Carsten Jancker

Carsten Jancker

Jancker at SV Mattersburg
Personal information
Full name	Carsten Jancker
Date of birth	(1974-08-28) 28 August 1974
Place of birth	Grevesmühlen, East Germany
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current team	SV Horn (Head coach)
Youth career
0000–1981	SG Schwarze Pumpe
1981–1986	TSG Wismar
1986–1991	Hansa Rostock
1991–1993	1. FC Köln
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1993–1996	1. FC Köln	5	(1)
1995–1996	→ Rapid Wien (loan)	27	(7)
1996–2002	Bayern Munich	143	(48)
2002–2004	Udinese	36	(2)
2004–2006	1. FC Kaiserslautern	30	(4)
2006	Shanghai Shenhua	7	(0)
2006–2009	SV Mattersburg	76	(21)
Total		324	(83)
National team
1993–1994	Germany U21	2	(0)
1998–2002	Germany	33	(10)
Teams managed
2010	SC Neusiedl 1919 (U14)
2010	SC Neusiedl 1919 (Forward coach)
2010–2013	SK Rapid Wien (U15)
2013–2016	SK Rapid Wien (assistant)
2017–	SV Horn
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Carsten Jancker (born 28 August 1974) is a German football coach, currently managing SV Horn,^[1] and former professional footballer who played as a striker between 1993 and 2009 for various teams including FC Köln, Rapid Wien, FC Bayern Munich, Udinese Calcio, FC Kaiserslautern, Shanghai Shenhua F.C., and SV Mattersburg, as well as the German national team.

Club career

Born in Grevesmühlen, Jancker started his career as a trainee at Hansa Rostock before making his Bundesliga debut in 1993 with 1. FC Köln. At the age of 21, he was transferred to Rapid Vienna, scoring fourteen goals including seven in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup to finish as the tournament's top scorer. Thanks to this impressive performance, Jancker spent only one season with the Austrian club before being brought back to Germany to play for FC Bayern Munich.^[2][3]

Jancker's time at Bayern between 1996 and 2002 was the best period of his career, a spell which included four Bundesliga titles and victory in the 2001 UEFA Champions League. At Bayern, Jancker was partnered with the Brazilian inside-forward Giovane Élber, often rated as one of the Bundesliga's best attacking players.^[2][3]

Jancker left Bayern for Italian side Udinese in 2002, but the move was not a success;^[3] over two seasons and 35 games, the forward registered only two goals. Jancker was said to be "too slow and predictable for Serie A" by one football website.^[2] In 2004, Jancker returned to Germany with Kaiserslautern and showed a slight improvement in form, netting five times in 25 games.^[4] In 2004, he also scored six goals in Kaiserslautern's 15–0 first round DFB-Pokal win against FC Schönberg 95, still a record for any player in the competition. This was an improvement over his own previous joint record of five, which he had scored for Bayern Munich against DJK Waldberg in the latter's 16–1 first round cup defeat in 1997.^[5] Following the relegation of Kaiserslautern in May 2006, Jancker signed for Chinese team Shanghai Shenhua.

After poor performances, he was dropped in October, and agreed to join SV Mattersburg in the winter transfer window.^[6] In June 2009 it was announced that Mattersburg did not want to work with Jancker any further because of his physical condition. In February 2010, he announced his retirement at the end of the current season.^[7]

International career

His performances alongside Elber caught the eye of German national coach Erich Ribbeck, who included Jancker in his international squad for Euro 2000.

Instantly recognisable to European football fans, the invariably shaven-headed forward has generally failed to replicate his club form when playing for the national side. A possible explanation for his poorly-regarded international performances might be that the German national team lacked a skilful strike partner in the Élber mould. Whatever the reason, Jancker never impressed for Germany; although he was included in Rudi Völler's squad for the 2002 FIFA World Cup – scoring a goal in the team's opening 8–0 win over Saudi Arabia,^[2] he was dropped from the team shortly after the tournament and was never recalled. His German international scoring record stands at roughly a goal every three games. He is known for scoring in Germany's 5–1 defeat to England in 2001.^[8]

Style of play

A powerful and tenacious yet slow striker,^[2][9] Jancker was physically very large for a footballer, standing at 1.93 meters (6 ft 4.0 in). His height and strength proved to be an advantage when playing as a target man, as displayed during his most successful days at FC Bayern Munich.^[10][11] Jancker was known for being an unusual center forward, being weak in the air despite his huge frame, but showing a surprising control of the ball,^[12] especially featuring a polished back-to-the-goal game, good link-up play,^[2] and a touch for scoring with his hard right-footed shot – always doing the most intelligent and simple things on the field, courtesy of his awareness.^[9] He also struggled with injuries throughout his career.^[2]

Coaching career

On 18 February 2010, the former international striker took over the U14 team of SC Neusiedl, the club from his Austrian home town. Additionally he works for the first team in the Austrian Regional League East as an individual coach.^[13] On 27 April 2010, Jancker announced that he will work as the new coach of the Under 15 of his former club SK Rapid Wien, starting 1 July 2010. In April 2013, he became assistant coach of the club's Austrian Bundesliga team.

Career statistics

International

Germany national team
Year	Apps	Goals
1998	1	0
1999	4	0
2000	7	3
2001	9	3
2002	12	4
Total	33	10

International goals

Score and results list Germany's goal tally first.^[14]

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	3 June 2000	Easycredit-Stadion, Nuremberg	Czech Republic	1–0	3–2	Friendly
2.	7 June 2000	Dreisamstadion, Freiburg	Liechtenstein	6–2	8–2
3.				8–2
4.	2 June 2001	Helsinki Olympic Stadium, Helsinki	Finland	2–2	2–2	2002 World Cup qualification
5.	15 August 2001	Ferenc Puskás Stadium, Budapest	Hungary	3–0	5–2	Friendly
6.	1 September 2001	Olympiastadion, Munich	England	1–0	1–5	2002 World Cup qualification
7.	9 May 2002	Dreisamstadion, Freiburg	Kuwait	7–0	7–0	Friendly
8.	1 June 2002	Sapporo Dome, Sapporo	Saudi Arabia	4–0	8–0	2002 World Cup
9.	21 August 2002	Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia	Bulgaria	2–2	2–2	Friendly
10.	11 October 2002	Asim Ferhatović Hase Stadium, Sarajevo	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1–1	1–1

Honours

Rapid Wien

• Austrian Bundesliga: 1995–96
• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: Runner-up 1995–96

Bayern Munich

• Bundesliga: 1996–97, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01
• DFB Liga-Pokal: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
• DFB-Pokal: 1997–98, 1999–2000
• Champions League: 2000–01, runner up 1998–99
• Intercontinental Cup: 2001

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Carsten Jancker.

• Carsten Jancker at fussballdaten.de (in German)
• Carsten Jancker at WorldFootball.net
• Carsten Jancker at National-Football-Teams.com
• Profile at SV Mattersburg (in German)