{{Short description|German footballer and manager (1948–2025)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Werner Lorant | image = Werner Lorant.jpg | caption = | fullname = Werner Heinz Erich Lorant<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tff.org/Default.aspx?pageID=527&antID=8946 |title=Werner Heinz Eri̇ch Lorant |publisher=Turkish Football Federation |access-date=21 December 2020 |language=tr}}</ref> | birth_date = {{birth date|1948|11|21|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Welver]],<ref>{{Worldfootball.net|werner-lorant|access-date=21 June 2019|new_id=pe44380}}</ref> [[North Rhine-Westphalia]], Germany | death_date = {{death date and age|2025|4|20|1948|11|21|df=y}} | death_place = [[Wasserburg am Inn]], [[Bavaria]], Germany | height = 1.72 m | position = [[Defender (association football)|Defender]], [[defensive midfielder]] | currentclub = | years1 = 1971–1973 | clubs1 = [[Borussia Dortmund]] | caps1 = 23 | goals1 = 0 | years2 = 1973–1977 | clubs2 = [[Rot-Weiss Essen]] | caps2 = 116 | goals2 = 16 | years3 = 1977–1978 | clubs3 = [[1. FC Saarbrücken]] | caps3 = 34 | goals3 = 9 | years4 = 1978–1982 | clubs4 = [[Eintracht Frankfurt]] | caps4 = 137 | goals4 = 21 | years5 = 1982–1983 | clubs5 = [[FC Schalke 04|Schalke 04]] | caps5 = 18 | goals5 = 0 | years6 = 1983–1984 | clubs6 = [[Hannover 96]]<ref>{{cite web |title = Werner Lorant | website = fussballdaten.de | url = http://fussballdaten.de/spieler/lorantwerner/ | language = de | access-date = 21 June 2019}}</ref> | caps6 = 33 | goals6 = 8 | totalcaps = 361 | totalgoals = 54 | manageryears1 = 1986–1990 | managerclubs1 = [[1. FC Schweinfurt 05]] | manageryears2 = 1990–1992 | managerclubs2 = [[Viktoria Aschaffenburg]] | manageryears3 = 1992–2001 | managerclubs3 = [[TSV 1860 Munich|1860 Munich]] | manageryears4 = 2002 | managerclubs4 = [[Fenerbahçe S.K. (football)|Fenerbahçe]] | manageryears5 = 2002–2003 | managerclubs5 = [[Rot Weiss Ahlen|LR Ahlen]] | manageryears6 = 2003–2004 | managerclubs6 = [[Incheon United]] | manageryears7 = 2005 | managerclubs7 = [[APOEL F.C.|APOEL]] | manageryears8 = 2005–2006 | managerclubs8 = [[Sivasspor]] | manageryears9 = 2006 | managerclubs9 = [[Saipa FC|Saipa Karaj]] | manageryears10 = 2006–2007 | managerclubs10 = [[Kayseri Erciyesspor]] | manageryears11 = 2007 | managerclubs11 = [[SpVgg Unterhaching]] | manageryears12 = 2007 | managerclubs12 = [[Kasımpaşa S.K.|Kasımpaşa]] | manageryears13 = 2008 | managerclubs13 = [[Liaoning F.C.|Liaoning]] | manageryears14 = 2008 | managerclubs14 = [[SV ATA Spor München]] | manageryears15 = 2008–2009 | managerclubs15 = [[FC DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda|DAC Dunajská Streda]] | manageryears16 = 2012 | managerclubs16 = DAC Dunajská Streda | manageryears17 = 2015 | managerclubs17 = TSV Waging | manageryears18 = 2017 | managerclubs18 = ÖTSU Hallein | manageryears19 = 2019 | managerclubs19 = {{Ill|FC Hallein 04|de|1. Halleiner SK#Nachfolgeverein FC Hallein 04}} }}
'''Werner Heinz Erich Lorant''' (21 November 1948 – 20 April 2025) was a German [[Association football|football player]] who played as a [[Defender (association football)|defender]] or as a [[defensive midfielder]]. He later became a manager, notably managing [[TSV 1860 Munich]] for nine years between 1992 and 2001 and taking the club from the third division to the [[UEFA Cup]].
==Playing career== Born in [[Welver]], [[North Rhine-Westphalia]], Lorant commenced his professional career in 1970, in the second division with [[Westfalia Herne]]. In 1971, he moved to [[Borussia Dortmund]]. There he was part of a team that lost 11–1 against [[FC Bayern Munich|Bayern Munich]] and was relegated in 1972. He stuck with the club in its first second-division season, but later joined [[Rot-Weiss Essen]] in 1973, who had just been promoted to the [[Bundesliga]]. Lorant stayed with the struggling club around their star [[Willi Lippens]] and players like [[Manfred Burgsmüller]] and [[Horst Hrubesch]] until relegation in 1977. Then he joined [[1. FC Saarbrücken]] for a season, experiencing his third relegation.
The next four-and-a-half years he spent with [[Eintracht Frankfurt]]. With the club, he won the [[1979–80 UEFA Cup|UEFA Cup 1980]], prevailing in the finals against [[Borussia Mönchengladbach]]. In 1981, he helped win the [[DFB-Pokal]] with a 3–1 victory in the final against [[1. FC Kaiserslautern]]. With Frankfurt, Lorant played, amongst others, alongside the World Cup winners of 1974 [[Jürgen Grabowski]] and [[Bernd Hölzenbein]]. Other notable players were [[Norbert Nachtweih]], [[Bernd Nickel]] and the Austrian international [[Bruno Pezzey]].
