Wolfgang Wolf
Wolfgang Wolf (* September 24 1957 in Tiefthal ) is a former German football player and current coach.
- 2.1 Coaches in the 1st Bundesliga
- 2.2 stations in the third and second divisions
- 2.3 Greatest successes as a coach
Career as a player
His first stop as a player was the Palatinate VfR Hettenleidelheim until 1976. Afterwards he moved, together with his brother Arno, 1 FC Kaiserslautern ( 1976-88 ). First, in the amateurs active, he graduated in the 1978/79 season his first games for the first team in the Bundesliga and in 1979 received a license player contract. In 1981, he was the DFB - Pokal against Eintracht Frankfurt, which was lost with 1:3 in the final. After 10 years and a total of 248 games for Kaiserslautern Wolf moved in 1988 to the Stuttgarter Kickers, who played in the 1st or 2nd League ( 1988-92 ). The defender made his career finally VfR Mannheim decayed ( 1992-94 ).
Greatest successes as a player
Career as a coach
Wolf began his career in 1994 as manager of the Stuttgart Kickers in the Regionalliga Süd. In the 1995/96 season, he managed to climb to the 2nd Bundesliga.
Coach in the first Bundesliga
In March 1998, he became coach of VfL Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga, who was deep in the relegation battle. Wolf is to keep the class succeeded. In the 1999/2000 season the team played in the UEFA Cup, where they retired in the 3rd round. In March 2003, Wolf its commitment to the Lower Saxony gave up despite the current contract. His successor Jürgen Röber.
In April 2003, Wolf moved to Bundesliga side 1.FC Nuremberg, where he managed the club - as already in his introduction to Wolfsburg - took over in the basement table, this time as the successor of Klaus Thaler eyes. However, he could not avoid relegation in the second league. After a season in League 2 Wolf succeeded with the team in 2004, the immediate promotion back to the 1st Bundesliga. When in October 2005 was the club on the last place, Wolf was replaced by Hans Meyer.
Only a month later, in November 2005, Wolf joined as a successor to the dismissed Michael Henke 1 FC Kaiserslautern. Henke, the longtime assistant to Ottmar Hitzfeld had taken over FCK until the summer in the first league. Also, this club was, as already Wolfs FUJIFILM's prior employer, on the lower places in the table. Wolf, however, failed to save the team from relegation to the second division. In the 2006/07 season Wolves were released in the current second division season.
Stations in the third and second divisions
After Wolf is just two months Skoda Xanthi trained in Greece in the summer of 2009, he signed in February 2010 at the Kickers Offenbach, who played at this time in the 3rd Football League and ambitions harbored on the rise in the second league. On February 26, 2011 Wolfgang Wolf was fired after a 1-1 draw against VfR Aalen as head coach of Kickers Offenbach. Offenbach was at that time still in the relegation zone for the second league, but was 13 points behind second place and only one point ahead of the fourth place. For its own claims that was not enough.
On December 7, 2011 Wolfgang Wolf took over from Peter Vollmann as coach of FC Hansa Rostock; he should save the club from relegation again in the 3rd league, what he was not able. His contract with Hansa was nevertheless extended until 30 June 2013 and he took over temporarily and the vacant managerial positions in the club. On 3 September 2012, he was released because of sporting failure in the 3rd league.
Greatest successes as a coach
Career as manager
- Stuttgarter Kickers ( 1994 to 24 February 1998, his brother Arno was at the time co- trainer and youth )
Private
Wolfgang Wolf is the father of football player Patrick Wolf. Wolfgang Wolf's younger brother Arno was also active as a football player and coach.