 Gütschow taking a shot in 1990 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Torsten Jens Gütschow[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1962-07-28)28 July 1962 (age 63) | ||
| Place of birth | Görlitz,East Germany | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1968–1973 | Traktor Zodel | ||
| 1973–1976 | Dynamo Görlitz | ||
| 1976–1980 | Dynamo Dresden | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1980–1992 | Dynamo Dresden | 247 | (116) |
| 1992–1993 | Galatasaray | 15 | (10) |
| 1993–1994 | Carl Zeiss Jena | 9 | (0) |
| 1994–1995 | Hannover 96 | 33 | (16) |
| 1995–1996 | Chemnitzer FC | 34 | (15) |
| 1996–1999 | Dynamo Dresden | 82 | (33) |
| Total | 420 | (190) | |
| International career | |||
| 1979 | East Germany U-18 | 4 | (3) |
| 1981–1983 | East Germany U-21 | 16 | (4) |
| East Germany Olympic | 3 | (2) | |
| 1984–1989 | East Germany | 3 | (2) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2003–2004 | FC Oberneuland | ||
| 2006–2013 | TuS Heeslingen | ||
| 2014 | TSG Neustrelitz | ||
| 2017–2019 | FSV Budissa Bautzen | ||
| 2022–2023 | Bremer SV | ||
| 2023 | SG Dynamo Schwerin | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Torsten Gütschow (born 28 July 1962) is a Germanfootball manager and former player who played as astriker.[2] He is most associated withDynamo Dresden, with whom he had two successful spells, playing top level football inEast Germany and afterreunification.[3] In between these he played for three other German clubs, and spent six months withGalatasaray of the TurkishSüper Lig.[3] A strong and instinctive goalscorer, Gütschow was top scorer in each of the last three seasons of theDDR-Oberliga,[4] and was the lastEast German Footballer of the Year.[5] He won three internationalcaps forEast Germany, scoring two goals between 1984 and 1989.[6] Since retiring he has taken up coaching, and has been manager ofTuS Heeslingen.
Gütschow played as a youth for Traktor Zodel andDynamo Görlitz,[3] before joiningDynamo Dresden in 1976.[7] After four years in their youth setup, he was promoted to the first-team, making hisDDR-Oberliga debut in 1980.[3] He established himself as a consistent goalscorer, and scored 17 goals in the1984–85 season.[3] The next two seasons were blighted by injury, but he returned to form, partneringUlf Kirsten up front, and was the league's top scorer in its last three seasons.[4] His seven goals in the1988-89 UEFA Cup made him the competition's top scorer and in 1991 he was named as the lastEast German Footballer of the Year.[5]
During much of Gütschow's time with Dynamo Dresden, the league was dominated byBFC Dynamo, who won ten consecutiveleague titles from1979 to1988.[8] Dresden broke this run by winning the championship in1989 and1990,[8][9] adding acup win in thelatter season to completethe double. They had also won the cup in1982,1984 and1985.[9]
Thelast season of theDDR-Oberliga (now renamed theNOFV-Oberliga) saw Dynamo Dresden finish second, behindHansa Rostock,[10] and withGerman reunification they qualified for theBundesliga.[10] In theirfirst season they finished in 14th place,[11] and Gütschow was the team's top scorer, with 10 goals from 31 appearances.[12][13] Thefollowing season, he played eight matches, scoring twice,[14] before leaving in December 1992, joiningGalatasaray of the TurkishSüper Lig.[1] Gütschow's 12 Bundesliga goals are still the most of any Dynamo Dresden player.
Galatasaray had a German coach,Karl-Heinz Feldkamp, and two other German players inFalko Götz andReinhard Stumpf. Gütschow settled in immediately, and scored 10 goals in 15 league appearances,[1][3] as the club won aleague andcup double.[15] Gütschow only spent six months in Turkey, returning to Germany in summer 1993[3] but remains a popular figure with Galatasaray fans.
