{{short description|German football executive and former player (born 1966)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}} {{Infobox football biography | image = Stefan-Reuter-2016-07.jpg | caption = Reuter in 2016 | full_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1966|10|16}} | birth_place = Dinkelsbühl, West Germany | height = 1.81 m<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/weltmeisterschaft/teams/452/nationalspieler_stefan-reuter.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190129235935/http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/weltmeisterschaft/teams/452/nationalspieler_stefan-reuter.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 29 January 2019 | title = Stefan Reuter | language = de | website = Kicker | access-date = 29 January 2019}}</ref> | position = Right midfielder, right-back, defender | currentclub = FC Augsburg (general manager) | youthyears1 = 1971–1982 | youthclubs1 = TSV 1860 Dinkelsbühl | youthyears2 = 1982–1984 | youthclubs2 = 1. FC Nürnberg | years1 = 1984–1988 | clubs1 = 1. FC Nürnberg | caps1 = 125 | goals1 = 13 | years2 = 1988–1991 | clubs2 = Bayern Munich | caps2 = 95 | goals2 = 4 | years3 = 1991–1992 | clubs3 = Juventus | caps3 = 28 | goals3 = 0 | years4 = 1992–2004 | clubs4 = Borussia Dortmund | caps4 = 307 | goals4 = 11 | totalcaps = 545 | totalgoals = 28 | nationalyears1 = 1985 | nationalteam1 = West Germany U-18 | nationalyears2 = 1987–1998 | nationalteam2 = West Germany/Germany | nationalcaps2 = 69 | nationalgoals2 = 2 | medaltemplates = {{medal|Team|Bayern Munich}} {{medal|W|Bundesliga|1989}} {{medal|RU|DFB-Supercup|1989}} {{medal|W|Bundesliga|1990}} {{medal|W|DFB-Supercup|1990}} {{medal|Team|Borussia Dortmund}} {{medal|RU|UEFA Cup|1993}} {{medal|W|Bundesliga|1995}} {{medal|W|DFB-Supercup|1995}} {{medal|W|Bundesliga|1996}} {{medal|W|DFB-Supercup|1996}} {{medal|W|UEFA Champions League|1997}} {{medal|RU|UEFA Super Cup|1997}} {{medal|W|Intercontinental Cup|1997}} {{medal|W|Bundesliga|2002}} {{medal|RU|UEFA Cup|2002}} {{medal|RU|DFB-Ligapokal|2003}} {{medal|Team|{{fb|Germany}}}} {{medal|W|UEFA Under-16 Championship|1984}} {{medal|W|FIFA World Cup|1990}} {{medal|RU|European Championship|1992}} {{medal|W|European Championship|1996}} | manageryears1 = | managerclubs1 = }} '''Stefan Reuter''' (born 16 October 1966) is a German football executive and former player who played as a defender or midfielder. He has been the sportvorstand of Bundesliga club FC Augsburg since 2012.
During his playing career, he was included in the West Germany national team which won the 1990 FIFA World Cup and the Germany which won UEFA Euro 1996. He also won the 1996–97 UEFA Champions League with Borussia Dortmund.
==Club career== Born in Dinkelsbühl, Reuter started his career with local side TSV 1860 Dinkelsbühl. In 1982, he played for 1. FC Nürnberg, first in the 2. Bundesliga and, from 1985, in the Bundesliga. In exactly 100 games he scored ten goals. He was occasionally used as a right sided midfielder.
In 1988, he was transferred to Bayern Munich. He played 95 games in the Bundesliga and scored four goals for the Bavarians. He won the Bundesliga title with Bayern in 1988–89 and 1989–90.
