Jürgen Klopp

Jürgen Klopp
Klopp with Liverpool in 2019
Personal information
Full name Jürgen Norbert Klopp
Date of birth (1967-06-16) 16 June 1967
Place of birth Stuttgart, West Germany
Height 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)[1]
Position(s) Striker, defender
Youth career
1972–1983 SV Glatten
1983–1987 TuS Ergenzingen
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1987 1. FC Pforzheim
1987–1988 Eintracht Frankfurt II
1988–1989 Viktoria Sindlingen
1989–1990 Rot-Weiss Frankfurt 0 (0)
1990–2001 Mainz 05 325 (52)
Managerial career
2001–2008 Mainz 05
2008–2015 Borussia Dortmund
2015–2024 Liverpool
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jürgen Norbert Klopp (German pronunciation: [ˈjʏʁɡn̩ ˈklɔp] ⓘ; born 16 June 1967) is a German football executive and former manager and player. He is widely regarded as one of the best football managers in the world.[2] Klopp has been Head of Global Soccer for Red Bull GmbH since January 2025.[3]

Klopp spent most of his playing career at Mainz 05. He was initially deployed as a striker, but was later moved to defence. Upon retiring in 2001, Klopp became the club's manager, and secured Bundesliga promotion in 2004. After suffering relegation in the 2006–07 season and unable to achieve promotion, Klopp resigned in 2008 as the club's longest-serving manager. He then became manager of Borussia Dortmund, guiding them to the Bundesliga title in 2010–11, before winning Dortmund's first-ever domestic double during a record-breaking season.[note 1] Klopp also guided Dortmund to a runner-up finish in the 2012–13 UEFA Champions League before leaving in 2015 as their longest-serving manager.[4]

Klopp was appointed manager of Liverpool in 2015. He guided the club to UEFA Champions League finals in 2018 and 2022, and won the trophy in 2019 to secure his first – and Liverpool's sixth – title in the competition. Klopp's side finished second in the 2018–19 Premier League, registering 97 points; the then third-highest total in the history of the English top division, and the most by a team without winning the title. The following season, Klopp won the UEFA Super Cup and Liverpool's first FIFA Club World Cup, before delivering Liverpool's first Premier League title, amassing a club record 99 points and breaking a number of top-flight records. These achievements won him back-to-back FIFA Coach of the Year awards in 2019 and 2020. Klopp won a cup double of the EFL Cup and FA Cup in 2022. He won another EFL Cup in 2024, departing that same year.

Klopp is a notable proponent of Gegenpressing, whereby the team, after losing possession, immediately attempts to win back possession, rather than falling back to regroup. He has described his sides as playing "heavy metal" football, in reference to their pressing and high attacking output. Klopp has cited his main influences as Italian coach Arrigo Sacchi, and former Mainz coach Wolfgang Frank. The importance of emotion is something Klopp has underlined throughout his managerial career, and he has gained both admiration and notoriety for his enthusiastic touchline celebrations.

  1. ^ "Jürgen Klopp" (in German). 1. FSV Mainz 05. Archived from the original on 13 June 1998. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
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  3. ^ "Former Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp agrees to become Red Bull's global head of soccer". Sky Sports. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
  4. ^ "Borussia Dortmund | 2012/13 | Season review". bundesliga.com - the official Bundesliga website. Retrieved 20 June 2024.


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