Career
Shining for just promoted Alemannia Aachen in a Bundesliga runner-up season in 1969, midfielder Kapellmann left Aachen for 1. Football Club Köln a year later and after Aachen had been relegated from the Bundesliga. Kapellmann was a proven regular with 1.
Football Club Köln until 1973, ending on second place in the Bundesliga and in the German Cup in 1973 with them.
Subsequent to his in-form performances for his club he was snapped up by Football Club Bayern Munich with his new club paying Köln 802,000 Deutsche Mark (a Bundesliga record at that time) for Kapellmann"s services. Foreign West Germany Jupp Kapellmann came to action in five games in between 1973 and 1974, but could not land himself a regular participation.
In 1974 he was part of the host-nation-squad for the, watching his team lifting the trophy from his spot on the substitution bench. Nowadays, Doctor Kapellmann is a doctor for Orthopedic surgery in the Bavarian town of Rosenheim.