52 Facts About Jupp Heynckes

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Josef "Jupp" Heynckes is a German retired professional footballer and manager.

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Jupp Heynckes is the fourth-highest goalscorer in the history of the Bundesliga, with 220 goals.

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Jupp Heynckes was a member of the West Germany national team that won the UEFA Euro 1972 and the 1974 FIFA World Cup titles.

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Jupp Heynckes played 369 matches in the German Bundesliga, scoring 220 goals.

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Jupp Heynckes's tally is the third highest in this league, after Gerd Muller's 365 goals and Klaus Fischer's 268.

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Jupp Heynckes scored 27 Bundesliga goals in two seasons for Borussia before joining Hannover 96, where he spent three years and scored 25 times in 86 league matches.

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Jupp Heynckes returned to Monchengladbach in 1970, with the club having just won the first league title in its history.

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Again, Jupp Heynckes was tournament top scorer, this time with ten goals.

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Altogether, Jupp Heynckes scored 23 goals in 21 games in the UEFA Cup, making him the ninth-highest goalscorer in the history of the competition, and the only member of the top ten to have scored at a ratio of over a goal per game.

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Jupp Heynckes was replaced by Udo Lattek, under whom Heynckes would later begin his coaching career.

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Altogether, Jupp Heynckes scored 51 goals in 64 matches in European club competitions.

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Jupp Heynckes ended his playing career in 1978 and began studying for his coaching licence at the Deutsche Sporthochschule Koln.

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Jupp Heynckes is the third-highest goalscorer in Bundesliga history and Borussia Monchengladbach's top goalscorer in the competition with 195 goals.

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Jupp Heynckes made 39 appearances for the West Germany national team and scored 14 goals.

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Jupp Heynckes was named by UEFA as one of seven German players in the official Team of the Tournament.

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Jupp Heynckes was included in West Germany's squad for the 1974 FIFA World Cup, which was held in West Germany.

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Under Jupp Heynckes, Monchengladbach had finished in seventh place in 1980, sixth place in 1981 and seventh place in 1982.

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In 2013, Jupp Heynckes described it as "the worst night of my career".

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Jupp Heynckes finished with a record of 169 wins, 77 draws and 97 losses.

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Jupp Heynckes was manager of Bayern Munich between 1 July 1987 and 8 October 1991.

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Jupp Heynckes was fired by Bayern on 4 October 1991, after the team had won only four of its first 12 Bundesliga matches.

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Jupp Heynckes finished with a record of 113 wins, 46 draws and 39 losses.

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Jupp Heynckes managed his first match against Cadiz on 5 September 1992.

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Jupp Heynckes led them to an eighth-placed finish in his first season.

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On 1 July 1994, Jupp Heynckes returned to Germany to become manager of Eintracht Frankfurt and was manager until 2 April 1995.

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Jupp Heynckes' spell at the Eintracht was problematic and he clashed with the club's star players Anthony Yeboah, Jay-Jay Okocha and Maurizio Gaudino.

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Jupp Heynckes finished with a record of 12 wins, 10 draws and 12 losses.

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In 1995, Jupp Heynckes returned to Spain to take over at Tenerife.

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Jupp Heynckes won his first match as manager against Sevilla on 2 September 1995.

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In June 1997, Jupp Heynckes was hired by the Spanish champions Real Madrid.

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Jupp Heynckes became unpopular with the Benfica fans and left the club by mutual agreement in September 2000.

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In 2001, Jupp Heynckes returned to Athletic Bilbao for a second spell as coach.

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In June 2003, Jupp Heynckes left Athletic to become head coach of Schalke 04.

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In 2003, after eight years managing in Iberia, Jupp Heynckes returned to Germany to manage Schalke 04.

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On 15 September 2004, Jupp Heynckes was fired by the club's general manager Rudi Assauer.

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Jupp Heynckes finished with a record of 28 wins, 14 draws and 15 losses.

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In May 2006, Jupp Heynckes returned to manage Borussia Monchengladbach, the club where he had begun his career as both a player and manager.

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Jupp Heynckes' comeback started well, with Gladbach in fifth position in the Bundesliga at the end of the seventh matchday after winning each of their opening four home matches.

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Jupp Heynckes resigned on 31 January 2007 after 14-straight Bundesliga matches without a win saw Borussia drop to 17th place in the table.

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On departing Borussia, Jupp Heynckes refused a pay-off and returned his company car to the club office freshly cleaned and with a full tank of petrol.

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Jupp Heynckes finished with a record of 5 wins, 4 draws and 12 losses.

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On 5 June 2009, Jupp Heynckes signed a two-year contract to manage Bayer Leverkusen.

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Jupp Heynckes finished with a record of 44 wins, 26 draws and 14 losses at Bayer Leverkusen.

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Jupp Heynckes's opposing coach that day, Otto Rehhagel, is the only coach who has managed more Bundesliga matches, with over 800.

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On 23 February 2013, Jupp Heynckes participated in his 1,000th Bundesliga match as player and manager combined, making him the man with the second most appearances in Bundesliga history.

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On 1 June 2013, Jupp Heynckes took charge of Bayern for the last time in the 2013 DFB-Pokal final against VfB Stuttgart.

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Jupp Heynckes finished with a record of 83 wins, 12 draws, and 14 losses.

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Jupp Heynckes said in an interview with Sport Bild that he was only going to manage Bayern until the end of the season.

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Jupp Heynckes won 22, lost three and one match ended with a draw.

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Jupp Heynckes won seven, lost one and two matches ended with a draw.

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Jupp Heynckes managed 668 Bundesliga matches with five clubs, won 343, lost 164 and drew 161 matches.

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Jupp Heynckes managed 38 matches in the Primeira Liga with Benfica, winning 23 matches, losing 8 and drawing 7 matches.