Erich Ribbeck
Ribbeck around 1980
Personal information
Date of birth (1937-06-13) 13 June 1937
Place of birth Wuppertal, Germany
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
SSV 1904 Wuppertal
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1959–1962 SSV 1904 Wuppertal
1962–1965 Viktoria Köln
Managerial career
1965–1967 Borussia Mönchengladbach (assistant)
1967–1968 Rot-Weiss Essen
1968–1973 Eintracht Frankfurt
1973–1978 1. FC Kaiserslautern
1978–1984 West Germany (assistant)
1984–1985 Borussia Dortmund
1985–1988 Bayer Leverkusen
1992–1993 Bayern Munich
1995–1996 Bayer Leverkusen
1998–2000 Germany
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Erich Ribbeck (born 13 June 1937) is a German former professional football player and manager, best known for coaching in the Bundesliga. In 1988, he won the UEFA Cup as manager of Bayer Leverkusen, the first title in the club's history.

Club career

As a player, Ribbeck had a career spanning most of the 1950s into the early 1960s with SSV 1904 Wuppertal, which has since merged with TSG Vohwinkel to form Wuppertaler SV. He later spent the rest of his career playing for Viktoria Köln. The highest level Ribbeck played was the Oberliga, part of the first tier of Germany which was then split into five regional divisions.

Managerial career

Club

His very first coaching position he held at the age of 30 in 1967–68, when he took Rot-Weiss Essen to the second place in the western division of Germany's Level 2 league and thus to the promotion tournament, where the club ended up losing out against Hertha Berlin.

The next ten years he shared evenly with engagements with Eintracht Frankfurt and 1. FC Kaiserslautern. In the Bundesliga these clubs remained on mediocre levels during his tenure. With Kaiserlautern he reached the German Cup final of 1976, losing 0–2 to Hamburger SV.

He achieved his only trophy when he won the UEFA Cup with Bayer Leverkusen. In the finals, Leverkusen came back from 0–3 away to Espanyol to win the eventual penalty shoot-out at home.

He was also runner-up in the German Championship of 1993 with Bayern Munich.

International

Ribbeck was originally considered as a candidate for the national team manager role after the resignation of Helmut Schön in 1978. Instead, Jupp Derwall was selected and it was not until 20 years later on 9 September 1998[1] that Ribbeck emerged from retirement to take over the Germany national team when other candidates had declined. At 61, he was the oldest appointee to the job.

Ribbeck's two-year tenure marked the worst period in the modern history of Germany's national side. Ribbeck resigned on 21 June 2000 after a string of disappointing results culminating in a group stage exit from Euro 2000.[2] During that tournament, Ribbeck had rejected calls from Oliver Bierhoff, Oliver Kahn, Jens Nowotny and Mehmet Scholl to drop aging sweeper Lothar Matthäus. Ribbeck had insisted that Matthäus would earn his 150th cap, while threatening any rebellious national team members with a fine or exclusion from the squad.[3]

His results as Germany's coach were ten wins, six draws, and eight losses, the worst managerial performance of all time for a coach of the Germany national team.

Personal life

Ribbeck shares his residence between Pulheim and Tenerife, Spain.

Managerial statistics

As of 22 January 2014
Team From To Record
G W D L Win % Ref.
Rot-Weiss Essen 1 July 1967 30 June 1968 42 25 11 6 059.52
Eintracht Frankfurt 1 July 1968[4] 30 June 1973[4] 203 83 41 79 040.89 [4]
1. FC Kaiserslautern 1 July 1973[5] 30 June 1978[5] 192 85 32 75 044.27 [5]
Borussia Dortmund 28 October 1984[6] 30 June 1985[6] 25 10 4 11 040.00 [6]
Bayer Leverkusen 1 July 1985[7] 30 June 1988[7] 125 53 36 36 042.40 [7]
Bayern Munich 12 March 1992[8] 27 December 1993[8] 75 37 22 16 049.33 [8]
Bayer Leverkusen 10 April 1995[7] 28 April 1996[7] 48 17 18 13 035.42 [7]
Germany 9 September 1998[1] 21 June 2000[2] 24 10 6 8 041.67 [9]
Total 734 320 170 244 043.60 —

Honours

Manager

Bayer Leverkusen

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Nachfolge geklärt: Erich Ribbeck neuer Teamchef". kicker (in German). 9 September 1998. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Ribbeck quits as Germans head home". BBC. 21 June 2000. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
  3. ↑ "Euro 2000: Bierhoff out as Matthaus row grows".
  4. 1 2 3 "Eintracht Frankfurt" (in German). kicker. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
  5. 1 2 3 "1. FC Kaiserslautern". kicker.de (in German). kicker. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
  6. 1 2 3 "Borussia Dortmund - Trainerhistorie" (in German). kicker. Archived from the original on 18 September 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Bayer 04 Leverkusen" (in German). kicker. Archived from the original on 17 January 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
  8. 1 2 3 "Bayern München" (in German). kicker. Archived from the original on 7 January 2015. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
  9. ↑ "Nationaltrainer" (in German). DFB. Archived from the original on 3 January 2012. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
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