Jump to content

Christoph Daum

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Christoph Daum
Daum in 2018
Personal information
Full name Christoph Paul Daum[1]
Date of birth (1953-10-24)24 October 1953[2][3]
Place of birth Zwickau, East Germany[2]
Date of death 24 August 2024(2024-08-24) (aged 70)
Place of death Cologne, Germany
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1971–1972 Hamborn 07
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1972–1975 Eintracht Duisburg
1975–1981 1. FC Köln II
Managerial career
1986–1990 1. FC Köln
1990–1993 VfB Stuttgart
1994–1996 Beşiktaş
1996–2000 Bayer Leverkusen
2001–2002 Beşiktaş
2002–2003 Austria Wien
2003–2006 Fenerbahçe
2006–2009 1. FC Köln
2009–2010 Fenerbahçe
2011 Eintracht Frankfurt
2011–2012 Club Brugge
2013–2014 Bursaspor
2016–2017 Romania
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Christoph Paul Daum (24 October 1953 – 24 August 2024) was a German professional football manager and player. As a manager, he won eight trophies with clubs from Germany, Turkey and Austria. In 1992, he won the Bundesliga championship with VfB Stuttgart. In the Bundesliga, he also led 1. FC Köln to two and Bayer 04 Leverkusen to three second places. He won further national championships with the Turkish clubs Beşiktaş and Fenerbahçe as well as Austria Wien. In 2000, a drug scandal prevented his appointment as German national coach.

Playing career

[edit]

Daum played as a midfielder and was a junior for several clubs from the region of Duisburg. He began his senior career with Hamborn 07 and Eintracht Duisburg, before joining 1. FC Köln in 1975 and being part of the reserve team that won the 1980–81 German amateur football championship.[2]

Coaching career

[edit]

1986–1990: 1. FC Köln

[edit]

After finishing his career as a player, Daum earned his coaching licence at the DFB and began working in 1981 as amateur coach with 1. FC Köln. In the 1985–86, season he was promoted to assistant coach and in 1986 to the top position. During the 1990 FIFA World Cup, Daum was released from his position by Köln's president Dietmar Artzinger-Bolten.[citation needed]

1990–1992: Bundesliga win with Stuttgart

[edit]

In November 1990 he transferred to VfB Stuttgart, where he won the Bundesliga in 1992.[citation needed]

In the following season Daum committed a mistake in the first round of the European Cup against Leeds United on 30 September 1992 by illegally putting in a fourth foreign player. A replay was scheduled, which Leeds won. The UK newspaper The Sun dubbed him 'Christoph Dumb' following this incident. The VfB missed out on the Champions League and Daum was released.[citation needed]

1994–1996: Turkish championship with Beşiktaş

[edit]

Beginning in 1994 Daum worked with the Turkish club Beşiktaş in Istanbul. He won the Turkish Cup in 1994 and 1994–95 Turkish league championship title with Beşiktaş. In the 1995–96 season he was sacked after losses to Kocaelispor and Vanspor.[4]

1996–2000: Bayer Leverkusen, cocaine controversy

[edit]

Daum returned to Germany two years later to coach Bayer Leverkusen in 1996. He was very successful at Bayer Leverkusen, winning three second places in Bundesliga in four years of coaching. During Daum's time, Leverkusen was nicknamed "Vizekusen" (see Neverkusen) because the team narrowly missed out on the Bundesliga championship several times, especially in 2000.[5]

Following the UEFA Euro 2000, Daum was designated to take over the role as manager of the Germany national team the following year. At the same time, the press reported rumours that Daum engaged in "cocaine-fuelled orgies with prostitutes".[6] The pressure grew when Bayern Munich manager Uli Hoeneß publicly claimed that the cocaine rumors against Daum were true. Daum criticized the accusations of Hoeneß and parts of the press, and announced that he would prove his innocence with a hair sample. On 20 October 2000, it became known that the hair sample had tested positive for cocaine use. Daum then resigned from his position at Bayer Leverkusen. Also, his agreement to become national team manager was annulled by the German Football Association on 21 October 2000, and Rudi Völler, the then interim coach, was given the formal job.[7] At first, Daum still claimed that the hairs were not his. One year later, after a period out of the public eye and facing the prospect of jail time, Daum admitted he had used cocaine.[8][9]

2001–2010: Beşiktaş, Austria Wien, Fenerbahçe, Köln

[edit]
Daum in 2009

As a result of the so-called Daum-Affair he was fired from Bayer Leverkusen and was unable to find a club to work within Germany. While he was still on trial in Germany, he returned to his former team Beşiktaş from March 2001 to May 2002. Afterwards, he moved to Austria Wien on 4 October 2002,[10] where he won another league championship title.[citation needed]

