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Verein für Leibesübungen Wolfsburg e. V., commonly known as VfL Wolfsburg () or Wolfsburg, is a German professional
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based in
Wolfsburg Wolfsburg (; Eastphalian: ''Wulfsborg'') is the fifth largest city in the German state of Lower Saxony, located on the river Aller. It lies about east of Hanover and west of Berlin. Wolfsburg is famous as the location of Volkswagen AG's hea ...
,
Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...
. The club grew out of a multi-sports club for Volkswagen workers in the city of Wolfsburg. It is best known for its
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department, but other departments include
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,
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and
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. The men's professional football team play in the
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, the top tier of the
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. Wolfsburg have won the Bundesliga once in their history, in the 2008–09 season, the
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in
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and the DFL-Supercup in
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. Professional football is run by the spin-off organization ''VfL Wolfsburg-Fußball GmbH'', a wholly owned subsidiary of the
Volkswagen Group Volkswagen AG (), known internationally as the Volkswagen Group, is a German multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. The company designs, manufactures and distributes passenger and commercial ...
. Since 2002, Wolfsburg's stadium is the
Volkswagen Arena Volkswagen Arena (; also known as the VfL Wolfsburg Arena due to UEFA sponsorship regulations) is a football stadium in the German city of Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony. It was opened in 2002 and named after the automotive group Volkswagen AG. The V ...
.


History


A new team in a new city

The city of Wolfsburg was founded in 1938 as Stadt des KdF-Wagen to house autoworkers building the car that would later become famous as the
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. The first football club affiliated with the autoworks was known as ''BSG Volkswagenwerk Stadt des KdF-Wagen'', a
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. This team played in the first division Gauliga Osthannover in the 1943–44 and 1944–45 seasons. On 12 September 1945, in the aftermath of World War II, a new club was formed and was known briefly as ''VSK Wolfsburg''. This side began play in the green and white still worn by ''VfL'' today; local youth trainer Bernd Elberskirch had ten green jerseys at his disposal and white bed sheets donated by the public were sewn together by local women to make shorts. On 15 December 1945, the club went through a crisis that almost ended its existence when all but one of its players left to join ''1. FC Wolfsburg''. The only player remaining, Josef Meyer, worked with Willi Hilbert to rebuild the side by signing new players. The new group adopted the moniker ''VfL Wolfsburg'', VfL standing for Verein für Leibesübungen. This can be translated as "club for gymnastics" or "club for exercises." Within a year they captured the local
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title. In late November 1946, the club played a friendly against longtime
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powerhouse
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at the stadium owned by Volkswagen, emerging as the successor to ''BSG'' as the company sponsored side.


Postwar play

The club made slow but steady progress in the following seasons. They captured a number of amateur level championships, but were unable to advance out of the promotion playoffs until finally breaking through to the top tier Oberliga Nord in 1954 with a 2–1 victory over
Heider SV Heider SV is a German association football club from the city of Heide, Schleswig-Holstein. The club was founded 14 October 1925 by what was the reserve side of '' VfL 05 Heide''. The reservists thought they were the better side and challenged ...
. Wolfsburg, however, struggled in the top flight, narrowly missing relegation each season until finally being sent down in 1959. When Germany's first professional football league, the
Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of the German football league system, the Bundesliga is Germany's primary footba ...
, was formed in 1963, Wolfsburg was playing in the Regionalliga Nord (II) having just moved up from the Verbandsliga Niedersachsen (III), reaching the German Amateur Championship Final that same year (0–1 vs. VfB Stuttgart Amat.).


