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{{Short description|German footballer (1952–2016)}}
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{{Infobox football biography
| name                 = Reinhard Häfner
| image                = Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1990-0809-028, 1. FC Dynamo Dresden, Trainer Reinhard Häfner.jpg
| caption              = Häfner with [[Dynamo Dresden|Dresden]] in 1990
| birth_date           = {{birth date|df=yes|1952|2|2}}
| birth_place          = [[Sonneberg]], [[East Germany]]
| death_date           = {{death date and age|2016|10|24|1952|2|2|df=y}}
| death_place          = [[Dresden]], Germany
| height               = 
| position             = [[Midfielder]]
| youthyears1          = 
| youthclubs1          = BSG Motor Sonneberg
| youthyears2          = 
| youthclubs2          = [[FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt|Rot-Weiß Erfurt]]
| years1               = 1970–1971
| clubs1               = [[FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt|Rot-Weiß Erfurt]]
| caps1                = 25 
| goals1               = 6
| years2               = 1971–1988
| clubs2               = [[Dynamo Dresden]]
| caps2                = 366 
| goals2               = 49
| totalcaps            = 391
| totalgoals           = 55
| nationalyears1       = 1971–1984
| nationalteam1        = [[East Germany national football team|East Germany]]
| nationalcaps1        = 58 
| nationalgoals1       = 5
| manageryears1        = 1990–1991
| managerclubs1        = [[Dynamo Dresden]]
| manageryears2        = 1993–1996
| managerclubs2        = [[Chemnitzer FC]]
| manageryears3        = 
| managerclubs3        = 1. SC Sonneberg
| manageryears4        = 
| managerclubs4        = [[SSV Erfurt-Nord]]
| manageryears5        = 2000–2002
| managerclubs5        = [[Hallescher FC]]
| manageryears6        = 2009–2011
| managerclubs6        = SV Grün-Weiß Langeneichstädt
| manageryears7        = 2011–2016
| managerclubs7        = 1. FC Radebeul
| medaltemplates       =
{{medalOlympic}}
{{MedalBronze | [[1972 Summer Olympics|1972 Munich]]|[[Football at the 1972 Summer Olympics|Team Competition]]}}
{{MedalGold | [[1976 Summer Olympics|1976 Montréal]]|[[Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics|Team Competition]]}}
}}
'''Reinhard Häfner''' (2 February 1952 – 24 October 2016) was a German [[association football|football]] player and coach.

==Career==
Häfner played children's and youth football for his hometown club BSG Motor Sonneberg. As a junior player he was assigned to [[FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt|Rot-Weiß Erfurt]] before joining [[Dynamo Dresden]] in 1971. He stayed with the Dresden club until his retirement as a player in 1988 having played in 366 East German first division [[DDR-Oberliga]] matches, scoring 49 goals. He is second to [[Hans-Jürgen Dörner]] in matches played for Dynamo. Häfner was part of four DDR championship and [[FDGB Pokal]] (East German Cup) winning teams there.

Between 1971 and 1984 he was capped 58 times for the [[East Germany national football team|East Germany national team]], scoring 5 goals, and was part of the gold medal-winning squad at the [[1976 Summer Olympics]] in [[Montreal]], Canada.<ref name="SR profile">{{Cite sports-reference |title = Reinhard Häfner |url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/reinhard-hafner-1.html |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200418000024/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/reinhard-hafner-1.html |url-status = dead |archive-date = 18 April 2020 |access-date = 19 November 2018 }}</ref>

[[File:Stadium Dresden DSC08345 02.jpg|thumb|left|Sorrow about Häfner's death.]]
In April 1990, two years after his retirement as a player, Häfner became head coach of Dynamo Dresden, replacing [[Eduard Geyer]]. Weeks later Dynamo claimed its eighth championship and seventh cup. The following season, despite the sale of star players [[Ulf Kirsten]] and [[Matthias Sammer]], Häfner guided the Dresden team to a second-place finish in the final DDR-Oberliga season before the merger of the football competitions of East and West Germany following the [[German reunification|reunification of the country]], qualifying the club for the first division [[Bundesliga]]. Despite this success he was dismissed in June 1991. He moved on to coach second division club [[Chemnitzer FC]] from 1993 to 1996.

Häfner joined SV Grün-Weiß Langeneichstädt (Kreisliga Merseburg/Querfurt, Sachsen-Anhalt) in the post-season of 2006–07.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.dynamo-oldies.de Veterans]

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{{East Germany football squad 1976 Summer Olympics}}
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{{Chemnitzer FC managers}}
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[[Category:1952 births]]
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[[Category:People from Sonneberg]]
[[Category:German men's footballers]]
[[Category:East German men's footballers]]
[[Category:FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt players]]
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[[Category:Dynamo Dresden managers]]
[[Category:Footballers at the 1972 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Footballers at the 1976 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Olympic footballers for East Germany]]
[[Category:East Germany men's international footballers]]
[[Category:Dynamo Dresden non-playing staff]]
[[Category:Chemnitzer FC managers]]
[[Category:DDR-Oberliga players]]
[[Category:Men's association football midfielders]]
[[Category:Footballers from Thuringia]]
[[Category:German football managers]]
[[Category:Olympic medalists in football]]
[[Category:Olympic bronze medalists for East Germany]]
[[Category:Olympic gold medalists for East Germany]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver]]

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