Sabrina Wittmann

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Personal information
Date of birth (1991-10-08) 8 October 1991 (age 32)
Place of birth Ingolstadt, Germany
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
FC Ingolstadt 04 (interim manager)
Youth career
2005–2011 SC Steinberg
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2011–2013 FC Ingolstadt 04 52 (9)
2014 SpVgg Greuther Fürth 10 (2)
2014–2015 FC Stern München 7 (0)
2015–2024 SC Amicitia München 60 (0)
Managerial career
2017–2021 SC Amicitia München
2019 FC Ingolstadt 04 U19 (interim)
2019–2020 FC Ingolstadt 04 (youth)
2020–2021 FC Ingolstadt 04 U17
2021– FC Ingolstadt 04 U19
2024– FC Ingolstadt 04 (interim)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Sabrina Wittmann (born 8 October 1991) is a German professional football manager and former player who is the current interim manager of 3. Liga club FC Ingolstadt 04.

Career[edit]

At the age of 14, Wittmann started playing football for her hometown club SC Steinberg. She later played for FC Ingolstadt 04 and achieved promotion to the women's Bayernliga with FCI in the 2011–12 season. She later played for the SpVgg Greuther Fürth and two clubs in Munich.[1][2]

During a stay in the United States in 2008, Wittmann gained her first coaching experiences as an assistant coach for a middle school team in Kentucky. From 2012 she coached the U15 women, later also the men's under-17 and under-19 teams of FC Ingolstadt. From 2017 to 2021, she also served as head coach of SC Amicitia Munich in the women's regional league Bavarian South. In 2021, she took charge of the Ingolstadt 04's men's under-19s.

In May 2024, she was appointed interim manager of Ingolstadt's senior team, becoming the first female head coach in German men's professional football.[3][4][5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Sabrina Wittmann - FC Ingolstadt 04 - FuPa". www.fupa.net (in German). Retrieved 2024-05-06.
  2. ^ "FCI-Trainerin Sabrina Wittmann: Lob vom Chef - und von Ralph Gunesch". kicker (in German). Retrieved 2024-05-06.
  3. ^ "Sabrina Wittmann beim FC Ingolstadt: Erste Cheftrainerin im Männer-Profifußball". Der Spiegel (in German). 2024-05-02. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 2024-05-06.
  4. ^ "Schon vor dem Spiel stand fest: Sabrina Wittmann schreibt Fußball-Geschichte". Pnp.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-05-06.
  5. ^ "Wittmann über Trainer-Lizenzen: "Totales Ungleichgewicht"". BR24 (in German). 2024-05-06. Retrieved 2024-05-06.