Armin Veh

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Armin Veh
Armin Veh 2012 2.jpg
Armin Veh (2012)
Personnel
birthday February 1, 1961
place of birth AugsburgGermany
size 181 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
1978-1979 FC Augsburg
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1979 FC Augsburg 7 (0)
1979-1983 Borussia M'gladbach 60 (3)
1983-1984 FC St. Gallen 18 (0)
1984-1985 Borussia M'gladbach 5 (0)
1985-1987 FC Augsburg
1987 TSV Schwaben Augsburg 15 (1)
1987-1990 SpVgg Bayreuth 53 (1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1990-1995 FC Augsburg
1996-1997 SpVgg Greuther Fürth
1998-2001 SSV Reutlingen 05
2002-2003 Hansa Rostock
2003-2004 FC Augsburg
2006-2008 VfB Stuttgart
2009-2010 VfL Wolfsburg
2010-2011 Hamburger SV
2011-2014 Eintracht Frankfurt
2014 VfB Stuttgart
2015-2016 Eintracht Frankfurt
1 Only league games are given.

Armin Veh (born February 1, 1961 in Augsburg ) is a German soccer coach and official. As a player he was active in the Bundesliga for Borussia Mönchengladbach . From December 11, 2017 to November 8, 2019 he was Managing Director Sport at 1. FC Köln .

Career as a player

Veh began his career at FC Augsburg , then played in the Bundesliga with Borussia Mönchengladbach from 1979 to 1983 . With Mönchengladbach he reached the 1980 UEFA Cup final , which the team lost to Eintracht Frankfurt .

In 1983 Veh switched to FC St. Gallen for one season and returned to Mönchengladbach the following year.

In 1985 Veh went back to FC Augsburg. In July 1987 he moved to the neighboring club TSV Schwaben Augsburg , which he left again in November of the same year to play in the 2nd division at SpVgg Bayreuth . There he ended his playing career in November 1990 for health reasons.

Veh played a total of 65 Bundesliga games (three goals), 60 second division games (one goal) and 18 NLA games in Switzerland.

Career as trainer and functionary

In 1987, at the instigation of the gaming room operator Peter Eiba, Veh joined the 8th league as a manager at BC Harlekin Augsburg. The goal was long-term promotion to the Bundesliga. BC Harlekin therefore joined the higher-class clubs TSV Schwaben Augsburg and FC Augsburg, each with Veh as manager. In 1990 Armin Veh ended his job as a manager at FC Augsburg and became its coach.

Trainer at FC Augsburg and SpVgg Greuther Fürth

Between 1990 and 1995 he was coach of the Bayern division FC Augsburg, with whom he was promoted to the regional league in 1994 . From 1996 he worked for SpVgg Greuther Fürth , with whom he was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga in 1997 . Veh was released there in October 1997.

SSV Reutlingen

From July 1998 to December 2001 he was the coach of SSV Reutlingen 05 , with whom he was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga in 2000. With 102 goals and 87 points, this ascent is considered a regional league record in the south season. In the 2000/01 season, Veh led SSV Reutlingen to 7th place in the 2nd Bundesliga. In the following season, Reutlingen was not in danger of relegation. On December 12, 2001, however, Veh announced his resignation in order to take over the coaching position at the former Bundesliga club Hansa Rostock.

Hansa Rostock

On January 3, 2002, he started working for Hansa Rostock. The second half of the 2001/02 season was disappointing (not a single point was won away); Rostock only secured relegation on the 33rd matchday. In the first half of the 2002/03 season, Hansa was in second place in the Bundesliga. The success was short-lived, however, and during the winter break they found themselves in a relegation battle. Relegation was secured again on the 33rd match day with a 3-0 win against Arminia Bielefeld. The first games of the 2003/04 season were again bad for Armin Veh's team; on October 6, 2003 he resigned after four defeats in a row.

FC Augsburg

On October 13, 2003 Veh was again a coach at the then regional division FC Augsburg. He justified his decision to train a lower-class team by saying that he wanted to be back with his family who lived in Augsburg in the future. Veh led the team to fourth place in the 2003/04 season (when he was taken over it was in mid-table), and Augsburg narrowly missed promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga. The start of the 2004/05 season failed, so that Veh was replaced by Rainer Hörgl on September 27, 2004 .

