{{Short description|German footballer (born 1969)}} {{about||the German archaeologist|Andreas Zimmermann (archaeologist)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2022}} {{Infobox football biography |image = |caption = |fullname = |birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1969|12|28}} |birth_place = West Berlin, West Germany |height = |position = Defender |currentclub = Rot Weiss Ahlen (manager) |youthyears1 = |youthclubs1 = SV Norden-Nordwest Berlin |years1 = 1991–1992 |clubs1 = Spandauer BC |caps1 = |goals1 = |years2 = 1992–1993 |clubs2 = Hertha BSC (A) |caps2 = |goals2 = |years3 = 1992–1995 |clubs3 = Hertha BSC |caps3 = 45 |goals3 = 3 |years4 = 1995–1996 |clubs4 = Union Berlin |caps4 = 29 |goals4 = 0 |years5 = 1996–2002 |clubs5 = LR Ahlen |caps5 = 150 |goals5 = 12 |years6 = 2002–2003 |clubs6 = Rot-Weiss Essen |caps6 = 15 |goals6 = 0 |years7 = 2003–2004 |clubs7 = SC Paderborn |caps7 = 18 |goals7 = 0 |years8 = 2004–2006 |clubs8 = 1. FC Kleve |caps8 = 57 |goals8 = 3 |years9 = 2006 |clubs9 = SV Siegfried Materborn |caps9 = |goals9 = |years10 = 2008 |clubs10 = Borussia Brand |caps10 = |goals10 = |totalcaps = |totalgoals = |medaltemplates = |manageryears1 = 2008–2009 |managerclubs1 = Rot-Weiss Ahlen II |manageryears2 = 2009 |managerclubs2 = Rot-Weiss Ahlen (U19) |manageryears3 = 2009 |managerclubs3 = Rot-Weiss Ahlen (caretaker) |manageryears4 = 2009–2010 |managerclubs4 = Rot-Weiss Ahlen (assistant) |manageryears5 = 2011–2013 |managerclubs5 = FC Ingolstadt (U19)<ref>[http://www.myheimat.de/ingolstadt/kommentieren/andreas-zimmermann-wird-neuer-a-jugendtrainer-d1825033.html Andreas Zimmermann wird neuer A-Jugendtrainer] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170629213204/https://www.myheimat.de/ingolstadt/kommentieren/andreas-zimmermann-wird-neuer-a-jugendtrainer-d1825033.html |date=29 June 2017 }}, myheimat.de, 23 May 2011</ref> |manageryears6 = 2013–2014 |managerclubs6 = Carl Zeiss Jena<ref>[http://www.fc-carlzeiss-jena.de/aktuelles/fcc-news/details/fcc-stellt-trainer-andreas-zimmermann-frei.html FCC stellt Trainer Andreas Zimmermann frei], Carl Zeiss Jena, 13 April 2013</ref> |manageryears7 = 2014–2016 |managerclubs7 = Rot-Weiß Oberhausen<ref>[http://www.reviersport.de/267933---rwo-ex-ahlener-wird-neuer-trainer.html Ein Ex-Ahlener wird neuer Trainer], Reviersport.de, 2 April 2014</ref> |manageryears8 = 2018–2019 |managerclubs8 = VSG Altglienicke |manageryears9 = 2019 |managerclubs9 = Wuppertaler SV |manageryears10 = 2020–2022 |managerclubs10 = Rot Weiss Ahlen |manageryears11 = 2023- |managerclubs11 = Eintracht Trier }} '''Andreas Zimmermann''' (born 28 December 1969) is a German football manager and a former player who played as a defender. He has been the manager of Eintracht Trier since March, 2023. He began his career in his hometown of Berlin, before spending seven years playing for LR Ahlen, a team he later briefly managed.
