List of Arminia Bielefeld's football coaches

The list of Arminia Bielefeld's football coaches includes all of the coaches in Arminia Bielefeld's first men's team . Since 1922, the association has employed 54 coaches, although interim coaches are not included.

The trainers

• Trainer : Give the name of the trainer. Player-coaches are yellowish , interim coaches have a bluish background .
• Nation : states the nationality of the respective coach.
• from and to : Name the period in which the respective trainer worked.
• Events : states the sporting successes and failures during the respective tenure of the coach.

Trainer	nation	from	to	Events
Frantisek Zoubek		1922	1923	West German champion 1923
Gerd Wellhöfer		1923	1924	Westphalia champion 1924
Frantisek Zoubek		1924	1925	Westphalia champion 1925
Gerd Wellhöfer		1924	1925	Westphalia champion 1925
Gerd Wellhöfer		1925	1926	Westphalia champion 1926
Frantisek Zoubek		1926	1933	Westfalenmeister 1923, 1933 Westphalia Cup winner 1932 Qualification for the Gauliga Westfalen 1933
Otto Faist		1933	1935	Relegation from the Gauliga in 1934
Karl Willnecker		1935	1938	Promotion to the Gauliga in 1938
Erich Borchmeyer		1938	1939
Ferdinand Swatosch		1939	1940	Runner-up in the Gauliga in 1940
Otto Kranefeld		1940	1942
Willi Pohl		1940	1942
Karl Wunderlich		1942	1945
Erich Borchmeyer		1945	1946	Relegation from the regional league in 1946
Ferdinand Swatosch		1946	1947
Karl Wunderlich		1947	1948	Promotion to the regional league in 1948
Alois Münstermann		1948	1949	Promotion to the league in 1949
Friedrich Otto		1949	1950	Relegation to the 2nd division West in 1950
Fritz Kaiser		1950	1951
Hellmut Meidt		1951	1953
Donndorf		1953	1955	Relegation to the national league in 1954
Otto Westphal		1955	1958
Arthur Gruber		1958	March 19, 1961	first coach discharge
Josef Rasselnberg		March 20, 1961	1961
Jakob Wimmer		1961	April 1963	Promotion to the 2nd division West 1962
Hellmut Meidt		April 1963	1965	Qualification for the regional league in 1963
Robert Gebhardt		1965	1966	West German cup winner 1966
Hans Wendlandt		1966	November 1969
Egon Piechaczek		November 1969	December 1971	Promotion to the Bundesliga in 1970
Hellmut Meidt		January 1972	January 1972
Jan Notermans		February 1972	October 1972	Relegation to the regional league in 1972
Willi Nolting		October 1972	February 1973
Norbert Lessle		February 1973	September 1973
Harry Garstecki		September 1973	October 1973
Willi Nolting		October 1973	January 1974
Rudi Fassnacht		January 1974	1974	Qualification for the 2nd Bundesliga 1974 West German Cup Winner 1974
Erhard Ahmann		1974	1976
Karl-Heinz Feldkamp		1976	1978	Promotion to the Bundesliga in 1978
Milovan Beljin		1978	October 1978
Otto Rehhagel		October 1978	October 1979	Relegation to the 2nd Bundesliga in 1979
Willi Nolting		October 1979	October 1979
Hans-Dieterippenhauer		October 1979	September 1980	Promotion to the Bundesliga in 1980
Willi Nolting		September 1980	December 1980
Horst Franz		December 1980	1982
Horst Köppel		1982	1983	8th place in the Bundesliga 1983
Karl-Heinz Feldkamp		1983	March 1984
Gerd Roggensack		March 1984	February 1986	8th place in the Bundesliga 1984, relegation to the 2nd Bundesliga 1985
Horst Franz		February 1986	November 1986
Fritz Fuchs		November 1986	December 1987
Joachim Krug		December 1987	April 1988
Hannes Scholz		April 16, 1988	April 16, 1988
Ernst Middendorp		April 1988	October 1990	Relegation to the Oberliga in 1988, champions of the Oberliga Westfalen in 1990
Franz Raschid		October 1990	1991	Westphalia Cup winner 1991
Fritz Groesche		1991	1992
Ingo Peter		1992	February 1994
Theo Schneider		February 1994	1994	Qualification for the Regionalliga West / Südwest 1994
Wolfgang Sidka		1994	September 1994
Ernst Middendorp		September 1994	August 16, 1998	Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga 1995 Promotion to the Bundesliga 1996 Relegation to the 2nd Bundesliga 1998
Thomas von Heesen		August 17, 1998	1999	Promotion to the Bundesliga in 1999
Hermann Gerland		1999	October 2000	Relegation to the 2nd Bundesliga in 2000
Benno Möhlmann		October 2000	February 16, 2004	Promotion to the Bundesliga 2002, relegation to the 2nd Bundesliga 2003
Thomas von Heesen		February 17, 2004	February 29, 2004
Uwe Rapolder		March 1, 2004	May 10, 2005	Promotion to the Bundesliga in 2004
Frank Geideck		May 11, 2005	2005
Thomas von Heesen		2005	February 11, 2007
Frank Geideck		February 11, 2007	March 13, 2007
Ernst Middendorp		March 14, 2007	December 9, 2007
Detlev Dammeier		December 10, 2007	December 31, 2007
Michael Frontzeck		January 1, 2008	May 17, 2009
Jörg Berger		May 19, 2009	May 24, 2009	Relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga in 2009
Thomas Gerstner		June 25, 2009	March 11, 2010
Detlev Dammeier		March 12, 2010	March 30, 2010
Frank Eulberg		March 30, 2010	May 25, 2010
Christian goat		May 26, 2010	November 6, 2010
Ewald Lienen		November 7, 2010	June 30, 2011	Relegation to the 3rd division in 2011
Markus von Ahlen		July 1, 2011	September 20, 2011
Stefan Krämer		November 3, 2011	February 23, 2014	Westphalia Cup winner 2012, 2013 promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga in 2013
Norbert Meier		February 24, 2014	June 10, 2016	Relegation to the 3rd division 2014 semi-finals in the DFB-Pokal 2015 Champion of the 3rd division 2015 Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga 2015
Rüdiger Rehm		July 1, 2016	October 22, 2016
Carsten Rump		October 22, 2016	15th November 2016
Jürgen Kramny		15th November 2016	March 14, 2017
Carsten Rump		March 14, 2017	20th March 2017
Jeff Saibene		20th March 2017	December 10, 2018
Uwe Neuhaus		December 10, 2018		Champion of the 2nd Bundesliga 2020 Promotion to the 1st Bundesliga 2020

Trivia

• Ernst Middendorp and Frantisek Zoubek were the only coaches to have three terms with Arminia Bielefeld.
• Erich Borchmeyer , Karl-Heinz Feldkamp , Horst Franz , Thomas von Heesen , Hellmut Meidt , Ferdinand Swatosch , Gerd Wellhöfer and Karl Wunderlich came on for two terms .
• The longest term in office was reached by Frantisek Zoubek, who was Bielefeld's coach for seven years between 1926 and 1933.
• The promotions to the Bundesliga came under Egon Piechaczek (1970), Karl-Heinz Feldkamp (1978), Hans-Dieter Tipphauer (1980), Ernst Middendorp (1996), Thomas von Heesen (1998), Benno Möhlmann (2002), Uwe Rapolder (2004)
• Willi Nolting worked four times as an interim trainer . Detlev Dammeier and Carsten Rump were two interim coaches.

Web links

• Trainer archive from Arminia Bielefeld
• The coaches since 1922