He led Union into the Champions League
Is an old friend returning to the Bundesliga?
12/04/2025 – 3:24 p.mReading time: 2 minutes
According to sports director Christian Heidel, the bottom of the table, FSV Mainz 05, wants to announce their new head coach this weekend. Benjamin Hoffmann is probably just a substitute for one match day.
FSV Mainz 05 will approach the final first round game against Borussia Mönchengladbach with an interim coach. Benjamin Hoffmann will look after the team on Friday evening – a temporary solution, as a new head coach is due to follow soon.
“You can assume that we are very, very confident that we have found a coach,” said sports director Christian Heidel at a press conference for the bottom of the Bundesliga one day after parting ways with Bo Henriksen.
The club will inform you about this “towards the weekend”. “We have a very, very concrete idea,” added Heidel and said to the media representatives: “Please don’t throw names at me now, then I’ll get icy silence.”
However, one name that is being traded is that of Urs Fischer. According to information from the pay-TV broadcaster Sky, the Swiss is said to be a serious candidate and an initial exchange is said to have already taken place. However, there are also other candidates.
Fischer has been without a club since 2023. He had previously coached Union Berlin for more than five years. Under his leadership he was promoted to the Bundesliga. In addition, the “Irons” qualified for the Champions League for the first time in their club history in the 2022/2023 season with Fischer on the sidelines.
The Dane Henriksen recently had to leave Mainz 05 after eight games without a win in the upper house. The Rheinhessen team has been without a win for eleven home games across the season. The last home win came in February when FC St. Pauli was defeated 2-0.