BACKROOM STAFF · 2025/26

FC St. Pauli backroom staff

We hold the names of 30 people on FC St. Pauli's staff for 2025/26, beyond the players. Alexander Blessin manages the first team, with Peter Németh as assistant manager. FC St. Pauli's is the 8th longest staff list of the 19 2. Bundesliga clubs we hold.

STAFF NAMED30

COACHING10

MEDICAL6

SCOUTING AND ANALYSIS9

NATIONALITIES5

MEDIAN AGE45

Coaching staff

The manager, the assistants and the coaches at every level of the club, 10 people

FC St. Pauli coaching staff in 2025/26: name, role, team, age, nationality and previous clubs.
NAME	ROLE	TEAM	AGE	NATIONALITY	PREVIOUSLY AT
Alexander Blessin	Manager	First team	52	Germany	Royale Union Saint-Gilloise before that Genoa Cricket and Football Club, KV Oostende and RB Leipzig
Nils Schick	Manager	Under-19s	31	Germany	-
Peter Németh	Assistant manager	First team	52	Slovakia	DSC Arminia Bielefeld before that Dynamo Dresden
Thomas Risch	Coach	First team	45	Germany	RB Leipzig
Benjamin Olde	Coach	Under-19s	37	Germany	-
Sven Van Der Jeugt	Goalkeeping coach	First team	44	Belgium	Royale Union Saint-Gilloise before that SK Beveren, RSC Anderlecht and K Patro Eisden Maasmechelen
Sascha Burchert	Goalkeeping coach	Under-19s	35	Germany	-
Frederic Bokelmann	Fitness coach	First team	35	Germany	-
Karim Rashwan	Fitness coach	First team	42	Germany	-
Thomas Barth	Fitness coach	First team	44	Germany	SSV Jahn Regensburg before that FC Schalke 04

Medical and sports science

Doctors, physios and sports scientists, 6 people

FC St. Pauli medical and sports science in 2025/26: name, role, team, age, nationality and previous clubs.
NAME	ROLE	TEAM	AGE	NATIONALITY	PREVIOUSLY AT
Volker Carrero	Chief doctor	Club-wide	57	Germany	-
Sebastian Schneider	Club doctor	First team	55	Germany	-
James Morgan	Head physio	Club-wide	50	New Zealand	1. FC Nürnberg before that FC Augsburg
Dominik Körner	Physio	First team	34	Germany	-
Florian Lechner	Physio	First team	44	Germany	-
Jan Altmeyer	Physio	First team	35	Germany	VfL Osnabrück

Scouting and analysis

Scouts, recruitment analysts and performance analysts, 9 people

FC St. Pauli scouting and analysis in 2025/26: name, role, team, age, nationality and previous clubs.
NAME	ROLE	TEAM	AGE	NATIONALITY	PREVIOUSLY AT
Jan Sandmann	Chief scout	Club-wide	47	Germany	1. FC Nürnberg
Joachim Philipkowski	Scout	Club-wide	63	Germany	-
Marco Feldhusen	Scout	Club-wide	55	Germany	-
Markus Ahlf	Scout	Club-wide	47	Germany	-
Rüdiger Kauf	Scout	Club-wide	50	Germany	DSC Arminia Bielefeld
Xaver Hasun	Scout	Club-wide	32	Austria	-
Stefan Kühn	Recruitment analyst	Club-wide	47	Germany	-
Niklas Lanwehr	Performance analyst	First team	34	Germany	Eintracht Frankfurt
Sami Pierau	Performance analyst	First team	29	Germany	-

Football management

The people who run the football side, from the sporting director to the academy, 2 people

FC St. Pauli football management in 2025/26: name, role, age, nationality.
NAME	ROLE	AGE	NATIONALITY
Benjamin Liedtke	Head of youth development	37	Germany
Jonas Wömmel	Loan manager	32	Germany

Owners and directors

Who owns FC St. Pauli and sits on its board

FC St. Pauli owners and directors in 2025/26: name, role, age, nationality and previous clubs.
NAME	ROLE	AGE	NATIONALITY	PREVIOUSLY AT
Oke Göttlich	Chair	49	Germany	-
Andreas Bornemann	Director	53	Germany	1. FC Nürnberg
Martin Urban	Director	53	Germany	-

Backroom staff at every 2. Bundesliga club

The names we hold at each club in the division, 2025/26

Hertha BSC 43 VfL Wolfsburg 41 1. FC Nürnberg 38 Dynamo Dresden 38 VfL Bochum 1848 38 Holstein Kiel 32 DSC Arminia Bielefeld 31 FC St. Pauli 30 1. FC Kaiserslautern 29 Fortuna Düsseldorf 1895 28 Karlsruher SC 26 SpVgg Greuther Fürth 26 VfL Osnabrück 26 Hannover 96 24 Eintracht Braunschweig 23 FC Energie Cottbus 22 SV Darmstadt 98 21 1. FC Heidenheim 1846 18 1. FC Magdeburg 17

FC St. Pauli's list is the 8th longest of the 19, against a median of 28 across the division. Hertha BSC names the most, 43. 1. FC Magdeburg names the fewest, 17.

