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Report: HSV competitor fires coach
Updated on December 1, 2025 – 3:50 p.mReading time: 9 minutes
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A competitor of the HSV The ripcord is pulling in the relegation battle: FC Augsburg apparently parted ways with coach Sandro Wagner on Monday. The decision was made by mutual agreement, reported “Bild”. An official confirmation is still pending.
Wagner’s Augsburg team defeated HSV 1-0 a little over a week ago, but lost 3-0 in Hoffenheim last Saturday. With ten points, FCA is in 14th place after twelve games, one place and two points behind Hamburg. With 27 goals conceded, the “Fuggerstädter” currently have the weakest defense in the Bundesliga.
Luka Vušković has hit the ground running for HSV: the central defender hasn’t missed a minute since his debut on matchday 3. At the age of 18, he even became head of defense for the newly promoted team and even scored a goal in the 2-1 win over Heidenheim. As a reward, the fans voted Vušković as the Bundesliga’s official “Rookie of the Month” twice.
The up-and-coming Croatian will soon even be available to collect: Playmobil will bring Luka Vušković onto the market in March 2026 as one of six figures. In addition to the HSV talent, these are Harry Kane, Mario Götze, Angelo Stiller, Julian Brandt and Saïd El Mala.
This marks the start of their collaboration with Playmobil and the DFL: for the 2026/27 season, eleven players per team will be created as authentic figures. There will then be a total of 198 characters to collect.
To this day he is considered the best HSV coach of all time, and he is the most successful anyway: Ernst Happel would have been 100 years old on November 29th. The Viennese was in office for exactly 2,190 days, from July 1, 1981 to June 30, 1987 – only Günter Mahlmann (1956-1962) managed to survive on the HSV bench for that long. With his football, Ernst Happel led Hamburg to two German championships (1982, 1983), a DFB Cup victory (1987) and a triumph in the European Cup (1983), today’s Champions League.
Happel football still has an impact today: He is considered the inventor of pressing and established means such as zonal coverage, quick switching and variable positional play in the 1960s and 1970s.