Reinhard Häfner

Reinhard Häfner
	Häfner with Dresden in 1990
Personal information
Date of birth	2 February 1952
Place of birth	Sonneberg, East Germany
Date of death	24 October 2016 (aged 64)
Place of death	Dresden, Germany
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
	BSG Motor Sonneberg
	Rot-Weiß Erfurt
Senior career*
Years	Team
1970–1971	Rot-Weiß Erfurt
1971–1988	Dynamo Dresden
Total
International career
1971–1984	East Germany
Managerial career
1990–1991	Dynamo Dresden
1993–1996	Chemnitzer FC
	1. SC Sonneberg
	SSV Erfurt-Nord
2000–2002	Hallescher FC
2009–2011	SV Grün-Weiß Langeneichstädt
2011–2016	1. FC Radebeul
Medal record
Olympic Games
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Reinhard Häfner (2 February 1952 – 24 October 2016) was a German football player and coach.

Career

Häfner played children's and youth football for his hometown club BSG Motor Sonneberg. As a junior player he was assigned to Rot-Weiß Erfurt before joining Dynamo Dresden in 1971. He stayed with the Dresden club until his retirement as a player in 1988 having played in 366 East German first division DDR-Oberliga matches, scoring 49 goals. He is second to Hans-Jürgen Dörner in matches played for Dynamo. Häfner was part of four DDR championship and FDGB Pokal (East German Cup) winning teams there.

Between 1971 and 1984 he was capped 58 times for the East Germany national team, scoring 5 goals, and was part of the gold medal-winning squad at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada.^[1]

In April 1990, two years after his retirement as a player, Häfner became head coach of Dynamo Dresden, replacing Eduard Geyer. Weeks later Dynamo claimed its eighth championship and seventh cup. The following season, despite the sale of star players Ulf Kirsten and Matthias Sammer, Häfner guided the Dresden team to a second-place finish in the final DDR-Oberliga season before the merger of the football competitions of East and West Germany following the reunification of the country, qualifying the club for the first division Bundesliga. Despite this success he was dismissed in June 1991. He moved on to coach second division club Chemnitzer FC from 1993 to 1996.

Häfner joined SV Grün-Weiß Langeneichstädt (Kreisliga Merseburg/Querfurt, Sachsen-Anhalt) in the post-season of 2006–07.

References

^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Reinhard Häfner". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2018.

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