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Augsburg Leaves Coaching Search Open After Wagner Exit as Baum Takes Interim Charge

Sport director Benni Weber says the club has security through Christmas.

Overview

  • FC Augsburg has set no deadline to appoint a long-term successor to suspended coach Sandro Wagner.
  • Manuel Baum, the club’s head of development and football innovation, is in charge for a pre-planned three-match spell to the winter break.
  • Baum began with a 2–0 Bundesliga win over Bayer Leverkusen.
  • Weber described the process as proactive and declined to discuss any candidate list.
  • Wagner was relieved after only 14 competitive matches, and Baum previously managed Augsburg from 2016 to 2019.