According to Sportschau information, the coaching experiment with Nuri Sahin at Borussia Dortmund has ended.
After just over six months, the Bundesliga soccer team is parting ways with its head coach. The Sportschau learned this from club circles and also reported the “Sport Bild” and the Sky broadcaster the morning after BVB lost 2-1 at FC Bologna in the Champions League.
Due to the defeat, Dortmund are in danger of missing out on a safe place in the knockout round of the premier class. Sports director Sebastian Kehl informed the team about the separation that night, it was said. Sahin is said to have already said goodbye to his team. There was initially no official announcement about this.
Goals not achieved
In the Bundesliga, the Westphalians are currently well away from the minimum goal of qualifying for the Champions League. On June 1st, BVB was in the final of the premier class. After three defeats in the first three Bundesliga games of the new year, BVB is already seven points behind fourth place.
Sahin was the eighth BVB coach since Klopp. Since the end of Jürgen Klopp’s era almost ten years ago, the coaching position at the Revierclub has been like a permanent construction site. Sahin is already the eighth coach since 2015 to fail in Dortmund after Klopp’s departure. Among them were high-profile players such as Thomas Tuchel, Lucien Favre and Marco Rose.
Terzic’s successor
After the end of current Leipzig head coach Rose in the summer of 2022, BVB had coaches in Edin Terzic and most recently Sahin with a strong connection to Dortmund, but without much previous experience. Terzic was the Revierclub’s youth and assistant coach for years before he took over as Dortmund’s head coach in December 2020 for six months and then again for two years after Rose’s departure.
Although BVB under him only lost the championship on the last matchday in 2023 and made it to the Champions League final against Real Madrid (0-2) last summer, the club and Terzic parted ways.
Sahin – back to the youth club
His previous assistant coach Sahin, who only returned to BVB in this role in January 2024, took over his youth club, with great praise from those in charge, where he had already joined as a twelve-year-old and for which he had made his professional debut at the age of 16.