Beginning in July 2003, he was head coach at Fenerbahçe. Daum won two consecutive Turkish league championships in 2004 and 2005. While his failure to succeed in the Champions League was often criticised in the Turkish media, the improvements in Fenerbahçe under his management were significant. At the end of the 2005–06 season Fenerbahçe lost the national championship to their arch-rival Galatasaray on the final week of the league, after which Daum resigned.[11]

Daum signed for 1. FC Köln on 19 November 2006.[12] The contract ran until 2010. Köln returned to Bundesliga after finishing third in the 2007–08 2. Bundesliga. Daum left the club on 2 June 2009.[13]

Daum signed a three-year contract with Fenerbahçe on 2 June 2009.[13] In his one season in charge Daum lost the league title to Bursaspor and the cup final to Trabzonspor. On 25 June 2010, Fenerbahçe parted ways with him.[14]

2011–2014: Frankfurt, Brugge

[edit]

On 22 March 2011, it was confirmed that Daum had signed a contract with Eintracht Frankfurt as coach after the club has sacked Michael Skibbe following a decline in the Bundesliga in the second half of season.[15] He left the club on 16 May, two days after the club's relegation was confirmed. Daum took charge of just seven games and failed to manage a victory, his record of three draws and four defeats insufficient to beat the drop.[16]

On 9 November 2011, after pausing for six months, Daum took over as head coach of the Belgian Club Brugge.[17] Starting from a good defensive organisation, Brugge won four domestic matches 1–0 under Daum, and also a 4–3 fight back victory over NK Maribor in the Europa League group stage, after Club Brugge were still down 3–0 17 minutes before time.[18] He led Brugge to the 2nd place in the 2011–12 season. Following the end of the season, he asked Brugge to leave his position as head coach due to his family reasons and the club accepted his decision.[19] On 14 August 2013, Daum took over as head coach of Bursaspor.[20] He was sacked on 24 March 2014.[21]

2016–2017: Romania national team

[edit]

On 7 July 2016, after two years of pause from coaching, Daum started his first experience at a national team after agreeing terms with Romania. He became the third foreign manager in the history to coach the Romanian team.[22] It was reported that he signed a two-year contract which would automatically extend until 2020 if he managed to qualify the team to the 2018 FIFA World Cup.[23] He was sacked in September 2017, after yet another disappointing World Cup qualifying campaign where Romania failed to qualify.[24] He received €135,000 in compensation for his termination.[25]

Illness and death

[edit]

A long-time smoker,[26] Daum announced that he was diagnosed with lung cancer in October 2022.[27] He died from the disease in Cologne on 24 August 2024 at the age of 70.[28]

Managerial statistics

[edit]
As of 4 September 2017
Team From To Record
G W D L Win % Ref.
1. FC Köln 22 September 1986[29] 28 June 1990[29] 154 78 43 33 050.65 [29]
VfB Stuttgart 20 November 1990[30] 10 December 1993[30] 129 57 38 34 044.19 [30]
Beşiktaş 6 January 1994[31] 6 May 1996[31] 98 62 18 18 063.27
Bayer Leverkusen 1 July 1996[32] 21 October 2000[32] 185 91 57 37 049.19 [32]
Beşiktaş 8 March 2001[33] 30 June 2002[34] 49 26 11 12 053.06
Austria Wien 4 October 2002[10] 30 June 2003[35] 30 17 4 9 056.67
Fenerbahçe 1 July 2003[35] 16 June 2006[36] 134 89 18 27 066.42
1. FC Köln 19 November 2006[12] 2 June 2009[13] 92 36 21 35 039.13 [29]
Fenerbahçe 2 June 2009[13] 25 June 2010[14] 56 36 9 11 064.29
Eintracht Frankfurt 22 March 2011[15] 16 May 2011[16] 7 0 3 4 000.00 [37]
Club Brugge 9 November 2011[17] 30 June 2012[19] 31 19 3 9 061.29
Bursaspor 14 August 2013[20] 24 March 2014[21] 34 15 8 11 044.12 [38]
Romania 7 July 2016[22] 14 September 2017[24] 10 3 3 4 030.00 [39]
Total 1,005 530 236 239 052.74

Honours

[edit]

Player

[edit]

1. FC Köln II

Manager

[edit]

