Adolf Hütter

Adi Hütter
Hütter with Eintracht Frankfurt in 2020
Personal information
Full name Adolf Hütter
Date of birth (1970-02-11) 11 February 1970 (age 54)
Place of birth Hohenems, Austria
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Monaco (head coach)
Youth career
Grazer AK
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1989–1991 Linzer ASK 52 (2)
1991–1992 SC Rheindorf Altach 34 (6)
1992–1993 Grazer AK 33 (10)
1993–2000 SV Austria Salzburg 201 (14)
2000–2002 Grazer AK 29 (2)
2002–2005 Kapfenberger SV 91 (17)
2005–2007 Red Bull Salzburg Juniors 40 (4)
Total 480 (55)
National team
1994–1997 Austria 14 (3)
Teams managed
2008–2009 RB Salzburg II
2009–2012 SC Rheindorf Altach
2012–2014 SV Grödig
2014–2015 Red Bull Salzburg
2015–2018 Young Boys
2018–2021 Eintracht Frankfurt
2021–2022 Borussia Mönchengladbach
2023– Monaco
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Adolf "Adi" Hütter (German pronunciation: [ˈʔadi ˈhʏtɐ]; born 11 February 1970) is an Austrian professional football coach and former player who is the manager of Ligue 1 club Monaco.

Playing career

Hütter played in the youth teams of Altach in his youth. In his senior career he played for LASK, Altach, Grazer AK and Austria Salzburg. With Salzburg he won three-times the Austrian championship and won the Supercup. He also played in the UEFA-Cup final in 1994 against Inter Milan. Hütter played for the Austrian national team 14 times and scored 3 times.

In 2000 went to Grazer AK again. 2002 he played for the first division team Kapfenberg. In 2005 Hütter played for Red Bull Salzburg Juniors and secured promotion to the Austrian first division. Health problems were the reason why he became assistant of Gerald Baumgartner in August 2007.

Coaching career

Salzburg Juniors, Altach, Grödig, Salzburg

Hütter as head coach of SV Grödig, November 2013

Hütter is the former assistant coach and head coach of Red Bull Salzburg Juniors. He finished with a record of 13 wins, seven draws, and 15 losses at the club.[1] Then he was head coach of Rheindorf Altach between 1 July 2009 and 5 April 2012.[2] In the 2009–10 season, Rheindorf Altach lost to FC Pasching in the first round of the Austrian Cup[3] and finished third in the league.[4] In the 2010–11 season, Rheindorf Altach got to the Round of 16 of the Austrian Cup[5] and finished second in the league.[6] In the 2011–12 season, Rheindorf Altach were eliminated from the Austrian Cup in the first round.[7] On 1 July 2012 he became manager of SV Grödig.[8] In the 2012–13 season, Grödig were eliminated in the second round of the Austrian Cup.[9] In the 2013–14 season, Grödig were eliminated in the first round of the Austrian Cup.[10] They got a 2014–15 UEFA Europa League place after 3–3 draw on the final matchday against Wacker Innsbruck.[11] Then he took over Red Bull Salzburg for the 2014–15 season[12] His first training session was on 16 June 2014.[13] His first match was a 10–1 win against 1. SC Sollenau on 12 July 2014.[14] After one season he resigned on 15 June 2015.[15] He won the double in his only season.[16] His final match was a 2–0 win in the Austrian Cup final on 3 June 2015.[14]

Young Boys Bern

Hütter coaching BSC Young Boys, 2017

In September 2015, Hütter took over as head coach of Swiss Super League side BSC Young Boys.[17] In April 2018 Hütter's Young Boys won the Swiss Super League for the first time since 1986.[18]

Eintracht Frankfurt

On 16 May 2018 became head coach of Eintracht Frankfurt.[19] He started as coach on 1 July 2018.[20][21] His first match was a 0-5 loss versus Bayern München in the German Supercup.[22] Afterwards Eintracht Frankfurt was knocked out in the first round of the German Cup by fourth division SSV Ulm.[23] Also in the Bundesliga there was a weak start(just 4 points in five matchdays. But they did'nt loose the next 11 games.[23] the second half of the season was sucessful. They reached the semi-final of the Europa League where they drew two times and lost on penalties against Chelsea. At the end of the season, Hütter was voted by readers of German newspaper Bild as Coach of the Year while Eintracht Frankfurt was voted as the Team of the Year.[24] The union of professional football players also voted Hütter as Coach of the Year.[25]