Second division and advance to the Bundesliga

Wolfsburg remained a second division fixture over the next dozen years with their best performance being a second-place finish in 1970. That finish earned the club entry to the promotion round playoffs for the Bundesliga, where they performed poorly and were unable to advance. From the mid-1970s through to the early 1990s, ''Die Wölfe'' played as a third division side in the Amateur Oberliga Nord. Consecutive first-place finishes in 1991 and 1992, followed by success in the promotion playoffs, saw the club advance to the 2. Bundesliga for the 1992–93 season. Wolfsburg continued to enjoy some success through the 1990s. The team advanced to the final of the
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in 1995 where they were beaten 0–3 by
Borussia Mönchengladbach Borussia Verein für Leibesübungen 1900 e. V. Mönchengladbach, commonly known as Borussia Mönchengladbach (), Mönchengladbach () or Gladbach (; abbreviated as Borussia MG, BMG), is a professional Association football, football club based in ...
, but then went on to the top flight on the strength of a second-place league finish in 1997. Early predictions were that the club would immediately be sent back down, but instead, the ''Wolves'' developed into a mid-table Bundesliga side. In the 1998–99 season, Wolfsburg, under
Wolfgang Wolf Wolfgang Wolf (born 24 September 1957) is a German football coach and a former player. Career Wolf was born in Tiefenthal. As a player, he spent twelve seasons in the Bundesliga with 1. FC Kaiserslautern and Stuttgarter Kickers. Coaching car ...
, were holding onto the fifth spot in the 33rd round of fixtures, and they had hopes of making fourth place, to gain
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participation. Losing 6–1 away to
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in the final fixture, the Wolves finished in sixth place with 55 points and qualified for next season's
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. They also qualified for the
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in 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2005, enjoying their best run in 2003 after reaching the final in which they lost to Italian side
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. This was followed by a couple of seasons of little success for the club, just narrowly avoiding relegation with two 15th-place finishes in the 2005–06 and 2006–07 seasons.


2008–present

For the 2007–08 season, the club hired former Bayern Munich manager
Felix Magath Wolfgang Felix Magath (; born 26 July 1953) is a German football manager and former player. The most notable spell of his playing career was with Hamburger SV, with whom he won three Bundesliga titles, the 1977 European Cup Winners' Cup Final a ...
, with whom they managed to finish in fifth place at the end of the season, the highest finish for the club at the time. This also enabled the Wolves to qualify for the
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for only the second time in their history. In the 2008–09 season, under Magath, Wolfsburg claimed their biggest success by winning their first Bundesliga title after defeating
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5–1 on 23 May 2009. During this campaign, Wolfsburg equalled the longest winning streak in one Bundesliga season with ten successive victories after the winter break. They also became the only team in the Bundesliga to have had two strikers scoring more than 20 goals each in one season, with Brazilian
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and Bosnian
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achieving this feat in their title-winning season, scoring 28 and 26, respectively, with
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adding a record 20 assists. As a result of their title win, Wolfsburg qualified for the
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for the first time in their history. In the 2009–10 season, Wolfsburg dismissed their newly appointed trainer
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after the winter break due to lack of success, with the club sitting tenth in the league. In the Champions League, they came third in their group, behind
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and
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, losing the chance for a place in the competition's successive round. As a result, they qualified for the Round of 32 phase of the
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. They defeated Spanish side
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6–3 on aggregate and Russian champions
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3–2. In the quarter-finals, however, they were beaten 3–1 by eventual finalists
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. On 11 May 2010, the permanent head coach's position was filled by former
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manager
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. After having guided
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to their first ever Dutch title, he was rewarded by becoming the first English coach to manage a Bundesliga side. On 7 February 2011, however, it was announced that McClaren had been sacked and that
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would be taking over. Wolfsburg lost four times in five matches under him and they finally slipped into the relegation places. On 18 March 2011, Wolfsburg confirmed that Felix Magath would return as head coach and sporting director, almost two years since he led them to the Bundesliga title and just two days after being fired from his position at
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. He signed a two-year contract with the club. Magath steered the club to safety, but though the club invested heavily, Magath could only achieve a mid-table finish in the following 2011–12 season. After only five points in eight matches (and no goals and points in the last four games) in the 2012–13 season, Magath left the club by mutual consent and was temporarily replaced by former Wolfsburg reserve team coach
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. On 22 December 2012, the former 1. FC Nürnberg head coach
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was appointed as Wolfsburg's new head coach on a contract lasting until 2016. On 2 February 2015, Wolfsburg purchased the German international forward
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for a fee of €30 million from
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. With a reinforced squad, the club finished as runners-up in the 2014–15 Bundesliga behind Bayern Munich, thus automatically qualifying for the 2015–16 Champions League group stage. On 30 May, the team then won the 2015 DFB-Pokal Final 3–1 against
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, the first German Cup victory in the history of the club. On 1 August, to begin the 2015–16 season, Wolfsburg defeated the Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich in the 2015 DFL-Supercup on penalties. At the end of the 2015 summer transfer window, Wolfsburg sold the 2014–15
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to
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for a reported Bundesliga record fee of €75 million. The 2015–16 campaign saw Wolfsburg finish in eighth place. The Bundesliga match between Bayern and Wolfsburg saw an extraordinary five goals in nine minutes by
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. In the Champions League, they reached the quarter-finals for the first time, where they faced
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and, despite a two-goal aggregate lead from the first match, were eliminated after losing 3–0 at the
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in
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. In January 2017, Wolfsburg signed a
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to partner the American side
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, which includes women's football, youth development and local social responsibility. The two teams mentioned the future possibility of international friendlies. Wolfsburg struggled through the 2016–17 season, rotating through several managers and eventually finishing in 16th place in the Bundesliga with only 37 points, putting them in a playoff against
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, which they won 2–0 on aggregate to remain in the top flight. The 2017–18 season proved to be another disappointing season, in which they finished 16th place in the Bundesliga, putting them in a play-off against
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, a game that they won 4–1 on aggregate. In the 2018–19 season, Wolfsburg finished 6th in the Bundesliga, thus automatically qualifying for the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League. In the draw for the Europa League third qualifying round, Wolfsburg drew the Ukrainian Team
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. Wolfsburg won 2–0 at the
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, advancing to the play-off round. At the play-off round they lost 2–1 against
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. On 24 May 2022, Niko Kovač was appointed as Wolfsburg's new head coach with contract lasting until June 2025.


