{{Short description|German football manager (born 1965)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2023}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Robin Dutt | image = CupII-5611 (cropped).jpg | image_size = | caption = Dutt with [[SC Freiburg]] in 2010 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1965|1|24}} | birth_place = [[Cologne]], West Germany | height = | position = [[Forward (association football)|Forward]] | currentclub = | years1 = 1983–1985 | years2 = 1985–1987 | years3 = 1987–1988 | years4 = 1988–1990 | years5 = 1990–1993 | years6 = 1993–1995 | years7 = 1995–1999 | clubs1 = SVGG Hirschlanden | clubs2 = TSV Korntal | clubs3 = TSV Münchingen | clubs4 = TSV Korntal | clubs5 = FV Zuffenhausen | clubs6 = [[SKV Rutesheim]] | clubs7 = TSG Leonberg | manageryears1 = 1995–1999 | manageryears2 = 1999–2000 | manageryears3 = 2000–2002 | manageryears4 = 2002–2003 | manageryears5 = 2003–2007 | manageryears6 = 2007–2011 | manageryears7 = 2011–2012 | manageryears8 = 2013–2014 | manageryears9 = 2018–2019 | manageryears10 = 2021–2023 | managerclubs1 = TSG Leonberg (player-coach) | managerclubs2 = [[TSF Ditzingen]] II | managerclubs3 = [[TSF Ditzingen]] | managerclubs4 = [[Stuttgarter Kickers]] II | managerclubs5 = [[Stuttgarter Kickers]] | managerclubs6 = [[SC Freiburg]] | managerclubs7 = [[Bayer 04 Leverkusen|Bayer Leverkusen]] | managerclubs8 = [[SV Werder Bremen|Werder Bremen]] | managerclubs9 = [[VfL Bochum]] | managerclubs10 = [[Wolfsberger AC]] }} '''Robin Dutt''' ({{IPA|de|ʀoːbiːn dʊt}}; born 24 January 1965) is a [[Germans|German]] [[Association football|football]] coach, executive and former [[Football player|player]]. He has managed many German clubs and secured promotion for [[SC Freiburg]], returning them to the [[Bundesliga]].
==Early life== Dutt was born in [[Lindenthal, Cologne|Köln-Lindenthal]], Germany. He is the son of a German mother and an Indian [[Bengali people|Bengali]] father named Sabyasachi Dutt from [[Kolkata]]. His father moved to Germany in the late 1950s.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-08-14/news/29884506_1_bundesliga-club-oliver-kahn | archive-url = https://archive.today/20120701130737/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-08-14/news/29884506_1_bundesliga-club-oliver-kahn | url-status = dead | archive-date = 1 July 2012 | title = German football club Bayer Leverkusen's Robin Dutt says won't mind coaching India | publisher = The Economic Times | date = 14 August 2011 | access-date = 1 December 2013 | first = TR | last = Vivek}}</ref>
==Playing career== Dutt played amateur football in the fifth, sixth, and seventh divisions in Germany.<ref>{{Cite news |date=23 May 2013 |title=Indian-origin Dutt offered Werder Bremen job |work=The Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/football/top-stories/indian-origin-dutt-offered-werder-bremen-job/articleshow/20228126.cms |access-date=2023-02-07 |issn=0971-8257}}</ref>
==Coaching and executive career== ===Early career=== Dutt started coaching [[TSG Leonberg]] towards the end of his career as a player, and was their coach until 1999. The club gained promotion to the next division in his final year as manager. He then joined [[TSF Ditzingen]] in the 1999/2000 season, as their second team coach and was then promoted to the first team coach.
