József Kiprich started his professional career at the age of 17 in the 1980/81 season at Tatabányai Bányász which played in the highest Hungarian League in football.

With Kiprich the team started performing slightly better and eventually ended the season in 11th position, securing their place in the Eredivisie, but missing out on European football for the first time in many years.

Managers Pim Verbeek and Gunder Bengtsson were replaced by Wim Jansen and Feyenoord reached the KNVB Cup final, where BVV Den Bosch was beaten 1–0.

After the worst period in Feyenoord's history the club was becoming stronger every year, with József Kiprich as one of their key players.

After the celebrations and the cup was awarded the players took Kiprich on their shoulders and walked him all around the stadium under loud applauds.

Kiprich left for Cyprus to play at APOEL and after amazing performances he won the double in his first season, winning the Championship and the Cup.

He was not used in APOEL's 1997/98 campaign and he left Cyprus to go to Eerste Divisie side FC Den Bosch in the Netherlands where he played the last couple of matches of the season and scored 5 times in 9 games.

A few months later in July 2001 he was appointed as the manager of Vasas SC, where he was not able to lift the team to high performances and only won 15 points out of 22 matches and was fired in December 2001 as a result.

In April 2002 he was appointed as the manager of second league club Kecskeméti FC which he successfully helped avoiding from relegation to the third level of Hungarian football.

In July 2003 Kiprich moved to Romania to manage Divizia B team Olimpia Satu Mare.

Kiprich and his team did well, winning 15 points in six matches, but when Győri ETO FC in his home country was in need of a manager he switched back to Hungary.

Kiprich won seven points at Györi in his first three matches at te team, before losing 1-0 versus Pécsi Munkás FC.

During 2005, Kiprich went back to his old love Feyenoord to become a scout for them in combination with a new job as the under-19 coach at Újpest FC.

On his 60th birthday he received a gift from Viktor Orbán and he was celebrated at the newly built Tatabánya sports hall.