Jürgen Klopp

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Not to be confused with Jürgen Zopp.

Jürgen Klopp
 Klopp with Liverpool at the 2019 UEFA Super Cup

Personal information

Full name Jürgen Norbert Klopp

Date of birth 16 June 1967 (age 56)

Place of birth Stuttgart, West Germany

Height 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)[1]

Position(s) Striker, defender

Team information

Current team Liverpool (manager)

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– Liverpool

*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jürgen Norbert Klopp (German pronunciation: [ˈjʏʁɡn̩ ˈklɔp] ⓘ; born 16 June 1967) is a
German professional football manager and former player who is the manager
of Premier League club Liverpool. He is widely regarded as one of the best football
managers in the world.[2][3][4][5]
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.
Klopp was appointed manager of Liverpool in 2015. He has 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 also won a cup double
of the EFL Cup and FA Cup in 2022, as well as another EFL Cup in 2024.