Uwe Rahn

Uwe Rahn

Personal information
Date of birth	(1962-05-21) 21 May 1962
Place of birth	Mannheim, West Germany
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Attacking midfielder
Youth career
1970–1975	TSV Schönau
1975–1980	Waldhof Mannheim
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1980–1988	Borussia Mönchengladbach	227	(81)
1988–1990	1. FC Köln	43	(13)
1990–1991	Hertha BSC	21	(5)
1991–1992	Fortuna Düsseldorf	15	(5)
1992–1993	Eintracht Frankfurt	12	(3)
1993–1994	Urawa Reds	7	(1)
Total		325	(108)
International career
1982–1984	West Germany U-21	3	(0)
1984	West Germany Olympic	5	(4)
1984–1987	West Germany	14	(5)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Uwe Rahn (born 21 May 1962) is a German former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.

Career

Rahn played 318 Bundesliga matches in his professional career, scoring the majority of his 107 Bundesliga goals in his eight years at Borussia Mönchengladbach where he grew to a West Germany international and lifted the kicker-Torjägerkanone award for scoring the most goals in the Bundesliga of 1986–87. The attacking midfielder scored 24 goals that season, fourteen in the course of the final nine weeks of the season. Subsequent to this achievement, Rahn was awarded Footballer of the Year (Germany) in 1987. Shortly after, he was poised to join PSV Eindhoven as a replacement for Ruud Gullit, but a move stalled and did not take place. Less impressive in scoring the season after, Rahn's form decreased massively then and ended in pittance-like transfers to 1. FC Köln, Hertha BSC, Fortuna Düsseldorf, Eintracht Frankfurt and finally Urawa Red Diamonds of Japan, the club where he finished his career. All the way through those clubs and years he couldn't get his form (and career) back on, something signified by the decreasing length of his spells.

Rahn, who was from time to time used as striker, appeared in a total of 14 matches for West Germany in between 1984 and 1987. In those games he scored five goals, the most important of them seconds after coming on as a second-half substitute for Felix Magath on his debut against Sweden in a World Cup qualifier on 17 October 1984. Hampered by injury, he was part of the 1986 FIFA World Cup squad of his nation but did not come to action in the tournament. Rahn also competed for West Germany at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Rahn is not related to Helmut Rahn, the 1954 FIFA World Cup-winning goalscorer of West Germany.

Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			National Cup		League Cup		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Borussia Mönchengladbach	1980–81	Bundesliga	14	3					14	3
	1981–82		30	2					30	2
	1982–83		24	3					24	3
	1983–84		31	14					31	14
	1984–85		34	14					34	14
	1985–86		28	9					28	9
	1986–87		31	24					31	24
	1987–88		25	12					25	12
	1988–89		10	0					10	0
	Total		227	81					227	81
1. FC Köln	1988–89	Bundesliga	20	7					20	7
	1989–90		23	6					23	6
	Total		43	13					43	13
Hertha BSC	1990–91	Bundesliga	21	5					21	5
Fortuna Düsseldorf	1991–92	Bundesliga	15	5					15	5
Eintracht Frankfurt	1992–93	Bundesliga	12	3					12	3
Urawa Reds	1993	J1 League	7	1	2	0	4	0	13	1
	1994		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Total		7	1	2	0	4	0	13	1
Career total			325	108	2	0	4	0	331	108

International

Appearances and goals by national team and year

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Germany	1984	2	1
	1985	7	3
	1986	2	1
	1987	3	0
Total		14	5

Honours

Borussia Mönchengladbach

• DFB-Pokal runner-up: 1983–84

1. FC Köln

• Bundesliga runner-up: 1988–89, 1989–90

West Germany

• FIFA World Cup runner-up: 1986

Individual

• Footballer of the Year (Germany): 1987
• Bundesliga top scorer: 1986–87
• kicker Bundesliga Team of the Season: 1986–87

External links

• Uwe Rahn at fussballdaten.de (in German)
• Uwe Rahn at WorldFootball.net
• Uwe Rahn at National-Football-Teams.com
• Uwe Rahn at J.League (archive) (in Japanese)