10 Facts About Ralf Minge

Ralf Minge was an international for East Germany, and spent his entire professional career with Dynamo Dresden.

Ralf Minge scored 103 league goals for the club, and ranks as the club's third top scorer, behind Hans-Jurgen Kreische and Torsten Gutschow.

Ralf Minge retired in 1991, at the end of the last ever DDR-Oberliga season.

At international level, Ralf Minge won 36 caps between 1983 and 1989, scoring eight times.

Ralf Minge then left Dynamo and, in July 1995, took up the post as manager of Erzgebirge Aue, where he served for ten months.

In December 1999, Schumacher was sacked, and Ralf Minge briefly stepped in as manager, but left by the end of the month out of loyalty to his former colleague.

In 2000, he joined Bayer Leverkusen, taking over their reserve team before the appointment of Klaus Toppmoller saw Ralf Minge promoted to the role of assistant manager.

Ralf Minge returned to Dresden to study psychology, but his break from football was to be short-lived, as in January 2006, he reunited with Klaus Toppmoller, this time as assistant coach of the Georgia national team, while managing the under-21s.

Ralf Minge briefly coached the German under-20 and under-19 football team respectively in 2010 and 2011.

In 2014, Ralf Minge returned to Dynamo Dresden once more, again filling the position of managing sports director.