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Union Berlin have appointed Bo Svensson as their new head coach for the upcoming 2024/25 Bundesliga season.

Relegation-threatened Union Berlin have parted ways with head coach Nenad Bjelica, whilst placing Marco Grote in interim charge for the final two games of the 2023/24 season.

No Xabi, no problem. Even without coach Xabi Alonso on the touchline, Bayer Leverkusen remained unbeaten Sunday with a 5-1 Bundesliga win over Eintracht Frankfurt that stretched its record run without defeat to 48 games in all competitions. Alonso was suspended for an accumulation of yellow cards, but he watched from the stands as his…

Union Berlin, which played Real Madrid in the Champions League this season, edged closer to Bundesliga relegation on Sunday with a 4-3 loss at home to fellow struggler Bochum.

Union Berlin president Dirk Zingler is also in favour of a new vote on the entry of an investor in the German Football League (DFL), echoing the calls from VfB Stuttgart president Claus Vogt. "We're doing something that has never been done in German professional football and that will change it. If we want to be successful with this, regardless of the type and manner of possible investments, there must be no doubt about the legality of the necessary votes," he told the Die Welt ne...

Union Berlin president Dirk Zingler sharply criticized team's coach Nenad Bjelica for his unsportsmanlike behaviour in the 1-0 defeat to Bayern Munich on Wednesday. "Despite all the understandable emotions in football, something like this must not happen to a head coach. A coach must remain calm in such a situation and not allow himself to be carried away by unsportsmanlike behaviour," Zingler told Saturday's edition of the Berliner Zeitung newspaper. "He didn't liv...

Berlin (dpa) Union Berlin and club president Dirk Zingler have refused to comment on an sarcastic banner held by Bayern Munich fans during the match between both teams on Wednesday evening. "We're not going to say anything about it," Union spokesman Christian Arbeit told dpa in response to a corresponding request on Thursday. As part of a protest against external investors coming into the league, Bayern fans held a banner saying: “It’s better to be a winner than to e...

Union Berlin president Dirk Zingler has said the team over-performed in the past successful years and that a reset is needed amid the current difficult season. Union were promoted into the Bundesliga in 2019 and rose steadily up to fourth place last season to qualify for the Champions League for the first time. But this season they went 16 games without victory from late August to early December, lost all six Champions League matches, and placed 15th in the Bundesliga are only just above the dan

Union Berlin president Dirk Zingler has said the club is open for investors in general and told fans that blaming the German Football League (DFL) over the issue was wrong. Zingler told the club website in an interview published on Monday that the club voted against a DFL investor earlier in the month because "we don't think it is good for the league." The 36 DFL clubs from the Bundesliga and second division voted in favour of a billion-euro deal, which allows a strategic partner ...

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