Frank Engel (football manager)

Frank Engel

Frank Engel in 1990
Personal information
Date of birth	(1951-02-15) 15 February 1951
Place of birth	Leipzig, East Germany
Team information
Current team	Germany U-15 (Manager)
Youth career
Years	Team
	BSG DIMO Böhlitz-Ehrenberg
0000–1970	BSG Chemie Leipzig
Managerial career
1976–1988	East Germany youth teams
1989	BSG Chemie Böhlen
1990	Daewoo Royals
1991–1992	FC Sachsen Leipzig
1992–1993	TSG Markkleeberg
1993–1994	1. FC Magdeburg
1994–1995	1. FC Union Berlin
1995–1997	FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt
1997	FC Carl Zeiss Jena
1998–1999	Ismaily
2000	FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt
2006–2009	Germany U-18
2009–	Germany U-15

Frank Engel (born 15 February 1951) is a German football manager who manages the Germany Under-15 national team. From 1 January 2006 until 2009 he managed Germany's Under-18 national team.

Club career

Born in Leipzig, East Germany, Engel began his playing career at BSG DIMO Böhlitz-Ehrenberg in a suburb of Leipzig, before moving on to DDR-Oberliga side BSG Chemie Leipzig. Here he played for the youth team, but already had to end his playing days without playing a single senior game due to prolonged back problems.

Managerial career

Engel took up managing immediately after his playing days had come to an end, working as a youth coach for Chemie Leipzig until 1976, when he found work with the Deutscher Fußball-Verband, the East German football association. He coached the youth national teams, from the Under 15 to the Under 19. Altogether, he was in charge of a national team for 195 matches, and coached later stars such as Matthias Sammer, Ulf Kirsten and Thomas Doll. In 1988 his team won the bronze medal at the Under-16 European Championship in Spain. The East Germans beat their West German counterparts under Holger Osieck in the third-place playoff.

After German reunification, Engel managed a number of clubs, among the 2. Bundesliga side FC Carl Zeiss Jena and former East German top-flight teams 1. FC Magdeburg and FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt. He gained some international experience managing Daewoo Royals FC in South Korea and Ismaily SC in Egypt. In South Korea, He became a historical first foreign manager in K-League history. Additionally he was assistant manager at Eintracht Frankfurt, F.C. Hansa Rostock and Alemannia Aachen, always under Jörg Berger.

Since 2006 he has again been working with the youth national teams, first with the Under-18 as the successor of Michael Skibbe, then the Under-19 national team and now with the Under-15 team.