Peter Knäbel

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Peter Knäbel
Personnel
birthday 2nd October 1966
place of birth Witten ,  Germany
size 177 cm
position Defense , midfield
Juniors
Years station
1974-1979 Borussia Dortmund
1979-1984 VfL Bochum
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1984-1986 VfL Bochum amateurs 46 (14)
1984-1988 VfL Bochum 38 0(5)
1988-1993 FC St. Pauli 131 0(7)
1993-1994 1. FC Saarbrücken 19 0(3)
1994-1995 TSV 1860 Munich 2 0(0)
1995 →  FC St. Gallen  (loan) 11 0(2)
1995-1998 1. FC Nuremberg 65 0(5)
1998-2003 FC Winterthur
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
Germany U16
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1995-1998 1. FC Nürnberg Youth
1998-2000 FC Winterthur
2015 Hamburger SV (interim)
1 Only league games are given.

Peter Knäbel (born October 2, 1966 in Witten ) is a German football functional and former football player . Between 2014 and 2016 he was the "Director of Professional Football" at Hamburger SV and was the sporting director of the professional football department. Since April 15, 2018, he has been the technical director of the youth performance center of FC Schalke 04 and works as a "football expert" for Swiss television.

Player career

As a child, Knäbel lived with his parents in a house within sight of the Westfalenstadion . As a teenager he played at Borussia Dortmund (1974 to 1979) and from 1979 at VfL Bochum . In the summer of 1984 he moved up to the amateur team and came on August 12, 1984 against FC Gohfeld for his first game in the Oberliga Westfalen .

On September 15, 1984 Knäbel came to a job for the professional team of Bochum in the Bundesliga, where he scored his first professional goal. With the amateurs of VfL Bochum Knäbel reached the second round of the DFB Cup in the 1984/85 season . He had to wait almost two years until his second Bundesliga game, and during the 1986/87 season he was used more often. In 1988 he reached the DFB Cup final with VfL Bochum, where they lost 1-0 to Eintracht Frankfurt . Knäbel was not used in this game.

In 1988 he moved to FC St. Pauli . The club had just been promoted from the second division and in 1989 reached a tenth place relegation. After relegation in 1991 (lost relegation against the Stuttgarter Kickers ) Knäbel played for two years in the 2nd Bundesliga with the Hamburg team before moving to 1. FC Saarbrücken in 1993 . At St. Pauli he was a regular player for most of the time, but had to fight injuries. Knäbel later described the five years at FC St. Pauli as his “by far the coolest time as a professional”. Occasionally he also plays for the traditional Millerntor team , most recently in May 2010 on the occasion of the club's 100th anniversary.

The "Millerntor traditional team" with Peter Knäbel (bottom row, 6th from right)

At 1. FC Saarbrücken he played 19 times in the 2nd Bundesliga under coach Fritz Fuchs and scored three goals. In 1994 he went to TSV 1860 Munich , which had just made a march from the Bayern League to the Bundesliga. After two Bundesliga games in 1860, he switched to FC St. Gallen in Switzerland on loan in winter . At the end of the season, the Swiss did not use the agreed purchase option; Knäbel then moved to 1. FC Nürnberg . In addition to his work as a player, he also trained youth teams for the FCN. After being a regular at FCN for the first two seasons , he was sorted out during the 1997/98 season when Felix Magath replaced Willi Entenmann as coach.

After the season that ended with FCN's promotion to the Bundesliga, he signed a contract with the Swiss first division club FC Winterthur , for which he acted as player- coach until 2000 and led the team to promotion to the Challenge League . From 2000 to 2003 he was manager and youth and amateur coordinator of the FCW and still a player.

successes

statistics

league Games (goals)
Bundesliga 108 0(7)
2nd Bundesliga 120 (10)
Regional league 027 0(3)
Oberliga 046 (14)
competition
DFB Cup 019 0(1)

Functionary and trainer

In 2003 Knäbel ended his playing career and became technical director at FC Basel . In 2006 he became a junior manager. From September 2009 to September 2014 he was Technical Director of the Swiss Football Association .

