Derby bankruptcy with consequences: SG Flensburg-Handewitt parted ways with Maik Machulla the day after the defeat at THW Kiel (19:29). This was announced by the Bundesliga handball team on Monday.
Machulla has been head coach of the SG since the summer of 2017, under him Flensburg won the championship in 2018 and 2019 and finished second in 2020 and 2021.
Most recently, however, the Flensburg team were eliminated in the semi-finals of the DHB Cup and missed the Final Four in the European League, which is taking place in Flensburg this season. In the Bundesliga, SG is fourth after the defeat in Kiel, four points behind the top of the table.
According to the club, the 46-year-old Machulla, who had been a player and assistant coach for Flensburg since 2012, was released on Monday “after an intensive analysis of the team’s sporting development, especially taking into account the last games and the goals set”.
“Maik has shaped an era at SG. He has done an excellent job in recent years and has led us to great success. We are very grateful to him for that,” said SG Managing Director Holger Glandorf. Now you have to “set a new impulse. It is now important to secure qualification for a European competition in the remaining eight games.” The training will initially be taken over by the previous assistant coach Mark Bult.
“Maik Machulla is and will remain a great part of our SG history,” said Flensburg’s advisory board chairman Boy Meesenburg: “We as the advisory board have great confidence in the management to develop a new beginning with outstanding sporting goals.”