Adi Hütter

Adolf Hütter

Hütter with Eintracht Frankfurt in 2020
Personal information
Full name	Adolf Hütter
Date of birth	(1970-02-11) 11 February 1970 (age 54)
Place of birth	Hohenems, Austria
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Monaco (head coach)
Youth career
	Grazer AK
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1989–1991	Linzer ASK	52	(2)
1991–1992	SC Rheindorf Altach	34	(6)
1992–1993	Grazer AK	33	(10)
1993–2000	SV Austria Salzburg	201	(14)
2000–2002	Grazer AK	29	(2)
2002–2005	Kapfenberger SV	91	(17)
2005–2007	Red Bull Salzburg Juniors	40	(4)
Total		480	(55)
International career
1994–1997	Austria	14	(3)
Managerial career
2008–2009	RB Salzburg II
2009–2012	SC Rheindorf Altach
2012–2014	SV Grödig
2014–2015	Red Bull Salzburg
2015–2018	Young Boys
2018–2021	Eintracht Frankfurt
2021–2022	Borussia Mönchengladbach
2023–	Monaco
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

As a player, Hütter reached the 1993–94 UEFA Cup final, won the Austrian championship three times with Austria Salzburg and won the Austrian Cup with Grazer AK.

As a coach, he won the Austrian double, for the renamed Red Bull Salzburg, as well as the Swiss Super League with Young Boys. He then managed Eintracht Frankfurt from 2018 to 2021, and Borussia Mönchengladbach for the 2021–22 season. In July 2023, he was appointed as manager of Monaco.

Hütter played for Altach in his youth before moving to Grazer AK and Austria Salzburg. There, he was a three-time Austrian champion and won the Supercup. With Salzburg, he reached the UEFA-Cup final in 1994 where Salzburg lost two times 0–1 against Inter Milan. Hütter played for the Austria national football team 14 times and scored 3 goals.

In 2000, Hütter joined Grazer AK again. After two years, he joined first division team Kapfenberg. In 2005, Hütter joined the amateur team of Red Bull Salzburg Juniors and secured promotion to the Austrian first division. After achilles problems, he joined the coaching staff as assistant of Gerald Baumgartner in August 2007.

International goals

Scores and results list Austria's goal tally first.

No	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	20 April 1994	Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna, Austria	Scotland	1–0	1–2	Friendly match
2.	26 April 1995	Stadion Lehen, Salzburg, Austria	Liechtenstein	6–0	7–0	Euro 1996 qualifier
3.				7–0

Salzburg Juniors, Altach, Grödig, Salzburg

 

Hütter is the former assistant coach and head coach of Red Bull Salzburg Juniors. He finished with a record of 13 wins, seven draws, and 15 losses at the club. He was head coach of Rheindorf Altach between 1 July 2009 and 5 April 2012. In the 2009–10 season, Rheindorf Altach lost to FC Pasching in the first round of the Austrian Cup and finished third in the league. In the 2010–11 season, Rheindorf Altach got to the Round of 16 of the Austrian Cup and finished second in the league. In the 2011–12 season, Rheindorf Altach were eliminated from the Austrian Cup in the first round. He started managing SV Grödig on 1 July 2012. In the 2012–13 season, Grödig were eliminated in the second round of the Austrian Cup. In the 2013–14 season, Grödig were eliminated in the first round of the Austrian Cup. He had led Grödig to a 2014–15 UEFA Europa League spot after 3–3 draw on the final matchday against Wacker Innsbruck. He took over Red Bull Salzburg for the 2014–15 season His first training session was on 16 June 2014. His first match was a 10–1 win against 1. SC Sollenau on 12 July 2014. He resigned on 15 June 2015. He won the double in his only season. His final match was a 2–0 win in the Austrian Cup final on 3 June 2015.

Young Boys Bern

 

In September 2015, Hütter took over as head coach of Swiss Super League side BSC Young Boys. In April 2018, Hütter's Young Boys won the Swiss Super League for the first time since 1986.

Eintracht Frankfurt

On 16 May 2018, Hütter was confirmed to be Eintracht Frankfurt's next head coach, succeeding Niko Kovač. He started as coach on 1 July 2018. On 12 August 2018, he lost his first competitive match (German Super Cup) 5–0 to Bayern Munich. Then on 18 August 2018, Eintracht Frankfurt were knocked out in the first round of the German Cup by fourth division SSV Ulm. After a poor start of the 2018–19 Bundesliga season (just four points in five matchdays), Eintracht did not lose in the next 11 games, winning 10, in the Bundesliga and Europa League. Frankfurt had a similar winning streak in the second half of the season, and reached the semi-final of the Europa League where they drew twice and lost on penalties against Chelsea. At the end of the season, Hütter was voted by readers of German newspaper Bild as Coach of the Year while Eintracht Frankfurt was voted as the Team of the Year. The union of professional football players also voted Hütter as Coach of the Year.

45 points in the 2019–20 Bundesliga season resulted in a 9th position in the league, Bayern endet Frankfurts run in the German Cup with a 2:1 victory in the round of last four. Frankfurt finished the group stage of the Europa league on position 2, winning amongst others 2:1 in London against Arsenal. Frankfurt beat FC Salzburg in the round of 32 4:1 and 2:2, and was eliminated with 0:3 and 0:1 against FC Basel in the round of 16.

Frankfurt extended Hütters and assistant coaches contract by two years until end of the 2023 season before the 2020–21 Bundesliga season. His team held a champions league position for quite a while, finished 5th, and again qualified for the Europa league.

Borussia Mönchengladbach

On 13 April, Hütter announced that he would leave Frankfurt using a buy-out clause and join Borussia Mönchengladbach for the 2021–22 season. Gladbach was ranked 14th after the first half of the season, just 3 points above the relegation zone. The results stabilized in 2022, reaching 7th rank in the second half of the season. Overall, Gladbach finished on 10th place, two positions lower than in the previous campaign under Marco Rose. Hütter announced he was to leave Mönchengladbach after the season's conclusion by mutual consent with the club's hierarchy on 14 May 2022. Hütter was succeeded by Daniel Farke.

A highlight of Hütter's one season came in the second round of the DFB-Pokal, where Mönchengladbach won 5–0 at home to Bayern Munich on 27 October 2021. The visitors had scored in their 85 previous games, and suffered their biggest defeat since 1978.

Monaco

On 4 July 2023, Hütter signed a two-year deal at Monaco in Ligue 1, succeeding Philippe Clement at a team that had not qualified for European competition. His debut on 13 August was a 4–2 win at Clermont.

Hütter is married and has one daughter. Hütter's grandmother persuaded his parents to name their son Adolf, in memory of his uncle, who died at the age of 27 in a rock avalanche. However, he is always called by his nickname "Adi".

As of match played 7 April 2024

Coach

Red Bull Salzburg

• Austrian Football Bundesliga: 2014–15
• Austrian Cup: 2014–15

Young Boys

• Swiss Super League: 2017–18

Individual

• VDV Coach of the Season: 2018–19, 2020–21