Gert Engels

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Gert Engels
Personal information
Full name	Gert Josef Arthur Engels
Date of birth	April 26, 1957 (1957-04-26) (age 51)
Place of birth	Düren, Germany
Playing position	Coach
Teams managed
1998 1999 2000-2003 2008-present	Yokohama Flugels JEF United Ichihara Kyoto Purple Sanga Urawa Red Diamonds
* Appearances (Goals)

Gert Engels (born 26 April 1957) is a former German football (soccer) player who works these days as manager in Japan.

He commenced his professional playing career with lowly SG Düren 99 and later joined Borussia Mönchengladbach and FC Niederau. In Mönchengladbach he was part of the team that won the German Championships of 1976 and 1977, but Engels was not used in any league matches.

In 1990 he moved to Japan to work as a coach. His first stop was in Ibaraki with Prima Aseno FC, the club that later became Mito HollyHock. He also coached at Takigawa Dai Ni High School in Akashi before he joined the Yokohama Flügels as acoaching staff in 1993 .

Shortly before the Flugels folded and were transformed into today's Yokohama F. Marinos he was made manager there for a brief period. He held that position also briefly with JEF United Ichihara Chiba before taking over the reins at Kyoto Purple Sanga.

In Kyoto he returned the club, that was relegated after the previous season, into the J-League and even led it to a win in the Japanese cup competition, the Emperor's Cup in 2002, defeating the fancied Kashima Antlers 2-1 in extra time. After three years there he was fired when the club started poorly into the new season.

Beginning with 2004 he was assistant coach with Urawa Red Diamonds, initially under Guido Buchwald and later Holger Osieck, winning the AFC Champions League in 2007. When Osieck was sacked after only two matches of the new J-League season on the March 16, 2008, Engels was appointed his successor.

v • d • e Urawa Red Diamonds – current squad 1 Yamagishi • 2 Tsuboi • 3 Hosogai • 4 Tulio • 6 Yamada • 7 Takahara • 8 Alex • 9 Nagai • 10 Ponte • 11 Tanaka • 12 Tsutsumi • 13 Suzuki • 14 Hirakawa • 15 Escudero • 16 Soma • 17 Edmilson • 18 Koike • 19 Uchidate • 20 Horinouchi • 21 Umesaki • 22 Abe • 23 Tsuzuki • 24 Sakamoto • 25 Kondo • 26 Takasaki • 27 Nishizawa • 28 Kato • 29 Otani • 30 Okano • 31 Hashimoto • 32 Hayashi • Manager: Engels

v • d • e JEF United Ichihara Chiba – Managers Nagai (1992–94) • Kiyokumo (1994–95) • Okudera (1996) • Versleijen (1997–98) • Engels (1999) • Zamfir (1999–00) • Verdenik (2000–01) • Vengloš (2002) • I. Osim (2003–06) • A. Osim (2006–07) • Kuže (2008) • Miller (2008–)

v • d • e Urawa Red Diamonds – Managers Mori (1992–93) • Yokoyama (1994) • Osieck (1995–96) • Köppel (1997) • Hara (1998–99) • Aad de Mos (1999) • Yoshida (1999) • Saito (2000) • Yokoyama (2000) • Tita (2001) • Pita (2001) • Ooft (2002–03) • Buchwald (2004–06) • Osieck (2007–08) • Engels (2008–)