A proposed move to Liverpool following West Germany's victorious World Cup campaign was turned down at the last minute with Reuter following many of his compatriots to Italy. From 1991 to 1992 he played for Juventus, but soon returned to Germany, joining Borussia Dortmund. With Borussia, Reuter won the Bundesliga in 1994–95, 1995–96 and 2001–02, and the UEFA Champions League in 1996–97. The team also reached the final of the UEFA Cup in both 1993 and 2002. Overall, he played 307 games for Dortmund and scored 11 goals in the Bundesliga before retiring in 2004.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/sport/borussia-dortmund-reuter-beendet-seine-karriere-1143840.html |title=Reuter beendet seine Karriere |date=21 March 2004 |publisher=FAZ |access-date=25 July 2023 |language=German}}</ref>
==International career== In 1984, Reuter was part of the team that won the U-16 European Championship, held in Germany from 3 to 5 May 1984, after the team had won the group in qualifying and the quarterfinals against the Netherlands. The semi-finals in Heilbronn ended in a 5-1 win over Yugoslavia, and in the final on 5 May in Ulm he secured (as a substitute) with the team the U-16 title by beating the Soviet Union 2-0 -European Champion.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dfb.de/maenner-nationalmannschaft/news-detail/welt-und-europameister-dauerlaeufer-stefan-reuter-wird-50-155850/full/1/ |title=Welt- und Europameister: "Dauerläufer" Stefan Reuter wird 50 |date=16 October 2016 |publisher=DFB |access-date=25 July 2023 |language=German}}</ref>
He also played for the U-18 national team (seven times in a row after his debut on 14 January 1985 in Leningrad - as part of the Granatkin memorial tournament - in a 5-1 victory over Poland), as well as for the U-21 National team, for which he made his debut on 24 September 1985 in Eskilstuna in the 1-2 defeat by Sweden and also scored two goals in the process. He also took part in the military world championships in Italy in 1987 with the Bundeswehr national team and finished second.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.schwaebische-post.de/ostalb/ellwangen/stadt-ellwangen/ellwanger-kicker-testen-die-nationalelf-90730645.html |title=Ellwanger Kicker testen die Nationalelf |date=5 October 2014 |publisher=Schawäbische Post |access-date=25 July 2023 |language=German}}</ref> On 18 April 1987, Reuter played for the senior national team for the first time. In the 0-0 draw against Italy in Cologne, his first of 69 appearances began with the substitution of Wolfgang Rolff in the 63rd minute. He scored his first of two international goals on 12 December 1987 in Brasília against Brazil in the 90th minute to a 1-1 draw.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dfb.de/datencenter/laenderspiel/1987-1988/saison/1900826 |title=Freundschaft, 1987/1988, Saison |date=12 December 1987 |publisher=DFB |access-date=25 July 2023 |language=German}}</ref>
He later won the 1990 World Cup, as well as the Euro 1996. At Euro 1996 he scored one of the penalties in the semi-final shootout against England, however like Andreas Möller he was suspended for the final.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/euro-96-semi-finals-1339053.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220524/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/euro-96-semi-finals-1339053.html |archive-date=24 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Euro 96 Semi-finals |publisher=Independent |date=26 June 1996 |access-date=25 May 2018}}</ref>
In 1992, Reuter became the first player in the European Championship history to be substituted as a substitute, when during the match between Germany and Scotland, he replaced Karl-Heinz Riedle but then only seven minutes later he had to leave the field due to an injury, and was replaced by Michael Schulz.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.euro2008.uefa.com/history/season=1992/round=219/match=5095/index.html |title=Germany end Tartan dreams |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080403002728/http://www.euro2008.uefa.com/history/season=1992/round=219/match=5095/index.html |archive-date=3 April 2008 }}</ref>
His last game was the first round match against the USA, played in Paris on 15 June 1998, which he won 2-0.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.weltfussball.de/spieler_profil/stefan-reuter/wm-1998-in-frankreich/deutschland-team/3/ |title=Stefan Reuter » WM 1998 in Frankreich |publisher=fussball.de |access-date=27 July 2023 |language=German}}</ref> As a member of the 1990 World Cup football team, he received the Silver Laurel Leaf.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dfb.de/maenner-nationalmannschaft/news-detail/weltmeister-erhalten-silbernes-lorbeerblatt-vom-bundespraesidenten-110387/full/1/ |title=Weltmeister erhalten Silbernes Lorbeerblatt vom Bundespräsidenten |date=10 November 2014 |publisher=DFB |access-date=27 July 2023 |language=German}}</ref>
