Adi Hütter

Adolf "Adi" Hütter (born 11 February 1970) is an Austrian professional football coach and former player who is the head coach of Ligue 1 club Monaco.

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.

Playing career
Hütter played for Altach in his youth before moving to Grazer AK and LASK. In 1993, he joined Austria Salzburg. With the club, he won the Austrian Bundesliga in the 1993–94, 1994–95 and 1996–97 seasons, and won the Austrian Supercup three times. He also reached the final of the 1993–94 UEFA Cup, where Salzburg lost 0–2 on aggregate against Inter Milan.

In 2000, Hütter joined Grazer AK again, where he won the 2001–02 Austrian Cup. After two years, he joined second division team Kapfenberger SV. In 2005, Hütter joined the second team of Red Bull Salzburg in the third division. Here, he was a leading player and won the 2006–07 Regionalliga West championship with the team, which also meant promotion to the second division. Hütter decided to end his playing career in August 2007 due to a persistent Achilles tendon injury, and became assistant coach of th Red Bull Salzburg Juniors.

International career
Hütter played for the Austria national football team 14 times and scored 3 goals.

International stats

 * Scores and results list Austria's goal tally first.

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
In September 2015, Hütter took over as head coach of Swiss Super League side 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 eleven games, winning ten, 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.

In the 2019–20 Bundesliga season, Frankfurt finished in ninth place in the league. They also reached the semi-finals of the DFB-Pokal. In the Europa League, they finished second in the group stage, with notable wins including a 2–1 away victory against Arsenal. However, their journey ended in the round of 16 with a defeat against Basel.

Ahead of the 2020–21 season, Frankfurt extended the contracts of Hütter and his assistant coaches for two more years until June 2023. Despite initially holding a Champions League position, the team finished 5th in the league but managed to qualify for the Europa League once again.

Borussia Mönchengladbach
On 13 April 2021, 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 three points above the relegation zone. The results stabilized in 2022, with Gladbach reaching seventh place in the second half of the season. Overall, the club finished on tenth 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 leadership 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. Bayern had scored in each of their previous 85 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. He guided the club to a runner-up finish in the 2023–24 season, and qualification to the Champions League group stage for the first time since 2018–19.

Personal life
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".

Player
Austria Salzburg
 * Austrian Bundesliga: 1993–94, 1994–95, 1996–97
 * Austrian Cup runner-up: 1999–2000
 * Austrian Supercup: 1994, 1995, 1997

Grazer AK
 * Austrian Cup: 2001–02
 * 2. Division: 1992–03

Coach
SV Grödig
 * Erste Liga: 2012–13

Red Bull Salzburg
 * Austrian Bundesliga: 2014–15
 * Austrian Cup: 2014–15

Young Boys
 * Swiss Super League: 2017–18
 * Swiss Cup runner-up: 2017–18

Eintracht Frankfurt
 * DFL-Supercup runner-up: 2018

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