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Wolfgang Rolff

Rolff with Werder Bremen in 2009
Personal information
Date of birth	(1959-12-26) 26 December 1959 (age 64)
Place of birth	Lamstedt, West Germany
Height	1.79 m
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Laval United (manager)
Youth career
	TSV Lamstedt
	OSC Bremerhaven
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1979–1980	OSC Bremerhaven	35	(6)
1980–1982	Fortuna Köln	75	(17)
1982–1986	Hamburger SV	129	(24)
1986–1989	Bayer Leverkusen	99	(9)
1989–1990	Strasbourg	30	(4)
1990–1991	Bayer 05 Uerdingen	20	(0)
1991–1994	Karlsruher SC	94	(14)
1994–1995	1. FC Köln	14	(0)
1995–1996	Fortuna Köln	16	(2)
Total		512	(76)
National team
1983–1989	West Germany	37	(0)
Teams managed
1997	Hamburger SV (assistant)
1997–1998	SV Meppen
1998	VfB Stuttgart (assistant)
1998	VfB Stuttgart (caretaker)
2000–2001	Bayer Leverkusen (assistant)
2001–2002	Kuwait (assistant)
2004–2013	Werder Bremen (assistant)
2013	Werder Bremen (caretaker)
2014	Azerbaijan
2014–2015	Eintracht Frankfurt (assistant)
2015–2016	Al-Salmiya SC
2016	Hannover 96
2016–2017	Shandong Luneng (assistant)
2020–	Laval
Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Wolfgang Rolff (born 26 December 1959) is a German football manager and former player.

Playing career

Rolff played in 356 Bundesliga matches (47 goals) for Hamburger SV, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Bayer 05 Uerdingen, Karlsruher SC and 1. FC Köln. He further took part in 126 2. Bundesliga matches (23 goals) for OSC Bremerhaven and SC Fortuna Köln, having a spell in France with RC Strasbourg for whom he scored four goals in 30 games in Ligue 2. In his years with his clubs, he won the Bundesliga title with Hamburg in 1983 and was part of the Hamburg side that clinched the European Cup against Juventus in Athens the same summer, five years later he won the UEFA Cup with Bayer 04 Leverkusen in 1988.

Reputed as a tireless midfielder, Rolff debuted for West Germany in 1983 and was part of the UEFA Euro 1984 and the UEFA Euro 1988 squad of his nation. On both occasions he featured twice each in games of West Germany, making also two appearances for the West Germans in their runner-up campaign at the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. In total he played in 37 international matches until 1989.

Coaching career

His former Hamburg teammate Felix Magath appointed Rolff as assistant at Hamburger SV in 1997. In 1998 Rolff took sole charge of SV Meppen for six months until the club's relegation from the 2. Bundesliga. He went on working as assistant to his former Karlsruhe manager Winfried Schäfer at VfB Stuttgart and was, shortly after, named caretaker manager of Die Schwaben. In 2000–01, he worked in the coaching staff of former Germany coach Berti Vogts during Vogts' reign as manager of Bayer 04 Leverkusen, also one of Rolff's ex-clubs. Subsequent to Vogts' departure from Leverkusen in 2001, Rolff worked as assistant to Vogts after Vogts had been hired to guide Kuwait. Rolff did not follow Vogts to Scotland, indeed, and was in July 2004 employed by SV Werder Bremen as assistant manager. After the sacking of Thomas Schaaf, Rolff, along with Matthias Hönerbach, was interim head coach from 15 May 2013 until 27 May 2013, when Robin Dutt became the new head coach.

Coaching record

Honours

Player

Hamburger SV

• Bundesliga: 1982–83
• European Cup: 1982–83
• UEFA Super Cup runner-up: 1983
• Intercontinental Cup runner-up: 1983

Bayer Leverkusen

• UEFA Cup: 1987–88

West Germany

• FIFA World Cup runner-up: 1986

Manager

Al-Salmiya

• Kuwait Crown Prince Cup: 2015–16

See also

In Spanish: Wolfgang Rolff para niños