He attracted considerable criticism for his part in the games between ADO Den Haag and West Ham United in the 1976 European Cup Winners Cup and Wales and Yugoslavia at Ninian Park, Cardiff in which the Welsh were eliminated in the quarter-final; Glockner had to be escorted from the field of play.
Rudi Carrell | Hans Rudi Erdt | Rudi Glöckner | Rudi Assauer | Rudi van Dantzig | Rudi Dutschke | Rudi Ball | Joe Rudi | Rudi Vis | Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle | Rudi Scholtz | Rudi Protrudi | Rudi Martinus van Dijk | Rudi Hiti | Rudi Gunn | Rudi Garcia | Rudi Davies | Michael Glöckner | Axel Rudi Pell |
Rudi Glöckner worked as a referee in East Germany's top flight DDR-Oberliga from 1959–1977 and officiated in the final of the 1970 World Cup in Mexico.