Günter Kuntz

Günter Kuntz (28 November 1938 – 12 July 2026) was a German footballer. He primarily played as a right winger for Borussia Neunkirchen in Germany and Austria Wien in Austria throughout the 1960s and the early 1970s. He is also the father of German international and 1. FC Kaiserslautern player Stefan Kuntz.

Career Oberliga In the 1957–58 Oberliga, Günter Kuntz played his first thirteen games in the Südwest for VfR Kaiserslautern. He scored six goals, but the team from Erbsenberg was relegated to the 2nd division as the penultimate team in the table. Kuntz, who is usually used as a left winger, was immediately able to celebrate the championship in the II Division in the southwest and thus promotion. In his second season, during the 1959–60 Oberliga he played 27 games with six goals, but the club would end up relegated from the Oberliga with VfR Kaiserslautern.

Kuntz moved to Borussia Neunkirchen in Saarland for the 1960–61 Oberliga. In the last three rounds of the Oberliga era from 1961 to 1963, the Borussians from Ellenfeld with Kuntz as a forward won the runners-up title twice and were crowned champions of the Südwest in 1962. Alongside , Paul Pidancet, top goalscorer with 37 goals and Karl Ringel, Neunkirchen won the southwest Südwest in 1962 with a goal difference of 102–29 and thus qualified into the final round of the German football championship. He made 51 appearances for Neunkirchen in the Oberliga, scoring 32 goals. After the Saarlanders had failed in 1961 in qualifying with 0–5 goals against Eintracht Frankfurt, Kuntz only made one appearance in 1962. In the 3–2 defeat against Schalke 04, he played as left winger for a few matches. In their third attempt for promotion in 1963, he played five games alongside May, Ringel, Horst Berg and Pidancet including the 3–0 home win against Hamburger SV as well as against 1860 Munich and Borussia Dortmund. In total, Kuntz played 108 games with 47 goals in the Oberliga Südwest from 1957 to 1963. In the final round, he made seven appearances. However, the club would quickly win the championship in 1967 and once more achieved promotion to the Bundesliga in the promotion round. Kuntz was often in action in the runners' line with Erich Leist and Dieter Schock. Coach Željko Čajkovski mostly relied on the formation of Kuntz, Erich Hermesdorf and Wolfgang Gayer in the midfield throughout the 1967–68 season. Kuntz recorded 32 games with two goals in the 1967–68 Bundesliga when the Black and Whites from Ellenfeld were relegated back to the Regionalliga in 17th place. After relegation, Kuntz moved to Austria to Austria Wien and celebrated winning the title twice in 1969 and 1970. He played 53 games for Austria in the league, in which he scored 16 goals. In the 1969–70 European Cup, he played in both games against Dynamo Kiev.

For the 1970–71 season, Kuntz returned to Borussia Neunkirchen in the Regionalliga Südwest and won the championship again with coach Kurt Sommerlatt and the outstanding midfielder Gerd Zewe. In the promotion round, however, the veteran, who had recently acted as a libero, made no appearances and shortly retired soon after. He remained active with the club through his involvement in various functions from assistant coach to match committee chairman.