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Béla Guttmann

Béla Guttmann
Guttmann 1953.JPG
Guttmann in 1953
Personal information
Full name Béla Guttmann
Date of birth (1899-01-27)27 January 1899
Place of birth Budapest,Austria-Hungary
Date of death 28 August 1981(1981-08-28) (aged 82)
Place of death Vienna, Austria
Playing position Centre-half
Youth career
1917–1919 Törekvés SE
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1919–1921 MTK Hungária
1922–1926 Hakoah Wien 96 (8)
1926 Brooklyn Wanderers
1926–1929 New York Giants 83 (2)
1929–1930 New York Hakoah 21 (0)
1930 New York Soccer Club 22 (0)
1931–1932 Hakoah All-Stars 50 (0)
1932–1933 Hakoah Wien 4 (0)
National team
1921–1924 Hungary 4 (1)
Teams managed
1933–1935 SC Hakoah Wien
1935–1937 Enschede
1937–1938 Hakoah Wien
1938–1939 Újpest
1945 Vasas
1946 Ciocanul Bucharest
1947 Újpest
1947–1948 Kispest
1949–1950 Padova
1950–1951 Triestina
1953 Quilmes
1953 APOEL
1953–1955 Milan
1955–1956 Vicenza
1956–1957 Honvéd
1957–1958 São Paulo
1958–1959 Porto
1959–1962 Benfica
1962 Peñarol
1964 Austria
1965–1966 Benfica
1966–1967 Servette
1967 Panathinaikos
1973 Austria Wien
1973 Porto
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Béla Guttmann (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈbeːlɒ ˈɡutmɒnː]; 27 January 1899 – 28 August 1981) was a Hungarian footballer and coach. He played as a midfielder for MTK Hungária FC, SC Hakoah Wien, Hungary and several clubs in the United States. However he is perhaps best remembered as a coach and manager of AC Milan, São Paulo FC, FC Porto, Benfica and C.A. Peñarol. His greatest success came with Benfica when he guided them to two successive European Cup wins in 1961 and in 1962.

Together with Márton Bukovi and Gusztáv Sebes, Guttmann formed a triumvirate of radical Hungarian coaches who pioneered the 4–2–4 formation and he is also credited with mentoring Eusébio. However throughout his career he was never far from controversy. Widely travelled, as both a player and coach, he rarely stayed at a club longer than two seasons, and was quoted as saying the third season is fatal. He was sacked at Milan while they were top of Serie A and he walked out on Benfica after they refused a request for a pay rise, purportedly leaving the club with a curse.

Guttmann was a prominent member of the MTK Hungária FC team of the early 1920s. Playing alongside Gyula Mándi, he helped MTK win Hungarian League titles in 1920 and 1921. In 1922 he moved to Vienna to escape the anti-semitism of the Admiral Horthy regime and joined the all-Jewish club SC Hakoah Wien. In 1925 he won another league title when Hakoah won the Austrian League. In April 1926 the SC Hakoah Wien squad sailed to New York to begin a ten-match tour of the United States and on 1 May a crowd of 46,000 watched them play an American Soccer League XI at the Polo Grounds. The ASL team won 3–0.


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