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Josef "Jupp" Heynckes (b. 9 May 1945 in Mönchengladbach, Germany) is a former German football player and coach.

As player he was a prolific striker. He mainly played for Borussia Mönchengladbach, where he won 4 national championships, one cup and one UEFA Cup. With the German national team he won the 1972 European Football Championship and the 1974 FIFA World Cup.

He coached for Borussia Mönchengladbach, Bayern Munich, where he achieved two German championships, and Real Madrid where he won the European Champions League 1998.

Contents 1 Career as Player 1.1 National team 2 Career as Coach 3 Statistics 3.1 Player 3.2 Coach

As player Jupp Heynckes played 385 matches in the German Bundesliga and scored 220 goals. This makes him the third most successful striker in this league, after the legendary Gerd Müller (365 goals) and Klaus Fischer (268 goals).

He started his playing career 1964 with Borussia Mönchengladbach in the second division. In 1965 the club was promoted to the Bundesliga. Heynckes stayed on for two more years and then left for three years to Hannover 96.

He returned to Borussia Mönchengladbach in 1970 and stayed there until the end of his career in 1978. In this period he won with the club four championships (1971, 1975, 1976 and 1977), in 1973 the national cup and in 1975 also the UEFA Cup.

With 51 goals he is also the third most prolific striker in the history of European club competitions behind Gerd Müller (65) and Eusébio (57), and before Alfredo Di Stéfano (49). In his 64 matches he achieved a remarkable average of 0.80 goals.

Jupp Heynckes also played 39 times for the German national team and scored 14 times in the course. With Germany he won the European Championship of 1972, where he took part in the final at the 3-0 victory vs. the USSR. He was also part of the squad that won the 1974 FIFA World Cup in Germany, but he played only one half-time in the course of the tournament.

After his playing career he stayed on with Borussia Mönchengladbach and served the club for eight more years as coach, succeeding Udo Lattek in this position.

Between 1987 and 1991 he coached Bayern Munich. Also here he followed in the footsteps of Udo Lattek. In this period he achieved two German championships with the club (1989 and 1990).

After this he coached Eintracht Frankfurt (1994-95), CD Tenerife, Athletic Bilbao and 1997-98 Real Madrid (1997-98). There he celebrated his greatest triumph, when he returned in 1998 after a 32-year dry spell the Champions League trophy to Madrid. However, lack of domestic success saw his tenure terminated by the end of that season. He then joined SL Benfica before returning to Athletic Bilbao.

Heynckes made a comeback in the Bundesliga when he took over Schalke 04 at the beginning of the 2003/04 season. His contract there was cut short in September 2004.

In May of 2006, he was announced as the new coach of Borussia Mönchengladbach. On January 31 2007 he retired after fourteen consecutive Bundesliga matches without win and Borussia dropping to 17th place in the table.

Period	Club	Matches/Goals	Titles	Caps
1966-67 1970-78	Bor.Mönchengladbach	283 / 195	Championship: 1970, 75, 76, 77 German Cup: 1973	38
1967-70	Hannover 96	86 / 25		1
1967-76	Germany	39 / 14	European Championship: 1972 World Cup: 1974	39

Period	Club	Titles
1979-87	Borussia Mönchengladbach
1987-91	Bayern Munich	German Championship: 1989, 1990
1992-94	Athletic Bilbao
1994-95	Eintracht Frankfurt
1996-97	CD Tenerife
1997-98	Real Madrid	European Champions League 1998
1999-00	SL Benfica
2001-03	Athletic Bilbao
2003-04	Schalke 04
2006-07	Borussia Mönchengladbach

Preceded by Ottmar Hitzfeld

UEFA Champions League Winning Coach 1997-98

Succeeded by Alex Ferguson

	West Germany squad - 1974 FIFA World Cup Champions (2nd Title)
1 Maier | 2 Vogts | 3 Breitner | 4 Schwarzenbeck | 5 Beckenbauer | 6 Höttges | 7 Wimmer | 8 Cullmann | 9 Grabowski | 10 Netzer | 11 Heynckes | 12 Overath | 13 Müller | 14 Hoeneß | 15 Flohe | 16 Bonhof | 17 Hölzenbein | 18 Herzog | 19 Kapellmann | 20 Kremers | 21 Nigbur | 22 Kleff | Coach: Schön