After coach Sandro Wagner, FC Augsburg also found a new sports director in Benjamin Weber. The conversion of the sporting leadership goes significantly.
FC Augsburg turns the complete sporting leadership. Managing Director Michael Ströll has been the last leader of the previous management trio since the separation of coach Jess Thorup and sports director Marinko Jurendic. He would like to position the sporting leadership more broadly in order to better meet the demands of professional football as a club.
Benjamin Weber as sports director
Benjamin Weber must be considered the “royal transfer”. The 42-year-old worked for a long time in the team of Thomas Tuchel and won the Champions League with the Chelsea FC in 2021 in 2021. Weber only then made a name for itself at SC Paderborn. Weber led the SCP into the top group of the 2nd league with a small budget and many talents, a path that you now hope for one floor at the FCA. Weber will start service in Augsburg at the end of July and then be the main person responsible for the sporting orientation of the professional team.
Manuel Baum returns
When Weber starts, Manuel Baum has been there for a few weeks. The 45-year-old will return to Augsburg in the coming week after around six years. Baum once made the leap from the young and head coach of the then new youth performance center (NLZ) to the professionals.
After stations at FC Schalke 04, in the offspring of the DFB and RB Leipzig, he is now supposed to bring both areas together closely at the FCA. As “Head of Development & Football Innovation”, he will in future be responsible for promoting the Augsburg youth players even more efficiently. He also becomes the contact person for coach Sandro Wagner in all questions about strategy, tactics and scouting. It is open how the cooperation with the previous talent developer Heinz Moser will look. The Swiss is a close confidant of the fired sports director Marinko Jurendic. It is quite possible that he will soon follow his compatriot for his new club.
Lettau becomes a squad planner – Baumgartlinger coordinator License player
Like Baum, Marc Lettau will start service in Bavarian Swabia next week. The 39-year-old was released at Bundesliga relegated Bochum last year as sports director and at FC Augsburg again and again as a possible sports director. Lettau now comes as a squad planner and is subject to sports director Weber.
The position is created as newly as the “coordinator license player department”. Here the FCA ex-professional Julian Baumgartlinger. The Austrian ended his active career in Augsburg two years ago and is said to have close contact with the team. As an ex-international and long-time Bundesliga player, he has great experience in professional football.
The aim of the realignment: Talent promotion and FCA-DNA
According to the association, the aim of the sporting realignment is to promote your own talents even more efficiently, to find and develop top international talents and thus achieve transfer revenues. In addition, the so-called FCA DNA with active and attractive football should be clearly seen for all teams of FC Augsburg. The goal is to continue to establish itself significantly above the relegation zone of the 1st Bundesliga.
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Source: BR24Sport 27.06.2025 – 11:54 a.m.
