Martin Schmidt (football coach)

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Martin Schmidt
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Martin Schmidt (2015)
Personnel
birthday April 12, 1967
place of birth NatersSwitzerland
Size 181 cm
Juniors
Years station
1976– FC Naters
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1998 FC Naters
1998-2001 FC Raron
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2001-2003 FC Raron (assistant coach)
2003-2008 FC Raron
2008-2010 FC Thun II
2010-2015 1. FSV Mainz 05 II
2015-2017 1. FSV Mainz 05
2017-2018 VfL Wolfsburg
2019-2020 FC Augsburg
1 Only league games are given.

Martin Schmidt (born April 12, 1967 in Naters ) is a Swiss football coach .

Career

player

Schmidt was active from 1976 to 1998 for FC Naters , with whom he rose from the seventh-class 3rd division to the National B division. He then played for FC Raron until 2001 .

Trainer

Directly after his playing career at FC Raron, Schmidt was initially a coach assistant and from 2003 head coach. In 2008 he took over the second team at FC Thun .

Mainz 05

Two years later he was hired by 1. FSV Mainz 05 as head coach for the second team. In the 2013/14 season Schmidt reached third place with Mainz 05 II in the Regionalliga Südwest . After the league competitor SC Freiburg II refrained from participating in the promotion games, Mainz 05 II prevailed there against TSG Neustrelitz under the direction of Schmidt and rose to the professional 3rd division for the first time .

On February 17, 2015, he became the successor of Kasper Hjulmand as coach of the club's first team. The season 2015/16 ended Mainz 05 on the sixth place and qualified for the first time in club history for the group stage of the Europa League . After the 2016/17 season , the employment relationship was terminated prematurely after the league was only secured in the penultimate game of the season.

Vfl Wolfsburg

From September 18, 2017, Schmidt was the coach of VfL Wolfsburg as the successor to Andries Jonker . VfL Wolfsburg played a draw in his first seven league games, making Schmidt the Bundesliga coach with the most draws after taking office. On February 19, 2018, he resigned as a coach.

FC Augsburg

On April 10, 2019, Schmidt took over the Bundesliga team of FC Augsburg , which after the 28th matchday was four points ahead of the relegation place in 15th place in the table, as the successor to Manuel Baum . Also at the end of the season, the team occupied 15th place in the table with 32 points. After just four points from the previous nine games, which ensured that FCA slipped to 14th place in the table, Schmidt was appointed coach of the team after a 2-0 defeat against FC Bayern Munich on the 25th matchday of the 2019/20 season Augsburg exempted.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Shepherd, mechanic, Bundesliga coach , NZZ, February 17, 2015
  2. Martin Schmidt takes over as a coach at mainz05.de, accessed on February 17, 2015
  3. Martin Schmidt no longer 05-Trainer on the official website of 1. FSV Mainz 05 from May 22, 2017, accessed on May 22, 2017
  4. Martin Schmidt becomes VfL head coach on the VfL Wolfsburg website on September 18, 2017, accessed on September 18, 2017
  5. Schmidt can live with Wolfsburg's draw series on nwzonline.de, accessed on October 31, 2017.
  6. " Clear the way". VfL Wolfsburg, February 19, 2018, accessed on May 27, 2018 .
  7. FCA releases Manuel Baum, Jens Lehmann and Stephan Schwarz , fcaugsburg.de, April 9, 2019, accessed on April 9, 2019.