Jürgen Bogs (born 19 January 1947) is a German football coach who led BFC Dynamo to ten consecutive DDR-Oberliga titles from 1979 to 1988.
The ten consecutive league titles won by BFC Dynamo under Bogs is an achievement that has never been matched by any other coach in European club football.
[2] Jürgen Bogs was born in 1947 in the village of Biesendahlshof in the district of Uckermark in Brandenburg in Allied-occupied Germany.
[5][4] Bogs attended the German University of Physical Culture (DHfK) in Leipzig from 1966 to 1970, where he completed a sports teacher degree with a diploma.
[6][5][7] He became the new coach of BFC Dynamo in the Junior Oberliga (German: Juniorenoberliga) (de) for the 1972–73 season.
[11] Bogs took over the position as head coach (German: Cheftrainer) at BFC Dynamo for the 1976–77 season.
[14] Bogs made sure he had a green-light from his wife before he accepted the new assignment as coach of the DDR-Oberliga team.
[18] BFC Dynamo went all the way to the East German Cup Final where they lost 1–0 in extra time to 1.
[20] During the 1979–80 season, BFC Dynamo entered the European Cup where they were knocked out by Nottingham Forest[21] who eventually won the tournament.
BFC Dynamo were knocked out of the European Cup in the first round be West German club Hamburger SV and were knocked out of the East German Cup in the Quarter–Finals by FC Carl Zeiss Jena.
[33] BFC Dyanamo was drawn against Scootish champions Aberdeen in the first round of the European Cup.
BFC Dynamo won the penalty shoot-out 5–4 in ront of 26, 000 spectators as the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark.
[34] Goalkeeper Bodo Rudwaleit saved the last two last penalty kicks for Aberdeen and defender Norbert Trieloff scored the decisive goal for BFC Dynamo.
[33] For the second straight season, BFC Dynamo got knocked out of the European Cup by Austria Wien.
[38] In the East German Cup, BFC Dynamo were eliminated in the second round by Chemie Böhlen.
BFC Dynamo won the domestic double by winning the Oberliga[40] and the East German Cup.
[42] They still lifted a trophy for the 11th consecutive season, winning the East German Cup after defeating FC Karl-Marx-Stadt in the Final.
[47] Jürgen Bogs and his assistant Joachim Hall were called up to Central Management Office (German: Büro der Zentralen Leitung) (BdZL) of SV Dynamo on 15 January 1989.
Hall was immediately released from his duties, while Bogs was allowed to remain in his position until the end of the season.
He had limited experience of football and was himself worried that he lacked the skills that would be required to meet the capitalist West.
[52] He then served as managing director (German: Geschäftsführer) under the new club president Klaus Janz.
[53] FC Berlin started the 1990-91 NOFV-Oberliga with four straight losses and stood at last place efter the fourth round.
[69] BFC Dynamo finished the 1999–2000 season one spot above last place FSV Zwickau.
[70] After being relegated, BFC Dynamo won promotion after finishing in first place during the 2000–01 Oberliga season.
The team of BFC Dynamo under Jürgen Bogs played an aggressive football that focused on attacking.
[79] Former player of BFC Dynamo Frank Terletzki has testified that the training methods of Bogs were physically hard.
"[81] Bogs cites a team with strong footballers and the use of modern training methods as the main reasons for the winning streak of BFC Dynamo in the 1980s.
The club performed things such as heart rate and lactate measurements during training, which only came to the Bundesliga many years later.
Bogs also worked with video evaluations during his period as coach of BFC Dynamo, which was not yet common in East Germany.
[79] Bogs previously lived in a house in Alt-Marzahn with his late wife and has since also resided in Schildow, in the district of Oberhavel.