Hannover 96 has released coach André Breitenreiter with immediate effect. This was announced by the second division soccer team on Wednesday. It continues with an interim solution – and in summer with a new coach.
Not even four months lasted Breitenreiter’s second term at his home club. “We started properly, sometimes brought very appealing performances to the square – but we also left too many points. Afterwards, the development unfortunately no longer went in the right direction,” explained sports director Marcus Mann. According to the results of the past few weeks, it is clear: “We have to look at the new season from now on and will also change in the summer position in summer.”
Club legend Steven Cherundolo and Lukas Kwasniok, who leaves SC Paderborn at the end of the season, are considered candidates.
Interim solution until the end of the season
There was a “very open and good conversation” with a Breitenreiter on Wednesday, said Mann. It quickly showed that “we share the view that it is right among these signs to make a cut now”. The decision was made by mutual agreement.
Assistant Thomas Kleine, who came to Hanover together with Breitenreiter in winter, also left the coaching team. With the support of U19 coach Dirk Lottner and U17 coach Christian Schulz, the previous assistant coach Lars Barlemann takes responsibility for the team in the four remaining season games.
Breitenreiter: decision “logical and consistent”
“In several phases of the second half of the season, we were tuned to make the leap to the top. Unfortunately, in too many games we have not managed to convert really good performances into victories.
Dream of new ascent is not fulfilled
The 51-year-old had signed at the “Reds” shortly before the turn of the year as the successor to Stefan Leitl until the end of the season. In the event of a promotion, its contract would have automatically extended by one year. But the hopes for a similarly successful sporting marriage as in 2017 were not fulfilled. Breitenreiter had come nine games before the end of the season and had led the Lower Saxony back to the Bundesliga as a promotion coach, after which he managed to stay in the league.
But the final, home and probably also nerve weakness ensured that the hoped-for upswing failed to fail this time. After the recent 1: 3 bankruptcy in Darmstadt – the third defeat in a row – the promotion aspirant had had to tick off the hoped -for return to the Bundesliga.
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Sport Current | 04/23/2025 | 5:17 p.m.
