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·10 August 2025

Germany's Coach of the year revealed

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In addition to the “Footballer of the year”, “Kicker” have also revealed Germany's “Coach of the year” (2024/25): Julian Schuster!

Freiburg's headcoach, who took over from Freiburg legend Christian Streich ahead of the 2024/25 season, helped his team to a fantastic 5th place in the Bundesliga, only missing out on Champions League qualification by 3 points!

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Schuster received 97 votes and won ahead of Horst Steffen (76 votes) and Hansi Flick (72 votes). He succeeds Xabi Alonso, who won the award last year.

German sports journalists decide and vote for their winner each year: possible winners have to be coaching in the Bundesliga or be German (or both). A list of all winners since 2010 is down below.

Germany's “Coach of the year” since 2010

  1. 2010: Louis van Gaal (FC Bayern)
  2. 2011: Jürgen Klopp (Borussia Dortmund)
  3. 2012: Jürgen Klopp (Borussia Dortmund)
  4. 2013: Jupp Heynckes (FC Bayern)
  5. 2014: Joachim Löw (Germany)
  6. 2015: Dieter Hecking (VfL Wolfsburg)
  7. 2016: Dirk Schuster (SV Darmstadt)
  8. 2017: Julian Nagelsmann (TSG Hoffenheim)
  9. 2018: Jupp Heynckes (FC Bayern)
  10. 2019: Jürgen Klopp (Liverpool)
  11. 2020: Hansi Flick (FC Bayern)
  12. 2021: Thomas Tuchel (Chelsea)
  13. 2022: Christian Streich (SC Freiburg)
  14. 2023: Urs Fischer (Union Berlin)
  15. 2024: Xabi Alonso (Bayer Leverkusen)
  16. 2025: Julian Schuster (SC Freiburg)
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