1. FC Union Berlin relies on continuity when it comes to success: Urs Fischer and his coaching team extend their contracts. The leaders of the Bundesliga are better than ever with the Swiss. Fischer leads the club into the Bundesliga - and now plays in Europe.
Bundesliga club 1. FC Union Berlin and coach Urs Fischer have agreed to extend their partnership. As the league leaders announced, the contract of the 56-year-old Swiss, which expired at the end of the season, and that of his assistant coach Markus Hoffmann were extended early. As usual, Union did not provide any information about the new contract period.
"What we have been able to experience together in recent years is unbelievable and hard to describe. As I have often emphasized, I feel very comfortable at Union," said the 56-year-old Fischer. "The daily work together with the team and the entire team, the conditions that the club provides, the human interaction - all these are very important factors for our success in the past four years."
The former professional, who had won the championship in Switzerland twice with FC Basel, came to Union in 2018 and led the then second division club to the Bundesliga in his first season. Since then, the Köpenickers have easily held the class in 2020, reached the Conference League a year later, the Europa League last season and recently stormed to the top of the table.
"The cooperation with Urs Fischer and Markus Hoffmann is well established and very successful. We know each other very well now and know how each other ticks. Something like this helps immensely in our day-to-day work and that's why I'm very happy to see continuity in this important one to have positions," said Oliver Ruhnert, managing director of professional football.
Union President Dirk Zingler said that Fischer was "an excellent coach who, together with the entire coaching team, led our team into the most successful sporting phase in our club's history." The 58-year-old is very happy that Fischer and Hoffmann "will remain Union members for the next few years."
