Vincent Wagner will be the new coach of SV Elversberg - promotion in sight!

Vincent Wagner will be the new coach of SV Elversberg - promotion in sight!

Elversberg, Deutschland - The SV Elversberg has announced a new beginning in the coming season 2025/2026 by hiring Vincent Wagner as a new coach. The 39-year-old succeeds Horst Steffen, who moves to Werder Bremen after a lost relegation. Wagner receives a contract until 2028 and brings extensive experience from youth and professional sports.

Wagner, who was born in Nordhausen, was previously head coach of the U23 of TSG Hoffenheim, with which he won the regional league championship and rose to the third division. He began his coaching career after his active career, where he played between 2009 and 2017 at Rot-Weiss Essen and KFC Uerdingen.

experiences and success

Before his time with TSG Hoffenheim, Wagner worked as an U19 co-trainer of VfL Bochum and had a coordinating role for the A-Juniors and professionals. He also gained experience as a youth coach at MSV Duisburg before returning to Essen, where he looked after the U19 and later the first team. In July 2022 he moved to the TSG Hoffenheim youth performance center.

sports director Nils-Ole Book praises Wagner's professional competence and his creative playing style. Wagner himself was positive about the opportunity to work at SV Elversberg and saw the chance to set his own impulses in the club. He is also in training for the Pro license at the DFB, which underlines its ambitions.

horses in the change of coaches

The change from Wagner to Elversberg is not only important for the club, but also for the entire 2nd Bundesliga. Change of coaches are not uncommon in this league, and Wagner follows a wave of new faces in the coaching chairs of the upper league. In recent years, the coaching carousel has turned heavily in the second division because clubs are trying to achieve their sporting goals through new leadership structures. Information about current change of trainer can be found on platforms such as Transfermarkt.de .

SV Elversberg is convinced that Wagner is the right man to develop the team in sports and to optimally prepare for the challenges of the next season.