FC St. Pauli against the 2. Bundesliga, department by department

Names held in each department, beside the average and the most at any one club

FC St. Pauli staff by department against the 2. Bundesliga average and the largest department in the division, 2025/26.
DEPARTMENT	FC ST. PAULI	AVERAGE	MOST	AT
Coaching	10	9	15	Dynamo Dresden
Medical and sports science	6	6	10	VfL Wolfsburg
Scouting and analysis	9	7	17	VfL Wolfsburg
Football management	2	2	3	VfL Wolfsburg
Owners and directors	3	5	12	Dynamo Dresden

Backrooms the size of FC St. Pauli's, in every league

FC St. Pauli's 30 names make the joint 328th longest staff list of the 815 clubs we hold one for

Clubs ranked by the number of staff we hold for 2025/26, from 310th to 328th, with FC St. Pauli among them.
#	CLUB	LEAGUE	STAFF
310	Tenerife	La Liga 2	31
310	Tromsø IL	Eliteserien	31
310	USL Dunkerque	Ligue 2	31
310	West Bromwich Albion West Brom	Championship	31
328	Barnsley	League One	30
328	Club Atlético Patronato de la Juventud Católica	-	30
328	Club Atlético Tucumán	Super Liga	30
328	En Avant Guingamp	Ligue 2	30
328	Excelsior Rotterdam	Eredivisie	30
328	FC Metz	Ligue 2	30
328	FC St. Pauli	2. Bundesliga	30
328	FC Viktoria Plzeň	Czech First League	30
328	Fussballclub RB Salzburg	Austrian Bundesliga	30
328	Gil Vicente	Primeira Liga	30
328	Henan FC	Chinese Super League	30
328	HNK Gorica	Croatian First League	30
328	KGHM Zagłębie Lubin	Ekstraklasa	30
328	Krylja Sovetov Samara	Russian Premier League	30
328	Milton Keynes Dons	League One	30
328	Montpellier Hérault SC	Ligue 2	30
328	Northampton Town	League Two	30

Where FC St. Pauli's staff come from

5 nationalities across the 30 staff whose nationality we hold

Germany 26

Austria 1

Belgium 1

New Zealand 1

Slovakia 1

Germany supplies 26 of the 30, 87%. The median age is 45. The oldest is Joachim Philipkowski, scout, at 63, and the youngest Sami Pierau, performance analyst, at 29. 11 members of staff came from another club, most often 1. FC Nürnberg (3).

Where FC St. Pauli's former staff work now

On FC St. Pauli's staff in an earlier season and at another club in 2025/26, 13 people

People who worked at FC St. Pauli in an earlier season and the club and job they hold in 2025/26.
NAME	ROLE NOW	NOW AT
Fabian Hürzeler	Manager	Brighton & Hove Albion Brighton
Timo Schultz	Manager	VfL Osnabrück
Loïc Favé	Assistant manager	Hamburger Sport-Verein
Markus Gellhaus	Assistant manager	F.C. Hansa Rostock
Marco Knoop	Goalkeeping coach	Nottingham Forest Nott'm Forest
Niklas Hennecke	Chief doctor	RB Leipzig
Alexander Blase	Physio	RB Leipzig
Carlo Curcio	Scout	Sport-Club Freiburg
Mathias Hain	Scout	VfL Wolfsburg
Stefan Studer	Scout	1. FC Union Berlin
Remigius Elert	Recruitment analyst	FC Augsburg
Ole Marschall	Performance analyst	Hertha BSC
Uwe Stöver	Managing director	Wiesbaden

Frequently asked questions

Who is FC St. Pauli's manager?

Alexander Blessin is the FC St. Pauli first-team manager, aged 52. Peter Németh is the assistant manager.

Who is the goalkeeping coach at FC St. Pauli?

Sven Van Der Jeugt coaches the FC St. Pauli first-team goalkeepers.

Who is FC St. Pauli's head physio?

James Morgan is head physio at FC St. Pauli.

Who is FC St. Pauli's chief scout?

Jan Sandmann is chief scout at FC St. Pauli.

How many backroom staff do FC St. Pauli have?

We hold the names of 30 people on FC St. Pauli's staff for 2025/26: 10 in coaching, 6 in medical and sports science, 9 in scouting and analysis, 2 in football management and 3 owners and directors. That is the 8th longest list of the 19 2. Bundesliga clubs we hold, against a median of 28. Across every league we hold, that list is the joint 328th longest of 815.

Where to next

For what FC St. Pauli pays its squad, see FC St. Pauli player wages. The first-team manager has a page of their own: Alexander Blessin. What each of these jobs pays across football is on backroom staff wages. Every club in the division is on 2. Bundesliga wages.