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Ernst Happel

1925 - 1992

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernst Happel has received more than 473,808 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Ernst Happel is the 27th most popular coach (up from 29th in 2019), the 129th most popular biography from Austria (up from 176th in 2019) and the most popular Austrian Coach.

Ernst Happel was a German football player and coach. He is most famous for his time as manager of the Austria national football team.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.72

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Among COACHES

Among coaches, Ernst Happel ranks 27 out of 471. Before him are Valeriy Lobanovskyi, Sepp Maier, Jürgen Klopp, Pep Guardiola, Arrigo Sacchi, and Ronald Koeman. After him are Héctor Cúper, Dick Advocaat, Carlos Alberto Parreira, Otto Rehhagel, Diego Simeone, and Fatih Terim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Ernst Happel ranks 34. Before him are Angela Lansbury, Ananda Mahidol, Nílton Santos, Gabriele Amorth, Simon van der Meer, and Frantz Fanon. After him are Paul Mauriat, Peter Brook, Oona O'Neill, Pierre Boulez, Bert Hellinger, and Gerald Durrell. Among people deceased in 1992, Ernst Happel ranks 18. Before him are Olivier Messiaen, Giovanni Falcone, John Cage, Barbara McClintock, Benny Hill, and Anthony Perkins. After him are Li Xiannian, Satyajit Ray, Paolo Borsellino, Daniel Bovet, Jan Oort, and Peyo.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Ernst Happel ranks 129 out of 1,424. Before him are Helmut Berger (1944), Ernest, Duke of Austria (1377), Gustav Meyrink (1868), Georg Trakl (1887), Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (1791), and Karl Polanyi (1886). After him are Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria (1743), Charles V, Duke of Lorraine (1643), Mariana of Austria (1634), Richard Kuhn (1900), Franz Stangl (1908), and Amon Göth (1908).

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Among COACHES In Austria

Among coaches born in Austria, Ernst Happel ranks 1. After him are Otto Barić (1933), and Alfred Riedl (1949).

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