Sascha Lewandowski (5 October 1971 – 8 June 2016) was a German
football
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manager.
Managerial career
Lewandowski was head coach of
VfL Bochum II
VfL Bochum II (also known as VfL Bochum Amateure, VfL Bochum U-21 or VfL Bochum U-23) is the reserve team of German football club VfL Bochum.
The team has made two appearances in the first round of the DFB-Pokal, in 1984–85 and 2005–06. Sinc ...
between 1 July 2006 to 31 December 2006.
Lewandowski was appointed as head coach of
Bayer Leverkusen
Bayer 04 Leverkusen, officially known as Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH () and commonly known as Bayer Leverkusen or simply Leverkusen, is a German professional football club based in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia. It competes in the B ...
in April 2012 alongside
Sami Hyypiä
Sami Tuomas Hyypiä (; born 7 October 1973) is a Finnish professional football manager and a former player who played as a centre-back.
Hyypiä began his playing career with Ykkönen side Kumu and soon moved to Veikkausliiga outfit MyPa. He s ...
.
After the
2012–13 season, Lewandowski went back to the youth set–up, leaving Hyypia as the sole head coach of the first team. He finished with a record of 29 wins, 11 draws, and 11 losses.
Hyypiä took sole charge of the team on 24 June 2013.
Lewandowski became the interim head coach of the first team after Sami Hyypiä was sacked.
On 25 April 2014,
Roger Schmidt was announced as head coach for the start of the
2014–15 season.
He finished with a record of five wins and a draw.
He was appointed as the head coach of
Union Berlin
1. Fußballclub Union Berlin e. V., commonly known as Union Berlin (), is a professional Football in Germany, German football club based in Berlin.
The club's origins can be traced to 1906, when its predecessor FC Olympia Oberschöneweide was fo ...
on 1 September 2015.
He stepped down on 4 March 2016, after six months in charge,
on medical advice because of acute
fatigue symptoms. He finished with a record of five wins, four draws, and five losses.
Personal life
Sascha Lewandowski was born on 5 October 1971
in
Dortmund
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,
West Germany
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. On 9 June 2016, he was found dead at his home in
Bochum
Bochum (, ; ; ; ) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia. With a population of 372,348 (April 2023), it is the sixth-largest city (after Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg) in North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous German federa ...
, Germany.
The police later found that he had committed suicide the previous day. In the days before this event, he had been held by the Dortmund police for charges of child abuse.
Managerial statistics
References
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1971 births
2016 deaths
2016 suicides
Sportspeople from Dortmund
Bayer 04 Leverkusen managers
1. FC Union Berlin managers
Bundesliga managers
2. Bundesliga managers
German football managers
Suicides in Germany