Jürgen Piepenburg (10 June 1941 – 7 March 2025) was a German

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who played in the

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as a

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Club career

Piepenburg spent his entire top level career within the

ASV Vorwärts The Armeesportvereinigung Vorwärts (''Army Sports Association Forward''), briefly ASV Vorwärts, was the Sports associations (East Germany), sports association of the German Democratic Republic's National People's Army (NVA) and its predecessor, ...

, the sports association of the East German Army. After excelling for second level Vorwärts Cottbus he was playing for

Vorwärts Berlin 1. Fußballclub Frankfurt (Oder) E. V. e. V., commonly known as 1. FC Frankfurt, is a German football club based in Frankfurt (Oder), Brandenburg. The club was founded as the army club SV VP Vorwärts Leipzig in Leipzig in East Germany in 1951. ...

from 1963 to 1971, and continuing with the club for another four years after it had moved to

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. In total he made 236 appearances in the

, scoring 79 times. He also scored 11 goals in 22 appearances in the

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, a record for an East German player. He was the competition's joint top scorer in 1966–67, along with

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, who scored six goals.

Managerial career

After his career as a football player, Piepenburg, who had completed his studies as a sports teacher at the Leipzig Sports University DHfK, became a coach. From 1984 to 1988 he was a coach at

ASG Vorwärts Dessau ASG Vorwärts Dessau is a German association football club based in Dessau-Roßlau, Saxony-Anhalt. History ASG Vorwärts At the end of the 1973–74 season of the second-tier DDR-Liga the leadership of the Armeesportvereinigung Vorwärt ...

and after the

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BFC Dynamo Berliner Fussball Club Dynamo e. V., commonly abbreviated to BFC Dynamo () or BFC (), alternatively sometimes called Dynamo Berlin, is a German football club based in the locality of Alt-Hohenschönhausen of the borough of Lichtenberg of Ber ...

. He celebrated his greatest success with

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, with whom he won the

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in 2004 and was therefore allowed to compete with Schöneiche in the first round of the

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. After he was dismissed from Schöneiche in May 2005, he again took over the coaching position at BFC Dynamo. However, he had to give up this position after only three matchdays in the 2005–06 season following a 8–0 debacle against arch rival

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Death

Piepenburg died on 7 March 2025, at the age of 83.Abschied: Der BFC Dynamo trauert um Jürgen Piepenburg.
bfc.com, 16 March 2025 (in German). Retrieved 2 April 2025.

References

External links

on the website of the

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Profile on vorwaerts-cottbus.de
{{DEFAULTSORT:Piepenburg, Jurgen 1941 births 2025 deaths German men's footballers East German men's footballers Men's association football forwards 1. FC Frankfurt players German football managers Berliner FC Dynamo managers UEFA Champions League top scorers Sportspeople from the Province of Pomerania Sportspeople from Bezirk Rostock Footballers from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania