.jpg) Dieter Erler in 1964 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1939-05-28)28 May 1939 | ||
| Place of birth | Glauchau,Germany | ||
| Date of death | 10 April 1998(1998-04-10) (aged 58) | ||
| Place of death | Chemnitz,Germany | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1953–1957 | BSG Chemie Glauchau | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1957–1958 | BSG Wismut Gera | 0 | (0) |
| 1959–1965 | SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt | 112 | (36) |
| 1965–1972 | SC Karl-Marx-Stadt | 179 | (18) |
| Total | 291 | (52) | |
| International career | |||
| 1959–1968 | East Germany | 47 | (12) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1974–1975 | FC Karl-Marx-Stadt | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Dieter Erler (28 May 1939 inGlauchau – 10 April 1998 inChemnitz) was a Germanfootballer.[1]
He began his footballing career withBSG Chemie Glauchau in 1953. He was transferred toBSG Wismut Gera for the 1957 season and then after two seasons[2] moved tosports clubSC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt in January 1959. Erler was both aplaymaker and a goalscoring midfielder.
In 1963, Erler moved toSC Karl-Marx-Stadt, where he played alongside the player described byPelé as the bestleft-winger in the world at the time:Eberhard Vogel. In 1966–67 the team was crownedDDR-Oberliga champion.
Between 1959 and 1972 he played forSC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt and thenFC Karl-Marx-Stadt. During his career he gained between 1959 and 1968[3] 47 internationalcaps and scored 12 goals forEast Germany.[4]
He was votedGDR footballer of the year in 1967.
| Club | Season | League | Cup[a] | Continental[b] | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| BSG Wismut Gera | 1958 | DDR-Oberliga | – | 2 | 0 | – | 2 | 0 | ||
| Total | – | 2 | 0 | – | 2 | 0 | ||||
| SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt | 1959 | DDR-Oberliga | 26 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 35 | 8 |
| 1960 | 22 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 31 | 6 | ||
| 1961–62 | 39 | 16 | 2 | 1 | – | 41 | 17 | |||
| 1962–63 | 25 | 8 | 3 | 1 | – | 28 | 9 | |||
| Total | 112 | 36 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 132 | 40 | ||
| FC Karl-Marx-Stadt | 1963–64 | DDR-Oberliga | 26 | 4 | 1 | 0 | – | 27 | 4 | |
| 1964–65 | 23 | 3 | 1 | 0 | – | 24 | 3 | |||
| 1965–66 | 26 | 2 | 3 | 0 | – | 29 | 2 | |||
| 1966–67 | 21 | 5 | 2 | 0 | – | 23 | 15 | |||
| 1967–68 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 0 | ||
| 1968–69 | 17 | 3 | 3 | 0 | – | 20 | 3 | |||
| 1969–70 | 23 | 0 | 4 | 1 | – | 27 | 1 | |||
| 1970–71 | – | 1 | 0 | – | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 1971–72 | 25 | 1 | 4 | 0 | – | 29 | 1 | |||
| Total | 179 | 18 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 201 | 19 | ||
| Career total | 291 | 54 | 34 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 333 | 59 | ||
| East Germany national team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Apps | Goals |
| 1959 | 2 | 0 |
| 1960 | 6 | 1 |
| 1961 | 7 | 3 |
| 1962 | 8 | 4 |
| 1963 | 4 | 1 |
| 1964 | 1 | 0 |
| 1965 | 6 | 0 |
| 1966 | 6 | 3 |
| 1967 | 6 | 0 |
| 1968 | 1 | 0 |
| Total | 47 | 12 |
| Goal | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 30 October 1960 | Ostseestadion,Rostock, East Germany |  Finland | 2–0 | 5–1 | Exhibition game |
| 2. | 14 May 1961 | Zentralstadion,Leipzig, East Germany |  Netherlands | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1962 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 3. | 10 September 1961 | Walter-Ulbricht-Stadion,East Berlin, East Germany |  Hungary | 1–1 | 2–3 | 1962 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 4. | 22 October 1961 | Olimpijski,Wrocław, Poland |  Poland | 1–1 | 1–3 | Exhibition game |
| 5. | 3 May 1962 | Lenin,Moscow, Soviet Union |  Soviet Union | 1–2 | 1–2 | Exhibition game |
| 6. | 9 December 1962 | Stade Mamadou Konaté,Bamako, Mali |  Mali | 1–0 | 1–2 | Exhibition game |
| 7. | 2–0 | |||||
| 8. | 21 November 1962 | Walter-Ulbricht-Stadion,East Berlin, East Germany |  Czechoslovakia | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1964 European Nations' Cup qualifying |
| 9. | 3 November 1963 | Népstadion,Budapest, Hungary | Hungary | 3–3 | 3–3 | 1964 European Nations' Cup qualifying |
| 10. | 4 September 1966 | Dr.-Kurt-Fischer-Stadion,Chemnitz, East Germany |  Egypt | 2–0 | 6–0 | Exhibition game |
| 11. | 3–0 | |||||
| 12. | 11 September 1966 | Georgi-Dimitroff-Stadion,Erfurt, East Germany | Poland | 1–0 | 2–0 | Exhibition game |
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