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Ralf Rangnick
Personal information
\n Rangnick in 2022
Full name	\nRalf Dietrich Rangnick
Date of birth	\n (1958-06-29) 29 June 1958 (age 66)
Place of birth	\nBacknang, West Germany
Height	\n1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)^[1]
Position(s)	\nDefensive midfielder
Team information
Current team	\nAustria (manager)
Senior career\"
Years	\nTeam	\nApps	\n(Gls)
1976\u20131979	\nVfB Stuttgart II	\n	\n
1979\u20131980	\nSouthwick	\n	\n
1980\u20131982	\nVfR Heilbronn	\n66	\n(6)
1982\u20131983	\nUlm 1846	\n32	\n(0)
1983\u20131985	\nFC Viktoria Backnang	\n	\n
1987\u20131988	\nTSV Lippoldsweiler	\n	\n
Managerial career
1983\u20131985	\nFC Viktoria Backnang
1985\u20131987	\nVfB Stuttgart II
1987\u20131988	\nTSV Lippoldsweiler
1988\u20131990	\nSC Korb
1990\u20131994	\nVfB Stuttgart U19
1995\u20131997	\nReutlingen 05
1997\u20131999	\nUlm 1846
1999\u20132001	\nVfB Stuttgart
2001\u20132004	\nHannover 96
2004\u20132005	\nSchalke 04
2006\u20132011	\nTSG Hoffenheim
2011	\nSchalke 04
2015\u20132016	\nRB Leipzig
2018\u20132019	\nRB Leipzig
2021\u20132022	\nManchester United (interim)
2022\u2013	\nAustria
\n\"Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ralf Dietrich Rangnick (German: [\u0281alf \u02c8di\u02d0t\u0281\u026a\u00e7 \u02c8\u0281a\u014bn\u026ak]; born 29 June 1958) is a German professional football coach, executive, and former player who is currently the manager of the Austria national team.\n

Rangnick began his coaching career in 1983, succeeding his career as a player, at age 25. In 1997, he was hired by former club Ulm 1846, with whom he won the Regionalliga S\u00fcd in his debut season. Rangnick was then appointed by Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart, winning the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 2000, but was dismissed in 2001. He subsequently joined Hannover 96, winning the 2. Bundesliga, but was dismissed in 2004. After a brief period with Schalke 04, Rangnick joined TSG Hoffenheim in 2006, and achieved successive promotions to the Bundesliga. He departed the club in 2011 and returned to Schalke 04, where he won the 2011 DFB-Pokal and reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League. He later served as head coach at RB Leipzig across two periods between 2015 and 2019.\n

Rangnick joined Red Bull as director of football in 2012, helping oversee their expansion into European football, emphasising the recruitment of unproven players and developing youth systems with a worldwide scouting base and an attacking on-pitch philosophy across their clubs.^[2]^[3] As a result, Red Bull clubs rose in market value from \u20ac120 million to \u20ac1.2 billion during his tenure.^[4] Their clubs have also seen sustained domestic success^[5] and generated sizable profits with player transfers,^[6]^[7] which led to Rangnick's promotion to head of sport and development in 2019.^[8] He resigned from Red Bull in 2020 and joined Russian club Lokomotiv Moscow as manager of sports and development in 2021. Later that year, Rangnick was appointed as interim manager of Manchester United until the end of the 2021\u201322 season, following which he took charge of the Austria national team.\n

Rangnick is credited with developing the Gegenpressing tactic,^[9] whereby the team, after losing possession, immediately attempts to win back possession, rather than falling back to regroup. His sides have been noted for their pressing and high attacking output, as well as for popularising zonal marking.^[10]^[11] He is credited for influencing Thomas Tuchel, Julian Nagelsmann, J\u00fcrgen Klopp and Oliver Glasner, among others.^[12]^[13]\n

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Team	From	To	Record\n
G	W	D	L	Win %	Ref.\n
VfB Stuttgart II	1 July 1985^[20]	30 June 1987^[20]\n	70\n	28\n	16\n	26\n	040.00\n	\n
Reutlingen 05	1 July 1995^[21]	31 December 1996^[21]\n	51\n	26\n	12\n	13\n	050.98\n	^[22]^[24]\n
Ulm 1846	1 January 1997^[23]	16 March 1999^[23]\n	75\n	36\n	18\n	21\n	048.00\n	^[25]^[27]^[31]\n
VfB Stuttgart	3 May 1999^[21]	24 February 2001^[35]\n	86\n	36\n	16\n	34\n	041.86\n	^[29]\n
Hannover 96	23 May 2001^[38]	8 March 2004^[42]\n	98\n	44\n	22\n	32\n	044.90\n	^[44]\n
Schalke 04	28 September 2004^[45]	12 December 2005^[50]\n	65\n	36\n	15\n	14\n	055.38\n	^[51]\n
TSG Hoffenheim	22 June 2006^[52]	2 January 2011^[63]\n	166\n	79\n	43\n	44\n	047.59\n	^[66]\n
Schalke 04	21 March 2011^[67]	22 September 2011^[73]\n	23\n	10\n	3\n	10\n	043.48\n	^[51]\n
RB Leipzig	29 May 2015^[76]	16 May 2016^[79]\n	36\n	21\n	7\n	8\n	058.33\n	^[80]\n
RB Leipzig	9 July 2018^[81]	30 June 2019\n	52\n	29\n	13\n	10\n	055.77\n	^[80]\n
Manchester United (interim)	2 December 2021	22 May 2022\n	29\n	11\n	10\n	8\n	037.93\n	^[133]\n
Austria	24 May 2022	Present\n	33\n	19\n	6\n	8\n	057.58\n	\n
Total\n	784\n	375\n	181\n	228\n	047.83\n	\n

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Early life and playing career

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Early career

VfB Stuttgart

Hannover 96

Schalke 04

TSG Hoffenheim

Return to Schalke 04

RB Leipzig

Manchester United

Austria national team

Executive career

Red Bull

Lokomotiv Moscow

Style of management

Philanthropy

Managerial statistics

Honours

Manager

References

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