BACKROOM STAFF · 2025/26

1. FSV Mainz 05 backroom staff

We hold the names of 33 people on 1. FSV Mainz 05's staff for 2025/26, beyond the players. Urs Fischer manages the first team, with Markus Hoffmann and Michael Silberbauer as assistant managers. 1. FSV Mainz 05's is the 15th longest staff list of the 18 Bundesliga clubs we hold.

STAFF NAMED33

COACHING13

MEDICAL8

SCOUTING AND ANALYSIS7

NATIONALITIES7

MEDIAN AGE42

Coaching staff

The manager, the assistants and the coaches at every level of the club, 13 people

1. FSV Mainz 05 coaching staff in 2025/26: name, role, team, age, nationality and previous clubs.
NAME	ROLE	TEAM	AGE	NATIONALITY	PREVIOUSLY AT
Urs Fischer	Manager	First team	59	Switzerland	1. FC Union Berlin
Jan Kirchhoff	Manager	Under-19s	34	Germany	VfB Stuttgart
Markus Hoffmann	Assistant manager	First team	53	Austria	1. FC Union Berlin
Michael Silberbauer	Assistant manager	First team	44	Denmark	FC Utrecht before that Football Club Midtjylland and Pacific Football Club
Sören Hartung	Coach	First team	41	Germany	-
Marc Heidenmann	Coach	Under-19s	34	Germany	-
Pascal Stolarczyk	Coach	Under-19s	35	Poland	-
Stephan Kuhnert	Goalkeeping coach	First team	64	Germany	-
Oliver Habelitz	Goalkeeping coach	Under-19s	28	Germany	-
Axel Busenkell	Fitness coach	First team	53	Germany	-
Jonas Grünewald	Fitness coach	First team	41	Germany	-
Benjamin Blétry	Fitness coach	Under-19s	36	France	-
Marvin Kilian	Fitness coach	Under-19s	33	Germany	-

Medical and sports science

Doctors, physios and sports scientists, 8 people

1. FSV Mainz 05 medical and sports science in 2025/26: name, role, team, age, nationality and previous clubs.
NAME	ROLE	TEAM	AGE	NATIONALITY	PREVIOUSLY AT
Kathrin Stelzer	Club doctor	First team	41	-	-
Philipp Appelmann	Club doctor	First team	42	Germany	-
Stefan Mattyasovszky	Club doctor	First team	56	Germany	-
Christopher Rohrbeck	Head physio	Club-wide	47	Germany	Liverpool
Nico Hölzel	Physio	First team	35	Germany	-
Stefan Kamilli	Physio	First team	49	Germany	-
Steffen Tröster	Physio	First team	42	Germany	-
Sven Herzog	Sports scientist	First team	48	Germany	-

Scouting and analysis

Scouts, recruitment analysts and performance analysts, 7 people

1. FSV Mainz 05 scouting and analysis in 2025/26: name, role, team, age, nationality and previous clubs.
NAME	ROLE	TEAM	AGE	NATIONALITY	PREVIOUSLY AT
Bernd Legien	Chief scout	Club-wide	54	Germany	Eintracht Frankfurt
Aristide Bancé	Scout	Club-wide	40	Burkina Faso	-
Johannes Rupprechter	Scout	Club-wide	42	Austria	-
Maximilian Rose	Scout	Club-wide	29	Germany	-
Michael Falkenmayer	Scout	Club-wide	42	Germany	-
Jannes Ehresmann	Performance analyst	First team	27	Germany	-
Sebastian Podsiadły	Performance analyst	First team	34	Germany	1. FC Union Berlin

Football management

The people who run the football side, from the sporting director to the academy, 3 people

1. FSV Mainz 05 football management in 2025/26: name, role, age, nationality.
NAME	ROLE	AGE	NATIONALITY
Niko Bungert	Technical director	38	Germany
Volker Kersting	Head of youth development	55	Germany
Michael Thurk	Loan manager	49	Germany

Owners and directors

Who owns 1. FSV Mainz 05 and sits on its board

1. FSV Mainz 05 owners and directors in 2025/26: name, role, age, nationality and previous clubs.
NAME	ROLE	AGE	NATIONALITY	PREVIOUSLY AT
Stefan Hofmann	Chair	62	Germany	-
Christian Heidel	Director	62	Germany	FC Schalke 04

Backroom staff at every Bundesliga club

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

Bayer 04 Leverkusen 71 Borussia Mönchengladbach 60 RB Leipzig 58 FC Bayern München 57 Eintracht Frankfurt 54 VfB Stuttgart 45 Borussia Dortmund 44 FC Schalke 04 43 Hamburger Sport-Verein 43 1. FC Köln 41 SV Werder Bremen 40 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 36 1. FC Union Berlin 34 FC Augsburg 34 1. FSV Mainz 05 33 Sport-Club Freiburg 31 SV Elversberg 27 SC Paderborn 07 26

1. FSV Mainz 05's list is the 15th longest of the 18, against a median of 42 across the division. Bayer 04 Leverkusen names the most, 71. SC Paderborn 07 names the fewest, 26.