VfB Stuttgart

Beşiktaş

Austria Wien

Fenerbahçe

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Christoph Paul Daum" (in Turkish). Turkish Football Federation. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "Biografie" [Biography]. Cristoph Daum's Official Website (in German). Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  3. ^ "Christoph Daum stattet Geburtsstadt Stippvisite ab". freiepresse.de (in German). 16 April 2016. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  4. ^ "Christoph Daum: 'Fußball kann eine Gesellschaft verändern'" (in German). FAZ. 14 October 2008. Retrieved 2 November 2009.
  5. ^ "Daum: I took cocaine". Sport 1. 20 May 2024. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
  6. ^ "Daum: I took cocaine". BBC Sport. 12 January 2001. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
  7. ^ Hooper, John (23 October 2000). "First politics, now German sport tainted by scandal". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  8. ^ "Daum: I took cocaine". BBC Sport. 12 January 2001. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
  9. ^ "Seven Deadly Sins". The Guardian. 20 May 2009. Retrieved 2 November 2009.
  10. ^ a b "Christoph Daum übernimmt Austria". kicker (in German). 4 October 2002. Retrieved 7 February 2013.
  11. ^ "Leverkusen who's who" (in German). leverkusen.com. Retrieved 2 November 2009.
  12. ^ a b "Daum unterschreibt bis 2010". kicker (in German). 19 November 2006. Retrieved 7 February 2013.
  13. ^ a b c d "Daum zu Fenerbahce – der FC ist auf Trainersuche!" [Daum to Fenerbahce – the FC is looking for a new coach!] (in German). kicker.de. 2 June 2009. Retrieved 25 June 2010.[permanent dead link‍]
  14. ^ a b "Fenerbahce Part Company With Head Coach Christoph Daum – Report". Goal. 25 June 2010. Retrieved 25 June 2010.
  15. ^ a b "Der nächste Hammer: Daum löst Skibbe ab!". kicker (in German). 22 March 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2013.
  16. ^ a b "Daum verlässt die Eintracht". kicker (in German). 16 May 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2013.
  17. ^ a b "Daum becomes new Club Brugge coach" (in Dutch). Sporza.be. 9 November 2011. Retrieved 9 November 2011.
  18. ^ Scholten, Berend (14 December 2011). "Daum's Club Brugge built from the back". UEFA. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
  19. ^ a b "Daum verlässt Brügge". kicker (in German). 11 May 2012. Retrieved 7 February 2013.
  20. ^ a b "Christoph Daum übernimmt Bursaspor". kicker (in German). 14 August 2013. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
  21. ^ a b "Daum beugt sich der Vertragsauflösung und geht". Die Welt (in German). 24 March 2014. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
  22. ^ a b "Christoph Daum, noul selecționer al României" [Cristoph Daum, the new head coach of Romania]. Romanian Football Federation (in Romanian). 7 July 2016. Archived from the original on 7 July 2016. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
  23. ^ "Adevăratul venit al lui Daum la naţionala României şi prima de calificare la CM 2018" [Daum's true salary and the money bonus for 2018 WC]. DigiSport (in Romanian). 8 July 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
  24. ^ a b "Christoph Daum își întrerupe mandatul de selecționer al echipei naționale a României" (in Romanian and German). Romanian Football Federation. 14 September 2017. Archived from the original on 18 September 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
  25. ^ Mărgărit, Marius (14 September 2017). "EXCLUSIV Acord FRF – Daum » Când pleacă neamțul de la națională și câți bani va încasa". Gazeta Sporturilor (in Romanian). Retrieved 14 September 2017.
  26. ^ Polonyi, Max (4 November 2023). "Christoph Daum und sein Umgang mit dem Lungenkrebs: Die Kunst des Grasfressens". Der Spiegel (in German). ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
  27. ^ ""Wie geht dat aus?": Christoph Daum und sein Kampf gegen den Krebs" (in German). Stern.de. 23 June 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
  28. ^ "Christoph Daum ist gestorben". kicker.de (in German). 25 August 2024. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
  29. ^ a b c d "1. FC Köln" (in German). kicker. Archived from the original on 29 July 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
  30. ^ a b c "VfB Stuttgart" (in German). kicker. Archived from the original on 28 February 2014. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
  31. ^ a b "Beşiktaş .:. Coaches from A-Z". Worldfootball. Retrieved 7 February 2013.
  32. ^ a b c "Bayer 04 Leverkusen" (in German). kicker. Archived from the original on 17 January 2014. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
  33. ^ "Daums große Aufgabe". kicker (in German). 8 March 2001. Retrieved 7 February 2013.
  34. ^ "Daum und Besiktas gehen getrennte Wege". kicker (in German). 3 May 2002. Retrieved 7 February 2013.
  35. ^ a b "Daum bei "Fener" bis 2005". kicker (in German). 1 June 2003. Retrieved 7 February 2013.
  36. ^ "Daum und Fenerbahce trennen sich". kicker (in German). 16 June 2006. Retrieved 7 February 2013.
  37. ^ "Eintracht Frankfurt" (in German). kicker. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
  38. ^ "Bursaspor » Dates & results 2013/2014". World Football. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
  39. ^ "Friendlies 2016 » November". World Football. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
  40. ^ a b "Christoph Daum". kicker.de (in German). Retrieved 25 August 2024.
[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Christoph Daum.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christoph_Daum&oldid=1261927755"