Markus Anfang (; born 12 June 1974) is a German retired

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, who manages

Dynamo Dresden Sportgemeinschaft Dynamo Dresden e.V., commonly known as SG Dynamo Dresden or Dynamo Dresden, are a German association football club based in Dresden, Saxony.Grüne, Hardy (2001). Enzyklopädie des deutschen Ligafußballs 7. Vereinslexikon. Kasse ...

Playing career

Anfang's career began in the late 80s at the northern Cologne low tier (

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) club KSV Heimersdorf. His first steps in the professional football league were done in 1995 with

Fortuna Düsseldorf Düsseldorfer Turn- und Sportverein Fortuna 1895 e.V., commonly known as Fortuna Düsseldorf (), is a German football club in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, which competes in the 2. Bundesliga. Founded in 1895, Fortuna entered the league ...

. Anfang also played for

Schalke 04 Fußballclub Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e. V., commonly known as FC Schalke 04 (), Schalke 04 (), or abbreviated as S04 (), is a professional German football and multi-sports club originally from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine ...

before he decided to move to

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where he played for

FC Tirol Innsbruck FC Tirol Innsbruck was an Austrian association football club from Innsbruck, Tyrol which existed between 1993 and 2002, when bankruptcy was declared. History It was – after the establishment of FC Swarovski Tirol in 1986 – the sec ...

. He won the

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in three consecutive years between 2000 and 2002. In the 2002–03 season he moved to 1. FC Kaiserslautern. Having received as many as eight offers for transferring after disagreements at Kaiserslautern, he moved to

FC Energie Cottbus FC Energie Cottbus (Lower Sorbian: ''Energija Chóśebuz'') is a German football club based in Cottbus, Brandenburg. It was founded in 1963 as SC Cottbus in what was East Germany. After the reunification of Germany, Energie played six seasons in ...

in 2003 before joining

MSV Duisburg Meidericher Spielverein 02 e. V. Duisburg, commonly known as simply MSV Duisburg (), is a Football in Germany, German association football club based in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia. Nicknamed ''Die Zebras'' for their traditional striped jers ...

in 2004, who he helped to the top division. He left Duisburg in 2006, returning to Düsseldorf, and then

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, before signing for

Eintracht Trier SV Eintracht Trier 05 is a German association football club based in Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate. It was formed on 11 March 1948 out of the merger of Westmark 05 Trier and Eintracht Trier 06, on the 43rd anniversary of the establishment of pred ...

in 2009.

Managerial career

After coaching SC Kapellen-Erft in one year with much success, Anfang was offered the job as youth coach in the academy of

Bayer Leverkusen Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH, also known as Bayer 04 Leverkusen (), Bayer Leverkusen, or simply Leverkusen, is a professional football club based in Leverkusen in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The club competes in the Bundesliga, th ...

. He worked as youth coach of the academy from January 2013 to June 2013, and got the job as coach for the under-17 team. On 29 August 2016, he was appointed as the new coach of

Holstein Kiel Kieler Sportvereinigung Holstein von 1900 e.V., simply as KSV Holstein or Kieler SV Holstein, commonly known as Holstein Kiel (), is a German association football and sports club based in the city of Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein. From the 1900s thro ...

. On 17 April 2018,

1. FC Köln 1. Fußball-Club Köln 01/07 e. V., commonly known as simply FC Köln () or FC Cologne in English, is a German professional football club based in Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia. It was formed in 1948 as a merger of the clubs ''Kölner Ballspi ...

announced he would become the new head coach for the 2018–19 season. His final match was a promotion–relegation match against

VfL Wolfsburg Verein für Leibesübungen Wolfsburg e. V., commonly known as VfL Wolfsburg () or Wolfsburg, is a German professional sports club based in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony. The club grew out of a multi-sports club for Volkswagen workers in the city of W ...

. He finished with a record of 31 wins, 26 draws, and 14 losses. In the summer of 2018 he moved to

, just to be sacked on 27 April 2019, placed first in the league table. For the 2020–21 season, he moved to

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-Sp ...

. In June 2021, it was announced Anfang would become manager of

SV Werder Bremen Sportverein Werder Bremen von 1899 e. V. (), commonly known as Werder Bremen (), Werder or simply Bremen, is a German professional sports club based in Bremen, Bremen (state), Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. Founded on 4 February 1899, they are be ...

for the 2021–22 season. He resigned on 20 November 2021 due public prosecutors’ investigations into allegations that Anfang had used a forged

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vaccine certificate. The sports court of the

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(DFB) issued a professional ban in January 2022 retrospectively from 20 November 2021 for one year. He also has to pay a fine of €20,000. In the summer of 2022, he was appointed by

Managerial record

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* 1974 births Living people Association football midfielders Footballers from Cologne FC Energie Cottbus players German expatriate footballers Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players 1. FC Kaiserslautern players Bayer 04 Leverkusen players Fortuna Düsseldorf players German footballers MSV Duisburg players FC Schalke 04 players FC Wacker Innsbruck players SV Eintracht Trier 05 players Expatriate footballers in Austria German expatriate sportspeople in Austria 3. Liga managers Holstein Kiel managers 1. FC Köln managers SV Darmstadt 98 managers SV Werder Bremen managers Dynamo Dresden managers 2. Bundesliga managers German football managers {{Germany-footy-midfielder-1970s-stub