Kurt Liebrecht (24 December 1936 – 21 April 2022) was a German former

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who played as a

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for BSG Lokomotive Stendal and East Germany football team.

Club career

Born in

Saxony-Anhalt Saxony-Anhalt ( ; ) is a States of Germany, state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. It covers an area of and has a population of 2.17 million inhabitants, making it the List of German states ...

, he played for his hometown team BSG Lokomotive Stendal. He amassed 197 East German top-flight appearances. Liebrecht earned 16 caps for

East Germany East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from Foundation of East Germany, its formation on 7 October 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on ...

. He made his debut for them on 30 October 1960 in a 5–1 friendly win at the

Ostseestadion The Ostseestadion is the home stadium of FC Hansa Rostock, a Germany, German association football club, located in the city of Rostock. It has a capacity of 29,000. "Ostseestadion" translates in English to "Baltic Sea Stadium", and is named aft ...

Rostock Rostock (; Polabian language, Polabian: ''Roztoc''), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (), is the largest city in the German States of Germany, state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the sta ...

. His only international goal came on 21 November 1962 in a 2–1 win over

Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia ( ; Czech language, Czech and , ''Česko-Slovensko'') was a landlocked country in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland beca ...

at the Walter Ulbricht Stadion, in the preliminary round of

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for the

1964 European Nations' Cup The 1964 European Nations' Cup was the second edition of the UEFA European Championship. The final tournament was held in Spain. It was won by the hosts 2–1 over the defending champions, the Soviet Union. The tournament was a knockout comp ...

Career statistics

Club

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International

International goals

:''Scores and results list East Germany's goal tally first.''

References

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Liebrecht, Kurt 1936 births 2022 deaths People from Stendal Footballers from Saxony-Anhalt German men's footballers Men's association football midfielders East Germany men's international footballers East German men's footballers