After speculation about the future
Diving in the 2nd league: Kaiserslautern fires coach Markus beginning
Updated on April 22nd, 2025 – 8:54 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
Four game days before the end there is unrest in the 2nd Bundesliga. Kaiserslautern releases coach Markus Beginner. Speculation ran around his future.
Second division 1. FC Kaiserslautern has released coach Markus Beginning with immediate effect. This is what the “Bild” newspaper and the TV broadcaster Sky report. A successor should also be certain: Thorsten Lieberknecht takes over the club. Lieberknecht trained SV Darmstadt by September 2024 and is born in Palatinate. According to Sky, he is said to have dissolved his contract with Darmstadt a few hours ago in order to be able to take over directly in Kaiserslautern.
According to “Bild”, the change of coach is the result of a crisis meeting that was called on Tuesday. According to this, those responsible met without the beginning, but initially intended to compete with their trainer for the rest of the season. The beginning is said to have learned about the conversation in the media and told the association that he did not like the procedure. According to the report, this came to a conversation between Managing Director Thomas Hengen, sports director Marcel Klos and the beginning. At the end, further cooperation is no longer possible.
In the past three games, the FCK has remained without a point. Most recently, the team lost 0: 2 at Eintracht Braunschweig. After the 27th matchday, Kaiserslautern was still on the relegation place – the Palatinate has now slipped to seventh place. The ascent is still possible, but no longer on its own.
In addition, rumors about a possible change in the past few days have initially come up to FC Schalke 04. The new sports director of the Königsblauen, Frank Baumann, is interested in the Lauterer coach. The beginning and Baumann already know each other from days together in Bremen.