Alexander Zorniger

Alexander Zorniger
Alexander Zorniger (2015)
Personnel
birthday	October 8, 1967
place of birth	Mutlangen ,  Germany
size	182 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
1973–	TSV Mutlangen
	TSB Schwäbisch Gmünd
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	TSB Schwäbisch Gmünd
	VfL Nagold
0000-2002	SV Bonlanden
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2004-2009	1. FC Normannia Gmuend
2009	VfB Stuttgart (assistant coach)
2010–2012	SG Sonnenhof Großaspach
2012-2015	RB Leipzig
2015	VfB Stuttgart
2016-2019	Brøndby IF
1 Only league games are given.

Alexander Zorniger (born October 8, 1967 in Mutlangen ) is a German football coach .

Career as a coach

Zorniger was the coach of 1. FC Normannia Gmünd between 2004 and 2009 , who played in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg . In the 2008/09 season he finished ninth.

He was replaced by Lothar Mattner , as he received the offer to work as an assistant coach at VfB Stuttgart under Markus Babbel . Half a year later, on December 6, 2009, Zorniger left VfB Stuttgart.

On July 1, 2010 he signed with the regional league team SG Sonnenhof Großaspach to support the then assistant coach Rüdiger Rehm . There the promotion to the 3rd division was just missed in the 2011/12 season.

At the same time, Zorniger completed his training at the Hennes-Weisweiler Academy, which he completed as the best in the 58th football teacher course (2011/12).

RB Leipzig

On July 3, 2012, Zorniger became head coach at RB Leipzig . He was the successor of the Austrian Peter Pacult , who had previously been terminated by the new sports director Ralf Rangnick .

In his first year with the Leipzig team, he moved up to the 3rd division in 2013 and, unexpectedly, into the 2nd division in 2014 . After losing contact with the promotion places in the table in the second half of 2015, the club announced that it would part ways with him at the end of the season. Zorniger resigned prematurely on February 11, 2015.

VfB Stuttgart

For the 2015/16 season , Zorniger took over the Bundesliga team at VfB Stuttgart as the successor to Huub Stevens . He received a three-year contract valid until June 30, 2018. After only ten points won from 13 Bundesliga games, VfB Stuttgart ended their cooperation with him on November 24, 2015.

Brøndby IF

Angry was the coach of Brøndby IF since the 2016/17 season . In the 2016/17 and 2017/18 seasons, he finished second with the club in the Danish Super League, and in 2018 he won the Danish Cup . In February 2019 he was given leave of absence as head coach of the team in fourth place in the table.

Web links

• Alexander Zorniger in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Alexander Zorniger in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Profile on fussballtransfers.com, accessed on March 4, 2015
2. ↑ RB coach Zorniger: "It's exciting how the league reacts to us" , Transfermarkt.de, August 1, 2014
3. ↑ RB Leipzig dismisses coach Peter Pacult
4. ↑ RB sports director Rangnick presents plans
5. ↑ RB Leipzig and Alexander Zorniger part ways by mutual agreement! dierotenbullen.com, accessed February 11, 2015
6. ↑ Alexander Zorniger will be the new VfB head coach ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. vfb.de, accessed on May 25, 2015 
7. ↑ VfB ends collaboration with Alexander Zorniger ( Memento of the original from November 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. vfb.de, accessed on November 24, 2015 
8. ↑ New job for Zorniger StN.de, May 17, 2016.
9. ↑ Bröndby Copenhagen is on leave of absence from Alexander Zorniger , swr.de from February 18, 2019, accessed on February 18, 2019.
10. ↑ Selskabsmeddelse no. 02/2019 - Alexander Zorniger stopper , brondby.com, accessed on February 18, 2019 (Danish)