Torsten Lieberknecht

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Torsten Lieberknecht
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Lieberknecht with Eintracht Braunschweig in 2015
Personal information
Date of birth (1973-08-01) 1 August 1973 (age 50)
Place of birth Bad Dürkheim, West Germany
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) [1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Darmstadt 98 (manager)
Youth career
FV Haßloch
1. FC 08 Haßloch
0000–1990 VfL Neustadt/Weinstraße
1990–1992 1. FC Kaiserslautern
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1992–1994 1. FC Kaiserslautern 13 (1)
1994–1995 Waldhof Mannheim 22 (0)
1995–2002 Mainz 05 89 (3)
2002–2003 1. FC Saarbrücken 7 (0)
2003–2007 Eintracht Braunschweig 82 (2)
Total213(6)
International career
Germany U-19 3 (0)
1994–1995 Germany U-21 9 (0)
Managerial career
2008–2018 Eintracht Braunschweig
2018–2020 MSV Duisburg
2021– Darmstadt 98
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Torsten Lieberknecht (born 1 August 1973) is a German football manager and player, who currently is the manager of Bundesliga club Darmstadt 98. [2]

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Career

Lieberknecht began his senior career at 1. FC Kaiserslautern, where he made his Bundesliga debut on 26 August 1992 in a game against SG Wattenscheid 09. [3] He left Kaiserslautern after the 1993–1994 season to join SV Waldhof Mannheim and went on to play a total of ten seasons in the 2. Bundesliga for Mannheim, 1. FSV Mainz 05 and Eintracht Braunschweig before retiring as a player in 2007.

Lieberknecht also represented Germany nine times at the U-21 level and was part of the German squad for the 1993 FIFA World Youth Championship in Australia. [4]

Managing career

After retiring as a player, Lieberknecht became a youth coach at his last club, Eintracht Braunschweig. At the end of the 2007–08 Regionalliga season the club was in serious danger of missing out on qualification for Germany's new nationwide third-tier league 3. Liga, which would have meant Braunschweig's first ever relegation to the fourth level of Germany's football league system. When Benno Möhlmann, at the time the manager of Eintracht Braunschweig's first team, stepped down in May 2008, Lieberknecht was named his successor. [5] Under him the club not only secured 3. Liga qualification on the last match day of the season, but since then has started a steady climb back up the ladder of German football. In 2010–11 Lieberknecht and his team were promoted back into the 2. Bundesliga, and quickly established themselves at this level. After having finished the previous season comfortably midtable, the club was even more successful during the 2012–13 season and in the end won promotion to the Bundesliga. This marked Eintracht Braunschweig's return into Germany's top-flight after a 28-year absence. [6] Lieberknecht was widely recognized in the media both in Germany and abroad as one of the key figures in the club's resurgence after years in the second and third tier. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] After ten years, his spell at Braunschweig ended in 2018. [13] He finished with a record of 151 wins, 99 draws, and 120 losses. [14]

On 1 October 2018, he was appointed by MSV Duisburg as the new head coach. [15] He was sacked on 10 November 2020. [16] He moved to Darmstadt 98 in June 2021. [17]

Managerial statistics

As of 14 April 2024
TeamFromToRecord
GWDLWin %Ref.
Eintracht Braunschweig 12 May 2008 [5] 14 May 2018 [13] 37115199121040.70 [14]
MSV Duisburg 1 October 2018 [15] 10 November 202077272129035.06 [15]
Darmstadt 98 1 July 2021Present102422238041.18
Total550220142188040.00—

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  3. ↑ "1. FC Kaiserslautern – SG Wattenscheid 09 4:1" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 9 December 2012.
  4. ↑ "Germany". FIFA. Archived from the original on 7 July 2007. Retrieved 9 December 2012.
  5. 1 2 Albring, Reiner (12 May 2008). "Eintracht-Trainer Möhlmann gibt auf" (in German). braunschweiger-zeitung.de . Retrieved 9 December 2012.
  6. ↑ "Braunschweig nach 28 Jahren zurück in Liga eins". Die Welt (in German). 26 April 2013. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  7. ↑ "Local hero Torsten Lieberknecht draws praise for his Eintracht Braunschweig approach from Borussia Dortmund manager Jürgen Klopp". The Independent . 8 November 2013. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
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  12. ↑ Schramm, Anja (7 April 2013). "Braunschweigs großer Klimmzug". Die Welt (in German). Retrieved 7 April 2013.
  13. 1 2 "Nach zehn Jahren und zwei Tagen: Lieberknechts Ära endet". kicker.de. 14 May 2018. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  14. 1 2 "Eintracht Braunschweig – Trainerhistorie" (in German). kicker. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
  15. 1 2 3 "MSV Duisburg". kicker.de (in German). kicker. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
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