Otto Rehhagel

**Otto Rehhagel** (; born 9 August 1938) is a German former football coach and player.

Rehhagel is one of two people to have played in more than 1,000 Bundesliga matches as a player and coach (the other being Jupp Heynckes). In the Bundesliga, he holds the records for most wins (387), most draws (205) and most losses (228), with his team scoring more goals (1,473) and conceding goals (1,142) than any other team. From 1981 to 1995 he worked as manager for Werder Bremen, winning the Bundesliga twice with them and the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1992. After a rather unfortunate intermezzo at Bayern Munich, he sensationally won the Bundesliga with  promoted team 1. FC Kaiserslautern.

## Playing career

Born in Altenessen, Rehhagel began his career with local club TuS Helene Altenessen in 1948, then transferred to Rot-Weiss Essen (1960–63) and then played the Bundesliga at Hertha BSC (1963–65) until 1972 for Kaiserslautern. He played 201 games in the Bundesliga.

## Career statistics

|rowspan="2"|Team|rowspan="2"|From|rowspan="2"|To|colspan="8"|Record|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1. FC Saarbrücken|1 July 1972|30 June 1973||||||
|Kickers Offenbach|2 April 1974|9 December 1975||||||
|Werder Bremen|29 February 1976|30 June 1976||||||
|Borussia Dortmund|1 July 1976|30 April 1978||||||
|Arminia Bielefeld|10 October 1978|11 October 1979||||||
|Fortuna Düsseldorf|12 October 1979|5 December 1980||||||
|Werder Bremen|2 April 1981|30 June 1995||||||
|Bayern Munich|1 July 1995|27 April 1996||||||
|1. FC Kaiserslautern|20 July 1996|1 October 2000||||||
|Greece|9 August 2001|30 June 2010||||||
|Hertha BSC|19 February 2012|30 June 2012||||||
|—||||||||

### Managerial honours

- Fortuna Düsseldorf
- DFB-Pokal: 1979–80

- Werder Bremen
- Bundesliga: 1987–88, 1992–93
- DFB-Pokal: 1990–91, 1993–94
- DFL-Supercup: 1988, 1993, 1994
- UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1991–92

- 1. FC Kaiserslautern
- Bundesliga: 1997–98
- 2. Bundesliga: 1996–97

- Greece
- UEFA European Championship: 2004

- Individual
- Order of the Phoenix of the Hellenic Republic: (2005)
- Laureus World Sports Awards with the Greek national football team: (2005)
- "Greece's Coach of the Year" (2004, 2007), first-ever foreigner to win this award
- IFFHS World's Best National Coach: 2004
- World Soccer 36th Greatest Manager of All Time: 2013
- France Football 46th Greatest Manager of All Time: 2019

## Other websites

- , by DJ Ötzi

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Otto Rehhagel
- **image**: Otto Rehhagel 01.jpg
- **caption**: Rehhagel in 2010
- **fullname**: Otto Rehhagel
- **birth place**: Essen, Nazi Germany, Germany
- **height**: 1.77 m
- **position**: Defender (association football), Defender
- **youthyears1**: 1948–1957
- **youthclubs1**: TuS Helene Altenessen
- **years1**: 1957–1960
- **years2**: 1960–1963
- **years3**: 1963–1965
- **years4**: 1965–1972
- **clubs1**: TuS Helene Altenessen
- **clubs2**: Rot-Weiss Essen
- **clubs3**: Hertha BSC
- **clubs4**: 1. FC Kaiserslautern
- **caps2**: 90
- **goals2**: 3
- **caps3**: 53
- **goals3**: 6
- **caps4**: 148
- **goals4**: 17
- **nationalyears1**: 1960
- **nationalteam1**: Germany national amateur football team, West Germany Amateur
- **nationalcaps1**: 2
- **nationalgoals1**: 0
- **manageryears1**: 1972
- **manageryears2**: 1972–1973
- **manageryears3**: 1973–1974
- **manageryears4**: 1974–1975
- **manageryears5**: 1976
- **manageryears6**: 1976–1978
- **manageryears7**: 1978–1979
- **manageryears8**: 1979–1980
- **manageryears9**: 1981–1995
- **manageryears10**: 1995–1996
- **manageryears11**: 1996–2000
- **manageryears12**: 2001–2010
- **manageryears13**: 2012
- **managerclubs1**: FV Rockenhausen
- **managerclubs2**: 1. FC Saarbrücken
- **managerclubs3**: Kickers Offenbach (Assistant coach)
- **managerclubs4**: Kickers Offenbach
- **managerclubs5**: SV Werder Bremen, Werder Bremen
- **managerclubs6**: Borussia Dortmund
- **managerclubs7**: Arminia Bielefeld
- **managerclubs8**: Fortuna Düsseldorf
- **managerclubs9**: SV Werder Bremen, Werder Bremen
- **managerclubs10**: FC Bayern Munich, Bayern Munich
- **managerclubs11**: 1. FC Kaiserslautern
- **managerclubs12**: Greece national football team, Greece
- **managerclubs13**: Hertha BSC
- **medaltemplates**: <small>(as manager)</small>