Olaf Janßen

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Olaf Janßen

Janßen managing VfB Stuttgart in 2016
Personal information
Date of birth	(1966-10-08) 8 October 1966 (age 54)
Place of birth	Krefeld, West Germany
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Club information
Current team	Viktoria Köln (manager)
Youth career
	Hülser FC
	Bayer Uerdingen
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1985–1996	1. FC Köln	209	(16)
1996–2000	Eintracht Frankfurt	50	(3)
2000	→ Bellinzona (loan)
National team
	West Germany U-16
	West Germany U-21	1	(0)
	West Germany Olympic	3	(0)
Teams managed
2003–2004	1860 Munich (caretaker)
2006	Rot-Weiss Essen (caretaker)
2013–2014	Dynamo Dresden
2016	VfB Stuttgart (caretaker)
2017	FC St. Pauli
2018	Viktoria Köln
2021–	Viktoria Köln
show Honours Olympic Games 1988 Seoul Team
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Olaf Janßen (born 8 October 1966) is a retired German footballer and manager of Viktoria Köln, who played as a midfielder.

Club career[]

Janßen spent most of his playing career with German Bundesliga sides 1. FC Köln and Eintracht Frankfurt,^[1] where he later worked as a scout.

In September 2013 he was appointed as manager of Dynamo Dresden, but was sacked after nine months on the job.^[2]

In June 2016 Janßen became assistant coach to VfB Stuttgart head coach Jos Luhukay. From 15 to 20 September 2016 he was caretaker manager of the club. Janßen took on a new role as scout of VfB Stuttgart and left the coaching staff after the appointment of the new head coach Hannes Wolf.^[3]

For the 2017–18 season, he was appointed as the head coach of FC St. Pauli.^[4] He was sacked on 7 December 2017.^[5]

In January 2018 he became new manager of FC Viktoria Köln replacing Marco Antwerpen.^[6] He returned to Cologne on 1 February 2021.^[7]

International career[]

Janßen played for West Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.^[8]

Career statistics[]

As of 7 December 2017

References[]

External links[]

• Olaf Janßen at Olympedia
• Olaf Janßen at Fussballdaten.de (in German)
• Olaf Janßen at WorldFootball.net
• Olaf Janßen at Sports Reference (archived)