Jürgen Klinsmann

**Jürgen Klinsmann** (, born 30 July 1964) is a German football player who started in Stuttgart, a club in Germany, when he was seventeen. In 1990 he won the FIFA World Cup with the Germany national team. Later, he also played for Internazionale Milano, Monaco, Tottenham Hotspur and Bayern Munich. In 2004 he became the coach of Germany national team, that was third in the World Cup of 2006. Taking his place in the German team is Joachim Löw. Klinsmann coached the United States men's national team from 2011 to 2016 and then Hertha BSC from 2019 to 2020. Since 2020, he has been manager for the South Korea national team.

## Player career

Before Jürgen Klinsmann became a professional soccer player, he worked as a baker-associated in the baker's shop of his father in Stuttgart-Botnang. When he was young he played for Geislingen. The first team of his professional career was Stuttgarter Kickers. His career as a player ended in 1998 after the World Cup in France, as Germany was eliminated from the tournament by Croatia. He played for the under-21 and under-16 teams, as well as for ten years for the A team. In the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul he won the bronze medal. Jürgen Klinsmann played 221 Bundesliga games and scored 110 goals. In the national team of Germany he played 108 games and scored 47 goals. He played in the World Cup tournaments in 1990, 1994, and 1998. He scored 11 goals in the World Cup - second only to Gerd Müller as the German player with the most World Cup goals. In August 2004 he became the national coach of Germany. At the 2006 World Cup in Germany he won the bronze medal. After that he resigned. From the 1st June 2008 he coached Bayern Munich until he was dismissed on the 27th April 2009.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|National Cup|colspan="2"|League Cup|colspan="2"|Europe|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="4"|Stuttgarter Kickers|rowspan="3"|2. Bundesliga|1981–82|6|1|0|0|–|–|6|1||
|1982–83|20|2|2|1|–|–|22|3||||||
|1983–84|35|19|2|2|–|–|37|21||||||
|rowspan="6"|VfB Stuttgart|rowspan="5"|Bundesliga|1984–85|32|15|4|2|–|2|0|38|17|
|1985–86|33|16|6|4|–|–|39|20||||||
|1986–87|32|16|1|2|–|4|1|37|19|||||
|1987–88|34|19|1|0|–|–|35|19||||||
|1988–89|25|13|4|2|–|8|4|37|19|||||
|rowspan="4"|Inter Milan|rowspan="3"|Serie A|1989–90|31|13|4|2|–|2|0|37|15|
|1990–91|33|14|4|0|–|12|3|49|17|||||
|1991–92|31|7|5|1|–|1|0|37|8|||||
|rowspan="3"|Monaco|rowspan="2"|Division 1|1992–93|35|20|2|0|–|4|0|41|20|
|1993–94|30|10|3|2|–|10|4|43|16|||||
|Tottenham Hotspur|Premier League|1994–95|41|20|6|5|3|4|–|50|29|||
|rowspan="3"|Bayern Munich|rowspan="2"|Bundesliga|1995–96|32|16|1|0|–|12|15|45|31|
|1996–97|33|15|4|2|–|2|0|39|17|||||
|Sampdoria|Serie A|1997–98|8|2|1|0|–|1|0|10|2|||
|Tottenham Hotspur (loan)|Premier League|1997–98|15|9|3|0|||–|18|9|||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="4"|West Germany|1987|2|0|
|1988|8|2|||
|1989|4|1|||
|1990|12|4|||
|rowspan="9"|Germany|1990|3|2|
|1991|4|0|||
|1992|13|2|||
|1993|10|6|||
|1994|14|11|||
|1995|9|6|||
|1996|14|7|||
|1997|7|2|||
|1998|8|4|||

- _Scores and results list West Germany's and Germany's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Klinsmann goal_.

