Markus von Ahlen (born 1 January 1971) is a German football manager and a former player. He manages the Under-19 squad of

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Coaching career

von Ahlen started his coaching career in the youth section at

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, t ...

in 2007 before moving to the youth section at

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in 2008. He then signed a two–year deal on 18 April 2011 to become the new head coach of Arminia Bielefeld starting at the beginning of the 2011–12 season. However, his tenure ended prematurely on 20 September 2011. He failed to win any of his 11 competitive matches. He then became an assistant coach for

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before moving to the reserve team of 1860 München on 20 December 2012 until the end of the season. Then he became an assistant coach with 1860 München until he became interim head coach on 6 April 2014. He was given the mandate for the rest of the 2013–14 season. His tenure finished when Ricardo Moniz was hired as the permanent head coach on 4 June 2014. Von Ahlen once again became head coach of the first team after Moniz was sacked. He was sacked on 17 February 2015. In July 2016 he became manager of the Under-19 squad of

. In January 2022 he became new manager of

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. On 3 May 2022 he was sacked by Bonner only to be named new manager of

one hour later.

Coaching record

Honours

Bayer Leverkusen *

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References

1971 births Living people German footballers Association football midfielders Bayer 04 Leverkusen players Bayer 04 Leverkusen II players VfL Bochum players SV Meppen players KFC Uerdingen 05 players Alemannia Aachen players Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players German football managers Arminia Bielefeld managers TSV 1860 Munich managers Bonner SC managers SC Fortuna Köln managers 3. Liga managers People from Bergisch Gladbach Sportspeople from Cologne (region) Footballers from North Rhine-Westphalia {{Germany-footy-midfielder-1970s-stub