Jürgen Gelsdorf (born 19 January 1953) is a German football coach and former player[1] who is currently youth teams coordinator at Bayer 04 Leverkusen.
For the 1972/73 season, 19-year-old junior soccer player Jürgen Gelsdorf joined Arminia Bielefeld from MSV Duisburg in the Regionalliga West.
With Erhard Ahmann (44-time amateur international), he had a good teacher as a coach and therefore also caught the eye of the scouts from Bayer 04 Leverkusen.
Despite the additions of Jorginho (Flamengo Rio), Martin Kree (VfL Bochum), Sven Demandt (Fortuna Düsseldorf), Andreas Thom (Berliner FC Dynamo), Franco Foda (1.
FC Kaiserslautern) and Ulf Kirsten (Dynamo Dresden), however, Bayer failed to make the leap to the top of the Bundesliga table.
At the start of the 1997/98 season, Gelsdorf signed on with KFC Uerdingen 05, where he was dismissed after a year and a half in September 1998.