Torsten Gütschow

Torsten Gütschow (born 28 July 1962) is a German football manager and former player who played as a striker. He is most associated with Dynamo Dresden, with whom he had two successful spells, playing top level football in East Germany and after reunification. In between these he played for three other German clubs, and spent six months with Galatasaray of the Turkish Süper Lig. and was the last East German Footballer of the Year. He won three international caps for East Germany, scoring two goals between 1984 and 1989. Since retiring he has taken up coaching, and has been manager of TuS Heeslingen.

Playing career In East Germany Gütschow played as a youth for Traktor Zodel and Dynamo Görlitz, After four years in their youth setup, he was promoted to the first-team, making his DDR-Oberliga debut in 1980. Dresden broke this run by winning the championship in 1989 and 1990, adding a cup win in the latter season to complete the double. They had also won the cup in 1982, 1984 and 1985. and with German reunification they qualified for the Bundesliga. and Gütschow was the team's top scorer, with 10 goals from 31 appearances. The following season, he played eight matches, scoring twice, before leaving in December 1992, joining Galatasaray of the Turkish Süper Lig. Gütschow only spent six months in Turkey, returning to Germany in summer 1993 He left Jena after one year, and followed this with single-year spells at two other 2. Liga clubs – Hannover 96 and Chemnitzer FC. but the latter ended in relegation for Chemnitz.

In 1996, Gütschow returned to Dynamo Dresden, now in the third-tier Regionalliga Nordost. before retiring in 1999. Gütchow remained at the club at seven years, leaving in at the end of the 2012–13 season when the club withdrew from the Oberliga for financial reasons. He took over at Regionalliga Nordost side TSG Neustrelitz a year later.

Stasi Gütschow worked as an Inoffizieller Mitarbeiter (paid informant) for the Stasi. He admitted to spying on around 60 players and staff between 1981 and 1989. Gütschow was approached by the authorities at the age of 18, and feared that he would be prevented from playing football and separated from his fiancee if he refused to co-operate. 1980–81

1981–82

1982–83

1983–84

1984–85

1985–86

1986–87

1987–88

1988–89

1989–90

1990–91 NOFV-Oberliga

1991–92

1992–93

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1997–98

1998–99

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International goals Scores and results list East Germany's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Gütschow goal.

Honours Clubs Dynamo Dresden DDR-Oberliga: 1988–89, 1989–90 FDGB-Pokal: 1981–82, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1989–90

Galatasaray Süper Lig: 1992–93 Turkish Cup: 1992–93

Individual East German Footballer of the Year: 1991