Master trainer at VfB Stuttgart

Armin Veh at the championship ceremony 2007

Veh was then unemployed for almost a year and a half before VfB Stuttgart offered him the successor to Giovanni Trapattoni in February 2006 . The contract, which initially only ran until June, was soon extended by one year to summer 2007. The second half of the 2005/06 season was difficult; Veh was eliminated from the UEFA Cup with his team , and Stuttgart only finished ninth in the Bundesliga.

Veh and the new manager Horst Heldt signed some new players for the 2006/07 season . Gradually he was able to form a functioning team out of the squad. At the winter break, VfB was already in fourth place. In January the contract was extended for another year until summer 2008. The team continued their run in the second half of the season and took over the championship lead on matchday 33 with a win at VfL Bochum because the previous leaders FC Schalke 04 lost 2-0 in the Revierderby in Dortmund. On the final day of the VfB Stuttgart defeated Energie Cottbus 2: 1 and was German champion in 2007. At the same time moved the team into the German Cup final one, but in which the 1. FC Nuremberg with . 3: 2 aet prevailed. Under Veh, players like Pavel Pardo , Roberto Hilbert , Thomas Hitzlsperger and Mario Gómez had become Bundesliga stars.

The 2007/08 season was again rather difficult. The team was eliminated from the Champions League as the bottom of the group with just one win out of five defeats . In the league too, the start was sluggish, after ten match days Stuttgart found themselves in 14th place in the table. Nevertheless, VfB was able to finish the season in sixth place in the table and thus achieve a starting place in the UI Cup , through which it then qualified for the UEFA Cup.

On November 23, 2008, Veh was finally on leave when VfB was only 11th in the table after 14 games in the 2008/09 season . The separation took place after the game at VfL Wolfsburg - the club he then coached.

VfL Wolfsburg

On July 1, 2009, Veh became Felix Magath's successor in personal union as trainer, sports director and managing director at the German champions VfL Wolfsburg. He received a contract until June 30, 2011. At the beginning of January 2010, Dieter Hoeneß took over Veh's area of ​​responsibility as manager.

After nine competitive games without a win and one more defeat (2: 3) against 1. FC Köln, the board of VfL Wolfsburg released him from his duties on January 25, 2010.

Hamburger SV

On July 1, 2010, Veh became head coach at Hamburger SV . He signed a contract until June 30, 2012, which contained a unilateral termination option after one year. He made use of this exit clause on March 8, 2011 and declared that he would no longer be available from summer 2011. The reason for the separation was the chaotic course of the season at Hamburger SV after constant internal squabbles about the position of head of sport and board, which is why the club never came to rest: “From my point of view, you can't work with the development in the club. Sometimes it's no longer about football, but that's my job. Even if we are not where we would like to be in terms of sport, you still need a perspective. This is not there for me. ”The difficult sporting situation of HSV, which suffered a 2-4 home defeat on the match day before Veh's resignation against the direct competitor for a Europa League place in Mainz 05 (with the gap to fifth Place in the table increased to five points), did not name Veh as the reason for his decision. However, on March 13, 2011, he was released early from the club after a 6-0 defeat at Bayern Munich .

Eintracht Frankfurt

In the summer break of 2011, Eintracht Frankfurt hired Veh as head coach and successor to Christoph Daum . At the end of the 2011/12 season, he rose to the 1st Bundesliga with Eintracht. Shortly before the end of the season, he extended his contract to June 30, 2013. In the year after promotion, he surprisingly reached the European Cup as sixth in the table with Eintracht and had even been on a Champions League place for a long time. On March 25, 2013 Veh extended his contract again until 2014. At the beginning of March 2014, during a season in the relegation battle and eliminated from the Europa League in the first knockout round, he announced that his contract would be terminated after the 2013 / 14 no longer to be extended because he wanted to celebrate more victories again.