Lorant left Eintracht mid-season 1982–1983 for [[FC Schalke 04]], who had just been promoted to the Bundesliga. By the end of the season, he had to face the fourth relegation of his career. He then quickly moved on to second-division team [[Hannover 96]], where he ended his time as a professional player after one season.
==Coaching career== After a brief stint as part-time coach of an amateur team in 1982, he commenced a full-time coaching career as player-manager of [[SV Heidingsfeld]] from 1984 to 1986 and with [[1. FC Schweinfurt 05]] from 1986 to 1990, with which he achieved the then-amateur third division championship and promotion. From 1990 to 1992, he coached [[Viktoria Aschaffenburg]], also in the third division, where he won the championship in 1992.
After this he was hired by [[TSV 1860 Munich]], a team that had been dwelling for some years in the third division. He took the club to the first division within two years and in 1997 qualified for the [[UEFA Cup]], where 1860 was ousted in the first round by Austrian team [[SK Rapid Wien|Rapid Wien]]. In 2000, he led 1860 into the qualification for the [[UEFA Champions League|Champions League]], where the team lost against [[Leeds United F.C.|Leeds United]] with 2–1 and 1–0. In the ensuing UEFA Cup campaign, 1860 Munich was stopped by Italian club [[AC Parma]]; after a respectable 2–2 draw away, 1860 Munich lost the home leg 2–0. During the season, a sweltering conflict with club president Karl-Heinz Wildmoser came to a head after the team lost the derby against [[FC Bayern Munich|Bayern Munich]] 5–1, and Lorant was let go.
Notable players during his tenure with 1860 were the German internationals [[Thomas Häßler]] and [[Martin Max]], who played there from 1999 in the twilight of their careers. Max became top scorer of the Bundesliga twice in this phase. German international [[Jens Jeremies]] was discovered at the club during Lorant's tenure. Foreign internationals were, amongst others, [[Abédi Pelé]] from Ghana, [[Harald Cerny]] from Austria, [[Miroslav Stevic]] from Serbia, as well as Australians [[Paul Agostino]] and [[Ned Zelic]]. [[Horst Heldt]], [[Olaf Bodden]], [[Manfred Schwabl]] and [[Bernhard Trares]] were further players of note in this era.
In the ensuing years, Lorant coached [[SpVgg Unterhaching]] and [[Rot Weiss Ahlen|LR Ahlen]] in Germany, [[Fenerbahçe S.K. (football)|Fenerbahçe]], [[Sivasspor]], [[Kayseri Erciyesspor]] and [[Kasımpaşa S.K.|Kasımpaşa]] in Turkey, [[APOEL F.C.|APOEL]] in Cyprus, [[Saipa Teheran]] in Iran, [[Incheon United]] in South Korea, [[Liaoning Hongyun]] in China, and [[FC DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda|DAC Dunajská Streda]] in Slovakia. Most of these engagements ended up being very short term and the clubs were often struggling to retain the class. With Apoel in Cyprus, where Lorant spent two months in 2005, he became runner-up in the championship; however, the club hoped that he would take them to the title.
In March 2010, he was appointed sporting director of German fourth division club [[Tennis Borussia Berlin]]; however, the club folded in May.
In April 2015, Lorant was appointed manager of TSV Waging until the end of the season.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.tz.de/sport/1860-muenchen/jetzt-spricht-werner-lorant-4896644.html | title = Jetzt spricht Werner Lorant | language = de | website = tz.de | date = 10 April 2014 | access-date = 20 June 2019 | archive-date = 20 June 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190620204309/https://www.tz.de/sport/1860-muenchen/jetzt-spricht-werner-lorant-4896644.html | url-status = dead }}</ref> In January 2017, he took charge of Austrian club ÖTSU Hallein.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.sportbuzzer.de/artikel/nicht-viel-ahnung-von-fussball-werner-lorant-attackiert-1860-investor-ismaik/ | title = "Nicht viel Ahnung von Fußball": Werner Lorant schießt gegen 1860-Investor Ismaik | language = de | website = sportbuzzer.de | date = 6 March 2017 | access-date = 20 June 2019 | first = Sönke | last = Gorgos}}</ref> In April 2019, he took charge of Austrian fifth division club {{Ill|FC Hallein 04|de|1. Halleiner SK#Nachfolgeverein FC Hallein 04}} until the end of the season.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.merkur.de/sport/tsv-1860/werner-lorant-tsv-1860-legende-neuer-trainer-beim-fc-hallein-12215091.html | title = Neuer Verein für 1860-Legende Lorant: Kult-Trainer soll FC Hallein vor Abstieg bewahren | language = de | website = Merkur.de | date = 24 April 2019 | access-date = 20 June 2019 | first = Roman | last = Schwaiger | archive-date = 20 June 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190620204310/https://www.merkur.de/sport/tsv-1860/werner-lorant-tsv-1860-legende-neuer-trainer-beim-fc-hallein-12215091.html | url-status = dead }}</ref>
==Death== Lorant died in [[Wasserburg am Inn]] on 20 April 2025, at the age of 76. He had been seriously ill for a year and a half.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.kicker.de/ehemaliger-1860-coach-werner-lorant-verstorben-1112802/artikel | title = Ehemaliger 1860-Coach Werner Lorant verstorben | language = de | website = kicker.de | date = 21 April 2025 | access-date = 21 April 2025}}</ref>
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