Top 10 Longest-Serving Coaches in German Football
Frank Schmidt officially surpassed Volker Finke as the longest-serving coach in German football history when his Heidenheim side faced Werder Bremen on Sunday, 17 September 2023 – exactly 16 years to the day since he took charge. bundesliga takes you through the 10 coaches to have been in charge of a team for the longest spells in German football…
1) Frank Schmidt (Heidenheim) – 16 years (17 September 2007 – present)
Schmidt’s association with Heidenheim extends far beyond his 16 unbroken years as coach…
2) Volker Finke (Freiburg) – 16 years (1 July 1991 – 30 June 2007)
Schmidt had just retired as a player with Heidenheim in the fourth tier when Finke’s record 16-year tenure at Freiburg came to an end in 2007…
3) Joachim Löw (Germany) – 14 years, 11 months, 18 days (12 July 2006 – 29 June 2021)
Löw the player was a striker back in the day, netting what was for many years a club-record 83 goals…
4) Otto Rehhagel (Werder Bremen) – 14 years, three months (1 April 1981 – 30 June 1995)
Rehhagel’s first stint at Bremen only lasted four months after he was brought in during the 1975/76 season…
5) Thomas Schaaf (Werder Bremen) – 14 years, five days (10 May 1999 – 14 May 2013)
Few people are as closely associated with one club as Schaaf is with Die Werderaner…
6) Helmut Schön (Germany) – 13 years, seven months, 18 days (4 November 1964 – 21 June 1978)
Schön amassed 16 caps for Germany as a player…
7) Sepp Herberger (Germany) – 13 years, six months, 16 days (22 November 1950 – 7 June 1964)
Before Schön, of course, there was Herberger…
8) Hans Meyer (Carl Zeiss Jena) – 12 years, four months, 24 days (1 July 1971 – 23 October 1983)
Meyer’s connection with East German outfit Carl Zeiss Jena started in 1963 as a player…
9) Winfried Schäfer (Karlsruhe) – 11 years, nine months, 26 days (1 July 1986 – 25 March 1998)
Schäfer’s C.V, which began in the wake of a 17-year playing career, reads like that of a globe-trotter…
10) Christian Streich (Freiburg) – 11 years, eight months, 20 days (29 December 2011 – present)
Where would Freiburg be without Streich? Fortunately for the Breisgau Brasilianer, it is a question they do not need to mull over…
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By- Sahiba Suri