==Playing career== Zimmermann began his career with Hertha BSC in 1992, who signed him from local amateur club Spandauer BC. He made 27 appearances in the 2. Bundesliga in his first season, scoring three goals, and was an occasional member of the reserve team that reached the final of the DFB-Pokal. He scored in a quarter-final win over 1. FC Nürnberg, but didn't play in the final, which Hertha's reserve team lost against Bayer Leverkusen. Over the next two seasons, Zimmermann only made eighteen appearances for the Hertha first team, and in 1995 he crossed the city to join Union Berlin, of the Regionalliga Nordost. A year later he signed for LR Ahlen, an ambitious team in the Regionalliga West, and helped them to promotion to the second tier in 2000, after a playoff victory over his old club Union Berlin. He made 60 appearances at this level, as Ahlen finished 6th and then 8th, before he left the club in 2002. He then spent a season each with Rot-Weiss Essen and SC Paderborn in the Regionalliga Nord, but only made a total of 33 appearances, due in part to injury. He spent two seasons with 1. FC Kleve of the Oberliga Nordrhein, before signing for amateur side Siegfried Materborn in 2006.
==Coaching career== Zimmermann ended his playing career in January 2007, when he returned to 1. FC Kleve as General Manager, but left the club after six months due to disagreements with the board. After a brief return to active football with amateurs Borussia Brand, he returned to LR Ahlen. now under the name of Rot-Weiss. He managed the reserves, and later the under-19 team, and in September 2009 he replaced Stefan Emmerling as manager. However, this was only to last a month: Zimmermann didn't have the correct coaching licences, and as the club were unable to get special dispensation from the Deutsche Fußball Liga, he was replaced by Christian Hock. He continued as assistant manager until Hock was sacked at the end of the 2009–10 season. In summer 2011, Zimmermann was appointed coach of the under-19 team of FC Ingolstadt 04, where he spent just over a year for leaving for personal reasons. He was appointed as manager of Carl Zeiss Jena in September 2013. He was sacked by Jena seven months later.
On 16 November 2020, he returned to Rot Weiss Ahlen as a caretaker manager.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Rot Weiss Ahlen|url=https://www.rotweissahlen.de/rot-weiss-ahlen-stellt-trainer-bjoern-mehnert-frei/|title=Rot Weiss Ahlen stellt Trainer Björn Mehnert frei|trans-title=Rot Weiss Ahlen lets coach Björn Mehnert go|date=16 November 2020|language=de}}</ref> He was made permanent manager of the club in 2021.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Rot Weiss Ahlen|url=https://www.rotweissahlen.de/rw-ahlen-verlaengert-mit-andreas-zimmermann/|title=RW Ahlen verlängert mit Andreas Zimmermann|trans-title=Rot Weiss Ahlen signs new contract with Andreas Zimmermann|date=10 September 2021|language=de}}</ref> He remained at Rot Weiss Ahlen until November, 2022.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://eintracht-trier.com/2023/03/09/andreas-zimmermann-wird-neuer-cheftrainer-des-sv-eintracht-trier-05-e-v/|title=SV Eintracht Trier 05 e.V. » Andreas Zimmermann wird neuer Cheftrainer des SV Eintracht-Trier 05 e.V.|website=eintracht-trier.com}}</ref>
In March, 2023, he was hired as head coach for Eintracht Trier.<ref name="auto"/>
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==External links== *{{fussballdaten|zimmermannandreas}}
{{Rot Weiss Ahlen managers}} {{FC Carl Zeiss Jena managers}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Zimmermann, Andreas}} Category:1969 births Category:Living people Category:German men's footballers Category:Footballers from Berlin Category:Men's association football defenders Category:2. Bundesliga players Category:Hertha BSC II players Category:Hertha BSC players Category:1. FC Union Berlin players Category:Rot Weiss Ahlen players Category:Rot-Weiss Essen players Category:SC Paderborn 07 players Category:German football managers Category:Rot Weiss Ahlen managers Category:FC Carl Zeiss Jena managers Category:20th-century German sportsmen