Sabrina Wittmann first female coach in professional men’s football Germany

Football coach Sabrina Wittmann is the first woman to lead a men’s team in German professional football. She was introduced on Thursday on social media https://twitter.com/Schanzer/status/1785963090091114842, a club that plays at the third highest level. The 32-year-old Wittmann has been working at the Bavarian club since 2009 and until this week trained a team of boys under 19 years old.

On Thursday, Wittmann gave a first training to the male football players, and she will continue to coach them until the end of this season. Wittmann is the first to make her debut in men’s football in Germany as a woman. Although women’s football has been on the rise in popularity in recent years, women rarely work in men’s football – certainly not as head coaches.

Wittmann succeeds Michael Köllner, who was fired earlier this week due to disappointing results. Ingolstadt is currently eleventh in the rankings. “There is no other place where I would rather have made my debut. Ingolstadt is something very special for me, the club from my hometown,” Wittmann told German news agency DPA. “I started here as a player 19 years ago and was able to take my first steps as a coach here.”

On Sunday, Wittmann will be on the sidelines of the men’s team for the first time as a trainer, when Inglostadt will play against Waldhof Mannheim. “Wittmann probably knows our club better than anyone and is a Schanzer through and through,” says Ingolstadt director Dietmar Beiersdorfer. “She is rightly held in very high esteem by everyone at the club.” At Dutch professional clubs, there has not yet been a men’s team that was trained by a woman.

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