===Stuttgarter Kickers=== Dutt's success started to grant him local notoriety. In the summer of 2002, he joined former Bundesliga side [[Stuttgarter Kickers]] as their second team coach. The Kickers promoted Dutt as their first team coach on 28 October 2003. He went on to guide the club with a young team in the [[Regionalliga]] (third division) through difficult times as the club struggled financially. The highlight came in the [[2006–07 DFB-Pokal|2006–07]] season when the Kickers beat Bundesliga side [[Hamburger SV]] 4–3 in extra time in the [[DFB-Pokal]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fussballdaten.de/dfb/2007/runde1/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205012644/http://www.fussballdaten.de/dfb/2007/runde1/ |title=Die Spiele des DFB-Pokals 2006/2007 - 1. Runde|access-date=8 May 2026|archive-date=5 December 2008}}</ref>
===SC Freiburg=== Dutt was offered a job at the [[2. Bundesliga]] club [[SC Freiburg]] and became coach in the summer of 2007. The previous coach, [[Volker Finke]], had coached Freiburg for 16 years, a record in German professional football. Following an initially challenging first year, in his second year he was able to win the 2. Bundesliga title and Freiburg was back in the Bundesliga after four years.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://arunfoot.blogspot.com/2010/10/robin-dutt-indo-german-success-story.html | title = Robin Dutt: An Indo-German success story | publisher = arunfoot.blogspot.de | date = 31 October 2010 | access-date = 1 December 2013 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131203054831/http://arunfoot.blogspot.com/2010/10/robin-dutt-indo-german-success-story.html | archive-date = 3 December 2013 | df = dmy-all }}</ref>
The first season in Bundesliga with SC Freiburg saw Dutt evade relegation. They finished four points ahead of the relegation playoff spot. The [[2010–11 Bundesliga|2010–11]] season proved to be Dutt's last season at SC Freiburg, the club managed to hold onto the ninth position in the league table.<ref name="bleacherreport.com_2011-07-26">{{cite web | url = http://bleacherreport.com/articles/780699-robin-dutt-is-he-the-one-that-bayer-leverkusen-need-to-end-the-neverkusen | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120824002528/http://bleacherreport.com/articles/780699-robin-dutt-is-he-the-one-that-bayer-leverkusen-need-to-end-the-neverkusen | url-status = dead | archive-date = 24 August 2012 | title = Robin Dutt: Is He the One That Bayer Leverkusen Need to End "the Neverkusen"? | publisher = bleacherreport.com | date = 26 July 2011 | access-date = 1 December 2013}}</ref>
===Bayer Leverkusen=== [[File:ROBIN DUTT2011.JPG|thumb|140px|Dutt in 2011 at [[Bayer 04 Leverkusen|Bayer Leverkusen]]]] Dutt was hired to coach [[Bayer 04 Leverkusen]] in March 2011 after previous coach, [[Jupp Heynckes]], joined [[FC Bayern Munich|Bayern Munich]]. "I didn’t come to Leverkusen to turn a second-placed team into a fourth- or fifth-placed team. We came second (last season) and I want to improve on that,"<ref name="bleacherreport.com_2011-07-26" /><ref name="Leverkusen lost in communication as Robin Dutt is shown the door">{{cite web | url = https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2012/apr/02/bayer-leverkusen-robin-dutt-fired | title = Leverkusen lost in communication as Robin Dutt is shown the door | work = The Guardian | date = 2 April 2012 | access-date = 1 December 2013 | first = Raphael | last = Honigstein}}</ref> said Dutt when he took the reins on 19 June 2011. Dutt was dismissed from his post on 1 April 2012,<ref name="Bayer trennt sich von Dutt - Hyypiä übernimmt">{{cite news|title=Bayer trennt sich von Dutt – Hyypiä übernimmt|url=https://www.kicker.de/bayer-trennt-sich-von-dutt---hyypiae-uebernimmt-566855/artikel|access-date=19 January 2014|newspaper=kicker|date=1 April 2012|language=de}}</ref> after a poor run that included a 7–1 away defeat at [[FC Barcelona|Barcelona]] in the round of 16 [[2011–12 UEFA Champions League]], in which [[Lionel Messi]] became the first player to score 5 goals in a Champions League match. Dutt was also held responsible for a streak of four consecutive Bundesliga defeats which left Leverkusen in sixth position in the Bundesliga.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/soccer/wires/04/01/2080.ap.soc.leverkusen.coach.fired.1st.ld.writethru.0333/index.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130730113051/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/soccer/wires/04/01/2080.ap.soc.leverkusen.coach.fired.1st.ld.writethru.0333/index.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 30 July 2013 | title = Bayer Leverkusen fires Robin Dutt as coach | publisher = sportsillustrated.cnn.com | date = 1 April 2012 | access-date = 1 December 2013}}</ref>
