_(cropped).jpg) Allofs in 2008 | ||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1956-12-05)5 December 1956 (age 68) | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Düsseldorf,West Germany | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||
| Position | Striker | |||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||
| 1964–1972 | TuS Gerresheim | |||||||||||||
| 1972–1975 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 1975–1981 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 169 | (71) | |||||||||||
| 1981–1987 | 1. FC Köln | 177 | (88) | |||||||||||
| 1987–1989 | Marseille | 53 | (20) | |||||||||||
| 1989–1990 | Bordeaux | 37 | (14) | |||||||||||
| 1990–1993 | Werder Bremen | 78 | (18) | |||||||||||
| Total | 514 | (211) | ||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||
| 1978–1988 | West Germany | 56 | (17) | |||||||||||
| Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
| 1998–1999 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | |||||||||||||
| 1999–2012 | Werder Bremen (general manager) | |||||||||||||
| 2012–2016 | VfL Wolfsburg (sporting director) | |||||||||||||
| 2020– | Fortuna Düsseldorf (general manager for sport) | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
Klaus Allofs (born 5 December 1956) is a German former professionalfootball player, manager, and executive.
Astriker, Allofs was a prolific goalscorer for club and country. He amassedBundesliga totals of 424 games and 177 goals over the course of 15 seasons (finishing as the league's top scorer on two occasions), playing mainly forFortuna Düsseldorf and1. FC Köln. His younger brother,Thomas, was also a professional footballer and also a striker, sometimes on the same team.
Allofs gained nearly 60caps forWest Germany, representing the nation inoneWorld Cup and twoEuropean Championships, including the triumphantEuro 1980 tournament.
In 1999, after briefly working as a coach atFortuna Düsseldorf, he became general manager at former clubWerder Bremen, where he, in tandem with head coachThomas Schaaf, helped the club to great success, winning the double ofBundesliga andDFB-Pokal in 2004, reaching the2009 UEFA Cup final and qualifying for theUEFA Champions League six times.
Born inDüsseldorf, Allofs began playing professionally for home teamFortuna Düsseldorf, in 1975. He started his career as anattacking midfielder, and scored nearly 100 overall goals for the club, helping it to consecutiveGerman cup wins, and often playing upfront with siblingThomas. In1978–79, he finished as theBundesliga's top scorer, and also scored three in nine in Fortuna'sUEFA Cup Winners' Cuprunner-up run,[1] including one inthe final, anextra time loss againstFC Barcelona.[2]
In 1981 Allofs joined1. FC Köln, where he continued scoring at an excellent rate. In1985–86 he only tallied seven times in the league, one goal being from 70 metres out against Bayer Leverkusen (an intended pass to a breakaway forward that bounced over the advancing Leverkusen goalkeeper), but he added nine in as many matches in theUEFA Cup, as the teamlostthe final on aggregate toReal Madrid. In the following season, he re-partnered with Thomas, then left the country during three years, playing in France withOlympique de Marseille andGirondins de Bordeaux.
Allofs retired in June 1993, aged nearly 37, after three seasons withWerder Bremen, still managing to score regularly. In the1991–92 Cup Winners' Cup he scored inthe final againstMonaco, in an eventual 2–0 win.[3] Inhis final year, he played 16 games without scoring – the only time other than his first season that it happened in his career – as Werder won the league title. In total, he appeared in 424Bundesliga matches, totalling 177 goals.[4] When he retired he was in joint seventh place on the list of the Bundesliga's all-time leading scorers, tied withDieter Müller.
Allofs played forGermany a total of 56 times, scoring 17 goals.[5] His first match was on 11 October 1978 inPrague, againstCzechoslovakia, a 4–3friendly win.
Allofs went on to play for the national side at the victoriousUEFA Euro 1980 (where he scored three times to top the goalscoring charts, all in a 3–2 group stage win against theNetherlands),Euro 1984 and1986 FIFA World Cup. Pushed to the sidelines by emerging starsRudi Völler andJürgen Klinsmann, he retired from international play on 31 March 1988, scoring in a friendly withSweden.
Ahead of the1998–99 season Allofs was appointed head coach at former clubFortuna Düsseldorf. In April, with the club placed last in the table, he was fired.[6]
In July 1999, Allofs became general manager ofWerder Bremen.[7][8] In the2003–04 season he and head coachThomas Schaaf led Bremen to the double ofBundesliga andDFB-Pokal.[9][10] This success was followed by six qualifications to theUEFA Champions League.[10] In the 2008–09 season they also reached the2009 UEFA Cup Final.[10]
In November 2012, Allofs left Bremen to joinVfL Wolfsburg as their new sporting director,[11] remaining there until December 2016.[12]
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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| 1 | 12 September 1979 | Olympiastadion,West Berlin,West Germany |  Argentina | 1–0 | 2–1 | Friendly |
| 2 | 27 February 1980 | Weserstadion,Bremen, West Germany |  Malta | 1–0 | 8–0 | UEFA Euro 1980 qualifying |
| 3 | 4–0 | |||||
| 4 | 13 May 1980 | Waldstadion,Frankfurt, West Germany |  Poland | 2–1 | 3–1 | Friendly |
| 5 | 14 June 1980 | Stadio San Paolo,Naples, Italy |  Netherlands | 1–0 | 3–2 | UEFA Euro 1980 |
| 6 | 2–0 | |||||
| 7 | 3–0 | |||||
| 8 | 19 November 1980 | Niedersachsenstadion,Hanover, West Germany |  France | 4–1 | 4–1 | Friendly |
| 9 | 7 January 1981 | Parque Central,Montevideo, Uruguay |  Brazil | 1–0 | 1–4 | Mundialito |
| 10 | 16 December 1984 | Ta' Qali National Stadium,Attard,Malta | Malta | 2–1 | 3–2 | 1986 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 11 | 3–1 | |||||
| 12 | 30 April 1985 | Generali Arena,Prague,Czechoslovakia |  Czechoslovakia | 5–0 | 5–1 | 1986 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 13 | 12 March 1986 | Waldstadion, Frankfurt, West Germany | Brazil | 2–0 | 2–0 | Friendly |
| 14 | 4 June 1986 | Estadio La Corregidora,Querétaro, Mexico |  Uruguay | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1986 FIFA World Cup |
| 15 | 8 June 1986 | Estadio La Corregidora, Querétaro, Mexico |  Scotland | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1986 FIFA World Cup |
| 16 | 24 September 1986 | Parken Stadium,Copenhagen, Denmark |  Denmark | 2–0 | 2–0 | Friendly |
| 17 | 31 March 1988 | Olympiastadion,West Berlin, West Germany |  Sweden | 1–0 | 1–1 (2–4 pens) | Friendly |
Fortuna Düsseldorf[13]
1. FC Köln[13]
Marseille[14]
Bordeaux
Werder Bremen[13]
West Germany[13]
Individual
Werder Bremen
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