Helmut Dudek (14 December 1957 – 22 May 1994) was a Polish-German football defender who won the 1978–79 UEFA Cup with Borussia Mönchengladbach.
In 1978, Dudek, native of Poland who later became a West German citizen, signed with Borussia Mönchengladbach and was a member of the team as it won the 1978–79 UEFA Cup.
[1] That summer, he signed with the Wichita Wings of the Major Indoor Soccer League.
The next year, he joined the Memphis Americans and played three seasons with the team in Memphis and another after the team moved west to Las Vegas, Nevada, where they became the Las Vegas Americans.
The team folded at the end of the season and Dudek signed with the Minnesota Strikers on 18 September 1986.