==Managerial career== From 1 July 2004 to 3 January 2005, Reuter worked as a management assistant at Borussia Dortmund in the area of sponsorship. Reuter served as team manager for TSV 1860 Munich from January 2006 to 2 February 2009 when he was removed from the job. After the termination without notice of his colleague Stefan Ziffzer, who was responsible for finance, Reuter was the sole managing director for three months from 13 May 2008 until Markus Kern was appointed as additional managing director on 13 August 2008. On 2 February 2009, Miroslav Stević was introduced as the new sports director at TSV 1860. A day later, Reuter rejected an offer to continue working in management with limited skills as unacceptable and was then suspended with immediate effect.<ref>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207041530/https://www.eyep.tv/index.php?id=75&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=2612&cHash=0bf3535ad0 |archive-date=7 February 2009 |url=https://www.eyep.tv/index.php?id=75&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=2612&cHash=0bf3535ad0 |title=Stefan Reuters Ende bei den Löwen? |date=3 February 2009 |publisher=eyeP.tv |access-date=3 August 2023 |language=German}}</ref> His contract expired on 30 June 2009.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tz.de/sport/1860-muenchen/stefan-reuter-1860-muenchen-fehlt-was-fc-augsburg-hat-zr-3541811.html |title=Reuter: 1860 fehlt, was Augsburg hat |last1=Weiß |first1=Florian |date=9 May 2014 |publisher=tz |access-date=3 August 2023 |language=German}}</ref>
On 27 February 2012, he was appointed as general manager of FC Augsburg.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www1.skysports.com/football/news/21572/8363475/Augsburg-have-appointed-Stefan-Reuter-as-their-new-director-of-sport | title = Augsburg have appointed Stefan Reuter as their new director of sport | publisher = Sky Sports | date = 27 December 2012 | access-date = 28 April 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Uersfeld |first=Stephan |date=28 December 2012 |title=Augsburg appoint Reuter |url=https://espnfc.com/news/story/_/id/1280130/augsburg-appoint-reuter-as-general-manager?cc=5739# |access-date=28 April 2013 |publisher=ESPN FC}}</ref> Under Reuter's tenure, FC Augsburg qualified for the UEFA Europa League for the first time in the club's history in the 2014/15 season.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/sport/fc-augsburg/FC-Augsburg-FCA-kompakt-Heute-werden-die-Gegner-in-der-Europa-League-ausgelost-id35274237.html |title=Heute werden die Gegner in der Europa League ausgelost |date=28 August 2015 |publisher=Augsburger Allgemeine |access-date=3 August 2023 |language=German}}</ref>
Reuter's current contract with FCA runs until 30 June 2026.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.augsburg-journal.de/news/ca-mitgliederversammlung-markus-krapf-schafft-klarheit-zur-vertragssituation-von-stefan-reuter-dem-transfer-von-ricardo-pepi/ |title=Markus Krapf schafft Klarheit zur Vertragssituation von Stefan Reuter & dem Transfer von Ricardo Pepi |date=5 July 2023 |publisher=AUGSBURGER JOURNAL |access-date=4 August 2023 |language=German}}</ref>
==Club statistics==
{| class="wikitable" Style="text-align: center" |+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition<ref>{{cite web |title=Stefan Reuter » Club matches |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/person/pe40680/stefan-reuter/club-matches/ |publisher=World Football |access-date=5 January 2023}}</ref> |- !rowspan="2"|Club !rowspan="2"|Season !colspan="3"|League !colspan="2"|National Cup !colspan="2"|League Cup !colspan="2"|Continental !colspan="2"|Other !colspan="2"|Total |- !Division!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals |- |rowspan="5"|1. FC Nürnberg |1984–85 |2. Bundesliga |25||3||1||0||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||26||3 |- ||1985–86 |Bundesliga |33||2||2||2||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||35||4 |- ||1986–87 |Bundesliga |33||6||2||1||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||35||7 |- ||1987–88 |Bundesliga |34||2||4||0||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||38||2 |- !colspan="2"|Total !125!!13!!9!!3!!colspan="2"|—!!colspan="2"|—!!colspan="2"|—!!134!!16 |- |rowspan="4"|Bayern Munich |1988–99 |Bundesliga |32||0||3||0||colspan="2"|—||10||1||colspan="2"|—||45||1 |- |1989–90 |Bundesliga |33||0||3||0||colspan="2"|—||8||0||1<ref group=lower-alpha name="GSC">Appearances in the