|scope="col"|No.|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Opponent|scope="col"|Score|scope="col"|Result|scope="col"|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|27 April 1988|Fritz-Walter-Stadion, Kaiserslautern, West Germany||1–0|1–0|Friendly||||||||
|2|14 June 1988|Parkstadion, Gelsenkirchen, West Germany||1–0|2–0|UEFA Euro 1988||||||||
|3|4 October 1989|Westfalenstadion, Dortmund, West Germany||3–0|6–1|1990 FIFA World Cup qualifying||||||||
|4|25 April 1990|Neckarstadion, Stuttgart, West Germany||3–2|3–3|Friendly||||||||
|5|10 June 1990|Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, Milan, Italy||2–0|4–1|1990 FIFA World Cup||||||||
|6|15 June 1990|Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, Milan, Italy||2–0|5–1|1990 FIFA World Cup||||||||
|7|24 June 1990|Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, Milan, Italy||1–0|2–1|1990 FIFA World Cup||||||||
|8|10 October 1990|Råsunda Stadium, Stockholm, Sweden||1–0|3–1|Friendly||||||||
|9|31 October 1990|Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg, Luxembourg||1–0|3–2|UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying||||||||
|10|18 June 1992|Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden||1–2|1–3|UEFA Euro 1992||||||||
|11|20 December 1992|Estadio Centenario, Montevideo, Uruguay||4–0|4–1|Friendly||||||||
|12|14 April 1993|Ruhrstadion, Bochum, Germany||3–1|6–1|Friendly||||||||
|13|5–1|||||||||||||
|14|10 June 1993|Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, Washington, D.C., U.S.||1–3|3–3|U.S. Cup||||||||
|15|3–3|||||||||||||
|16|13 June 1993|Soldier Field, Chicago, U.S.||1–0|4–3|U.S. Cup||||||||
|17|19 June 1993|Silverdome, Pontiac, U.S.||2–1|2–1|U.S. Cup||||||||
|18|23 March 1994|Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion, Stuttgart, Germany||1–1|2–1|Friendly||||||||
|19|2–1|||||||||||||
|20|2 June 1994|Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna, Austria||3–0|5–1|Friendly||||||||
|21|17 June 1994|Soldier Field, Chicago, U.S.||1–0|1–0|1994 FIFA World Cup||||||||
|22|21 June 1994|Soldier Field, Chicago, U.S.||1–1|1–1|1994 FIFA World Cup||||||||
|23|27 June 1994|Cotton Bowl, Dallas, U.S.||1–0|3–2|1994 FIFA World Cup||||||||
|24|3–0|||||||||||||
|25|2 July 1994|Soldier Field, Chicago, U.S.||2–1|3–2|1994 FIFA World Cup||||||||
|26|16 November 1994|Qemal Stafa, Tirana, Albania||1–0|2–1|UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying||||||||
|27|14 December 1994|Stadionul Republican, Chişinău, Moldova||2–0|3–0|UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying||||||||
|28|18 December 1994|Fritz-Walter-Stadion, Kaiserslautern, Germany||2–0|2–1|UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying||||||||
|29|29 March 1995|Boris Paichadze Stadium, Tbilisi, Georgia||1–0|2–0|UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying||||||||
|30|2–0|||||||||||||
|31|7 June 1995|Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia, Bulgaria||1–0|2–3|UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying||||||||
|32|11 October 1995|Cardiff Arms Park, Cardiff, Wales||2–1|2–1|UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying||||||||
|33|15 November 1995|Olympic Stadium, Berlin, Germany||1–1|3–1|UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying||||||||
|34|3–1|||||||||||||
|35|24 April 1996|Feijenoord Stadion, Rotterdam, Netherlands||1–0|1–0|Friendly||||||||
|36|4 June 1996|Carl-Benz-Stadion, Mannheim, Germany||8–1|9–1|Friendly||||||||
|37|16 June 1996|Old Trafford, Manchester, England||2–0|3–0|UEFA Euro 1996||||||||
|38|3–0|||||||||||||
|39|23 June 1996|Old Trafford, Manchester, England||1–0|2–1|UEFA Euro 1996||||||||
|40|4 September 1996|Ernest Pohl Stadium, Zabrze, Poland||2–0|2–0|Friendly||||||||
|41|9 October 1996|Hrazdan Stadium, Yerevan, Armenia||2–0|5–1|1998 FIFA World Cup qualifying||||||||
|42|10 September 1997|Westfalenstadion, Dortmund, Germany||1–0|4–0|1998 FIFA World Cup qualifying||||||||
|43|2–0|||||||||||||
|44|5 June 1998|Carl-Benz-Stadion, Mannheim, Germany||2–0|7–0|Friendly||||||||
|45|15 June 1998|Parc des Princes, Paris, France||2–0|2–0|1998 FIFA World Cup||||||||
|46|25 June 1998|Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier, France||2–0|2–0|1998 FIFA World Cup||||||||
|47|29 June 1998|Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier, France||1–1|2–1|1998 FIFA World Cup||||||||

### Managerial

|Team|From|To|Record|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Germany|26 July 2004|11 July 2006||
|Bayern Munich|1 July 2008|27 April 2009||
|United States|29 July 2011|21 November 2016||
|Hertha BSC|27 November 2019|11 February 2020||
|South Korea|27 February 2023|_Present_||

#### Club

**Inter Milan**
- Supercoppa Italiana: 1989
- UEFA Cup: 1990–91

**Bayern Munich**
- Bundesliga: 1996–97
- UEFA Cup: 1995–96

#### International

**West Germany/Germany**
- FIFA World Cup: 1990
- UEFA European Championship: 1996; runner-up: 1992
- Summer Olympic Games: 1988 Bronze medal
- U.S. Cup: 1993

