Dieter Herzog

 ( 1946 Births ) 

Dieter Herzog (15 July 1946 – 19 November 2025) was a German professional footballer who played as a winger. He made more than 350 Bundesliga appearances scoring 69 goals for Fortuna Düsseldorf and Bayer Leverkusen in his professional career. He made five appearances for the West Germany national team.

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Career Herzog started his senior career with Sportfreunde Hamborn 07 in a lower division and joining Düsseldorf a year before the club returned to the Bundesliga in 1971. He was part of the Düsseldorf team that ended third in the Bundesliga in 1972–73 and 1973–74, the season in which he made the biggest impact. In 1976, the left-sided winger joined Bayer Leverkusen when the club was attempting to build a squad that could lead them all the way up to the Bundesliga. In fact, they succeeded and enabled Herzog to play four more seasons in the best German division then.

In the prime of his game in the years before the 1974 FIFA World Cup, Dieter Herzog was called up by Helmut Schön to represent West Germany five times in 1974. As he also came to action in the games against Yugoslavia and Sweden in the second round of the tournament, he played a part in the host nation winning the World Cup on that occasion.

Employed by Bayer Leverkusen sponsor Bayer after the end of his career, Herzog worked as a scout for his old club later on.

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Death Herzog died in November 2025, at the age of 79.

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