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Düsseldorf separates from chief coach – successor fixed
Updated on October 6th, 2025 – 12:48 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
Second division Fortuna Düsseldorf has released his chief coach Daniel Thioune. The club reacts to a negative trend. His successor has already been found.
Second division Fortuna Düsseldorf separated from his head coach Daniel Thioune. The traditional club announced this on Monday. After the 2: 3 home defeat on Friday against 1. FC Nürnberg, this had already been indicated. Now the club has created facts.
Markus starts as the successor. “With Markus Beginner, we chose an excellent connoisseur of the 2nd Bundesliga, who has already shown that he can successfully lead teams,” said Düsseldorf’s sports director Klaus Allofs.
The beginning will lead his first training in the afternoon at 3 p.m., before that it will be officially presented. The association did not provide any information about the duration of the contract. According to information from the Rheinische Post, the working paper should run by 2027.
The Fortuna had started the season with promotion ambitions, but after eight games the Düsseldorfers are in 13th place with only ten points. The team under Thioune disappointed, especially in the home stadium: the traditional club only scored one point in four games. Last Friday, the team lost 2: 3 (0: 1) against 1. FC Nürnberg.
Thiune took over in February 2022 as the successor to Christian Preußer and confidently led Fortuna’s relegation -threatened relegation. In 2024, the 51-year-old was then with Düsseldorf after a 3-0 victory in the first leg of the relegation at VfL Bochum just before the promotion to the Bundesliga, but in the second leg, the Thioune elf failed dramatically in penalty shootout.
The beginning was last worked as a coach of the 1st FC Kaiserslautern, but was released among the Palatinate in the pre -season in the fight for promotion. In 2021, the native of Cologne was fired and blocked due to a fake information about his corona vaccination status at Werder Bremen. Around seven months later, he returned to professional football with his commitment to the third division club Dynamo Dresden.