Jürgen Hartmann (born 27 October 1962) is a German football

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and retired

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who played during the 1980s and 1990s.

Career

Hartmann was born in Lahr. He began his professional career at

VfB Stuttgart Verein für Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart 1893 e. V., commonly known as VfB Stuttgart (), is a German sports club based in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg. The club's football team is currently part of Germany's first division, the Bundesliga. Vf ...

in 1985 and went on to play over 150 matches for the club before he left to join

Hamburger SV Hamburger Sport-Verein e.V. (), commonly known as Hamburger SV () or Hamburg (), is a German sports club based in Hamburg, with its largest branch being its football section. Though the current HSV was founded in June 1919 from a merger of thr ...

in 1991. He played for Hamburger SV for six years, making almost 200 appearances. Hartmann joined

FC Basel Fussball Club Basel 1893, widely known as FC Basel, FCB, or just Basel, is a Swiss football club based in Basel, in the Canton of Basel-Stadt. Formed in 1893, the club has been Swiss national champions 20 times, Swiss Cup winners 13 times, a ...

's first team for their 1997–98 season under head coach Jörg Berger. After playing in five test games Hartmann played his domestic league debut for his new club in the away game in the Olympique de la Pontaise on 9 July 1997 as Basel were defeated 0–3 by

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. In the first half of the season (qualifying round) Hartmann was a regular in the starting eleven, missing just one game due to a suspension. During the second part of the season (promotion/relegation section) under new head coach Guy Mathez Hartmann played only half the games. At the beginning of the next season Hartmann could not set himself through and retired from his active playing career. During his time with the club Hartmann played a total of 46 games for Basel scoring one goal. 28 of these games were in the Nationalliga A, one in the

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and 17 were friendly games. The goal was scored as Basel beat APOP Paphos 5–1 during the teams trainings camp in Cyprus. In August 2007, Hartmann became assistant manager to Guido Buchwald at

Alemannia Aachen Alemannia Aachen () or ATSV Alemannia 1900 is a German football club from the western city of Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia. A long term fixture of the country's second division, ''Alemannia'' enjoyed a three-year turn in the Bundesliga in the ...

. He then became the manager of SG Sonnenhof Großaspach in 2009. In 2012 he signed as coach for Stuttgarter Kickers II.

Honours

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finalist: 1988–89 *

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finalist: 1985–86

References

Sources

* Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2017/2018. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG. * Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel.
Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv" Homepage

External links

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