Quake in the basketball Bundesliga
FC Bayern separates from world champion coach
12/20/2025 – 5:09 p.mReading time: 1 min.
In 2023, Gordon Herbert became world champion with Germany. Last year he joined FC Bayern. The engagement now ends prematurely.
A big bang in the Basketball Bundesliga: German champions Bayern Munich are parting ways with world champion coach Gordon Herbert with immediate effect. The 66-year-old Canadian, who sensationally led the German national team to World Cup gold in 2023, agreed with the club “after a trusting exchange on the early termination of the cooperation,” as Bayern announced on Saturday.
The Munich team responded to the negative series of eight defeats in the EuroLeague; on Friday there was a 77:103 defeat at AS Monaco. At the Bundesliga game on Sunday in the sold-out Lanxess Arena in Cologne against Telekom Baskets Bonn The team is looked after by Herbert’s previous assistants. A successor as head coach should, if possible, be found by the next EuroLeague home game on Tuesday against league leaders Hapoel Tel Aviv.
Herbert took over the Munich team after the 2024 Olympics and celebrated winning the title in 2025. In the Bundesliga, FC Bayern is on track with 16:2 points, and in the cup the Munich team also has the top four in their own hall on the 21st/22nd. reached February. But the international series of bankruptcies led to a separation. “Unfortunately, there are situations in sport that require no other option than change,” said sports director Dragan Tarlac on Saturday after returning from Monaco.