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Hans Schäfer

Schäfer (left) in 1957
Personal information
Date of birth	(1927-10-19)19 October 1927
Place of birth	Zollstock, Cologne, Germany
Date of death	7 November 2017(2017-11-07) (aged 90)
Place of death	Cologne, Germany
Position	Outside left
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1948–1965	1. FC Köln	394	(254)
International career
1952–1962	West Germany	39	(15)
Medal record Representing West Germany FIFA World Cup Winner 1954 Switzerland
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Hans Schäfer (19 October 1927 – 7 November 2017) was a German footballer who played as an outside left.

Career

Schäfer was born in Zollstock, Cologne. He played for 1. FC Köln between 1948 and 1965, and for the West Germany national team, earning 39 caps and scoring 15 goals. He played in three World Cups, in 1954, 1958, and 1962, earning a winner's medal in 1954 and scoring a total of seven goals from all of West Germany's total 15 matches played in the three editions. Between 1957 and 1962, Schäfer captained Germany 16 times.

Schäfer's position was that of an outside left. In the latter stages of his career, he became an inside left forward. He debuted for Germany on 9 November 1952, in the international friendly against Switzerland, scoring a goal. During the 1954 FIFA World Cup, Schäfer scored four goals.

Schäfer won the German football championship with 1. FC Köln in 1962 and 1964 and was voted German Footballer of the Year in 1963, at the age of 35. He played in the first two seasons of the newly founded Bundesliga 39 matches (20 goals) before retiring from professional football.

Schäfer died on 7 November 2017 at age 90.

Career statistics

International

Appearances and goals by national team and year

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Germany	1952	1	2
	1953	3	0
	1954	7	7
	1955	5	1
	1956	5	0
	1957	3	0
	1958	9	4
	1959	1	0
	1960	0	0
	1961	0	0
	1962	5	1
Total		39	15

Honours

1. FC Köln

• Oberliga West: 1953–54, 1959–60, 1960–61, 1961–62, 1962–63
• German football championship: 1962
• Bundesliga: 1963–64

West Germany

• FIFA World Cup: 1954

Individual

• Footballer of the Year (Germany): 1963

See also

• List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers

External links

• Hans Schäfer at fussballdaten.de (in German)