Ernst Happel

Ernst Happel
	Happel in a commemorative banner
Personal information
Full name	Ernst Franz Hermann Happel
Date of birth	29 November 1925
Place of birth	Vienna, Austria
Date of death	14 November 1992 (aged 66)
Place of death	Innsbruck, Austria
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
1938–1942	Rapid Wien
Senior career*
Years	Team
1942–1954	Rapid Wien
1955–1956	RC Paris
1956–1959	Rapid Wien
Total
International career
1947–1958	Austria
Managerial career
1962–1969	ADO Den Haag
1967	San Francisco Gales
1969–1973	Feijenoord
1973–1974	Sevilla
1974–1978	Club Brugge
1977–1978	Netherlands
1979	Harelbeke
1979–1981	Standard Liège
1981–1987	Hamburger SV
1987–1991	Swarovski Tirol
1992	Austria
Medal record
Men's football
Representing Austria (as player)
FIFA World Cup
Representing Netherlands (as manager)
FIFA World Cup
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ernst Franz Hermann Happel (29 November 1925 – 14 November 1992) was an Austrian football player and manager.

Happel is regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time, winning both league and domestic cup titles in the Netherlands, Belgium, West Germany, and Austria. Happel won the European Cup twice, in 1970 with Feyenoord and 1983 with Hamburger SV, managed Club Brugge to a European Cup runner-up finish in 1978, and won a runners-up medal with the Netherlands at the 1978 FIFA World Cup. This is the best result ever for a non-domestic manager in a World Cup alongside Englishman George Raynor's Swedish runner-up campaign in 1958. He was the first of the six managers to have won the European Cup with two clubs (Carlo Ancelotti, Ottmar Hitzfeld, José Mourinho, Pep Guardiola and Jupp Heynckes being the other five). He is also one of six managers–– along with Ancelotti, Mourinho, Giovanni Trapattoni, Tomislav Ivić, and Eric Gerets–– to have won top-flight domestic league championships in at least four countries.

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