Four games before the end
Third league coach steps back in the middle of the promotion battle
04/22/2025 – 2:44 p.m.Reading time: 1 min.
The 1. FC Saarbrücken is in the promotion race of the 3rd division. But four game days before the end, the coach is suddenly different.
Third league team 1. FC Saarbrücken tackles the final sprint in the promotion battle with a new trainer. As the Saarlanders announced, Rüdiger Ziehl resigned after just one win from the past seven league games and slipping in fourth place with immediate effect. The successor to Alois Schwartz, who has experienced second division, who has been without a club in December 2023 since his release at Hansa Rostock. The 58-year-old should “set new impulses to further promote the ambitious goals of the FCS”.
Ziehl has acted as a trainer and manager of the 1. FC Saarbrücken since November 2022, and the 47-year-old will continue to practice the manager function. His coaching period comes to the DFB Cup semi-final of the 2023/24 season with victories against Bayern Munich, Eintracht Frankfurt and Borussia Mönchengladbach before the second division team was 1. FC Kaiserslautern.
Last Sunday, the Saarbrückeners lost their home game 1: 4 against league leaders Dynamo Dresden in the direct duel for promotion. The gap to a direct promotion zone grew four game days before the end of the season with poorer goal difference to six points, even the relegation place, the Bundesliga founding member with two points no longer has less than Energy Cottbus in his own hands.