Career
He is currently sporting director at Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg. He amassed Bundesliga totals of 424 games and 177 goals over the course of 15 seasons (being crowned the competition"s top scorer on two occasions), mainly representing and 1. Allofs gained nearly 60 caps for, representing the nation in one World Cup and two European Championships, winning the Euro 1980 tournament.
Born in Düsseldorf, Allofs began playing professionally for home team, in 1975.
He started his career as an attacking midfielder, and scored nearly 100 overall goals for the club, helping it two consecutive German cup wins, while often playing upfront with sibling Thomas. In 1981 Allofs joined 1.
, where he continued scoring at an excellent rate. In the following season, he re-teamed with Thomas, then left the country during three years, playing in France with Olympique de and Football Club Girondins de Bordeaux.
Allofs retired in June 1993 at nearly 37, after three seasons with SV, still managing to figure regularly.
Sharing his goalscoring record with Dieter Müller, he left the game as the competition"s alltime seventh scorer. In 1999, Allofs was hired as coach of. In November 2012, Allofs left Bremen to join VfL Wolfsburg as their new sporting director
Allofs played for Germany a total of 56 times, and scored 17 goals.
Pushed to the sidelines by emergent Rudi Völler and Jürgen Klinsmann, he retired from international play on 31 March 1988, scoring in a friendly with Sweden. International goals Club 1.
International Individual.