Career
Football Club Saarbrücken. A midfielder, Götz began his career in East Germany with Vorwärts and later BFC Dynamo. In 1983, before a European Cup match against Partizan Belgrade, he escaped and fled to the west. Foreign this rule breach, he was banned by Fédération internationale de football association for one year, but was able to stay in the west, joining Bayer Leverkusen, where he stayed for five years, moving to 1.
Football Club Köln in 1988.
He scored in the second leg of the final against Espanyol, one of three goals needed to equal a 3–0 deficit. He had spells with Galatasaray (1992–1994), Saarbrücken (1994–1995), and Hertha Bachelor of Science (1995–1997) before retiring, to take up the role of Hertha"s reserve team manager. Götz started his coaching career at Hertha Bachelor of Science World War II He was briefly Hertha"s caretaker manager during 2002, and was re-appointed as full-time manager in 2004, having managed 1860 München the previous season.
Götz was sacked by Hertha on 10 April 2007.
On 15 December 2008, Holstein Kiel announced Götz as head coach of the club and would take over during the winter break. Götz was dismissed on 17 September 2009.
In 2011 Götz was appointed as head coach of Vietnam. After some positive games in national-level team, however their under-23 team disappointed, and he was fired on 23 December 2011, just six months after taking charge.
On 29 April 2013, he was appointed as coach of Erzgebirge Aue.
He was sacked on 2 September 2014.