Jürgen Klinsmann
German footballer and manager (Wikidata description)
- Nationality
- Germany
- Born
- 30 July 1964
- Position
- Forward
- Preferred foot
- Not verified
- Senior career
- 1974–2003
Clubs SC Geislingen · Stuttgarter Kickers · VfB Stuttgart · Inter Milan · AS Monaco FC · Tottenham Hotspur F.C. · FC Bayern Munich · U.C. Sampdoria · Orange County Blue Star
Career statistics
Club figures here are senior domestic-league matches unless marked otherwise; international figures are full senior caps. Youth, reserve, Olympic, friendly and unofficial matches are excluded from totals. Totals are summed from the individual sourced records below. Where a record is missing, the figure is shown as unavailable — never as zero.
Club league apps
514
Club league goals
231
International caps
108
International goals
47
League goals / match
0.45
International goals / cap
0.44
All official apps
Unavailable
All-competition totals not yet sourced
Goals per 90
Unavailable
Requires minutes for every match
Assists: Unavailable — assists were not recorded consistently before the modern data era.
Club-by-club and international breakdown
| Team | Years | Counts | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stuttgarter KickersClub | 1981–1984 | League | 61 | 22 |
| VfB StuttgartClub | 1984–1989 | League | 156 | 79 |
| Germany men's national association football teamNational team | 1987–1998 | Full caps | 108 | 47 |
| Inter MilanClub | 1989–1992 | League | 95 | 34 |
| AS Monaco FCClub | 1992–1994 | League | 65 | 29 |
| Tottenham Hotspur F.C.Club | 1994–1998 | League | 56 | 29 |
| FC Bayern MunichClub | 1995–1997 | League | 65 | 31 |
| U.C. SampdoriaClub | 1997–1998 | League | 8 | 2 |
| Orange County Blue StarClub | 2003 | League | 8 | 5 |
Season by season
Season-level records are unavailable for this player in the current sources. They will appear here when a licensed season-by-season source is imported.
Team accolades
- ×1
Bundesliga
Domestic
- 1996–97 · FC Bayern Munich
- ×1
FIFA World Cup
International
- 1990 · Germany men's national association football team
- ×1
UEFA European Championship
International
- 1996 · Germany men's national association football team
Sourced stated or derived from referenced statementsProvisional inferred from club stint dates — squad membership not individually verifiedVerified checked by an editor
Individual accolades
No dated individual awards from the catalog are recorded for this player in the current sources. This may reflect incomplete source data rather than an absence of awards; editors can add sourced entries.
Career timeline
1974
- Joins SC Geislingen — Until 1978
1978
- Joins Stuttgarter Kickers — Until 1981
1981
- Joins Stuttgarter Kickers — Until 1984
1984
- Joins VfB Stuttgart — Until 1989
1987
- Senior international debut: Germany men's national association football team — Until 1998
1989
- Joins Inter Milan — Until 1992
1990
- FIFA World Cup winner — 1990 · Germany men's national association football team
1992
- Joins AS Monaco FC — Until 1994
1994
- Joins Tottenham Hotspur F.C. — Until 1995
1995
- Joins FC Bayern Munich — Until 1997
1996
- UEFA European Championship winner — 1996 · Germany men's national association football team
1997
- Bundesliga winner — 1996–97 · FC Bayern Munich(provisional)
- Joins U.C. Sampdoria — Until 1998
1998
- Joins Tottenham Hotspur F.C. — Until 1998
2003
- Joins Orange County Blue Star — Until 2003
Statistical score explained
Snapshot v2, methodology v1.0.0, published 27 October 2026. Each category is scored 0–100, multiplied by its weight, and summed. Full methodology →
Overall score
33.1
Rank #107
Partially verified5/5 categories with full evidence · 40% of inputs directly sourced
Coverage describes how complete the evidence is. It is not a probability and is separate from the score.
Peak performanceFull evidence14.0+4.20 points
- Best window
- 1986–1990
- Individual award points in window
- 0
- Award availability in window
- 0.794
- Team honor points in window
- 12
- Peak index
- 6
v1 measures peak through documented recognition (awards and titles) in the best rolling window, because season-level performance data is not available consistently across eras.
Career performanceFull evidence64.6+16.16 points
- League goals per match
- 0.449 → 44.89
- International goals per cap
- 0.435 → 50.63
- International caps per year
- 9 → 97
Individual accoladesFull evidence0.0+0.00 points
- Contemporary award points
- 0
- Award availability coverage
- 0.762
- Era-adjusted contemporary points
- 0
- Retrospective all-time honors
- 0
Team accomplishmentsFull evidence43.4+6.51 points
- Team honor points
- 22
- Club-league catalog coverage
- 0.923
- FIFA World Cup (1990)
- 12
- Bundesliga (1996–97)
- 3
- UEFA European Championship (1996)
- 7
Some club titles are inferred from stint dates overlapping a title-winning season (squad membership not individually verified).
LongevityFull evidence62.8+6.28 points
- Senior career length (years)
- 30 → 100
- Documented elite seasons
- 3 → 27
- International career length (years)
- 12 → 78
Appearance totals are deliberately not used, so accumulating matches alone does not raise this score.
Editorial biography
No editorial biography has been written yet. Biographies are written by hand with sources; none are generated automatically.
Sources
- Wikidata: Jürgen Klinsmann (Q57079)CC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikimedia Commons: Austria vs. USA 2013-11-19 (066) - Jürgen Klinsmann (cropped).jpgCC BY-SA 3.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026