Return to VfB Stuttgart

On May 12, 2014 Veh signed a two-year contract with VfB Stuttgart that began with the 2014/15 Bundesliga season . After the club separated from its sports director Fredi Bobic at the end of 2014 , he took over the sports management of the club on an interim basis together with sports director Jochen Schneider . After only nine points won from twelve games, Veh resigned as head coach after the 12th matchday on November 24, 2014.

Return to Eintracht Frankfurt

Veh signed a two-year contract on June 14, 2015, returning to Eintracht Frankfurt after just one year. After seven games without a win, after which the team was on the relegation pitch, he was released as head coach on March 6, 2016.

Managing Director at 1. FC Köln

On December 11, 2017, Veh became “ Managing Director Sport ” at 1. FC Köln as the successor to Jörg Schmadtke . At the end of October 2019, he announced that he would not extend his contract, which ran until June 30, 2020, and that he would leave 1.FC Köln at the end of the season. The association and Veh parted ways on November 8, 2019.

Achievements / Awards

Success as a trainer

  • German champion : 2007 (VfB Stuttgart)
  • DFB Cup Finalist: 2007 (VfB Stuttgart)
  • Promotion to the 1st Bundesliga: 2012 (Eintracht Frankfurt)
  • Reaching the European Cup as a climber in 2013 (Eintracht Frankfurt)
  • Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga: 1997 (SpVgg Greuther Fürth), 2000 (SSV Reutlingen)

Awards

Private

Armin Veh is a trained real estate agent and is married to a Swiss woman. The couple have two sons together.

Others

From summer 2016 until his engagement as CEO at 1. FC Köln from December 2017 Veh was one of the experts in the Sport1 - football - talk show -two .

Movie

Web links

Commons : Armin Veh  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. FC and Armin Veh terminate the contract
  2. [1] "11 Friends - Magazine for Football Culture" September 12, 2014
  3. Armin Veh dismissed from VfB Stuttgart . Article on www.tagesspiegel.de from November 23, 2008, accessed October 15, 2017
  4. ^ Armin Veh: Two-year contract as trainer, managing director and manager
  5. VfL Wolfsburg releases head coach Armin Veh , press release of the club from January 25, 2010
  6. Armin Veh is the trainer of Hamburger SV ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on hsv.de from May 24, 2010  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hsv.de
  7. Veh: “Will no longer be available from summer” ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on hsv.de from March 8, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hsv.de
  8. HSV separates from Armin Veh - Oenning takes over ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2011 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. on hsv.de from March 13, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hsv.de
  9. Armin Veh on Eintracht Frankfurt . fussball.ch. May 30, 2011. Retrieved May 31, 2011.
  10. Armin Veh extends contract . eintracht.de. May 2, 2012. Archived from the original on January 2, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 2, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eintracht.de
  11. Veh stays with Eintracht for another year . t-online.de. March 25, 2013. Retrieved March 25, 2013.
  12. http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/bundesliga/startseite/600351/artikel_veh-verlaesst-die-eintracht---kom-babbel.html
  13. Armin Veh will be the new VfB head coach ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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 Stuttgart May 12, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vfb.de
  14. Armin Veh resigns as head coach ( memento of the original from April 29, 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. , Official website of VfB Stuttgart, published and accessed on November 24, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vfb.de
  15. Report on the Eintracht Frankfurt website, accessed on June 14, 2015
  16. ^ Announcement on the Eintracht Frankfurt website, accessed on March 6, 2016
  17. Armin Veh becomes FC managing director. 1. FC Köln, December 6, 2017, accessed on December 6, 2017 .
  18. Armin Veh leaves 1. FC Köln at the end of the season. In: kicker.de. October 31, 2019, accessed October 31, 2019 .
  19. FC and Armin Veh terminate the contract
  20. Veh becomes a "one-two-pass" expert! - "I will address things clearly". bild.de, August 14, 2016, accessed on September 22, 2018 .
  21. Veh and Reif are new experts at Volkswagen one-two-pass - Reif and Veh are new with one-two. sport1.de, August 15, 2016, accessed on September 22, 2018 .