Werner Olk is a German former professional footballer and coach. He spent his career in the 1960s through to 1970 with German club Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga. His honors with Bayern include the DFB-Pokal in 1966, 1967 and 1969; winner of the German Championship in 1969; and winner of the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1967. After the promotion to the Bundesliga in 1965 until 1970 Olk served as Bayern's captain, a function in which he was succeeded by Franz Beckenbauer. Olk started his football career as a youth player with SG Letter 05 in 1948 and eventually switched into the youth team of TuS Seelze in Nachbarort. Before his transfer to Bayern Munich, he played 1956/57 in the Oberliga Nord with Arminia Hannover and after the relegation of the club from 1957 to 1960 in the second tier, which in this part of Northern Germany was the Amateuroberliga Niedersachsen. Olk played his only cap for the German National Football Team in 1961. He was an available member of the German squad at the 1962 FIFA World Cup in Chile. In the Amateur squad of the German National Team, Olk was called up three times. He was also called up into the Youth National Team in 1961 for a match against England. After his time with Bayern he became player-manager with Swiss second division side FC Aarau. He stayed there until 1973, although he had been relieved of his manager duties by December 1972 and been replaced in this function by Jiří "Georges" Sobotka. After this Olk became a manager for German clubs such as Eintracht Braunschweig, SV Darmstadt 98, SC Freiburg, SC Preußen Münster and Karlsruher SC. He also had a brief engagement managing FC St. Gallen in the Swiss League during the 1985–86 season. From 1990 to 1992 he coached Morocco, with which he qualified for the African Nations Cup in January 1992 and the Olympic Games later in the same year in Barcelona. Morocco remained in both competitions without win. From 1995 to 1997 he was in charge of El Zamalek of Cairo with which he won the African Cup of Champions Clubs of 1996, where they prevailed in the finals over Nigeria's Shooting Stars SC. Olk also had two spells as assistant coach at Bayern Munich. From 1975 to 1977 he was assisting Dettmar Cramer in a period when the club the European Champions' and Intercontinental Cups of 1977. Between 1986 and 1988 her served under Udo Lattek and Jupp Heynckes, being part of the team that won the German championship of 1987.
