Bundesliga club Mainz 05 is taking the expected step after a negative series and parting ways with head coach Jan Siewert. The coach was only in office for a short time. Will his successor come from the club?
FSV Mainz 05 has responded to the ongoing misery in the Bundesliga by separating from coach Jan Siewert. The penultimate team, which has not won eleven games, released the 41-year-old on Monday – he had only been in office for three months. The coach and the football professionals were missing from the FSV Mainz 05 car at the Rose Monday parade. Siewert’s successor will be presented on Tuesday afternoon, as the Rheinhessen announced.
“Unfortunately, we now see the change in the coaching position as a necessary step in order to be able to bring about a positive turnaround,” said sports director Christian Heidel before the next game against FC Augsburg on Saturday (3:30 p.m./Sky).
Does the new coach come from your own ranks?
One candidate is young coach Benjamin Hoffmann – it would be the typical Mainz path. The 44-year-old replaced Siewert as U23 coach at Rheinhessen last fall and had previously become German champion with the U19 team. Hoffmann recently caused a stir when the younger generation knocked FC Barcelona’s youngsters out of the competition in the European Youth League.
Siewert initially followed Bo Svensson as interim coach at the beginning of November. Shortly before Christmas, he received a contract until June 30, 2026. Apart from his first game (2-0 against RB Leipzig), the former coach of Mainz’s second team did not win a game and drew six times.
Mainz is nine points behind in 15th place
After the 1:3 at VfB Stuttgart on Sunday, FSV sports director Martin Schmidt avoided making a commitment to Siewert and announced a detailed analysis. “We’ll sit down together calmly and see what the next steps are. We have to change something, that’s clear,” said the Swiss. “It’s clear that we obviously can’t continue playing like this. We need victories.”
After the next setback, striker Jonathan Burkardt, among others, bluntly expressed his displeasure: “We collapse completely after 0-1. That’s not enough. We talk about the same shit every week.”
The Mainz team is threatened with their first fall from the upper house since their promotion in 2009. They are already nine points behind the first non-relegation place, which Union Berlin occupies. There is a four-point gap to the relegation place with 1. FC Köln.
The 05ers have had great coaches like Jürgen Klopp and Thomas Tuchel in the past. But even Svensson, who saved Mainz from relegation in 2021 and then finished the season eighth in the table, did not become a permanent solution.
Source: Stern
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