Manuel Kofler

Manuel Kofler
Date of birth	April 13, 1980
place of birth	Kolbermoor , Germany
size	192 cm
Weight	100 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1996-1998	Starbulls Rosenheim
1998-1999	EHC Klostersee
1999-2000	Iserlohner EC
2000-2001	Iserlohn Roosters
2001-2002	Munich Barons
2002-2003	Hamburg Freezers
2003-2007	Augsburg panther
2007	Starbulls Rosenheim

Manuel Kofler (* 13. April 1980 in Kolbermoor , Upper Bavaria ) is an ice hockey coach former German hockey player, the seven seasons in the German Ice Hockey League spent.

Career

Kofler began his career at Sportbund Rosenheim and moved to the regional league for EHC Klostersee at the age of 18 . Just one year later, the winger was signed by the Iserlohn Roosters , with whom he celebrated promotion from the 2nd Bundesliga to the DEL in the 1999/2000 season . There he played one more season for the Sauerland before he moved to the Munich Barons in the 2001/02 season. After they moved to Hamburg , he played for the Freezers for a year and signed a contract with the Augsburger Panthern (AEV) in 2003 .

His move to the AEV was not a good star at first, as he suffered an ankle injury while climbing during the summer break and was therefore unable to do the entire preparation. He still managed to play his way into the team and ultimately made 31 missions and at least 12 scorer points. In the two following years he was able to play almost all of the seasons and achieved better values ​​than in his first year in Augsburg. Among other things, Kofler was known for his very physical style of play. For the 2007/08 season he left the Augsburg Panthers and moved to the Starbulls Rosenheim . In December 2007, Kofler had to end his career due to serious injuries.

He went through all junior national teams of the DEB and brought it to 11 appearances in the senior national team, whereby he was denied a World Cup participation.

In June 2012, Kofler, who passed a coaching test in 2008, became a junior coach at EHC Bad Aibling near his home in Kolbermoor. From the 2013/2014 season, Kofler worked for four seasons as a full-time trainer for three youth teams and the senior team of the Aibdogs , which plays in the South / West regional league. In his first two years as head coach, the team ended up at the top of the table.

For the 2017/18 league season , Kofler took over the Starbulls Rosenheim team as head coach and regularly achieved victory rates of over 60 percent with the Starbulls. For the 2019/20 season, Kofler became assistant trainer for the Nürnberg Ice Tigers from the DEL.

Achievements and Awards

• 2006 Award for outstanding sporting achievements from the city of Augsburg
• 2000 Iserlohn's Sportsman of the Year
• 2000 German junior champion with Iserlohn
• 1998 B-European champion U-18 national team

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1998/99	EHC Klostersee	2. LgS		38	7th	7th	14th	122		-	-	-	-	-
1999/00	Iserlohner EC	2nd BL		28	5	4th	9	56		-	-	-	-	-
2000/01	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL		59	12	5	17th	106		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL		18th	0	2	2	16		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	SC Riessersee	2nd BL		1	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	Munich Barons	DEL		37	4th	3	7th	24		6th	0	0	0	2
2002/03	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		48	1	4th	5	87		4th	0	0	0	0
2003/04	Augsburg panther	DEL		31	4th	8th	12	32		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Augsburg panther	DEL		47	7th	13	20th	59		5	0	0	0	2
2005/06	Augsburg panther	DEL		49	11	4th	15th	76		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Augsburg panther	DEL		45	5	9	14th	58		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Starbulls Rosenheim	OIL		22nd	4th	5	9	6th		-	-	-	-	-
DEL total				334	44	48	92	458		15th	0	0	0	4th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

• Manuel Kofler at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Manuel Kofler at rodi-db.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Manuel Kofler at rodi-db.de
2. ↑ Nuremberg / Rosenheim: Ex-Starbulls coach Manuel Kofler becomes assistant trainer at Thomas Sabo Ice-Tigers. In: rosenheim24.de. January 2, 2018, accessed August 30, 2019 .