Gütschow returned to Germany withCarl Zeiss Jena of the2. Bundesliga,[3] but had a singularly unsuccessful season, making only nine league appearances and failing to score.[16] He left Jena after one year, and followed this with single-year spells at two other 2. Liga clubs –Hannover 96 andChemnitzer FC.[3] He had more personal success in both these seasons, scoring 16 and 15 goals respectively,[17][18] but the latter ended in relegation for Chemnitz.[19]
In1996, Gütschow returned to Dynamo Dresden, now in the third-tierRegionalliga Nordost.[3] He spent three years with the club as they tried unsuccessfully to get promoted to the second division,[20] before retiring in1999.[3] In total, he had made 329 league appearances for Dynamo, scoring 149 goals, across two spells.[3]
Gütschow was called up to theEast Germany national team in February 1984, making his debut in a 3–1 away win againstGreece.[6] His second cap came later in the same year, also against Greece – this time he scored again in a 1–0 home win.[6] His third and finalcap didn't come until 1989, in a 1–1 draw withFinland at hishome stadium inDresden.[6] He was also capped atunder-21 level and made three appearances for the DDROlympic team.[7]
After ending his playing career, Gütschow took up coaching. He worked withVfL Bochum'sreserve team, and was manager ofFC Oberneuland from 2003 to 2004. In 2006, he was appointed as manager ofTuS 1906 Heeslingen, and won promotion to theOberliga Nord in his first season.[21] Gütchow remained at the club at seven years, leaving in at the end of the 2012–13 season when the club withdrew from the Oberliga for financial reasons. He took over atRegionalliga Norodost sideTSG Neustrelitz a year later.
Gütschow worked as anInoffizieller Mitarbeiter (paid informant) for theStasi.[22] He admitted to spying on around 60 players and staff between 1981 and 1989.[23] Gütschow was approached by the authorities at the age of 18, and feared that he would be prevented from playing football and separated from his fiancee if he refused to co-operate.[22]
| Club | Season | League | Cup[a] | Continental[b] | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Dynamo Dresden[24] | 1980–81 | DDR-Oberliga | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 3 |
| 1981–82 | 15 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 23 | 6 | ||
| 1982–83 | 25 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 31 | 10 | ||
| 1983–84 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 2 | – | 23 | 9 | |||
| 1984–85 | 26 | 17 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 40 | 21 | ||
| 1985–86 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 0 | ||
| 1986–87 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 1987–88 | 20 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 26 | 11 | ||
| 1988–89 | 26 | 17 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 38 | 26 | ||
| 1989–90 | 25 | 18 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 32 | 29 | ||
| 1990–91 | NOFV-Oberliga | 26 | 20 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 35 | 26 | |
| 1991–92 | Bundesliga | 31 | 10 | 3 | 1 | – | 34 | 11 | ||
| 1992–93 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | 8 | 2 | |||
| Total | 247 | 116 | 43 | 24 | 31 | 14 | 321 | 154 | ||
| Galatasaray[1] | 1992–93 | 1. Lig | 15 | 10 | 4 | 2 | – | 19 | 12 | |
| Carl Zeiss Jena | 1993–94 | 2. Bundesliga | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | 11 | 0 | |
| Hannover 96 | 1994–95 | 2. Bundesliga | 33 | 16 | 2 | 1 | – | 35 | 17 | |
| Chemnitzer FC | 1995–96 | 2. Bundesliga | 34 | 15 | 2 | 2 | – | 36 | 17 | |
| Dynamo Dresden[25] | 1996–97 | Regionalliga Nordost | 30 | 12 | 0 | 0 | – | 30 | 12 | |
| 1997–98 | 32 | 16 | 4 | 2 | – | 36 | 18 | |||
| 1998–99 | 20 | 5 | 3 | 0 | – | 23 | 5 | |||
| Total | 82 | 33 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 89 | 35 | ||
| Career total | 420 | 190 | 60 | 31 | 31 | 14 | 511 | 235 | ||
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15 February 1984 | Olympic Stadium, Athens, Greece |  Greece | 3–1 | Friendly | |
| 2 | 12 September 1984 | Georgi-Dimitroff-Stadion,Zwickau,East Germany | Greece | 1–0 | Friendly |
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