German Super Cup</ref>||0||45||0 |- |1990–91 |Bundesliga |30||4||1||0||colspan="2"|—||8||3||1<ref group=lower-alpha name="GSC"/>||1||40||8 |- !colspan="2"|Total !95!!4!!7!!0!!colspan="2"|—!!26!!4!!2!!1!!130!!9 |- |Juventus |1991–92 |Serie A |28||0||8||0||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||36||0 |- |rowspan="13"|Borussia Dortmund |1992–93 |Bundesliga |26||0||4||0||colspan="2"|—||10||0||colspan="2"|—||40||0 |- |1993–94 |Bundesliga |21||0||2||1||colspan="2"|—||5||0||colspan="2"|—||28||1 |- |1994–95 |Bundesliga |33||4||2||0||colspan="2"|—||9||1||colspan="2"|—||44||5 |- |1995–96 |Bundesliga |26||6||2||0||colspan="2"|—||5||0||1<ref group=lower-alpha name="GSC"/>||0||34||6 |- |1996–97 |Bundesliga |27||1||1||1||colspan="2"|—||9||1||1<ref group=lower-alpha name="GSC"/>||0||38||3 |- |1997–98 |Bundesliga |28||0||2||0||1||0||8||0||1<ref group=lower-alpha name="IC">Appearance in the Intercontinental Cup</ref>||0||40||0 |- |1998–99 |Bundesliga |25||0||0||0||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||25||0 |- |1999–2000 |Bundesliga |26||0||1||0||2||0||8||0||colspan="2"|—||37||0 |- |2000–01 |Bundesliga |5||0||0||0||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||5||0 |- |2001–02 |Bundesliga |28||0||0||0||2||0||15||0||colspan="2"|—||45||0 |- |2002–03 |Bundesliga |31||0||2||0||0||0||10||0||colspan="2"|—||43||0 |- |2003–04 |Bundesliga |31||0||2||0||3||0||6||0||colspan="2"|—||42||0 |- !colspan="2"|Total !307!!11!!18!!2!!8!!0!!85!!2!!3!!0!!421!!15 |- !colspan="3"|Career Total !555!!28!!42!!5!!8!!0!!111!!6!!5!!1!!721!!40 |} {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}}
==Honours== '''Borussia Dortmund'''<ref name="FAZ">{{cite news | url = https://www.faz.net/aktuell/sport/fussball/bundesliga/fc-augsburg-reuter-wird-neuer-geschaeftsfuehrer-12007049.html | title = Reuter wird neuer Geschäftsführer | newspaper = Faz.net | language = de | publisher = Frankfurter Allgemeine | date = 27 December 2012 | access-date = 3 May 2015}}</ref><ref name="FD21">{{cite web | url = http://www.fd21.de/34478.asp | title = FD21 - Stefan Reuter | language = de | publisher = FD21 | access-date = 3 May 2015 | archive-date = 3 March 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160303204209/http://www.fd21.de/34478.asp | url-status = dead }}</ref> * Bundesliga: 1994–95, 1995–96, 2001–02 * DFL-Supercup: 1995, 1996 * UEFA Champions League: 1996–97 * UEFA Cup: runner-up: 1992–93, 2001–02 * Intercontinental Cup: 1997
'''Bayern Munich'''<ref name="FAZ" /><ref name="FD21" /> * Bundesliga: 1988–89, 1989–90 * DFL-Supercup: 1990
'''Juventus'''<ref name="FD21" /> * Serie A: runner-up: 1991–92 * Coppa Italia: runner-up: 1991–92
'''West Germany''', '''Germany'''<ref name="FAZ" /><ref name="FD21" /> * FIFA World Cup: 1990 * European Championship: 1996, runner-up 1992
'''Germany U16''' * UEFA European Under-16 Championship: 1984<ref name="FD21" />
==Personal life== thumb|upright|Reuter in 2005 In his youth, Reuter was also a successful track and field athlete. He won district championships in the long jump and was Bavarian champion in cross country running. He retained this basic athletic training as a player. His dynamic sprints earned him the nickname Turbo.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dfb.de/maenner-nationalmannschaft/news-detail/welt-und-europameister-dauerlaeufer-stefan-reuter-wird-50-155850/full/1/ |title=Welt- und Europameister: "Dauerläufer" Stefan Reuter wird 50 |publisher=DFB |access-date=4 August 2023 |language=German}}</ref>
Reuter is a member of the board of trustees of the Stiftung Jugendfußball (youth football foundation) which was founded in 2000 by him,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://p109855.typo3server.info/196.0.html |title=Stefan Reuter - Weltmeister engagiert sich für die Weltmeister von morgen |publisher=EAGLES Charity Golf Club e.V. |access-date=4 August 2023 |language=German}}</ref> Jürgen Klinsmann,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dw.com/de/klinsmann-startet-fu%C3%9Fball-schulprojekt/a-1391120 |title=Klinsmann startet Fußball-Schulprojekt |last=Schülke |first=Martin |website=Deutsche Welle |date=11 November 2004 |publisher= |access-date=4 August 2023 |language=German}}</ref> other German national team players and the lecturers of the special Pro Licence course. Reuter was the last active professional from the German 1990 World Cup winning squad.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.spiegel.de/sport/fussball/abschiedstour-turbo-reuter-rollt-langsam-aus-a-278813.html |title=Turbo Reuter rollt langsam aus |last1=Eggers |first1=Erik |date=30 December 2003 |publisher=Spiegel |access-date=4 August 2023 |language=German}}</ref>
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