Team manager
A team manager is a person who - mostly in sport - organizes and manages the activities of a team (or any team ). This can e.g. B. Press meetings, trips to away games or training camps. It can happen that the team manager combines several offices, functions and activities in his work. In addition, he often acts as a contact person for the athletes in the event of problems or conflicts within the team. The team manager is for example in team sports such as basketball , ice hockey and football .
According to a survey by the DFB together with the accadis Hochschule Bad Homburg in 2018, the areas of responsibility of a team manager in most teams in German professional football include travel and appointment management, reporting and association work as well as the management of subordinate or equal personnel. Accordingly, many team managers coordinate, for example, the kit supervisors, physiotherapists or team chefs and are responsible for organizing driving services, training camps and press meetings as well as for integrating new players into the team.
The position of team manager, as found in German-speaking countries, differs from the profile of a manager at British football clubs, who usually performs the functions of head coach and sports director as part of the sports management team .
Team manager in professional sport (selection)
National teams (men)
- German national basketball team : Heikel Ben Meftah (since 2013)
- German national ice hockey team : Klaus Merk (since 2008)
- German national soccer team : Oliver Bierhoff (2004–2018)
- German national handball team : Oliver Roggisch (since 2014)
- German national volleyball team : Jan Kahlenbach (since 2017)
- German national water polo team : Dietmar Helm (1997–2000)
Club teams (men)
- 1. FC Kaiserslautern : Andreas Brehme (2000-2002)
- 1. FC Kaiserslautern: Olaf Marschall (2004-2006)
- 1. FC Köln : Denis Lapaczinski (since 2019)
- Eintracht Frankfurt : Christoph Preuß (since 2012)
- FC Basel : Oliver Kreuzer (2002-2006)
- FC Bayern Munich : Christian Nerlinger (2008–2009)
- FC Bayern Munich: Kathleen Krüger (since 2012)
- FC Erzgebirge Aue : Heiko Weber (2008-2009)
- Fortuna Düsseldorf : Sascha Rösler (since 2015)
- Holstein Kiel : Jan Uphues (since 2018)
- Inter Milan : Iván Córdoba (2012-2014)
- VfB Stuttgart : Günther Schäfer (since 2015)
- VfL Wolfsburg : Roy Präger (since 2005)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The team manager between kit manager and manager (PDF, 777 kB) , assets.dfb.de, accessed on April 1, 2020.
- ↑ What are the tasks of a team manager? , teamsportbedarf.de, accessed on March 18, 2016.
- ↑ Iván Córdoba on transfermarkt.de, accessed on April 1, 2020.