Adi Hütter

Adolf "Adi" Hütter (born 11 February 1970) is an Austrian professional football coach and former player who is the manager 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.

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.

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.

In September 2015, Hütter took over as head coach of Swiss Super League side BSC 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.

In April 2018, Hütter's Young Boys won the Swiss Super League for the first time since 1986.

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.