#### Individual

- Goal of the Year (Germany): 1987
- Bundesliga top scorer: 1987–88
- _kicker_ Bundesliga Team of the Season: 1987–88
- Footballer of the Year (Germany): 1988, 1994
- FIFA World Cup All-Star Team: 1990
- Premier League Player of the Month: August 1994
- Tottenham Hotspur Club Player of the Year: 1994
- FWA Footballer of the Year: 1994–95 (Tottenham Hotspur)
- Premier League PFA Team of the Year: 1994–95
- ESM Team of the Year: 1994–95
- IFFHS World's Top Goal Scorer: 1995
- Ballon d'Or runner-up: 1995
- FIFA World Player of the Year Bronze award: 1995
- UEFA Cup Top Scorer: 1995–96
- FIFA XI: 1996, 1999
- FIFA 100

#### International

**Germany**
- FIFA World Cup third place: 2006
- FIFA Confederations Cup third place: 2005

**United States**
- CONCACAF Gold Cup: 2013, runner-up: 2011
- CONCACAF Cup runner-up: 2015

#### Individual

- German Football Manager of the Year: 2006
- CONCACAF Coach of the Year: 2013

## Literature

- Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: _Strategen des Spiels – Die legendären Fußballtrainer_, Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2005, , S. 332ff.
- Jens Mende: _Jürgen Klinsmann – Wie wir Weltmeister werden_, Südwest-Verlag, München 2006, .
- Michael Horeni: _Klinsmann. Stürmer Trainer Weltmeister_. Scherz, Frankfurt/Main 2005, .

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Jürgen Klinsmann
- **image**: 2019-06-11 Fußball, Männer, Länderspiel, Deutschland-Estland StP 2039 LR10 by Stepro-2.jpg
- **caption**: Klinsmann in 2019
- **full name**: Jürgen Klinsmann
- **birth place**: Göppingen, West Germany
- **height**: 1.81 m
- **position**: Forward (association football)#Striker, Striker
- **youthyears1**: 1972–1974
- **youthyears2**: 1974–1978
- **youthyears3**: 1978–1981
- **youthclubs1**: TB Gingen
- **youthclubs2**: SC Geislingen
- **youthclubs3**: Stuttgarter Kickers
- **years1**: 1981–1984
- **years2**: 1984–1989
- **years3**: 1989–1992
- **years4**: 1992–1994
- **years5**: 1994–1995
- **years6**: 1995–1997
- **years7**: 1997–1998
- **years8**: 1997–1998
- **years9**: 2003–2004
- **clubs1**: Stuttgarter Kickers
- **clubs2**: VfB Stuttgart
- **clubs3**: Inter Milan
- **clubs4**: AS Monaco FC, Monaco
- **clubs5**: Tottenham Hotspur F.C., Tottenham Hotspur
- **clubs6**: FC Bayern Munich, Bayern Munich
- **clubs7**: U.C. Sampdoria, Sampdoria
- **clubs8**: → Tottenham Hotspur F.C., Tottenham Hotspur (loan)
- **clubs9**: Orange County Blue Star
- **caps1**: 61
- **caps2**: 156
- **caps3**: 95
- **caps4**: 65
- **caps5**: 41
- **caps6**: 65
- **caps7**: 8
- **caps8**: 15
- **caps9**: 8
- **goals1**: 22
- **goals2**: 79
- **goals3**: 34
- **goals4**: 29
- **goals5**: 20
- **goals6**: 31
- **goals7**: 2
- **goals8**: 9
- **goals9**: 5
- **totalcaps**: 514
- **totalgoals**: 232
- **nationalyears1**: 1980–1981
- **nationalteam1**: Germany national youth football team, West Germany U16
- **nationalcaps1**: 3
- **nationalgoals1**: 0
- **nationalyears2**: 1984–1985
- **nationalteam2**: Germany national under-21 football team, West Germany U21
- **nationalcaps2**: 8
- **nationalgoals2**: 3
- **nationalyears3**: 1987–1988
- **nationalteam3**: Germany Olympic football team, West Germany Olympic
- **nationalcaps3**: 14
- **nationalgoals3**: 8
- **nationalyears4**: 1987–1998
- **nationalteam4**: Germany national football team, West Germany / Germany
- **nationalcaps4**: 108
- **nationalgoals4**: 47
- **manageryears1**: 2004–2006
- **manageryears2**: 2008–2009
- **manageryears3**: 2011–2016
- **manageryears4**: 2019–2020
- **manageryears5**: 2023–2024
- **managerclubs1**: Germany national football team, Germany
- **managerclubs2**: FC Bayern Munich, Bayern Munich
- **managerclubs3**: United States men's national soccer team, United States
- **managerclubs4**: Hertha BSC
- **managerclubs5**: South Korea national football team, South Korea
- **medaltemplates**: <small>(as manager)</small>

<small>(as manager)</small>