Overview

• Benjamin Weber departed SC Paderborn to join FC Augsburg, leaving a vacancy at the club’s top sporting post.
• Robin Trost has been appointed Sportdirektor after a stint at VfB Stuttgart and will oversee transfer planning and the scouting department.
• Dominik Roll, formerly youth director at Fortuna Düsseldorf and a veteran of the DFB, will head the licensed players department.
• Both Trost and Roll hold equal authority to maintain full sporting operations until a new Sport-Geschäftsführer is appointed.
• Sebastian Lange is widely regarded as the leading candidate to assume the permanent sporting director role.