Dirk Bremser (born 1 October 1965) is a German football coach and a former player, He is the currently assistant head coach of Bundesliga club Holstein Kiel. [1][2]

Dirk Bremser
Personal information
Date of birth (1965-10-01) 1 October 1965 (age 59)
Place of birth Bochum, West Germany
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
Holstein Kiel (assistant)
Youth career
DJK Adler Dahlhausen
0000–1984 VfL Bochum
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1984–1987 VfL Bochum II
1986–1987 VfL Bochum 0 (0)
1988–1990 Preußen Münster
1990–1992 MSV Duisburg 63 (6)
1992–1993 Bayer 05 Uerdingen 28 (4)
1993–1997 Hertha BSC 82 (6)
1997–1999 VfB Lübeck 54 (8)
1999–2000 Holstein Kiel 34 (8)
Managerial career
2000 VfB Lübeck (assistant)
2000–2001 VfB Lübeck
2001–2004 VfB Lübeck (assistant)
2004–2006 Alemannia Aachen (assistant)
2006 Alemannia Aachen
2006–2010 Hannover 96 (assistant)
2010–2012 1. FC Nürnberg (assistant)
2013–2016 VfL Wolfsburg (assistant)
2017–2019 Borussia Mönchengladbach (assistant)
2019–2020 Hamburger SV (assistant)
2021– Holstein Kiel (assistant)
2021 Holstein Kiel (caretaker)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career

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Bremser spent two seasons in the Bundesliga with MSV Duisburg and Bayer 05 Uerdingen.

Coaching career

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In the 2000/01 season, Bremser became assistant coach to Uwe Erkenbrecher at VfB Lübeck.[3] After Erkenbrecher's dismissal in November 2000, Bremser was promoted to head coach on interim basis, until March 2001, before returning to his role as assistant coach following the appointment of Dieter Hecking. Under Hecking and Bremser, VfB were promoted to the 2. Bundesliga in 2002. After the 2003/04 season, in which they only lost in the semi-finals of the DFB Cup to eventual double winners SV Werder Bremen, Lübeck were relegated back to the Regionalliga Nord.

He and Hecking moved to 2. Bundesliga club Alemannia Aachen for the 2004/05 season.[4] They were promoted to the Bundesliga in the 2005/06 season. Following Dieter Hecking's move to Hannover 96 in September 2006, he initially continued to work as interim manager and coached the team in the DFB Cup match against Chemnitzer FC. After Alemannia Aachen announced the appointment of Michael Frontzeck as Hecking's successor on 13 November 2006, Bremser left the club.[5] From September 2006 to August 2009, Bremser worked with Hecking as assistant coach at Hannover 96, then assisted Hecking's successor Andreas Bergmann and then had to make way for the new coaching team led by Mirko Slomka on 20 January 2010.

On 7 February 2010 Bremer was announced as assistant coach of 1. FC Nürnberg, where he again assisted Hecking.[6] On 1 January 2013 he moved to VfL Wolfsburg as assistant coach.[7] He thus followed "his boss" Dieter Hecking once again to what was now their fifth stint together. They won the DFB Cup together in 2015. In October 2016, he was released from VfL Wolfsburg together with Dieter Hecking.[8] On 4 January 2017 Bremser was introduced as the new assistant coach of Borussia Mönchengladbach, again assisting Dieter Hecking.

For the 2019/20 season, Hecking and Bremser moved to second-division club Hamburger SV in their usual constellation.[9] They finished in 4th place and missed out on promotion back to the Bundesliga. Hecking and Bremser's contract would only have been automatically extended by one year if they had been promoted. Sports director Jonas Boldt was unable to reach an agreement with Hecking on further cooperation, so Bremser also left HSV with him.[10] While Hecking became sports director of second division club 1. FC Nürnberg for the 2020/21 season, Bremser took a one-year break.

For the 2021-22 season, Bremser became assistant coach to Ole Werner at Holstein Kiel.[11] After a bad start with five points from the first seven games, Werner resigned as head coach, whereupon Bremser took over the team on an interim basis.[12] He coached the team in a 2-1 win over SC Paderborn 07 and a 2-0 defeat to Hansa Rostock and then moved back to the assistant coach position under new head coach Marcel Rapp.[13]

Career statistics

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Appearances and goals by club, season and competition[1][2]
Club Season League National Cup Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
VfL Bochum II 1983–84 Oberliga Westfalen 1 0 1 0
1984–85 27 2 2 0 29 2
1985–86 31 7 31 7
1986–87
1987–88 16 3 16 3
Total 2 0 0 0
VfL Bochum 1986–87 Bundesliga 0 0 0 0 0 0
1987–88 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Preußen Münster 1987–88 Oberliga Westfalen 0 0 7[a] 1
1988–89 24 2 8[b] 0 32 2
1989–90 2. Bundesliga 35 4 35 4
Total 0 0 15 1
MSV Duisburg 1990–91 2. Bundesliga 36 5 6 0 42 5
1991–92 Bundesliga 27 1 1 0 28 1
Total 63 6 7 0 0 0 70 6
Bayer 05 Uerdingen 1992–93 Bundesliga 28 4 3 1 31 5
Hertha BSC 1993–94 2. Bundesliga 26 0 2 0 28 0
1994–95 30 3 1 0 31 3
1995–96 17 2 0 0 17 2
1996–97 9 1 2 0 11 1
Total 82 6 5 0 0 0 87 6
VfB Lübeck 1997–98 Regionalliga Nord 31 5 2 0 33 5
1998–99 23 3 1 0 24 3
Total 54 8 3 0 0 0 57 8
Holstein Kiel 1999–00 Regionalliga Nord 34 8 34 8
Career total 20 1 15 1
  1. ^ Appearances in the 1987–88 Oberliga promotion play-offs.
  2. ^ Appearances in the 1988–89 Oberliga promotion play-offs.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Dirk Bremser" (in German). kicker. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Dirk Bremser". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
  3. ^ DIRK BREMSER WIRD CO-TRAINER DER KSV, holstein-kiel.de, 22 April 2021
  4. ^ 2004/2005, alemannia-aachen.de
  5. ^ ERIK MEIJER KOMPLETTIERT DAS TRAINERTEA, alemannia-aachen.de, 13 September 2006
  6. ^ Dirk Bremser neuer Co-Trainer in Nürnberg, bild.de, 7 February 2010
  7. ^ VfL Wolfsburg stellt Hecking vor - Bremser wird Co-Trainer, bild.de, 27 December 2012
  8. ^ WOLFSBURG TRENNT SICH VON TRAINER HECKING, dfb.de, 17 October 2016
  9. ^ OFFICIAL | HAMBURG ANNOUNCE DIETER HECKING AS HEAD COACH, getfootballnewsgermany.com, 29 May 2019
  10. ^ HANNES DREWS WECHSELT IN DEN ZWEITLIGA-TRAINERSTAB, hsv.de, 23 July 2020
  11. ^ DIRK BREMSER WIRD CO-TRAINER DER KSV, holstein-kiel.de, 22 April 2021
  12. ^ OLE WERNER NICHT MEHR HOLSTEIN-TRAINER, holstein-kiel.de, 20 September 2021
  13. ^ MARCEL RAPP WIRD NEUER HOLSTEIN-TRAINER, holstein-kiel.de, 1 October 2021
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