Former Bayern assistant coach: Egon Coordes is dead

June 19, 2025, 2:00 PM |

Long-time Bayern assistant coach Egon Coordes (on the right in the picture, next to him Giovanni Trapattoni) has died after a long illness. — Longtime Bayern Munich assistant coach Egon Coordes (right in the photo, with Giovanni Trapattoni next to him) has died after a long illness. (Photo: Fred Joch/Imago)

He worked at FC Bayern as assistant coach to Lattek, Heynckes, and Trapattoni and won numerous championship titles. Now the former professional footballer has died at the age of 80.

Former Bundesliga coach and player Egon Coordes has died. The longtime assistant to Udo Lattek, Jupp Heynckes, and Giovanni Trapattoni died on Tuesday at the age of 80 at his home in Memmingen after a long illness. His family confirmed this to the German Press Agency. Kicker had first reported the news.

Coordes became known primarily as assistant coach of FC Bayern Munich : alongside Lattek and Heynckes, he won a total of four German championships in 1985, 1986, 1989, and 1990. In 1997, the German record champions brought the Bremerhaven-born football coach back as Trapattoni's assistant. In 2011 and 2012, Coordes worked again on Heynckes' coaching staff and later even on the Bayern basketball coaching staff. Coordes's head coaching stints in the first and second divisions were less successful. He was forced to leave VfB Stuttgart (1986/87), Hamburger SV (1992), and Hannover 96 (1995/96) early in each of his stints. He also worked as a coach in Austria, Switzerland, the Gulf region, and briefly in Iran in 1999. As a professional footballer, Coordes played a total of 157 Bundesliga matches for Werder Bremen and VfB Stuttgart. Before moving to Munich, his coaching career began in his hometown of Bremerhaven.