Lorenz-Günther Köstner

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Lorenz-Günther Köstner
Lorenz-Günther Köstner-2.jpg
Köstner during a press conference (2010)
Personnel
birthday January 30, 1952
place of birth Wallenfels ,  Germany
size 177 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
FC Wallenfels
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
until 1970 FC Wallenfels
1970-1971 FC Bayern Hof
1971-1973 VfB Helmbrechts
1973-1975 Borussia Monchengladbach 29 (3)
1975-1977 Bayer 05 Uerdingen 50 (7)
1977-1981 Arminia Bielefeld 98 (7)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1972-1975 Germany amateurs 11 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1982-1986 FC Bayern Hof
1986-1989 SSV Reutlingen 05
1989 Sc freiburg
1989-1990 KSV Hessen Kassel
1990-1993 VfB Stuttgart (assistant coach)
1993-1994 Stuttgart Kickers
1994-1997 SpVgg Unterhaching
1997-1998 1. FC Cologne
1998-2001 SpVgg Unterhaching
2002-2004 Karlsruher SC
2005-2006 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
2006-2007 Red and white food
2009-2013 VfL Wolfsburg II
2010 → VfL Wolfsburg (interim)
2012 → VfL Wolfsburg (interim)
2014 Fortuna Dusseldorf
1 Only league games are given.

Lorenz-Günther Köstner (born January 30, 1952 in Wallenfels ) is a former German football player and today's coach .

Career as a player

As a midfielder, Köstner played 91 first division and 86 second division games for Borussia Mönchengladbach , Bayer 05 Uerdingen and Arminia Bielefeld . With Mönchengladbach he won the German championship and the UEFA Cup in 1975.

Career as a coach

His coaching career began at FC Bayern Hof in the 1981/82 season.

He worked for SSV Reutlingen 05 in the 1986/87 and 1987/88 seasons before becoming a coach at professional clubs. From July 1 to August 26, 1989, SC Freiburg trained very briefly , and a month later KSV Hessen Kassel (September 13, 1989 until the end of the season). From July 1, 1990 to June 30, 1993 he worked as an assistant coach under Christoph Daum at VfB Stuttgart , with whom he became German champion in 1992. Then he trained the Stuttgart Kickers .

At SpVgg Unterhaching he was coach for a total of six years from the 1994/95 season with one interruption ( 1. FC Cologne from October 1, 1997 to June 30, 1998). Köstner had led the Munich suburb club into the Bundesliga in 1999 and reached tenth place in the table in the following season. He was released on September 13, 2001 after Unterhaching was relegated from the 1st Bundesliga.

From October 1, 2002, he coached the then second division club Karlsruher SC . Despite a contract valid until summer 2006, he was given leave of absence on December 20, 2004. In the summer of 2005, a commitment by the then regional league club VfR Aalen failed despite an agreement with the club, because the Karlsruhe SC Köstner refused to release. On December 24, 2005 he succeeded Hansi Flick as trainer of TSG 1899 Hoffenheim in the regional league. After a less than successful season, he resigned in the spring of 2006. Ralf Rangnick was his successor .

On November 17, 2006, Köstner became the new head coach at the second division Rot-Weiss Essen . One day after a 3-0 defeat at Revier rivals MSV Duisburg , the club decided on May 21, 2007 not to extend Köstner's contract after Essen's direct relegation.

For the second half of the 2008/09 season, Köstner succeeded Bernd Hollerbach as coach of the second team at VfL Wolfsburg . His contract ran until the end of the 2009/10 season. On January 25, 2010, after Armin Veh was released from work, Köstner took on the duties of head coach of the first team at VfL Wolfsburg until the end of the season. With the beginning of the 2010/11 season, Köstner resumed his work as coach of the second team at VfL Wolfsburg.

In October 2012, Köstner was again coach of the first team at VfL Wolfsburg after Felix Magath had been released from his duties. At that time, VfL was bottom of the Bundesliga table with five points. From January 2013, Köstner took over the club's U-23 team again after Dieter Hecking was signed as the new head coach.

After Köstner initially no longer exercised a trainer function after July 1, 2013, Fortuna Düsseldorf hired him in December of the same year as the successor to Mike Büskens and interim coach Oliver Reck with a contract term until June 30, 2015. Since Köstner was on sick leave from April 2014 , Köstner and the association agreed on an early termination of the contract after 72 sick days. Köstner has been healthy again since the end of August 2014.

successes

as a player

  • UEFA Cup winner 1975 with Borussia Mönchengladbach
  • German champion 1975 with Borussia Mönchengladbach

as assistant coach

  • German champion in 1992 with VfB Stuttgart

as a trainer

  • Promotion to the Bundesliga in 1999 with SpVgg Unterhaching
  • DFB indoor cup winner 2001 with SpVgg Unterhaching

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schwäbische Post : Köstner and the crux with the KSC. VfR Aalen is already looking for a coach again ( memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) , June 2, 2005.
  2. ^ Association homepage of VfL Wolfsburg: Cooperation ended , October 25, 2012, accessed on October 25, 2012.
  3. ↑ Club homepage of VfL Wolfsburg: Thanks to Lorenz-Günther Köstner , December 20, 2012, accessed on December 20, 2012
  4. ↑ Lorenz-Günther Köstner new head coach at Fortuna. Information on the Fortuna Düsseldorf homepage of December 30, 2013, accessed on December 30, 2013.
  5. ↑ Köstner confirms departure from Düsseldorf. ( Memento of the original from June 15, 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. Article in the RP newspaper on the termination of the contract, accessed on June 12, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rp-online.de
  6. ↑ Fortuna Düsseldorf: Köstner: "I should have paid attention to the warning signs"
personal data
SURNAME Köstner, Lorenz-Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Wallenfels