| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1948-01-09)9 January 1948 (age 78) | ||
| Place of birth | Hanover,Allied-occupied Germany[1] | ||
| Position | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –1966 | Hannover 96 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| ?–1969 | Hannover 96 II | ||
| Managerial career | |||
| 1978–1983 | SV Meppen | ||
| 1983–1984 | Eintracht Nordhorn | ||
| 1984–1988 | VfB Oldenburg | ||
| 1988–1990 | Bayern Munich (A) | ||
| 1990 | Hannover 96 | ||
| 1992–1993 | VfB Lübeck | ||
| 1993–1994 | VfL Osnabrück | ||
| 1994–1995 | Baladeyet Al-Mahalla | ||
| 1995–1996 | Al-Qadisiya Al Khubar | ||
| 1996–1999 | 1. FC Magdeburg | ||
| 2003 | Persepolis | ||
| 2003–2004 | King Faisal Babes | ||
| 2004–2005 | Asante Kotoko | ||
| 2005 | Ismaily SC | ||
| 2006 | All Blacks FC | ||
| 2007 | Black Leopards | ||
| 2009–2010 | Eleven Wise | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Hans-Dieter Schmidt (born 9 January 1948) is a former Germanfootball player turnedmanager.
Schmidt's playing career – part of which he spent withHannover 96 – ended early after a severe injury at the age of 23.
Following the end of his playing days, Schmidt passed his manager diploma and worked as manager ofSV Meppen for several years. After spending a year withEintracht Nordhorn, Schmidt joinedVfB Oldenburg as manager and came in second place in theGerman amateur football championship in 1988. In the same year, he joinedFC Bayern Munich, managing theirreserve team for two years,[2] before taking over as managing director of Hannover 96. While working in that office in Hannover, he was interim manager for two matches, beforeMichael Lorkowski took over.[3] He also managedVfB Lübeck andVfL Osnabrück,[4] before Schmidt went abroad for the first time in 1994. He managed Egyptian top-flight teamBaladeyet Al-Mahalla before joiningSaudi Premier League sideAl-Qadisiya Al Khubar. In 1996, he returned to Germany, taking over as managing director of1. FC Magdeburg. In September 1996, he succeeded Karl Herdle as Magdeburg manager, a job he kept until 1999. With Magdeburg he won promotion to the then-third-tierRegionalliga. After he was sacked at 1. FC Magdeburg in the fall of 1999, Schmidt became a scout forBundesliga sideHamburger SV Between 2003 and 2007, Schmidt went abroad again, managing teams in Iran (Persepolis F.C.), Ghana (King Faisal Babes,Asante Kotoko,All Blacks FC), Egypt (Ismaily SC) and South Africa (Black Leopards). Since the beginning of the 2008–09 season, Schmidt has been director of sports at sixth-tier sideSC BW 94 Papenburg.[5] After he was sacked in December 2009, Schmidt took on managing Ghana sideSekondi Eleven Wise who are fighting relegation from theGhana Premier League[6]