The Dane Kasper Hjulmand takes over the coaching position with Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen. The trainer from his time is known at Mainz 05.
The Dane takes over the runner -up and signed a contract until 2027, as the club confirmed on Monday. Hjulmand had to dissolve his advisory contract with the Danish association beforehand, where he had been employed since summer 2024.
“We are very happy about the commitment of Kasper Hjulmand, whose work we have followed carefully for a long time,” said Managing Director Sport Simon Rolfes and explained: “Kasper is the right one to develop our new workself again into a top team that will strive for the most demanding national and international goals.”
Hjulmand: “Bayer one highly ambitious Club”
Hjulmand is happy to look forward to his task: “I always perceived Bayer 04 as a very well -guided, well -structured and highly ambitious club. This impression has been confirmed in the past few days. It is an award to get such a team entrusted.”
The 53-year-old is known in Germany from his time at Mainz 05, where he was responsible for a total of 24 games between July 2014 and February 2015. However, he could only win five of them. He then successfully worked from FC Nordsjaelland in the Danish league from 2016 to 2019 and won 1.44 points on average in his 124 games.
Work in and with Denmark successful
He then acted as a consultant for the club before he became a Danish national coach in 2020. Hjulmand’s team achieved the semi -finals in the EM 2021, which was postponed due to Corona, and successfully qualified for the European Championship 2024. There Denmark reached the KO round – but lost 0-2 in the round of 16 against the German team.
After the tournament, Hjulmand had resigned. The Dane becomes the successor of only two Bundesliga-To -game days released Dutch Erik Ten Hag and will debut against Eintracht Frankfurt in the Bundesliga. In the Champions League, Hjulmand’s Bayer engagement starts with a very special away game: in his home country at FC Copenhagen.
Our sources:
- Data portal Transfermarkt.de
- Bild newspaper
- Kicker
- News agencies dpa and sid