On 13 April, Hütter announced that he would leave Frankfurt and join Borussia Mönchengladbach for the 2021–22 season.[26][27]

Borussia Mönchengladbach

After one season he left Gladbach finishing tenth in the league on 14 May 2022.[28]

AS Monaco

In mid-2023 he signed a two-year contract with AS Monaco. [29]

Coaching record

As of match played 29 October 2023
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team From To Record Ref
G W D L Win %
Rheindorf Altach 1 July 2009[2] 6 April 2012[2] 102 58 21 23 056.86 [3][5][7]
Grödig 1 June 2012 31 May 2014[12] 75 39 16 20 052.00 [9][10]
Red Bull Salzburg 1 June 2014[12][13] 15 June 2015[15] 54 35 8 11 064.81 [14]
Young Boys 3 September 2015[17] 30 June 2018[20] 133 78 27 28 058.65
Eintracht Frankfurt 1 July 2018[20] 30 June 2021 141 67 32 42 047.52 [20]
Borussia Mönchengladbach 1 July 2021 16 May 2022 37 14 9 14 037.84
Monaco 4 July 2023 present 10 6 2 2 060.00
Total 552 297 115 140 053.80 —

Honours

Coach

Red Bull Salzburg
Young Boys
Individual
  • VDV Coach of the Season: 2018–19, 2020–21[30]

References

  1. ↑ "RB Salzburg (A)/FC Anif " Fixtures & Results 2008/2009". World Football. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "SCR Altach " Manager history" (in German). World Football. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "SCR Altach " Fixtures & Results 2009/2010". World Football. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  4. ↑ "Austria " 2. Liga 2009/2010 " 33. Round". World Football. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "SCR Altach " Fixtures & Results 2010/2011". World Football. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  6. ↑ "Austria " 2. Liga 2010/2011 " 36. Round". World Football. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "SCR Altach " Fixtures & Results 2011/2012". World Football. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  8. ↑ "SV Grödig " Manager history". World Football. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "SV Grödig " Fixtures & Results 2012/2013". World Football. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "SV Grödig " Fixtures & Results 2013/2014". World Football. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
  11. ↑ "Aufsteiger Grödig im Europacup – Austria out". Österreich (in German). 11 May 2014. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 "Offiziell! Hütter neuer Bullen-Coach". Österreich (in German). 12 May 2014. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Hütter: Schweres Erbe bei Bullen". Österreich (in German). 26 May 2014. Retrieved 26 May 2014.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 "RB Salzburg". kicker.de (in German). kicker. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 "Adi Hütter nicht mehr Bullen-Coach" (in German). Österreich. 15 June 2015. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  16. ↑ "2:0 gegen Austria: Bullen holen Double" (in German). Österreich. 3 June 2015. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 "Young Boys: Hütter tritt Fortes Nachfolge an". kicker.de (in German). kicker. 3 September 2015. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
  18. ↑ "Young Boys end 32-year wait for Swiss title and end Basel dominance". Reuters. 28 April 2018. Archived from the original on 25 June 2018. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
  19. ↑ "Trainersuche beendet! Adi Hütter übernimmt die Eintracht". kicker.de (in German). kicker. 16 May 2018. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 "Eintracht Frankfurt". kicker.de (in German). kicker. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
  21. ↑ "Der Sommerfahrplan der Erstligisten". kicker.de (in German). kicker. 8 July 2018. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
  22. ↑ "FCB gewinnt Supercup – Lewandowski macht den Unterschied". kicker.de (in German). kicker. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 "Eintracht Frankfurt". kicker.de (in German). kicker. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  24. ↑ Havertz ist der Spieler des Jahres, Bild, 22 May 2019.
  25. ↑ Adi Hütter Trainer des Jahres, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 6 June 2019.
  26. ↑ "Adi Hütter to leave Eintracht Frankfurt at the end of the season". Eintracht Frankfurt. 13 April 2021. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
  27. ↑ "Adi Hütter to take over as Borussia head coach". Borussia Mönchengladbach. 13 April 2021. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
  28. ↑ "Borussia and Adi Hütter part ways". borussia.de. 14 May 2022. Retrieved 14 May 2022.
  29. ↑ ORF.at
  30. ↑ "Robert Lewandowski zum VDV-Spieler der Saison gewählt" (in German). VDV. 2 June 2021. Archived from the original on 2 June 2021. Retrieved 2 June 2021.