Home stadium

Wolfsburg plays at the
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, a multi-purpose stadium which seats a total capacity of 30,000 spectators. Before construction was finished in 2002, Wolfsburg played their home games at the 21,600 capacity
VfL-Stadium VfL-Stadion am Elsterweg (, locally ) is a multi-use stadium in Wolfsburg, Germany. It was used mostly for football matches and hosted the home matches of VfL Wolfsburg. The stadium was able to hold 21,000 people and opened in 1948. It was closed ...
. The stadium is currently used mostly for the home games of Wolfsburg, and is the site where they won their first Bundesliga title in the 2008–09 season. The amateur squad and the women's association football section is playing since 2015 at the newly built AOK Stadion with a capacity of 5200 people. There is also a new VfL-Center with offices and training areas and the VfL-FußballWelt, an interactive exhibition about the VfL.


Honours


Domestic

*
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: **Winners: 2008–09 **''Runners-up'': 2014–15 *
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: **Winners: 2014–15 **''Runners-up'': 1994–95 * DFL-Supercup: **Winners:
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Regional

* Deutsche Amateurmeisterschaft: **''Runners-up'': 1963 * Amateuroberliga Niedersachsen-Ost (II): **Winners: 1952, 1954, 1963 *
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(II): **''Runners-up'': 1970 * Oberliga Nord (III): **Winners: 1991, 1992 **''Runners-up'': 1976, 1978, 1988 *
Lower Saxony Cup The Lower Saxony Cup (german: Niedersächsischer Pokal) is an annual football cup competition, held by the ( en, Lower Saxony Football Association) since 1956. For sponsorship reasons, the official name of the competition is Krombacher-Pokal.
(Tiers 3–5) **Winners: 1962, 2002, 2003


Youth

* German Under 19 championship **Winners: 2010–11, 2012–13 **''Runners-up'': 2007–08 * Under 19 Bundesliga North/Northeast **Winners: 2007–08, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13 * Under 17 Bundesliga North/Northeast **Winners: 2008–09, 2015–16


Players


Current squad


Players out on loan


Retired numbers

* 19 Junior Malanda,
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(2013–15) – posthumous honour * Starting from 2019–20,
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would wear the number 19.