1. FSV Mainz 05 against the Bundesliga, department by department

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

1. FSV Mainz 05 staff by department against the Bundesliga average and the largest department in the division, 2025/26.
DEPARTMENT	1. FSV MAINZ 05	AVERAGE	MOST	AT
Coaching	13	12	21	Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Medical and sports science	8	9	17	Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Scouting and analysis	7	15	27	Borussia Mönchengladbach
Football management	3	2	3	Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Owners and directors	2	6	10	RB Leipzig

Backrooms the size of 1. FSV Mainz 05's, in every league

1. FSV Mainz 05's 33 names make the joint 278th longest staff list of the 815 clubs we hold one for

Clubs ranked by the number of staff we hold for 2025/26, from 254th to 278th, with 1. FSV Mainz 05 among them.
#	CLUB	LEAGUE	STAFF
254	Odense Boldklub	Danish Superliga	34
254	Oita Trinita	-	34
254	Oviedo	La Liga 2	34
254	PEC Zwolle	Eredivisie	34
254	Śląsk Wrocław	Ekstraklasa	34
254	Ural Yekaterinburg	-	34
254	Vejle Boldklub	Danish Superliga	34
254	Wigan Athletic	League One	34
254	Willem II	Eredivisie	34
254	Wisła Kraków	Ekstraklasa	34
278	1. FSV Mainz 05	Bundesliga	33
278	Al-Hilal Saudi Football Club	Saudi Pro League	33
278	Arsenal Women	Women's Super League	33
278	FC Baník Ostrava	Czech First League	33
278	HNK Rijeka	Croatian First League	33
278	Nagoya Grampus	J1 League	33
278	Oud-Heverlee Leuven	Belgian Pro League	33
278	Portsmouth	Championship	33
278	Preston North End	Championship	33
278	Rosenborg BK	Eliteserien	33
278	Royale Union Saint-Gilloise	Belgian Pro League	33

Where 1. FSV Mainz 05's staff come from

7 nationalities across the 32 staff whose nationality we hold

Germany 25

Austria 2

Burkina Faso 1

Denmark 1

France 1

Poland 1

Switzerland 1

Germany supplies 25 of the 32, 78%. The median age is 42. The oldest is Stephan Kuhnert, goalkeeping coach, at 64, and the youngest Jannes Ehresmann, performance analyst, at 27. 8 members of staff came from another club, most often 1. FC Union Berlin (3).

Where 1. FSV Mainz 05's former staff work now

On 1. FSV Mainz 05's staff in an earlier season and at another club in 2025/26, 7 people

People who worked at 1. FSV Mainz 05 in an earlier season and the club and job they hold in 2025/26.
NAME	ROLE NOW	NOW AT
Jan-Moritz Lichte	Coach	Manchester City Man City
Christian Bieser	Physio	Wiesbaden
Siegfried Marti	Chief scout	KAS Eupen
Daniel Fischer	Performance analyst	New York Red Bulls
Thomas Krücken	Head of youth development	Manchester City Man City
Michael Welling	Managing director	VfL Osnabrück
Rouven Schröder	Director	Borussia Mönchengladbach

Frequently asked questions

Who is 1. FSV Mainz 05's manager?

Urs Fischer is the 1. FSV Mainz 05 first-team manager, aged 59. Markus Hoffmann and Michael Silberbauer are the assistant managers.

Who is the goalkeeping coach at 1. FSV Mainz 05?

Stephan Kuhnert coaches the 1. FSV Mainz 05 first-team goalkeepers.

Who is 1. FSV Mainz 05's head physio?

Christopher Rohrbeck is head physio at 1. FSV Mainz 05.

Who is 1. FSV Mainz 05's chief scout?

Bernd Legien is chief scout at 1. FSV Mainz 05.

Who is 1. FSV Mainz 05's technical director?

Niko Bungert is technical director at 1. FSV Mainz 05.

How many backroom staff do 1. FSV Mainz 05 have?

We hold the names of 33 people on 1. FSV Mainz 05's staff for 2025/26: 13 in coaching, 8 in medical and sports science, 7 in scouting and analysis, 3 in football management and 2 owners and directors. That is the 15th longest list of the 18 Bundesliga clubs we hold, against a median of 42. Across every league we hold, that list is the joint 278th longest of 815.

Where to next

For what 1. FSV Mainz 05 pays its squad, see 1. FSV Mainz 05 player wages. The first-team manager has a page of their own: Urs Fischer. What each of these jobs pays across football is on backroom staff wages. Every club in the division is on Bundesliga wages.