Thomas Epp

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Thomas Epp
Personnel
Surname Thomas Epp
birthday April 7, 1968
place of birth Bietigheim ,  Germany
size 176 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1974-1985 Germania Bietigheim
1985-1987 VfB Stuttgart
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1987-1989 VfL Bochum 44 0(4)
1989-1990 1. FC Saarbrücken 15 0(4)
1990-1992 VfL Bochum 22 0(3)
1992-1993 Stuttgart Kickers 33 (14)
1993-1997 SV Waldhof Mannheim 67 (12)
1997-1999 Eintracht Frankfurt 41 0(5)
1999-2000 Admira Wacker Vienna 5 0(4)
2000 AEL Limassol
2001 TV Hassloch
2002 VfR Kesselstadt
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1988 Germany U-21 1 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2002-2006 SV Erzhausen
2007-2013 FC Viktoria 09 Urberach
2014-2015 SC Hessen Dreieich
since 2018 Sportfreunde Seligenstadt
1 Only league games are given.

Thomas Epp (born  April 7, 1968 in Bietigheim ) is a former German soccer player and today's soccer coach . He played in the Bundesliga for Bochum and Frankfurt.

Player career

Thomas Epp began playing club football at his home club Germania Bietigheim . At the age of 17 he switched to the junior team at VfB Stuttgart .

For the 1987 season he went to the then Bundesliga club VfL Bochum and scored his first Bundesliga goals. In the same year he became vice world champion with the German junior national team trained by Berti Vogts . In Chile he made four appearances and scored one goal.

With Bochum, Epp reached the DFB Cup final in 1988 . He was substituted on against his later club Eintracht Frankfurt and caused a free kick by fouling Janusz Turowski , which Lajos Détári converted to a 1-0 win. When the striker remained without a goal in the 1988/89 season and in the first half of the 1989/90 season (here only 2 appearances), he was loaned to 1. FC Saarbrücken in the 2. Bundesliga for the return series and just missed promotion into the Bundesliga , when they failed in the decisive relegation games at his later club Eintracht Frankfurt (although he was not used in these games), instead the players Anthony Yeboah , Michael Nushöhr and Reiner Geyer stormed for Saarbrücken .

In the following two seasons he tried his luck again at VfL Bochum , but could not prevail again. For the 1992/1993 season, Epp moved to the Stuttgarter Kickers and scored 14 goals in his first complete second league season. Through this convincing performance, SV Waldhof Mannheim noticed him and signed him for the following season. In the following three seasons he repeatedly knocked on the goal of the Bundesliga with SV Waldhof, but at the end of the 1996/1997 season he was surprisingly relegated to the regional league.

Epp was now stuck with the reputation of the misunderstood football professional, but he was still committed by Eintracht Frankfurt . As a regular player, he made a significant contribution to the fact that the team around coach Horst Ehrmantraut managed to climb as a complete surprise. In his first Bundesliga season after more than six years, however, he was unable to defend his regular place in the storm and only scored one goal in nine appearances. In the 1999/2000 season he was no longer used, so he left the club in November 1999 for Austria in the direction of Admira Wacker Vienna .

After the end of the season he played in the Cypriot league for AEL Limassol until December 2000 and then for 3 months for TV Rüsselsheim-Haßloch. In April 2001 he accepted an offer from VfR Kesselstadt to work there as a player-coach.

Coaching career

For the 2002/03 season he moved as a coach in the fourth-class Oberliga Hessen to the established SV Erzhausen and reached 9th place in his first season. This was his first full season as a coach. After further good places in the table (2003/04: 4th place, 2004/05: 8th place, 2005/06: 12th place) he also left SV Erzhausen after the club had voluntarily withdrawn to the Landesliga Süd . He was now hired by FC Viktoria 09 Urberach , whom he led to promotion to the Hessen League in the 2007/08 season . Epp resigned from his position in March 2013 after the club announced the planned withdrawal in the Hesse Association.

The former Bundesliga professional became the football sports director of the association league club SC Hessen Dreieich on January 1, 2014 in order to promote the development of the A, B and C youth teams at SC Hessen. He led the 1st team to the championship in the 2014/15 season and thus to promotion to the Hessen League , where he was replaced by Rudi Bommer in December 2015 .

Thomas Epp runs the Thomas Epp football school in cooperation with the SSG Langen association .

Success as a player

  • 1988 DFB Cup final with VfL Bochum
  • Champion of the 2nd Bundesliga and promotion to the Bundesliga with Eintracht Frankfurt in 1997/98

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Player data 1987/88 from Thomas Epp on www.fussballdaten.de
  2. ↑ Thomas Epp in the FIFA database (English)
  3. ↑ Statistics DFB-Pokal-Finale 1987/88 on www.fussballdaten.de
  4. ↑ Top scorer list 1987/88 2nd Bundesliga on www.fussballdaten.de
  5. ↑ Report & statistics of the last league game of SV Erzhausen ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2007 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. on www.sv-erzhausen.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sv-erzhausen.de
  6. ↑ Article on the commitment of Epp as a coach from FC Viktoria 09 Urberach on www.fal-hessen.de
  7. ^ Table of the Landesliga Süd Hessen as of April 2, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Epp, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Bietigheim-Bissingen