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{{short description|Former football player and manager}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Werner Olk
| image = Werner Olk.jpg
| caption = Olk in 1967
| fullname = 
| height = 1.74 m
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1938|1|18|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Ostróda|Osterode in Ostpreußen]],<br />Germany (now Poland)
| death_date = 
| death_place = 
| currentclub = 
| clubnumber = 
| position = [[Defender (association football)|Defender]]
| youthyears1 = 
| youthclubs1 = 
| years1 = 1956–1960
| clubs1 = [[Arminia Hannover]]
| caps1 = 
| goals1 = 
| years2 = 1960–1970
| clubs2 = [[FC Bayern Munich|Bayern Munich]]
| caps2 = 266
| goals2 = 4
| years3 = 1970–1973
| clubs3 = [[FC Aarau]]
| caps3 = 
| goals3 = 
| nationalyears1 = 1961
| nationalteam1 = [[Germany national football team|West Germany]]
| nationalcaps1 = 1
| nationalgoals1 = 0
| manageryears1 = 1970–1973
| managerclubs1 = [[FC Aarau]]
| manageryears2 = 1974–1975
| managerclubs2 = [[SC Preußen Münster|Preußen Münster]]
| manageryears3 = 1977–1978
| managerclubs3 = [[FC Augsburg]]
| manageryears4 = 1978–1979
| managerclubs4 = [[Eintracht Braunschweig]]
| manageryears5 = 1980–1982
| managerclubs5 = [[SV Darmstadt 98|Darmstadt 98]]
| manageryears6 = 1982–1983
| managerclubs6 = [[SC Freiburg]]
| manageryears7 = 1983–1985
| managerclubs7 = [[Karlsruher SC]]
| manageryears8 = 1985–1986
| managerclubs8 = [[FC St. Gallen|St. Gallen]]
| manageryears9 = 1988
| managerclubs9 = [[SV Darmstadt 98|Darmstadt 98]]
| manageryears10 = 1990–1992
| managerclubs10 = [[Morocco national football team|Morocco]]
| manageryears11 = 1996–1997
| managerclubs11 = [[Zamalek SC|Zamalek]]
}}

'''Werner Olk''' (born 18 January 1938) is a German former professional [[Association football|football]] player and manager.

== Club career ==
Olk started his football career as a youth player with SG Letter 05 ([[Hanover]] region) in 1948 and eventually switched into the youth team of TuS Seelze. Before his transfer to Bayern Munich, he played 1956–57 in the [[Oberliga Nord]] with [[Arminia Hannover]] and after the relegation of the club from 1957 to 1960 in the second tier, which in this part of Northern Germany was the [[Amateuroberliga Niedersachsen]].

He spent his career in the 1960s through to 1970 with German club [[FC Bayern Munich|Bayern Munich]] in the [[Oberliga Süd (1945–63)|Oberliga Süd]] and the [[Bundesliga]].<ref>{{Cite web | url = https://www.rsssf.org/players/olkdata.html | title = Werner Olk - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga | first = Matthias | last = Arnhold | date = 28 October 2021 | website = [[RSSSF]] | accessdate = 2 December 2021 }}</ref> His honors with Bayern include the [[DFB-Pokal]] in 1966, 1967 and 1969; winner of the German Championship in 1969; and winner of the [[European Cup Winners' Cup]] in 1967. After the promotion to the Bundesliga in 1965 until 1970, Olk served as Bayern's [[Captain (association football)|captain]], a function in which he was succeeded by [[Franz Beckenbauer]].

== International career ==
Olk won his only [[Cap (sport)|cap]] for the [[Germany national football team|West Germany national team]] in 1961.<ref>{{Cite web | url = https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/olk-intl.html | title = Werner Olk - International Appearances | first = Matthias | last = Arnhold | date = 28 October 2021 | website = [[RSSSF]] | accessdate = 2 December 2021 }}</ref> He was an available member of the German squad at the 1962 [[FIFA World Cup]] in Chile. In the amateur squad of the Germany national team, Olk was called up three times. He was also called up into the youth national team in 1961 for a match against England.