VfL Wolfsburg II squad


Women's section

The women's team have won a treble of
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,
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and the
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in 2012–13. They defended their Champions League title in 2014.


Coaching staff


Record in Europe


Records and statistics

Only for Bundesliga


Most appearances


Top scorers


Coaches

* Günter Mettke (1949–1954, player-coach) * Ludwig Lachner (1954–55) * Ernst Sontow (1955–56) * Josef Kretschmann (1956–57) * Ludwig Lachner (1957) * Walter Risse (1957–58) * Imre Farkaszinski (1958–59) * Ludwig Lachner (1 July 1963 – 30 June 1966) * Imre Farkaszinski (1 July 1966 – 31 December 1974) *
Fritz Schollmeyer Fritz Schollmeyer (born 19 June 1922) is a German former Manager (association football), football manager. References

* 1922 births Possibly living people German football managers BC Augsburg managers Tennis Borussia Berlin manager ...
(1 January 1975 – 29 April 1975) * Günther Brockmeyer (April 1975) * Paul Kietzmann (3 May 1975 – 28 November 1975) * Radoslav Momirski (2 December 1976 – 4 March 1978) * Imre Farkaszinski (March 1978 – Dec 1978) * Henk van Meteren (Dec 1978 – April 1979) * Wilfried Kemmer (April 1979 – Oct 1983) * Imre Farkaszinski (Oct 1983 – June 1984) * Wolf-Rüdiger Krause (July 1984 – June 1988) *
Horst Hrubesch Horst Hrubesch (; born 17 April 1951) is a German professional football manager and former player who last managed Hamburger SV. As a player, Hrubesch won three West German championships with his club side, Hamburger SV, as well as the European C ...
(1 July 1988 – 30 June 1989) * Ernst Menzel (July 1989 – June 1991) *
Uwe Erkenbrecher Uwe Erkenbrecher (born 14 November 1954) is a German football manager and a former player who is the current manager of MTV Gifhorn. References External links * 1954 births Living people People from Delmenhorst Footballers from Lowe ...
(1 July 1991 – 10 February 1993) *
Eckhard Krautzun Eckhard Krautzun (born 13 January 1941) is a German football coach and former player. Managerial career As a player, Krautzun turned out for Union Solingen, Rheydter SV, 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Young Fellows Zürich and TeBe Berlin. In 1968, h ...
(16 February 1993 – 4 April 1995) * Gerd Roggensack (6 April 1995 – 22 October 1995) *
Willi Reimann Willi Reimann (born 24 December 1949 in Schwagstorf (Fürstenau)) is a German retired football player and manager. Reimann played as a young boy in a local club in Rheine, later in the Bundesliga for Hannover 96 and Hamburg, appearing in 28 ...
(23 October 1995 – 17 March 1998) *
Wolfgang Wolf Wolfgang Wolf (born 24 September 1957) is a German football coach and a former player. Career Wolf was born in Tiefenthal. As a player, he spent twelve seasons in the Bundesliga with 1. FC Kaiserslautern and Stuttgarter Kickers. Coaching car ...
(23 March 1998 – 4 March 2003) *
Jürgen Röber Jürgen Röber (born 25 December 1953) is a German football manager and former player. Playing career Röber's Bundesliga career lasted 12 years with a one year interruption, when he played in Canada and England. His greatest success as a playe ...
(4 March 2003 – 3 April 2004) *
Eric Gerets Eric Maria Gerets (, born 18 May 1954) is a Belgian football manager and former player who played as a right back. He started his playing career as an amateur for his local team AA Rekem, before achieving success with Standard Liège and PSV. ...
(4 April 2004 – 29 May 2005) *
Holger Fach Holger Fach (born 6 September 1962) is a German football manager and former professional player. Mainly a defensive midfielder, he could also pitch in at centre back. Club career Between 1981 and 1998, Fach played 416 Bundesliga games for Fort ...
(1 July 2005 – 19 December 2005) *
Klaus Augenthaler Klaus "Auge" Augenthaler (born 26 September 1957) is a German former professional football player and manager. A defender, he won seven Bundesliga titles in his 15-year club career with Bayern Munich. He also represented the West Germany nat ...
