Frank Neubarth (born 29 July 1962) is a German football

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and former player who spent his whole career with SV Werder Bremen and has since managed FC Schalke 04,

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 ...

and

FC Carl Zeiss Jena FC Carl Zeiss Jena is a German football club based in Jena, Thuringia. Formed in 1903 and initially associated with the Carl Zeiss AG factory, they were one of the strongest clubs in East Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s, winning the DDR-Ober ...

Playing career

Neubarth was born in

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. A forward, he played for

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, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. Founded on 4 February 1899, they are best known for the ...

from 1982 until 1996 and scored 97 goals in 317

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matches. He also scored 25 goals in the

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and 13 goals in European competitions. He scored at least once every season, except the 1986–87 campaign when he was injured mostly and played just five matches. The most goals he ever scored in a single season was 20 during the 1985–86 season in which Bremen finished in third place. Throughout the course of his career, he won the

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and in

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, and the

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in 1992. In

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and

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, he helped Bremen win the league title. He earned his only

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for the West German national team on 2 April 1988.

Coaching career

After his retirement from playing, Neubarth went into coaching and worked with

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from 1 July 1999 until 7 January 2002. On 1 July 2002, he succeeded Huub Stevens as head coach of

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 ...

where he was in charge for less than 10 months. Then, in July 2004, he was appointed as head coach of

. He remained at Holstein until 2 October 2006. On 11 April 2007, he was unveiled as

Heiko Weber Heiko Weber (born 26 June 1965 in Thale) is a German former footballer who is now manager of ZFC Meuselwitz. Career As player he played for FC Carl Zeiss Jena and Preußen Münster. Coaching career In 2007, he was caretaker manager in FC Ene ...

's successor at Carl Zeiss Jena. He took over with just six games of the 2006–07 season remaining and helped the club maintain an unbeaten record until the end of the campaign and avoid relegation to the

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. However, after a poor start to the 2007–08 season, he was sacked after just five games, on 20 September 2007.

Coaching record

Honours

Werder Bremen *

: 1991–92 *

: 1987–88,

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, 1993–94

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Neubarth, Frank Living people 1962 births Footballers from Hamburg Association football forwards German footballers Germany international footballers Germany under-21 international footballers Bundesliga players SC Concordia von 1907 players SV Werder Bremen players German football managers FC Schalke 04 managers FC Carl Zeiss Jena managers Holstein Kiel managers SV Werder Bremen II managers West German footballers