HauchknApp became coach Imke Vyubbenhorst at the end of this season with his youthful champion in Swiss women. In the finale of the play -off she defeated Zurich Kurich 5: 4 in a penalty. Kim Kulig had less success, in which Basel left her FC in the semifinals.
Both Germans often emphasize how happy they are in Switzerland. At first glance, the Kulig extended until 2027, Vubbenhorst, from 2022/23 in Bern, would like to form an era there. Nadin Angerer, who works as a goalkeeper coach in the Swiss national team, and Ann Poshert, is an assistant coach in the Swiss U19 to reunite the German class in Switzerland.
German coaches are drawn to Switzerland in the crowds. Inca Green cooked FC Zurich since 2021, won the double there, and then for a year was the Swiss National Coach within a year. As a Swiss coach, Martin Oss-Teklenburg also attracted attention to herself before DFB signed him as a national coach. Anne Poshert passed from Jena to Zurich forge and followed another German, Teresa Merck, in the future, the Academy manager in 1. FC Cologne. Jacqueline Dunker, in turn, the coach in FC Zurich by 2024, became the successor to Grings, and now she also works in Cologne.
To understand this campaign south, just look at the coaching posts of the German female Bundesliga. Only one woman was there last season. Clubs prefer to occupy their posts with men from the third row, for maximum work as an assistant coach. You have no chance in men’s football.
The fact that he will look a little better in the upcoming season of the female Bundesliga is associated with small clubs: 1. FC Köln signed Brittu Carlson, and the two advanced HSVs and Union Berlin have the main coaches. In Switzerland, there are completely different ones: there are the best teams where many German women worked as coaches. The share of women also does not look so rainbow here. But at least four out of ten clubs are trained by women, including the best teams of young boys, Saint -Gallen and FC Basel. Two of these three are the Germans.
“Work again in the world”
“I wanted to work again in the world, does not look,” Vyubbenhorst told Vyubbenhorst her change in Switzerland in NDR. “In Bern, it was nice to experience how I was appreciated in women’s football.” In Germany, where she, meanwhile in the male Oberliga, she experienced it in the other way. “You were reduced to the fact that you are a woman. But that I have more mind to football, they are completely hidden. ” In any case, it is very difficult to cope with 20,000 euros for the A-Plus license at the DFB Academy; Especially if you cannot be sure, then get a job. “Really complicated way.”
Vyubbenhorst also expressed positively about Switzerland when it comes to the adoption of mothers – in 2025 she returned to her main position after motherhood.
DFB recently introduced various measures, such as pure women and scholarship courses. But is that enough? Former football and television expert Katrin Lemann criticized Frankfurter RandshauThese are only seven main coaches work at the European Championship, a majority from another country than their national team. “Why do few leading coaches actually do not increase in their country? Why is Imke Ubenhorst and Kim Kulig successfully successfully working in Switzerland, but not in their homeland in Germany? ”
Switzerland is also not progressive
Because Switzerland is also not unusually progressive from the point of view of the employment of coaches. Only eight percent of all coaches: internal objects are occupied by women. In addition, there are practically no highly qualified Swiss coaches. But in the Swiss Women’s Super League you like to rely on foreigners from Germany. Maybe Wyubbenhorst and Ko are beneficial from the image of allegedly more qualified.
If the best coaches have a chance, then often outside their own homeland. During EM, everything can move. The number of trainers in Switzerland should double by 2027. And at the top of the first division, two young Swiss women have just risen in the main positions. The only 33-year-old jasmine Shvier is capturing FC Saint-Gallen, 41-year-old Luzia Oder from FC Lucerne from this summer.