(29 December 2005 – 19 May 2007) *
Felix Magath Wolfgang Felix Magath (; born 26 July 1953) is a German football manager and former player. The most notable spell of his playing career was with Hamburger SV, with whom he won three Bundesliga titles, the 1977 European Cup Winners' Cup Final a ...
(1 July 2007 – 30 June 2009) *
Armin Veh Armin Veh (; born 1 February 1961) is a German football manager and former player who last managed Eintracht Frankfurt. He won the German championship with Bundesliga team VfB Stuttgart in 2007. Veh and his team also had the chance to win "the ...
(1 July 2009 – 25 January 2010) * L-G. Köstner ''(interim)'' (25 January 2010 – 30 June 2010) *
Steve McClaren Stephen McClaren (born 3 May 1961) is an English former professional footballer and coach who currently serves as an assistant coach for Premier League club Manchester United, in his second spell at the club. McClaren began his coaching caree ...
(1 July 2010 – 7 February 2011) * P. Littbarski ''(interim)'' (8 February 2011 – 17 March 2011) *
Felix Magath Wolfgang Felix Magath (; born 26 July 1953) is a German football manager and former player. The most notable spell of his playing career was with Hamburger SV, with whom he won three Bundesliga titles, the 1977 European Cup Winners' Cup Final a ...
(18 March 2011 – 25 October 2012) * L-G. Köstner ''(interim)'' (25 October 2012 – 31 December 2012) *
Dieter Hecking Dieter-Klaus Hecking (; born 12 September 1964) is a German football manager for 1. FC Nürnberg and former professional player. He played for Hannover 96 and Eintracht Braunschweig. He returned to manage Hannover despite the long-standing and bi ...
(1 January 2013 – 17 October 2016) *
Valérien Ismaël Valérien Alexandre Ismaël (born 28 September 1975) is a professional football coach and a former professional player who most recently managed Turkish club Beşiktaş. During his playing career, Ismaël played for Racing Strasbourg, Crystal ...
(17 October 2016 – 26 February 2017) *
Andries Jonker Andries Jonker (; 22 September 1962) is the Netherlands women's national football team manager and former player. Jonker was at the helm of Dutch outfits Willem II, MVV and Volendam and was the assistant manager of VfL Wolfsburg, FC Barcelona ...
(27 February 2017 – 17 September 2017) * Martin Schmidt (18 September 2017 – 19 February 2018) *
Bruno Labbadia Bruno Labbadia (; born 8 February 1966) is a German football manager and former player who played as a striker. He is the current manager of Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart. Personal life Labbadia is of Italian ancestry. His family roots go bac ...
(20 February 2018 – 29 June 2019) * Oliver Glasner (1 July 2019 – 26 May 2021) *
Mark van Bommel Mark Peter Gertruda Andreas van Bommel (born 22 April 1977) is a Dutch football coach and former player who played as a midfielder. He is currently the manager of Belgian side Royal Antwerp. His FIFA World Cup profile describes him as "a tackli ...
(1 July 2021 – 24 October 2021) *
Florian Kohfeldt Florian Kohfeldt (born 5 October 1982) is a German Association football, football Manager (association football), manager who currently manages K.A.S. Eupen, Eupen. Managerial career From 2006, Kohfeldt coached various youth teams of SV Werder B ...
(26 October 2021 – 15 May 2022) *
Niko Kovač Niko Kovač (; born 15 October 1971) is a Croatian professional football coach and former player. He is currently the manager of Bundesliga club VFL Wolfsburg. Kovač was the long-standing captain of the Croatia national team until his retire ...
(24 May 2022 – present)


See also

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Works team A works team (sometimes factory team, company team) is a sports team that is financed and run by a manufacturer or other business. Sometimes, works teams contain or are entirely made up of employees of the supporting company. Association footb ...


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