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Alemannia Aachen Splits Executive Roles, Appoints Rachid Azzouzi as Sport-Geschäftsführer

Alemannia Aachen has restructured its top management to enhance governance with separate sporting and commercial directors.

Overview

  • Rachid Azzouzi will assume the new Sport-Geschäftsführer position on August 1 with responsibility for squad planning, transfers and youth development.
  • The supervisory board under Ralph Gillessen unanimously dissolved the combined CEO and sporting director role to establish clearer lines of accountability.
  • A commercial managing director post has been created and will be filled imminently to oversee the club’s business operations.
  • Alemannia Aachen has already made eight signings and processed 16 departures this season, maintaining a 24-player squad.
  • Benedetto Muzzicato has been installed as head coach following Heiner Backhaus’s move to Eintracht Braunschweig.