Thomas Doll

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Expand German Template:Infobox football biography Thomas Jens Uwe Doll (born 9 April 1966) is a German professional football manager and a former football player. As a player, he played as an attacking midfielder for F.C. Hansa Rostock, BFC Dynamo, Hamburger SV, Lazio, Eintracht Frankfurt and Bari.

Club career

Doll began playing football for the youth teams of local side BSG Lokomotiv Malchin. He was allowed to join the youth academy of football club F.C. Hansa Rostock in 1979. Doll joined the first team of F.C. Hansa Rostock in 1983. He made his debut for F.C. Hansa Rostock in the DDR-Oberliga away against BSG Stahl Riesa in the third matchday of the 1983-84 DDR-Oberliga on 27 August 1983.

F.C. Hansa Rostock was relegated to the second tier DDR-Liga after the 1985-86 DDR-Oberliga. Doll then joined BFC Dynamo in order to ensure a chance to play for the national team.<ref name="WeltSchwerin">Template:Cite news</ref> BFC Dynamo was the dominant team in East German football at the time. Doll had the opportunity to choose between BFC Dynamo and SG Dynamo Dresden, but wanted to go to Berlin to be able to stay close to his family and because he already knew players in BFC Dynamo from the national youth teams, such as Andreas Thom.<ref name="WeltSchwerin"/>

Doll immediately became a regular player in the first team of BFC Dynamo. He scored his first goal for BFC Dynamo in the DDR-Oberliga in the derby against 1. FC Union Berlin at the Stadion der Weltjugend on 13 September 1986. BFC Dynamo won the match with a massive 8–1.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Doll and Thom formed one of the most effective attacking constellations in East German football in the late 1980s.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Doll won the DDR-Oberliga in 1987 and 1988 and the FDGB-Pokal in 1988 and 1989 with BFC Dynamo. BFC Dynamo then met SG Dynamo Dresden in the first ever DFV-Supercup on 5 August 1989. BFC Dynamo won the match 4-1 and became the first and only winner of the DFV-Supercup in the history of East German football. Doll scored two goals in the match.

After reunification, Doll was one of the most sought-after players of coming out of the former East Germany. Together with fellow sweeper Frank Rohde in BFC Dynamo he joined Hamburger SV in 1990. After just one season there he had impressed sufficiently to move to Italian side Lazio for a then record fee of DM15 million. He played at Lazio for three years, before returning to the Bundesliga in 1994, joining Eintracht Frankfurt, but he was hampered by injuries in the three seasons he spent with the club and made only 28 appearances.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> After a year in Italy with Bari, he returned to Hamburger SV in 1998. He played another three seasons, but injuries continued to take their toll.

International career

At international level, Doll represented both East Germany (29 caps, seven goals) and the unified Germany (18 caps, 1 goal).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> His last international appearance came in 1993. He was part of Germany's squad for Euro 1992 where the side finished as runners-up to Denmark.

Coaching career

Hamburger SV

Following his retirement, he became part of Hamburg's coaching staff, managing the reserves from 2002 until being appointed first-team manager in 2004.

Early in his tenure as coach with Hamburg, he enjoyed some success, saving the team from relegation in his first season, winning the Intertoto Cup, and then guiding the club to a much-improved third-place result in the 2005–06 season to earn a Champions League berth. The 2006–07 season, however, was less successful for the coach. The team delivered a disappointing performance in the Champions League that saw only one win in six first-round games, and then plunged to the bottom of the Bundesliga table by mid-season. Doll was sacked on 1 February 2007.

Borussia Dortmund

On 19 May 2008, Doll resigned as the coach of Borussia Dortmund after the team finished a disappointing 13th in the Bundesliga.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Gençlerbirliği

He agreed to manage Gençlerbirliği S.K. and signed a two-year contract.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Al-Hilal

On 20 July 2011, he was appointed as head coach of Saudi Arabian champion team, Al-Hilal but was sacked on 22 January 2012.

Ferencváros

Doll in 2016

He became head coach of Hungarian club Ferencváros on 18 December 2013.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> On 20 May 2015, Ferencváros beat Videoton 4–0 at the Groupama Arena in the 2014–15 Magyar Kupa Final.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Doll's Ferencváros secured the club's 29th Nemzeti Bajnokság I title on 2 April 2016 after a defeat at the Nagyerdei Stadion against Debreceni VSC. By winning the 2015–16 Nemzeti Bajnokság I season, Doll managed to win all the possible titles in football in Hungary.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In recognition of his record performance with Ferencváros, Doll received the "Coach of the year in NB I" award from the Hungarian Football Federation in 2016.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Ferencváros were eliminated in the second round of the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League by the second-placed team of the 2015-16 Albanian Superliga, FK Partizani Tirana, on penalties. They placed fourth in the 2016–17 Nemzeti Bajnokság I season - the title was won by their rivals Budapest Honvéd FC. However, Ferencváros fans were consoled by the team's win in the 2017 Magyar Kupa Final against Vasas SC.

