| Günter Bittengel | |
| Birth Date: | 14 July 1966 |
| Birth Place: | Prague, Czechoslovakia |
| Height: | 1.75 m |
| Position: | Striker |
| Youthyears1: | 1974–1985 |
| Youthclubs1: | Dukla Prague |
| Years1: | 1985–1991 |
| Clubs1: | Dukla Prague |
| Caps1: | 159 |
| Goals1: | 21 |
| Years2: | 1991–1996 |
| Clubs2: | Bayer Uerdingen |
| Caps2: | 153 |
| Goals2: | 20 |
| Years3: | 1997–2001 |
| Clubs3: | FK Chmel Blšany |
| Caps3: | 93 |
| Goals3: | 13 |
| Totalcaps: | 415 |
| Totalgoals: | 54 |
| Nationalyears1: | 1986–1988 |
| Nationalcaps1: | 14 |
| Nationalgoals1: | 3 |
| Nationalyears2: | 1987–1991 |
| Nationalteam2: | Czechoslovakia |
| Nationalcaps2: | 4 |
| Nationalgoals2: | 0 |
| Nationalyears3: | 1995 |
| Nationalteam3: | Czech Republic |
| Nationalcaps3: | 1 |
| Nationalgoals3: | 0 |
| Manageryears1: | 2001–2003 |
| Managerclubs1: | FK Chmel Blšany |
| Manageryears2: | 2003–2004 |
| Managerclubs2: | FK Viktoria Žižkov |
| Manageryears3: | 2004–2005 |
| Managerclubs3: | SC Xaverov Horní Počernice |
| Manageryears4: | 2005–2006 |
| Managerclubs4: | SK Union Čelákovice |
| Manageryears5: | 2006–2009 |
| Managerclubs5: | FK Dukla Prague |
Günter Bittengel (born 14 July 1966) is a Czech football coach and former player. He played as a striker in the Czechoslovak First League and went on to play in the Czech First League after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia. As a result, he also represented both Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic at international level.
During his playing career, Bittengel made over 100 league appearances for Dukla Prague in six seasons at the club.[1] He was part of the Dukla team which won the 1989–90 Czechoslovak Cup.[2] Bittengel then went to Germany to play for Bayer Uerdingen.[2] During his time in Germany he played 153 league matches, scoring a total of 20 goals.[3]
Later in his career, Bittengel returned to the Czech Republic and played for FK Chmel Blšany, where he was the captain.[4] Bittengel, Jan Šimák and Pavel Pergl scored the first-ever top-flight goals for Blšany, each finding the net in a 3–1 win away at Teplice in August 1998.[5]
Bittengel played for the Czechoslovakia national under-21 football team between 1986 and 1988, scoring three times in 14 appearances.[2] He progressed to the senior side, making his début for Czechoslovakia senior team in 1987.[2] He played his fourth and final match for Czechoslovakia in 1991,[6] but would go on to play for the newly independent Czech Republic in a 1995 match against Finland, his only appearance.[6]
As a manager, Bittengel's first Czech First League position was at FK Chmel Blšany, who he led between 2001 and 2003.[2] He took charge of Blšany in the winter break of the 2001–02 Gambrinus liga, after the team had lost seven consecutive matches under boss Miroslav Beránek.[7] Blšany remained in the top league throughout Bittengel's tenure, but suffered a run of five consecutive defeats at the beginning of the 2003–04 season.[8] In October 2003, with the club still last in the table, having taken just two points from the opening ten matches, Bittengel was replaced by Michal Bílek.[9]
He took over at FK Viktoria Žižkov in the winter break of the 2003–04 Gambrinus liga, with the club second from bottom in the league.[10] The club were relegated at the end of the season and Bittengel left Žižkov to join SC Xaverov Horní Počernice, a team which had just been relegated to the Bohemian Football League, on a one-year contract.[11]
Bittengel joined FK Dukla Prague in July 2006, while the team was in the Prague Championship.[12] He led Dukla until December 2009, when Luboš Kozel was brought in to lead the team and Bittengel moved to a new role as sporting director.[13]
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