Zsolt Lőw
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Zsolt Lőw[1] | ||
Date of birth | 29 April 1979 | ||
Place of birth | Budapest, Hungary | ||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Position(s) | Left Back | ||
Youth career | |||
Újpest | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1998–2002 | Újpest | 97 | (6) |
2002–2005 | Energie Cottbus | 79 | (5) |
2005–2006 | Hansa Rostock | 11 | (0) |
2006–2008 | Hoffenheim | 39 | (0) |
2009–2011 | Mainz 05 | 29 | (0) |
2010–2011 | → Mainz 05 II | 4 | (0) |
Total | 259 | (11) | |
International career | |||
1999–2000 | Hungary U-21 | 3 | (0) |
2002–2008 | Hungary | 25 | (1) |
Managerial career | |||
2012–2014 | Red Bull Salzburg FC (youth) | ||
2014–2015 | Red Bull Salzburg FC (assistant) | ||
2015–2018 | RB Leipzig (assistant) | ||
2018–2020 | Paris Saint-Germain (assistant) | ||
2021–2022 | Chelsea (assistant) | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Zsolt Lőw (born 29 April 1979) is a Hungarian professional football coach and former player who played as a defender. He was most recently an assistant coach at Premier League club Chelsea to Thomas Tuchel, whom he previously assisted at Paris Saint Germain.[2] In his playing career, he played for Újpest, Energie Cottbus, Hansa Rostock, Hoffenheim, and Mainz 05.
Playing career
From 2009 until 2011, Lőw played for Mainz 05 under coach Thomas Tuchel.[citation needed]
Coaching career
Lőw started his coaching career a year later, in 2012, as assistant coach of Peter Zeidler at FC Red Bull Salzburg's farm team FC Liefering. When Adi Hütter joined Salzburg as coach in 2014, Lőw became his assistant until Hütter left for Bern. Salzburg won the Austrian double with the 2014–15 Austrian Football Bundesliga, and 2014–15 Austrian Cup. Lőw, at the same time, joined RB Leipzig, as one of the assistants to Ralf Rangnick. When Leipzig was promoted to the Bundesliga, Rangnick stopped being coach and hired Ralph Hasenhüttl as coach who continued to work with Lőw as his assistant. Leipzig finished as runner up in 2016–17 Bundesliga. The following season Leipzig dropped out of the Champions League and continued in the Europa League. After beating heavyweights Napoli and Zenit Saint Petersburg, they lost against Marseille in the quarter-finals.[3]
In July 2018, when Hasenhüttl decided to leave Leipzig, Lőw left to join Thomas Tuchel as an assistant at Paris Saint Germain.[4][5]
In December 2020, PSG sporting director Leonardo terminated Tuchel's contract.[6] Tuchel's staff, including Lőw, were let go as well.[6] Lőw went with Tuchel when the German was hired by Premier League club Chelsea the following month.[7] He was in charge of Chelsea's Club World Cup semi-final as Tuchel was isolating after a positive COVID-19 test.
Career statistics
Reference:[2]
Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Total | |||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Újpest | 1998–99[8] | Nemzeti Bajnokság I | 2 | 0 | 1[a] | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
1999–2000[9] | Nemzeti Bajnokság I | 30 | 0 | 1[a] | 0 | 31 | 0 | |||
2000–01 | Nemzeti Bajnokság I | 28 | 1 | – | 28 | 1 | ||||
2001–02 | Nemzeti Bajnokság I | 37 | 5 | – | 37 | 5 | ||||
Total | 97 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 99 | 6 | ||||
Energie Cottbus | 2002–03 | Bundesliga | 31 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | 33 | 0 | |
2003–04 | 2. Bundesliga | 26 | 4 | 1 | 0 | – | 27 | 4 | ||
2004–05 | 2. Bundesliga | 22 | 1 | 2 | 0 | – | 24 | 1 | ||
Total | 79 | 5 | 5 | 0 | – | 84 | 5 | |||
Hansa Rostock | 2005–06 | 2. Bundesliga | 11 | 0 | 1 | 2 | – | 12 | 2 | |
1899 Hoffenheim | 2006–07 | Regionalliga Süd | 11 | 0 | — | – | 11 | 0 | ||
2007–08 | 2. Bundesliga | 27 | 0 | 4 | 0 | – | 31 | 0 | ||
2008–09 | Bundesliga | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 1 | 0 | ||
Total | 39 | 0 | 4 | 0 | – | 43 | 0 | |||
Mainz 05 | 2008–09 | 2. Bundesliga | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 15 | 0 | |
2009–10 | Bundesliga | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 16 | 0 | ||
2010–11 | Bundesliga | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | ||
Total | 29 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | 31 | 0 | |||
Career total | 255 | 11 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 269 | 13 |
Honours
Player
Újpest
1899 Hoffenheim
- 2. Bundesliga runner-up: 2007–08
- Regionalliga runner-up: 2006–07
Mainz 05
- 2. Bundesliga runner-up: 2008–09
References
- ^ "Squad List: FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2021: Chelsea FC" (PDF). FIFA. 9 February 2022. p. 1. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
- ^ a b "Löw, Zsolt" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 17 May 2012.
- ^ "RB Leipzig fall short of Europa League semi-finals after Marseille defeat". Bundesliga. 12 April 2018. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
- ^ "Zsolt Löw named assistant coach". PSG. 11 July 2018. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
- ^ "Sensation! Hungarian trainer Lőw becomes assistant coach at Paris Saint-Germain". Daily News Hungary. 13 July 2018. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
- ^ a b "For PSG, firing Tuchel, choosing Pochettino was a long time coming". ESPN. 24 December 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
- ^ "Zsolt Low". Chelsea FC. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
- ^ "1998/99 Season". UEFA. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
- ^ "1999/00 Season". UEFA. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
External links
- Zsolt Lőw at fussballdaten.de (in German)
- Zsolt Lőw at magyarfutball.hu (in Hungarian)
- 1979 births
- Living people
- Hungarian footballers
- Association football defenders
- Újpest FC players
- FC Energie Cottbus players
- FC Hansa Rostock players
- TSG 1899 Hoffenheim players
- 1. FSV Mainz 05 players
- Bundesliga players
- 2. Bundesliga players
- Hungary international footballers
- Hungarian expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Germany
- Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in France
- Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in England
- Association football coaches
- Paris Saint-Germain F.C. non-playing staff
- Chelsea F.C. non-playing staff
- Footballers from Budapest