Gottfried Eisler

Gottfried Eisler was a German soccer coach. Between 1953 and 1965 he trained in the GDR Oberliga , the top division in GDR football , the football teams of Einheit Dresden and SC Neubrandenburg .

Athletic career

In the 1953/54 season Gottfried Eisler first appeared as a football coach of a higher-class team when he took over the East Berlin company sports community (BSG) Einheit Pankow , which had narrowly escaped relegation from the second-rate GDR league in the previous season. Although there were several league players and goalkeeping talent Karl-Heinz Spickenagel in the team in addition to the 67-time East German league player Walter Schulz , Eisler did not manage to save them from relegation to the third division. In November 1959 (calendar year season) Eisler replaced the previously successful coach Hans Siegert (Cup victory 1958) at SC Einheit in Dresden , after the league team had landed on a relegation zone. Eisler succeeded in the last games of the season to keep the team, which was already outdated at the time, from relegation. Then several top performers left the SC unit, but Eisler was able to just prevent relegation in 1960. In the following season, which ran over 39 rounds from March 1961 to June 1962 due to the changeover to the autumn-spring season in the GDR Oberliga, Einheit Dresden was almost hopelessly on a relegation zone after two thirds of the season. Thereupon Eisler was replaced as the coach of the league team and replaced by Heinz Seifert, who could no longer save the SC unit from relegation. Gottfried Eisler moved to the GDR league promoted SC Neubrandenburg at the beginning of the 1962/63 season. Within two seasons he led Mecklenburg in 1964 to the top division. However, the quality of the team was not enough for relegation, and it was relegated after a year. Eisler had to leave the sports club after the end of the 1964/65 season, and that ended his coaching career in top football.

literature

• German sport echo : born 1953–1965. ISSN  0323-8628
• DFSF (Ed.): GDR Chronicle - GDR Football 1949–1991 (Volume 8). Berlin 2011, p. 381, p. 381.

Web links

• Gottfried Eisler in the database of the German Football Association