Schweinsteiger, Heynckes & Rehhagel inducted into German Football Hall of Fame

Bastian Schweinsteiger, as well as former coaches Jupp Heynckes and Otto Rehhagel, are among this year’s new inclusions to the German Football Hall of Fame alongside Bert Trautmann, Guido Buchwald and Horst Hrubesch. The jury selected the ex-Bayern trio for their extraordinary achievements. Schweinsteiger is one of the most decorated players in German football history, with a Champions League title and the 2014 World Cup among his collection. Heynckes enjoyed success as a player and coach both at home and abroad, including leading Bayern to their first treble of Bundesliga, DFB Cup and Champions League in 2013. Rehhagel was in charge in Munich for the 1995/96 season, which ended in UEFA Cup glory.

“It's a great honour to be inducted into the Hall of Fame," said Schweinsteiger. "I'm particularly pleased that two colleagues from our 2014 team, Miro Klose and Philipp Lahm, have already been inducted. What we achieved together as a team and for all fans in German football makes me very, very proud to this day." Heynckes explained that he felt "this honour was a tribute to my career as a player and coach", while Rehhagel said he still remembers how he was 16 years old when Germany won the World Cup for the first time in 1954: "That game against Hungary, that 3-2 win, made a big impression on me. Fritz Walter, Helmut Rahn, Sepp Herberger - they were my heroes back then. To be in the Hall of Fame of German football alongside them makes me very happy."

With the trio of Schweinsteiger, Heynckes and Rehhagel, there are now 18 people with Bayern pasts represented in the German Football Hall of Fame alongside Franz Beckenbauer, Gerd Müller, Sepp Maier, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Paul Breitner, Lothar Matthäus, Philipp Lahm, Oliver Kahn, Miroslav Klose, Andreas Brehme, Jürgen Klinsmann, Michael Ballack, Jürgen Kohler, Udo Lattek and former women’s goalkeeper Nadine Angerer.

Hall of Fame
Men, 2022: Philipp Lahm, Bernd Schuster, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
Women, 2022: Nadine Angerer, Ariane Hingst, Anne Trabant-Haarbach, Bärbel Wohlleben, Christa Kleinhans
Men, 2021: Jürgen Kohler, Horst Eckel, Joachim Streich, Miroslav Klose, Udo Lattek
Men, 2020: Berti Vogts, Michael Ballack, Andreas Möller, Klaus Fischer, Rudi Völler
Men, 2019: Oliver Kahn, Hans-Jürgen Dörner, Wolfgang Overath, Jürgen Klinsmann, Helmut Schön
Women, 2019 (founding XI): Silke Rottenberg; Steffi Jones, Doris Fitschen, Nia Künzer; Renate Lingor, Silvia Neid, Martina Voss-Tecklenburg, Bettina Wiegmann; Inka Grings, Birgit Prinz, Heidi Mohr; Tina Theune (coach)
Men, 2018 (founding XI): Sepp Maier; Franz Beckenbauer, Paul Breitner, Andreas Brehme; Günter Netzer, Lothar Matthäus, Fritz Walter, Matthias Sammer; Uwe Seeler, Gerd Müller, Helmut Rahn; Sepp Herberger (coach)

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