On October 1, 2014, he took over the newly created post of "Director of Professional Football" at Hamburger SV as the successor to Sports Director Oliver Kreuzer , while Bernhard Peters, as "Director of Sports", became the overall sports director of the other club departments. In addition to his function as a functionary, Knäbel led some units of a "perspective training", in which talents from the U-17 to the U-23 train together once a week. On March 22, 2015, eight game days before the end of the season, he took over the Bundesliga team, which was in 16th place in the table, as interim coach from Josef Zinnbauer, who had previously been released . Originally planned as a coach until the end of the season, he returned to his old post after two clear defeats and a crash to the bottom of the table and passed the position of head coach on to Bruno Labbadia . This reached with the team after three wins and a draw on the last day of the relegation , in which the relegation was secured.

In August 2015, Knäbel had a backpack with confidential documents such as HSV payrolls and scouting reports stolen. These were found on August 9th in Jenischpark and returned to HSV. Knäbel filed a criminal complaint against unknown persons and, after the incident, continued to have the confidence of HSV Fußball AG, as emerged from a press release signed on August 10th by CEO Dietmar Beiersdorfer and Supervisory Board chairman Karl Gernandt .

On May 9, 2016, his contract, which ran until June 30, 2017, was terminated.

On April 15, 2018, he took over the newly created position of Technical Director Development at FC Schalke 04.

Since the 2017/2018 season, Knäbel has been a football expert on Swiss television and in analyzes of the UEFA Champions League matches and some of the 2018 World Cup .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Knäbel becomes Technical Director of FC Schalke 04. In: Schalke04.de. April 4, 2018, accessed April 5, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Hamburger SV eV or HSV Fußball AG (ed.): Five facts and by the way ... about the away game at BVB. (No longer available online.) In: Hamburger SV (HSV.de). October 2, 2014, archived from the original on May 16, 2016 ; accessed on May 16, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b Peter Knäbel: Ex-St.Pauli-Star becomes Hitzfeld's boss . Hamburger Morgenpost Online , June 5, 2009.
  4. ↑ Thomas Holzer: Peter Knäbel . glubberer.de - Internet lexicon for club players, accessed on May 1, 2015.
  5. ↑ see web links fd21.de and glubberer.de
  6. ↑ PK with Peter Knäbel: "Put together particle by particle" . ( Memento of October 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Website of the Hamburger SV, October 1, 2014; accessed on September 2, 2014
  7. ↑ HSV sports director Peter Knäbel: He now trains the top talents himself . Bild.de , March 13, 2015.
  8. ↑ New orientation in training and campus construction . ( Memento from August 27, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) Website of Hamburger SV, August 27, 2014, accessed on March 22, 2015.
  9. ↑ HSV releases Zinnbauer - Knäbel takes over . ( Memento from March 24, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) Hamburger SV, March 22, 2015, accessed on March 22, 2015.
  10. ↑ Into the future with Labbadia . ( Memento from April 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Hamburger SV, April 15, 2015, accessed on April 15, 2015.
  11. ↑ kicker online: Woman finds HSV payroll in the park , August 9, 2015, accessed on August 10, 2015.
  12. ↑ Hamburger SV: Declaration on reporting on the discovery of confidential HSV data ( memento from August 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), August 11, 2015, accessed on August 11, 2015.
  13. ↑ HSV and Peter Knäbel split up by mutual agreement. (No longer available online.) In: Hamburger SV. Archived from the original on May 10, 2016 ; accessed on May 9, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Peter Knäbel becomes Technical Director of FC Schalke 04. Accessed on June 2, 2018 .
  15. ↑ On his own account - Peter Knäbel becomes SRF expert in the Champions League. In: SRF.ch (Swiss radio and television). July 19, 2017. Retrieved June 25, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Knäbel, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd October 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Witten , Germany