In great difficulty in the German championship, Wolfsburg decided on Sunday to part ways with their coach Niko Kovac, who failed to win a single Bundesliga match in 2024. VfL Wolfsburg remains on a negative series of eleven matches without victory in the championship, the last dating back to December 16 against the red lantern Darmstadt. As a result, Wolfsburg is only 14th, with only six points more than the play-off Mainz (16th).
The new defeat on Saturday, 3-1 at home against Augsburg, was too much for Kovac. Robert Kovac, assistant and brother of Niko, also leaves the Lower Saxon club. For his first season at the head of the club in 2022-2023, Kovac finished eighth. The 52-year-old former Croatian international (83 caps), German champion in 2003 with Bayern Munich as a player, started on the bench as Croatia coach. He won the German Cup with Eintracht Frankfurt (2018), achieved the Cup-Championship double with Bayern (2019). Thanked by the Munich club the following year, he then coached AS Monaco.