Adolf "Adi" Hütter is an Austrian professional football coach and former player. He is is the current head coach of Borussia Mönchengladbach.

Playing career
Hütter played in the youth teams of Altach in his youth. In his senior career he played for LASK, Altach, Grazer AK and Austria Salzburg. With Salzburg he won three-times the  Austrian championship and won the Supercup. He also played in the UEFA-Cup final in 1994 against Inter Milan. Hütter played for the Austrian national team 14 times and scored 3 times.

In 2000 went to Grazer AK again. 2002 he played for the first division team Kapfenberg. In 2005 Hütter played for Red Bull Salzburg Juniors and secured promotion to the Austrian first division. Health problems were the reason why he became assistant of Gerald Baumgartner in August 2007.

Coaching career

Salzburg Juniors, Altach, Grödig, Salzburg

Hütter is the former assistant coach and head coach of Red Bull Salzburg Juniors. He finished with a record of 13 wins, seven draws, and 15 losses at the club. Then he was head coach of Rheindorf Altach between 1 July 2009 and 5 April 2012. In the 2009–10 season, Rheindorf Altach lost to FC Pasching in the first round of the Austrian Cup and finished third in the league. In the 2010–11 season, Rheindorf Altach got to the Round of 16 of the Austrian Cup and finished second in the league. In the 2011–12 season, Rheindorf Altach were eliminated from the Austrian Cup in the first round. On 1 July 2012 he became manager of SV Grödig. In the 2012–13 season, Grödig were eliminated in the second round of the Austrian Cup. In the 2013–14 season, Grödig were eliminated in the first round of the Austrian Cup. They got a 2014–15 UEFA Europa League place after 3–3 draw on the final matchday against Wacker Innsbruck. Then he took over Red Bull Salzburg for the 2014–15 season His first training session was on 16 June 2014. His first match was a 10–1 win against 1. SC Sollenau on 12 July 2014. After one season he resigned on 15 June 2015. He won the double in his only season. His final match was a 2–0 win in the Austrian Cup final on 3 June 2015.

Young Boys Bern

In September 2015, Hütter took over as head coach of Swiss Super League side BSC Young Boys. In April 2018  Hütter's Young Boys won the Swiss Super League for the first time since 1986.

Eintracht Frankfurt
On 16 May 2018 became head coach of  Eintracht Frankfurt. He started as coach on 1 July 2018. His first match was a 0-5 loss versus Bayern München in the German Supercup. Afterwards  Eintracht Frankfurt was knocked out in the first round of the  German Cup by fourth division SSV Ulm. Also in the Bundesliga there was a weak start(just 4 points in five matchdays. But they did'nt loose the next 11 games.  the second half of the season was sucessful. They reached the semi-final of the Europa League where they drew two times and lost on penalties against Chelsea. At the end of the season, Hütter was voted by readers of German newspaper Bild 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.

On 13 April, Hütter announced that he would leave Frankfurt and join Borussia Mönchengladbach for the 2021–22 season.

Coaching record

Honours

Coach
Red Bull Salzburg
Austrian Football Bundesliga: 2015
Austrian Cup: 2015

Young Boys
Swiss Super League: 2018

 Individual
 VDV Coach of the Season: 2018–19, 2020–21

References

1970 births
Living people
Association football midfielders
Austrian footballers
Players of the Austrian national football team
FC Red Bull Salzburg players
Austrian football managers
FC Red Bull Salzburg managers