Styria. The football section was once among Austria's most popular clubs, enjoying s ...
and
LASK
Linzer Athletik-Sport-Klub, commonly known as LASK (), or Linzer ASK, is an Austrian professional football club based in Upper-Austrian state capital Linz. It is the oldest football club in that region, and plays in the Austrian Football Bundes ...
. In 1993, he joined
Austria Salzburg. With the club, he won the
Austrian Bundesliga
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in the
1993–94,
1994–95 and
1996–97 seasons, and won the
Austrian Supercup three times. He also reached the
final
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of the
1993–94 UEFA Cup, where Salzburg lost 0–2 on aggregate against
Inter Milan
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.
In 2000, Hütter joined Grazer AK again, where he won the
2001–02 Austrian Cup. After two years, he joined
second division team
Kapfenberger SV
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. In 2005, Hütter joined the second team of
Red Bull Salzburg in the third division. Here, he was a leading player and won the 2006–07
Regionalliga West
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championship with the team, which also meant promotion to the second division. Hütter decided to end his playing career in August 2007 due to a persistent
Achilles tendon
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injury, and became assistant coach of the Red Bull Salzburg Juniors.
International career
Hütter played for the
Austria national football team
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14 times and scored 3 goals.
International stats
:''Scores and results list Austria's goal tally first.''
Coaching career
Salzburg Juniors, Altach, Grödig, Salzburg
After ending his playing career in 2007, Hütter became assistant coach of
Red Bull Salzburg Juniors. He was appointed as the head coach of the Red Bull Juniors for the 2008–09 season, which he finished with a record of 13 wins, seven draws, and 15 losses.
In July 2009, he became head coach of
SCR Altach
Sportclub Rheindorf Altach, also known as Rheindorf Altach, SCR Altach or simply SCRA, is an Football in Austria, Austrian association football club based in Altach, Vorarlberg. It plays in the Austrian Football Bundesliga. The club is currently ...
, which had just been relegated to the second division, with the goal of leading them back to the
Bundesliga
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. In the
2009–10 season, Altach lost to
FC Pasching in the first round of the
Austrian Cup and finished third in the league. In the
2010–11 season, Altach reached the round of 16 of the Austrian Cup and finished second in the league.
After narrowly missing out on promotion two consecutive seasons, Altach was second in the league at the end of March 2012, eight matchdays before the end of the
2011–12 season. After a 0–2 loss to
First Vienna FC
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on 3 April 2012, Hütter was sacked by Altach, as the club was of the opinion that a change in leadership was needed to secure promotion. However, Altach did not achieve promotion under Hütter's successor
Edi Stöhr, again finishing the season in second place.
In April 2012, league rivals
SV Grödig announced Hütter as head coach starting from 1 June 2012, replacing
Heimo Pfeifenberger. Hütter signed a two-year contract. In the
2012–13 season, he won the second division with Grödig, securing promotion to the Bundesliga. In the
2013–14 season, which was Hütter's first season as a manager in the top-flight of Austrian football, he led Grödig to a third place finish in the league after a 3–3 draw on the final matchday against
Wacker Innsbruck
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, securing qualification for the
2014–15 UEFA Europa League
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. Grödig offered him a new contract at the end of the season, but Hütter declined the offer and left the club in summer 2014.
Hütter became the head coach of reigning Bundesliga champion
Red Bull Salzburg for the
2014–15 season. He succeeded
Roger Schmidt, who moved to
Bayer Leverkusen
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. In his only season with Salzburg, he won the double consisting of the league title and the
Austrian Cup. Despite these successes, Hütter and Salzburg terminated their contract by mutual consent in June 2015.
Young Boys
In September 2015, Hütter took over as head coach of
Swiss Super League
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side
Young Boys. In both of his first two seasons, the club from
Bern
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finished the league in second place. In the
2017–18 season, he led the club to its first league title since 1986, breaking the winning streak of
FC Basel
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, which had previously won eight consecutive league titles. Hütter also reached the final of the
2017–18 Swiss Cup with Young Boys, which was lost 1–2 against
FC Zürich
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.
Eintracht Frankfurt
On 16 May 2018, Hütter was confirmed to be
Eintracht Frankfurt
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's new head coach for the
2018–19 season, succeeding
Niko Kovač. He signed a three-year contract until June 2021. His first competitive match was the
2018 German Super Cup on 12 August 2018, which was lost 0–5 to
Bayern Munich. On 18 August 2018, Eintracht Frankfurt were knocked out in the first round of the
German Cup
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by fourth division team
SSV Ulm. The start to the league season was also poor, with just four points in five matchdays, but Hütter was able to turn the negative trend around, as Eintracht did not lose in the next eleven games, winning ten, in the Bundesliga and
Europa League.
In the Europa League, Frankfurt won all six matches in the group stage and won against
Shakhtar Donetsk,
Inter Milan
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and
Benfica in the knockout phase. Their run lasted until the semi-final, in which they drew twice and lost on
penalties against
Chelsea. At the end of the season, Hütter was voted by readers of German newspaper
Bild
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as Coach of the Year while Eintracht Frankfurt was voted as the Team of the Year. The
union of professional football players also voted Hütter as Coach of the Year.
In the
2019–20 Bundesliga season, Frankfurt finished in ninth place in the league. They also reached the semi-finals of the
DFB-Pokal
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. In the
Europa League, they finished second in the group stage, with notable wins including a 2–1 away victory against
Arsenal
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. However, their journey ended in the round of 16 with a defeat against
Basel
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.
Ahead of the
2020–21 season, Frankfurt extended the contracts of Hütter and his assistant coaches for two more years until June 2023. Despite initially holding a
Champions League position, the team ultimately finished the league in fifth place and qualified for the Europa League once again.
Borussia Mönchengladbach
On 13 April 2021, Hütter announced that he would leave Frankfurt using a buy-out clause and join
Borussia Mönchengladbach
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for the
2021–22 season. Gladbach was ranked 14th after the first half of the season, just three points above the relegation zone. The results stabilized in 2022, with Gladbach reaching seventh place in the second half of the season. Overall, the club finished on tenth place, two positions lower than in the previous campaign under
Marco Rose. On 14 May 2022, Hütter announced he was to leave Mönchengladbach after the season's conclusion by mutual consent with the club's leadership. He was succeeded by
Daniel Farke.
A highlight of Hütter's one season came in the second round of the
DFB-Pokal
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, where Mönchengladbach won 5–0 at home to
Bayern Munich on 27 October 2021. Bayern had scored in each of their previous 85 games, and suffered their biggest defeat since 1978.
Monaco
On 4 July 2023, Hütter signed a two-year deal at
Ligue 1
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team
Monaco
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, which had not qualified for a European competition in the previous season, succeeding
Philippe Clement. His debut was a 4–2 win at
Clermont on 13 August. He guided the club to a runner-up finish in the
2023–24 season, and qualification to the Champions League group stage for the first time since 2018–19. On 5 October 2024, after winning 2–1 against Rennes, Hütter's AS Monaco went into first place ahead of
PSG for the first time.
Personal life
Hütter is married and has one daughter. Hütter's grandmother persuaded his parents to name their son Adolf, in memory of his uncle, who died at the age of 27 in a rock avalanche. However, he is always called by his nickname "Adi". Most likely due to his name baring a resemblance with that of former German dictator
Adolf Hitler
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.
Managerial statistics
Honours
Player
Austria Salzburg
*
Austrian Bundesliga
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:
1993–94,
1994–95,
1996–97
*
Austrian Cup runner-up:
1999–2000
*
Austrian Supercup:
1994
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,
1995
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,
1997
Events January
* January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States.
* January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis.
* January 1 ...
Grazer AK
*
Austrian Cup:
2001–02
*
2. Division: 1992–93
Coach
SV Grödig
*
Erste Liga:
2012–13
Red Bull Salzburg
*
Austrian Bundesliga
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:
2014–15
*
Austrian Cup:
2014–15
Young Boys
*
Swiss Super League
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:
2017–18
*
Swiss Cup
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The Swiss Cup final is usually the most important game of the year with a high attendance. The co ...
runner-up:
2017–18
Eintracht Frankfurt
*
DFL-Supercup
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runner-up:
2018
Events January
* January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency.
* January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...
Individual
*
VDV Bundesliga Coach of the Season:
2018–19,
2020-21
References
External links
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1970 births
Living people
People from Hohenems
Footballers from Vorarlberg
Men's association football midfielders
Austrian men's footballers
Austria men's under-21 international footballers
Austria men's international footballers
Austrian Football Bundesliga players
2. Liga (Austria) players
Grazer AK players
LASK players
SC Rheindorf Altach players
FC Red Bull Salzburg players
Kapfenberger SV players
Austrian football managers
Austrian Football Bundesliga managers
Swiss Super League managers
Bundesliga managers
Ligue 1 managers
SC Rheindorf Altach managers
FC Red Bull Salzburg managers
BSC Young Boys managers
Eintracht Frankfurt managers
Borussia Mönchengladbach managers
AS Monaco FC managers
Austrian expatriate football managers
Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Monaco
Expatriate football managers in Germany
Expatriate football managers in Switzerland
Expatriate football managers in Monaco