The 2017–18 Nemzeti Bajnokság I season started with moderate success, but aspirations in international cups were once again thwarted when Ferencváros lost to FC Midtjylland in the second round of the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League.

Hannover 96

On 27 January 2019, Bundesliga club Hannover 96 announced Doll as the new manager of the club, replacing the sacked André Breitenreiter.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He left the club as Mirko Slomka was confirmed as the club's new manager on 28 May 2019.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

APOEL FC

On 15 August 2019, Doll became manager of APOEL.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Having managed to guide APOEL to the round of 32 of the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League, on 9 December 2019, Doll got relieved of his duties as the club's manager by mutual consent.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Persija Jakarta

On 23 April 2022, Liga 1 club Persija Jakarta announced Doll as the new manager of the club in a three-year deal.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In his first season, he finished in second place.

Personal life

Doll has two daughters, one with his Italian-born wife Roberta, the other with a former wife now married to another ex-footballer, Olaf Bodden. He lives in Budapest.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Controversy

In late January 2023, tension arose between Doll and Shin Tae-yong, the Indonesia national football team head coach. Doll declined nine players' invitations to attend the national team training camp.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Additionally, Doll criticized Shin during a press conference, likening him to a clown for his involvement in television advertisements.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Career statistics

Club

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Club performance			League		Cup		League Cup		Continental		Total
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
East Germany			League		FDGB-Pokal		-		European Cup		Total
1983–84	Hansa Rostock	DDR-Oberliga	5	0	-	-	-	-	-	-
1984–85			17	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
1985–86			25	3	-	-	-	-	-	-
1986–87	Berliner FC Dynamo		26	7	-	-	-	-	4	1
1987–88			23	11	-	-	-	-	-	-
1988–89			25	13	-	-	-	-	-	-
1989–90			25	8	-	-	-	-	-	-
Germany			League		DFB-Pokal		Other		Europe		Total
1990–91	Hamburger SV	Bundesliga	33	4	-	-	-	-	-	-
Italy			League		Coppa Italia		League Cup		Europe		Total
1991–92	Lazio	Serie A	31	7	4	1	-	-	-	-
1992–93			20	2	2	0	-	-	-	-
1993–94			13	0	-	-	1	0	-	-
Germany			League		DFB-Pokal		Other		Europe		Total
1993–94	Eintracht Frankfurt	Bundesliga	6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
1994–95			10	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
1995–96			12	2	-	-	-	-	-	-
Italy			League		Coppa Italia		League Cup		Europe		Total
1996–97	Bari	Serie B	31	4					-	-
1997–98		Serie A	14	0					-	-
Germany			League		DFB-Pokal		Other		Europe		Total
1998–99	Hamburger SV	Bundesliga	13	0					-	-
1999–2000			21	0					-	-
2000–01			7	0					-	-
Total	East Germany		146	43
	Germany		102	8
	Italy		109	13
Career total			357	64

Managerial statistics

Team	From	To	Record
			G	W	D	L	Win %
Hamburger SV II	29 December 2002	17 October 2004
Hamburger SV	17 October 2004	1 February 2007
Borussia Dortmund	13 March 2007	19 May 2008
Gençlerbirliği	1 July 2009	17 October 2010
Al-Hilal	22 July 2011	22 January 2012
Ferencváros	18 December 2013	21 August 2018<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Hannover 96	27 January 2019	30 June 2019
APOEL	8 August 2019	7 December 2019
Persija Jakarta	24 April 2022	12 June 2024
Total

Honours

Playing

Berliner FC Dynamo

• DDR-Oberliga: 1986–87, 1987–88
• FDGB-Pokal: 1987–88, 1988–89
• DFV-Supercup: 1989

Managerial

Hamburger SV

• UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2005<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Borussia Dortmund

• DFB-Pokal runner-up: 2008–09

Ferencváros

• Nemzeti Bajnokság I: 2015–16
• Magyar Kupa: 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17
• Ligakupa: 2014–15
• Szuperkupa: 2015

Individual

• Liga 1 Coach of the Month: July 2023<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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