Marc Kienle
Birth date22 October 1972 (age 54)
Birth placeRuit, West Germany
Height1.81 m
PositionDefender, midfielder
Youthclubs 1TSV Plattenhardt
Youthyears 2–1991
Youthclubs 2Stuttgarter Kickers
Years 11991–1994
Clubs 1VfB Stuttgart (A)
Caps 120
Goals 17
Years 21991–1995
Clubs 2VfB Stuttgart
Caps 267
Goals 27
Years 31995–1998
Clubs 3MSV Duisburg
Caps 336
Goals 32
Years 41998–2000
Clubs 4Karlsruher SC
Caps 446
Goals 42
Years 52000–2001
Clubs 5Alemannia Aachen
Caps 514
Goals 51
Years 62002–2003
Clubs 6MSV Duisburg
Caps 652
Goals 64
Years 72004–2006
Clubs 7MVV
Caps 767
Goals 72
Years 82006
Clubs 8Wormatia Worms
Caps 83
Goals 80
Totalcaps305
Totalgoals25
Nationalyears 11992
Nationalteam 1Germany U21
Nationalcaps 12
Nationalgoals 10
Manageryears 12007–2008
Managerclubs 1VfB Stuttgart (U19 assistant)
Manageryears 22008–2010
Managerclubs 2VfB Stuttgart (U17)
Manageryears 32010
Managerclubs 3VfB Stuttgart (U19)
Manageryears 42010–2011
Managerclubs 4VfB Stuttgart (U17)
Manageryears 52012–2013
Managerclubs 5Bayern Munich (U19)
Manageryears 62013–2015
Managerclubs 6SV Wehen Wiesbaden
Manageryears 72018–2019
Managerclubs 7VfB Stuttgart II

Marc Kienle (born 22 October 1972) is a German football manager and former player.[1] As a player, he spent six seasons in the Bundesliga with VfB Stuttgart and MSV Duisburg.

Playing career

Kienle played youth football for Stuttgarter Kickers, before joining city rivals VfB Stuttgart in 1991. He made his debut for the club on the opening day of the 1991–92 season, as a substitute for Alexander Strehmel in a 1–0 defeat to MSV Duisburg, and made a further nine appearances during the season as Stuttgart won the Bundesliga title. The following season, he only made six appearances, all as a substitute, but scored three times, including both in a 2–0 win over 1. FC Köln after replacing Fritz Walter. He made 23 appearances during the 1993–94 season, again mostly as a sub, and became a regular starter in 1994–95, with 28 appearances as Stuttgart settled into a mid-table position.

Kienle was to drop to the 2. Bundesliga, though, joining MSV Duisburg. He made 31 appearances during the 1995–96 season as Duisburg were promoted in third place, but only made five appearances in the next two seasons combined, and didn't feature in the club's run to the 1998 DFB-Pokal Final, which they lost against Bayern Munich. In 1998, he signed for Karlsruher SC who had just been relegated to the 2. Bundesliga, and missed out on promotion during his first season, finishing fifth. The following year Karlsruhe finished bottom of the table, and were relegated to the Regionalliga Süd, so Kienle left the club.

Kienle stayed in the 2. Bundesliga, signing for Alemannia Aachen, making fourteen appearances during the 2000–01 season as the club finished 10th. He then returned to MSV Duisburg, where he made over 50 appearances in the next two seasons as the club finished in mid-table in the second tier. He spent the first half of the 2003–04 season without a club before joining Dutch Eerste Divisie side MVV, where he would spend the next two and a half years. He returned to Germany in 2006, joining Wormatia Worms of the Oberliga Südwest, but retired shortly after the beginning of the 2006–07 season.

Coaching career

VfB Stuttgart

After retirement, Kienle returned to VfB Stuttgart as a youth coach. In his first year (from 2007 to 2008) he worked as assistant manager for the U19 team, before becoming the manager of the U17s in the following season[citation needed] and was that until 4 January 2010, where he took over the U19 squad again, after Jens Keller was promoted to first team assistant manager.[2] He took charge of the U17 team again in the following season.

In the summer 2011, he was appointed as head of the youth department.[3] He left the club one year later.

Bayern Munich

Already in April 2012 it was announced, that Kienle from the upcoming season would be the manager of Bayern Munich's U19 team.[4] He left the club on 27 October 2013, after being offered to become the manager of SV Wehen Wiesbaden.[5]

SV Wehen Wiesbaden

In October 2013, he took his first senior management job, replacing Peter Vollmann at SV Wehen Wiesbaden. By co-incidence, two of his former MSV Duisburg teammates, Dietmar Hirsch and Horst Steffen, had begun their managerial careers in the same division during the same season. He was sacked on 12 April 2015.[6]

Return to VfB Stuttgart

On 5 June 2016 it was confirmed, that Kienle had returned to Stuttgart and took over the role of manager sports coordination at VfB Stuttgart.[7] He would be responsible for the integration of junior training, scouting and the licensing area at VfB. In the summer 2018, he took over the reserve team, VfB Stuttgart II.[8] He left the position on 1 April 2019.[9]

Honours

VfB Stuttgart

MSV Duisburg

References

  1. ^ "Kienle, Marc" (in German). Kicker. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
  2. ^ Bastürk und Simak nicht an Bord, zvw.de, 4 January 2019
  3. ^ Marc Kienle ist der neue Chef des VfB, Stuttgarter Zeitung, 24 May 2011
  4. ^ Die Ära Kienle dauert nicht einmal ein Jahr, stuttgarter-zeitung.de, 23 April 2012
  5. ^ Bayern Munich U19 coach Marc Kienle takes SV Wehen Wiesbaden job, bavarianfootballworks.com, 29 October 2013
  6. ^ "Wehen Wiesbaden stellt Marc Kienle frei" (in German). dfb.de. 12 April 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  7. ^ Verstärkung für das VfB Management, vfb.de, 5 June 2016
  8. ^ Erstmals auf dem Rasen, vfb.de, 20 June 2018
  9. ^ Marc Kienle muss gehen, Andreas Hinkel übernimmt, stuttgarter-nachrichten.de, 1 April 2019