Borussia Dortmund are the second most successful club in German football, trailing only Bayern Munich, and much of that success has been down to the conveyor-belt of talent the club has been able to produce via their academy and youth teams. Dortmund’s reserve team, Borussia Dortmund II – formerly Borussia Dortmund Amateure – are where a lot of these young players go to hone their skills.
Currently competing in the third tier of German football, Borussia Dortmund II has also been where a number of young managers have honed their skills in recent years, and today I’m taking on one of your suggestions to look at Dortmund’s reserve teams last 7 managers. I won’t be including the teams current manager Mike Tullberg, since obviously he is still at Dortmund II, nor will I be including interim coaches.
Here are Borussia Dortmund II’s last 7 managers: Where are they now?
7. Jan Siewert – Unemployed
Until very recently the manager of Huddersfield Town, Jan Siewert was sacked by the Terriers with a record of 1 win, 3 draws and 15 defeats from 19 games. In fairness, he never stood a chance of keeping the club in the Premier League when he arrived at the John Smith’s Stadium in January, but just one point from his first three league games in the Championship was obviously enough to set alarm bells off among the Huddersfield hierarchy. Siewert managed Borussia Dortmund II from July 2017 to January 2019, having only previously managed Rot-Weiss Essen, and the youthful 36-year-old manager will most likely return to Germany for his next role in management.
6. Daniel Farke – Norwich City
Daniel Farke, Manager of Norwich City celebrates following his sides victory in the Premier League match between Norwich City and Newcastle United at Carrow Road on August 17, 2019 in…
A former Borussia Dortmund II manager who has enjoyed far greater success in England, Daniel Farke has proved to be a masterstroke of an appointment by Norwich City. The 42-year-old had an impressive 51.8% win percentage during his time with Dortmund’s second string, which caught the eye of Norwich City in the Championship. The Canaries finished 14th in Farke’s first season, but despite the sale of star man James Maddison the following summer, they played some great stuff and ended up winning the Championship title last season. Following a tough opening day defeat at Anfield, Farke and Norwich bounced back with a win against Newcastle in their second game back in the Premier League.
5. David Wagner
German-born former USA international David Wagner was the first of three consecutive Borussia Dortmund II managers to leave the second string to try their hand in England. Wagner’s escapade proved to be a successful one, as he won an unlikely promotion to the Premier League at Huddersfield Town, making some really shrewd moves in the transfer market. He did well to keep the Terriers in the top flight, but their second season proved to be too much. Wagner departed in January 2019 to be replaced by Jan Siewert, but he got a big job at Schalke in the Bundesliga in May.
4. Hannes Wolf – Unemployed
Head Coach Hannes Wolf of Hamburg looks on prior to the Second Bundesliga match between 1. FC Koeln and Hamburger SV at RheinEnergieStadion on April 15, 2019 in Cologne, Germany.
German manager Hannes Wolf, who is not to be confused with the 20-year-old Austrian who recently joined RB Leipzig and goes by the same name, was only briefly manager of Borussia Dortmund II. He managed the club for just 15 games, having previously been the assistant manager, and he then spent the next five years first coaching and then managing Dortmund’s under-19s. He left Dortmund in September 2016 to take over at Stuttgart, where he won promotion into the Bundesliga but was dismissed in January 2018 due to poor results in the top flight. He most recently managed Hamburg, where he was dismissed at the end of last season having failed to win promotion.
3. Theo Schneider – Unemployed
Theo Schneider was born in Dortmund and he played in the club’s first team between 1978 and 1982, before his career ended quite early at Arminia Bielefeld. He then took over as Arminia Bielefeld manager, before holding the post of youth team director for six years back at Dortmund. It was off the back of that that he became Borussia Dortmund II manager, a role which he held for seven years, meaning he had been at Dortmund for a total of 17 years. He has been out of work since leaving Ferencvaros of Budapest where he had been a youth advisor in 2018.
2. Uwe Neuhaus – Arminia Bielefeld
Head coach Uwe Neuhaus of Arminia Bielefeld looks on during the Second Bundesliga match between VfL Bochum 1848 and DSC Arminia Bielefeld at Vonovia Ruhrstadion on August 2, 2019 in Bochum,…
From a former Arminia Bielefeld boss to a current one, Uwe Neuhaus didn’t have quite such a lengthy stint in charge of Borussia Dortmund II. He managed the club for just 10 months back in the 2004-05 season, but he has had lengthy spells with both Union Berlin and Dynamo Dresden since then. He was appointed by second tier Arminia Bielefeld in December 2018, finishing 7th in his first half-season in charge of the club.
1. Horst Koppel – Unemployed
A really talented player who won five Bundesliga titles, two UEFA Cups and Euro 1972, Horst Koppel’s managerial career has been slightly less decorated. He managed the Borussia Dortmund first team from 1988 to 1991, winning his only trophy as a manager with the club in the 1989 DFB-Pokal. Koppel managed Dortmund’s second string from 2001 to 2004, before taking over Borussia Monchengladbach’s reserve side. Given that Koppel has been out of work since he managed Ingolstadt for 22 games 10 years ago, it might be safe to assume that the 71-year-old has retired.
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