Marcus Mann (born 14 March 1984) is a German former footballer and current sporting director of

Hannover 96 Hannoverscher Sportverein von 1896, commonly referred to as Hannover 96 (), Hannover, HSV or simply 96, is a German professional football club based in the city of Hanover, Lower Saxony. They played in the Bundesliga for a total of 30 years betwe ...

Club career

Mann began his career with Karlsruher SC, and broke into the first team in 2004, making two appearances in the

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. He left the club in 2006, and spent the next two years in the Regionalliga Süd, playing for

SV Darmstadt 98 Sportverein Darmstadt 1898 e.V., commonly known as Darmstadt 98 (), is a German football club based in Darmstadt, Hesse. The club was founded on 22 May 1898 as FC Olympia Darmstadt. Early in 1919, the association was briefly known as ''Rasen-Spo ...

and then Stuttgarter Kickers. In 2008, Kickers had qualified for the new

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, but were relegated after one season, so Mann moved on, joining

1. FC Saarbrücken 1. FC Saarbrücken (german: 1. Fußball-Club Saarbrücken e. V.) is a football club based in Saarbrücken, Saarland. The club plays in the 3. Liga, which is the third tier of football in Germany. The club began its existence as the football de ...

. He helped the club win the Regionalliga West in his first season, and then establish themselves in the 3. Liga in his second. He signed for

SV Wehen Wiesbaden SV Wehen Wiesbaden is a German association football club based in Wiesbaden, Hesse. Since the beginning of the 2007–08 season the club no longer plays its home games in Taunusstein, where they were originally located. In the summer of 2007 ''W ...

in July 2011, where he spent three years before joining

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Coaching career

On 29 April 2016, Marcus Mann was introduced as sporting director at

, after ending his active football career on 30 April 2016. Following the sacking of

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in December 2019, Mann was caretaker manager of Saarbrücken for the last game of 2019, a 6–0 win against

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. At the beginning of July 2020, Mann took up a post as head of sport at the youth department of Bundesliga club

TSG 1899 Hoffenheim Turn- und Sportgemeinschaft 1899 Hoffenheim e.V., or simply TSG 1899 Hoffenheim or just Hoffenheim () is a German professional football club based in Hoffenheim, a village of Sinsheim municipality, Baden-Württemberg. Originally founded in 1899 ...

, where he had ended his playing career. After one season at Hoffenheim, Mann was appointed sporting director of

in June 2021. In December 2022, Mann extended his contract with Hannover until June 2027.96-Sportdirektor Marcus Mann verlängert seinen Vertrag
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Honours

* Regionalliga West (IV): 2010

References

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* 1984 births Living people German men's footballers Men's association football defenders Men's association football midfielders Karlsruher SC II players Karlsruher SC players SV Darmstadt 98 players Stuttgarter Kickers players 1. FC Saarbrücken players SV Wehen Wiesbaden players TSG 1899 Hoffenheim II players 2. Bundesliga players 3. Liga players People from Leonberg Footballers from Stuttgart (region) {{germany-footy-defender-1980s-stub