== Coaching career ==
After his time with Bayern, Olk became [[player-manager]] with Swiss second division side [[FC Aarau]]. He stayed there until 1973, although he had been relieved of his manager duties by December 1972, and was replaced in this role by [[Jiří Sobotka|Jiří "Georges" Sobotka]].<ref>''[https://www.tagblatt.ch/sport/fcstgallen/st-galler-trainer-der-sechste-deutsche-ld.152072 St. Galler Trainer: Der sechste Deutsche]'', [[St. Galler Tagblatt]], 17 September 2015</ref> Afterwards, Olk became a manager for German clubs such as [[Eintracht Braunschweig]], [[SV Darmstadt 98]] (with which he achieved promotion to the Bundesliga in 1981), [[SC Freiburg]], [[SC Preußen Münster]], and [[Karlsruher SC]] (with which he achieved promotion to the Bundesliga in 1984). He also had a brief engagement managing [[FC St. Gallen|St. Gallen]] in the Swiss League during the 1985–86 season.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.rsssf.org/players/trainers-zwit-clubs.html | title = Switzerland - Trainers of First and Second Division Clubs | date = 20 June 2007 | access-date = 14 October 2012 | first = Erik | website = [[RSSSF]] | last = Garin}}</ref>

From 1990 to 1992, Olk coached the [[Morocco national football team|Morocco national team]], with which he qualified for the [[African Nations Cup]] in January 1992 and the Olympic Games later in the same year in Barcelona. Morocco remained in both competitions without win.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.rsssf.org/tables/92a.html | title = African Nations Cup 1992 | date = 23 September 2002 | access-date = 14 October 2012 | first1 = Josef | last1 = Bobrowsky | first2 = François | website = [[RSSSF]] | last2 = Mazet}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/maro-coach.html | title = Morocco National Team Coaches | date = 24 January 2006 | access-date = 14 October 2012 | first = Hassanin | website = [[RSSSF]] | last = Mubarak}}</ref> From 1995 to 1997, he was in charge of [[El Zamalek]] of [[Cairo]], Egypt, with which he won the [[African Cup of Champions Clubs]] of 1996, where they prevailed in the finals over Nigeria's [[Shooting Stars SC]].<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.rsssf.org/tablesa/afcup96.html | title = African Club Competitions 1996 | date = 9 July 2009 | access-date = 14 October 2012 | first = Karel | website = [[RSSSF]] | last = Stokkermans}}</ref>

Olk also had two spells as assistant coach at Bayern Munich. From 1975 to 1977, he was assisting [[Dettmar Cramer]] in a period when the club the European Champions' and [[Intercontinental Cup (football)|Intercontinental Cup]]s of 1977. Between 1986 and 1988, he served under [[Udo Lattek]] and [[Jupp Heynckes]], being part of the team that won the German championship of 1987.<ref>[[Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling]]: ''Die Bayern. Die Geschichte des deutschen Rekordmeisters.'' Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2006, {{ISBN|3-89533-534-7}}.</ref>

==Career statistics==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
|-
!rowspan="2"|Club!!rowspan="2"|Club!!colspan="3"|League!!colspan="2"|Cup!!colspan="2"|Continental!!colspan="2"|Total
|-
!Division!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals
|-
|rowspan="10"|[[FC Bayern Munich|Bayern Munich]]||rowspan="3"|[[Oberliga Süd (1945–63)|Oberliga Süd]]||1960–61||27||2|| || || || || ||
|-
|1961–62||29||0|| || || || || ||
|-
|1962–63||20||0|| || || || || ||
|-
|rowspan="2"|[[Regionalliga Süd (1963–74)|Regionalliga Süd]]||1963–64||17||0|| || || || || ||
|-
|1964–65||29||0|| || || || || ||
|-
|rowspan="5"|[[Bundesliga]]||[[1965–66 Bundesliga|1965–66]]||28||0|| || || || || ||
|-
|[[1966–67 Bundesliga|1966–67]]||32||1|| || || || || ||
|-
|[[1967–68 Bundesliga|1967–68]]||32||0|| || || || || ||
|-
|[[1968–69 Bundesliga|1968–69]]||34||1|| || || || || ||
|-
|[[1969–70 Bundesliga|1969–70]]||18||0|| || || || || ||
|-
!colspan="3"|Career total!!266!!4!! !! !! !! !! !!
|}

==Honours==
===Manager===
'''Zamalek'''
* [[CAF Champions League|African Cup of Champions]]: [[1996 African Cup of Champions Clubs|1996]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Worldfootball.net|werner-olk}}
* {{kicker|werner-olk}}
* {{Fussballdaten|werner-olk}}
* {{NFT|24062}}

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