Michael Rummenigge (born 3 February 1964) is a German former professional footballer who played as a forward.^[1]

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Michael Rummenigge

Rummenigge playing for a Borussia Dortmund veterans team in 2011
Personal information
Date of birth	(1964-02-03) 3 February 1964 (age 60)
Place of birth	Lippstadt, West Germany
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder, striker
Youth career
1970–1981	Borussia Lippstadt
1981–1982	Bayern Munich
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1982–1988	Bayern Munich	152	(44)
1988–1993	Borussia Dortmund	157	(36)
1993–1995	Urawa Reds	42	(13)
Total		351	(93)
International career
1980–1982	West Germany U-18	9	(1)
1983–1985	West Germany U-21	10	(4)
1983–1986	West Germany	2	(0)
Medal record Bayern Munich Winner DFB-Pokal 1984 Winner Bundesliga 1985 Runner-up DFB-Pokal 1985 Winner Bundesliga 1986 Winner DFB-Pokal 1986 Winner Bundesliga 1987 Runner-up European Cup 1987 Winner DFB-Supercup 1987 Borussia Dortmund Winner DFB-Pokal 1989 Winner DFB-Supercup 1989 Runner-up UEFA Cup 1993
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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Rummenigge was born in Lippstadt, North Rhine-Westphalia. At the beginning of his career, he did not have it easy as a player with the Bayern Munich star team. He was often compared to his older brother, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, captain of FC Bayern Munich and the Germany national team. Rummenigge joined Bayern Munich in 1981 as a member of the German junior national team at the age of 17, coming from Borussia Lippstadt. His brother, Karl-Heinz, was already an international top star player. Rummenigge became a professional player in Munich in 1982 and a starter in his second season in 1983. He played for Bayern Munich till 1988. By that time his team had won the German championship three times and the DFB-Pokal two times (in 1984 and 1986).

During his career, Rummenigge was capped twice for the Germany national team and represented Germany on two occasions in 1983 and 1986.^[2]

In 1988, he changed team affiliation to Borussia Dortmund. In spite of not being very popular with Borussia's supporters in the beginning, he won the DFB-Pokal with Dortmund by the end of his first season – the first title for Borussia Dortmund since the 1960s. Borussia Dortmund defeated Werder Bremen 4–1 in Berlin.

In 1991–92, after the arrival of the new BVB coach, Ottmar Hitzfeld, he was appointed captain of the team. In the same year, Borussia Dortmund became the runner-up in the German championship. In 1993, he played in the UEFA Cup final for Borussia Dortmund against Juventus. Dortmund lost 6–1 on aggregate with Rummenigge scoring their only goal.

Rummenigge finished his career in the black and yellow football shirt of Dortmund in 1993. After having played 309 times in the Bundesliga and having scored 80 goals,^[3] he moved on to Japan where a professional football league had just been launched. He played for Urawa Red Diamonds, Japan till 1995. At the beginning of 1996 he had to give up his career because of a severe toe injury.

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Rummenigge is a trained banker and runs a successful sports marketing agency in Dortmund (Sports & Business) as well as commercial football camps (Fußballschule Michael Rummenigge). In addition he is a partner/shareholder of the Sportnex GmbH in Munich.

He is also a partner of "Germany's best indoor soccer courts"^[4] in Münster and launched (together with a different partner) another new business, "Trendsport Rummenigge", which distributes mobile soccer courts, cages and playing fields.

Rummenigge also shows a remarkable social commitment. He works as patron for the initiative "NO DRUGS" – an initiative against drug abuse and also for the association Childrensmile e. V. which supports severely ill and disadvantaged children.

In June 2007, he passed his exam to be a professional football coach with distinction (UEFA Pro licence) at the German sport university in Cologne.

Rummenigge is married to Carolin and has three sons.^{[citation needed]}

Bayern Munich

• Bundesliga: 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87
• DFB-Pokal: 1983–84, 1985–86
• DFL-Supercup: 1987
• European Cup: runner-up 1986–87

Borussia Dortmund

• DFB-Pokal: 1988–89
• DFL-Supercup: 1989
• UEFA Cup: runner-up 1992–93