===DFB and Werder Bremen=== In August 2012, Dutt replaced [[Matthias Sammer]] as sporting director of the [[German football federation]] (DFB).<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.firstpost.com/sports/robin-dutt-made-sports-director-of-german-football-federation-389411.html | title = Robin Dutt made sports director of German football federation | publisher = firstpost.com | date = 24 July 2012 | access-date = 1 December 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/association=ger/news/newsid=1843294.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120727161854/http://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/association=ger/news/newsid=1843294.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 27 July 2012 | title = Dutt takes up German FA role | publisher = [[UEFA]] | date = 25 July 2012 | access-date = 1 December 2013 }}</ref>
Dutt became the new head coach of [[SV Werder Bremen|Werder Bremen]] on 27 May 2013.<ref name=werderjob>{{cite news|title=DFB erteilt Freigabe – Dutt neuer Werder-Trainer|url=https://www.welt.de/sport/fussball/bundesliga/werder-bremen/article116556542/DFB-erteilt-Freigabe-Dutt-neuer-Werder-Trainer.html|access-date=27 May 2013|newspaper=Die Welt|date=27 May 2013|language=de}}</ref> Werder Bremen dismissed Dutt on 25 October 2014.<ref name="Werder Bremen coach Robin Dutt sacked">{{cite news|last1=Leslie|first1=André|title=Werder Bremen coach Robin Dutt sacked|url=http://www.dw.de/werder-bremen-coach-robin-dutt-sacked/a-18021060|access-date=25 October 2014|publisher=Deutsche Welle|date=25 October 2014}}</ref>
===Board representative for sport of VfB Stuttgart=== On 6 January 2015, Dutt became the board representative for sport of [[VfB Stuttgart]]. In May 2016, he was fired following the team's relegation from the Bundesliga for the first time in 40 years.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vfb.de/de/aktuell/meldungen/news/2015/vfb-sportvorstand-pm-jan15/page/9165-1-3-.html |title=VfB Stuttgart 1893 e.V. – Robin Dutt wird Vorstand Sport |website=www.vfb.de |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150106161032/http://www.vfb.de/de/aktuell/meldungen/news/2015/vfb-sportvorstand-pm-jan15/page/9165-1-3-.html |archive-date=2015-01-06}}</ref>
===VfL Bochum=== On 11 February 2018 Dutt was appointed as manager of [[VfL Bochum]].<ref name=bochumjob>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kicker.de/dutt-ab-sofort-neuer-cheftrainer-beim-vfl-bochum-717112/artikel|title=Mit sofortiger Wirkung: Robin Dutt wird Cheftrainer beim VfL Bochum|publisher=[[Kicker (magazine)|Kicker]]|date=11 February 2018|access-date=11 February 2018}}</ref> He was dismissed on 26 August 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vfl-bochum.de/news/uebersicht/profis/vfl-beurlaubt-robin-dutt/|title=VfL beurlaubt Robin Dutt|website=vfl-bochum.de|date=26 August 2019|access-date=26 August 2019|language=de|archive-date=3 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201003021350/https://www.vfl-bochum.de/news/uebersicht/profis/vfl-beurlaubt-robin-dutt/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
=== Wolfsberger AC === In April 2021 [[Wolfsberger AC]] announced, that Robin Dutt was going to be their coach from August 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Robin Dutt übernimmt kommende Saison Traineramt beim WAC|url=https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000126018102/robindutt-uebernimmt-kommende-saison-traineramt-beim-wac|access-date=2021-04-21|website=DER STANDARD|language=de-AT}}</ref>
==Managerial statistics== {{updated|match played 12 March 2023}}<ref>{{soccerway coach|robin-dutt/110759}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center" |+ Managerial record by team and tenure |- ! rowspan="2" |Team ! rowspan="2" |Nat ! rowspan="2" |From ! rowspan="2"|To ! colspan="8" |Record |- !{{Tooltip|G|Games managed}} !{{Tooltip|W|Games won}} !{{Tooltip|D|Games drawn}} !{{Tooltip|L|Games lost}} !{{Tooltip|GF|Goals for}} !{{Tooltip|GA|Goals against}} !{{Tooltip|GD|Goal difference}} !{{Tooltip|Win %|Winning percentage}} |- |align=left|[[TSF Ditzingen]] |{{Flagicon|Germany}} |align=left|1 July 2000 |align=left|30 June 2002 {{WDL|68|19|17|32|for=86|against=123|diff=yes}} |- |align=left|[[Stuttgarter Kickers]] II |{{Flagicon|Germany}} |align=left|1 July 2002 |align=left|27 October 2003 {{WDL|48|20|10|18|for=56|against=53|diff=yes}} |- |align=left|[[Stuttgarter Kickers]] |{{Flagicon|Germany}} |align=left|27 October 2003 |align=left|30 June 2007 {{WDL|126|49|36|41|for=185|against=160|diff=yes}} |- |align=left|[[SC Freiburg]] |{{Flagicon|Germany}} |align=left|1 July 2007 |align=left|30 June 2011 {{WDL|145|63|28|54|for=199|against=200|diff=yes}} |- |align=left|[[Bayer 04 Leverkusen|Bayer Leverkusen]] |{{Flagicon|Germany}} |align=left|1 July 2011 |align=left|1 April 2012 {{WDL|37|14|8|15|for=52|against=60|diff=yes}} |- |align=left|[[SV Werder Bremen|Werder Bremen]] |{{Flagicon|Germany}} |align=left|27 May 2013 |align=left|25 October 2014 {{WDL|45|11|13|21|for=56|against=94|diff=yes}} |- |align=left|[[VfL Bochum]] |{{Flagicon|Germany}} |align=left|12 February 2018 |align=left|26 August 2019 {{WDL|52|18|17|17|for=76|against=76|diff=yes}} |- |align=left|[[Wolfsberger AC]] |{{Flagicon|Austria}} |align=left|1 July 2021 |align=left|''Present'' {{WDL|66|29|9|28|for=120|against=111|diff=yes}} |- !colspan="4"|Total {{WDLtot|588|223|138|227|for=830|against=877|diff=yes}} |}
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