After tabular crash
Third division team separates from sports director
Updated 12/17/2024 – 3:31 p.mReading time: 1 min.
At the end of October, SV Sandhausen was still leading the 3rd league. The promotion places are now far away. This has personnel consequences.
Third division team SV Sandhausen and sports director Matthias Imhof have agreed to part ways. The association announced that the employment relationship had been terminated “by mutual agreement with immediate effect”. Imhof has been sports director at the club from Baden-Württemberg since summer 2023. Sandhausen had previously been relegated from the 2nd league.
Coach Sreto Ristić, however, remains in office. The German-Serb will also look after the team in the last game of the year on Saturday (2 p.m.) against eighth-placed Viktoria Köln.
The SVS lost 4:6 against Erzgebirge Aue last weekend. Both President Jürgen Machmeier and sports director Imhof avoided making a commitment to coach Ristić after the bankruptcy. Sandhausen only got seven points from the last nine third division games and is sixth in the table with 27 points. The village club was still top of the table on the eleventh matchday, but is now nine points behind the top of the table and eight points behind direct promotion place two.
“After intensive and in-depth discussions about the current situation and the strategic development beyond the end of the season, we agreed not to continue the cooperation beyond May 31st and therefore to end it with immediate effect,” Imhof was quoted as saying in a club statement.
“In the course of analyzing the current situation, we came to the joint decision to end our collaboration with immediate effect. We hope this will provide positive impetus and a turnaround in the sporting sector,” explained President Machmeier.