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 Rehhagel in 2010 | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 9 August 1938 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Essen, Germany | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1948–1957 | TuS Helene Altenessen | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1957–1960 | TuS Helene Altenessen | ||||||||||||||||
| 1960–1963 | Rot-Weiss Essen | 90 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 1963–1965 | Hertha BSC | 53 | (6) | ||||||||||||||
| 1965–1972 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 148 | (17) | ||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1960 | West Germany Amateur | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1972 | FV Rockenhausen | ||||||||||||||||
| 1972–1973 | 1. FC Saarbrücken | ||||||||||||||||
| 1974–1975 | Kickers Offenbach | ||||||||||||||||
| 1976 | Werder Bremen | ||||||||||||||||
| 1976–1978 | Borussia Dortmund | ||||||||||||||||
| 1978–1979 | Arminia Bielefeld | ||||||||||||||||
| 1979–1980 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | ||||||||||||||||
| 1981–1995 | Werder Bremen | ||||||||||||||||
| 1995–1996 | Bayern Munich | ||||||||||||||||
| 1996–2000 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | ||||||||||||||||
| 2001–2010 | Greece | ||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | Hertha BSC | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Otto Rehhagel (German: [ˈʁeːhaːɡl̩]; born 9 August 1938) is a German former football coach and player.
Rehhagel is one of only two people who, as player and manager combined, has participated in over 1,000 Bundesliga matches (the other being Jupp Heynckes). In the Bundesliga, he holds the records for the most victories (387), most draws (205), most losses (228), and his teams have scored the most goals (1,473) and conceded more (1,142) than any other. He served as the head coach of Werder Bremen between 1981 and 1995 and won twice the Bundesliga and in 1992 the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup with them. After a rather unsuccessful intermezzo at Bayern Munich, he won the Bundesliga sensationally with the promoted team 1. FC Kaiserslautern.
Internationally, Rehhagel coached Greece from 2001 to 2010 in their most successful footballing era – during that period, Greece won the 2004 European Championship unexpectedly and qualified for the 2010 World Cup, their second World Cup finals appearance. A 2022 critically acclaimed film entitled, King Otto, was made on Otto Rehhagel's triumph with the Greece national team for the 2004 European Championships.