{{short description|German football manager}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Jan-Moritz Lichte | image = Jan-Moritz Lichte.jpg | caption = Lichte with FC St. Pauli in 2012 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1980|1|12|df=y}} | birth_place = Kassel, West Germany | height = 1.89 m | position = Midfielder | currentclub = Turkey (assistant) | youthyears1 = {{0|0000}}–1998 | youthclubs1 = KSV Baunatal | years1 = 1998–2007 | clubs1 = KSV Baunatal | caps1 = 258 | goals1 = 29 | years2 = 2007–2009 | clubs2 = SC Paderborn II | caps2 = | goals2 = | manageryears1 = 2020 | managerclubs1 = Mainz 05 | manageryears2 = 2021– | managerclubs2 = Turkey (assistant) }} '''Jan-Moritz Lichte''' (born 12 January 1980) is a German football manager, who works as assistant coach for Turkey. As a player, he played for KSV Baunatal. He was an assistant manager at Mainz 05 between 2017 and 2020.
==Playing career== Lichte began his playing career in the youth teams of KSV Baunatal, before transferring to their first team in 1998. Across nine seasons, the midfielder appeared 258 times in the fifth-tier Oberliga Hessen. During the 2007–08 season, Lichte played for the reserve side of SC Paderborn. In April 2009, he retired at the age of 29.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}
==Managerial career== Lichte passed his coaching course in 2009 as the best on the course.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kielbassa |first=Moritz |title=Suche nach Mr. Perfect |url=https://www.sueddeutsche.de/sport/bundesliga-trainer-suche-nach-mr-perfect-1.1075273 |access-date=9 December 2020 |website=Süddeutsche.de |language=de}}</ref> He had taken the course at the Hennes-Weisweiler-Academy alongside Sascha Lewandowski, amongst others.<ref>{{Cite web |date=9 December 2017 |title=Trainerschmiede DFB | Die besten Absolventen des Trainerlehrgangs seit 2007 im Check |url=https://www.90min.de/posts/5888222-trainerschmiede-dfb-die-besten-absolventen-des-trainerlehrgangs-seit-2007-im-check |access-date=9 December 2020 |website=90min.de |language=de }}{{Dead link|date=September 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
Lichte was assistant manager at Bundesliga side Bayer Leverkusen from 2012 until 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Our next opponents: Where Lichte wants to start |url=https://www.bayer04.de/en-us/news/bundesliga/our-next-opponents-where-lichte-wants-to-start |access-date=9 December 2020 |website=bayer04.de |language=en}}</ref> For the 2014–15 season, he switched to Hannover 96 as assistant manager and was responsible for the youth teams at the club the following season.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}
From the 2017–18 season, Lichte was assistant manager of Mainz 05. On the seventh matchday of the 2019–20 Bundesliga, he was responsible for managing the side against SC Paderborn due to a red card shown to manager Sandro Schwarz in their previous match.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lichte aus dem Schatten: "Hatte nicht das Gefühl, fehl am Platz zu sein" |url=https://www.kicker.de/lichte_aus_dem_schatten_hatte_nicht_das_gefuehl_fehl_am_platz_zu_sein_-759775/artikel |access-date=9 December 2020 |website=kicker |language=de}}</ref> He became head coach of the club in September 2020 on a temporary basis after they parted company with manager Achim Beierlorzer.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mainz dismiss head coach Achim Beierlorzer|url=https://www.bundesliga.com/en/bundesliga/news/mainz-sack-head-coach-achim-beierlorzer-13011|access-date=9 December 2020|website=bundesliga.com – the official Bundesliga website|language=en}}</ref> He was sacked on 28 December 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mainz05.de/en/news/a-new-start-with-mainz-football-dna/|title=A fresh start with Main football DNA|date=28 December 2020|website=mainz05.de|publisher=Mainz 05|access-date=28 December 2020|archive-date=28 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201228193041/https://www.mainz05.de/en/news/a-new-start-with-mainz-football-dna/|url-status=dead}}</ref> His final match was a DFB-Pokal against VfL Bochum on 23 December 2020<ref name="2020–21 season">{{cite web |title=1. FSV Mainz 05 — Spielplan |url=https://www.kicker.de/1-fsv-mainz-05/spielplan/bundesliga/2020-21 |website=Kicker |publisher=Olympia Verlag |access-date=24 February 2021 |language=German}}</ref> where Mainz lost in a shootout.<ref>{{cite news |title=Totalausfall im Elfmeterschießen: Mainz scheitert an zehn unermüdlichen Bochumern |url=https://www.kicker.de/mainz-gegen-bochum-2020-dfb-pokal-4690550/analyse |access-date=24 February 2021 |work=kickder.de |publisher=Olympia Verlag |date=23 December 2020}}</ref> He finished with a record of one win, four draws, and seven losses.<ref name="Mainz Trainer">{{cite web |title=1. FSV Mainz 05 — Trainer |url=https://www.kicker.de/1-fsv-mainz-05/team-trainer/bundesliga/2020-21 |website=Kicker |publisher=Olympia Verlag |access-date=24 February 2021 |language=German}}</ref>
==Personal life== In 2008, Lichte graduated from Paderborn University with a degree in sports science. His younger brother Henning played for the reserve team of Mainz 05 in the 2004–05 Regionalliga Süd.<ref>{{cite web|title=Der gebürtige Baunataler Jan-Moritz Lichte ist das neue Gehirn von Mainz 05|periodical=Hna.de|url=https://www.hna.de/sport/regionalsport/sport-kassel-sti248130/mainz-05-co-trainer-jan-moritz-lichte-kommt-gebuertig-aus-baunatal-8516604.html|access-date=30 September 2020|date=25 July 2017|language=de}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Henning Lichte – Spielerprofil|url=https://www.dfb.de/datencenter/personen/henning-lichte/spieler|access-date=30 September 2020|language=de}}</ref>
==Managerial record== {{updated|match played 23 December 2020}}
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center" |- !rowspan="2"|Team!!rowspan="2"|From!!rowspan="2"|To!!colspan="8"|Record!!rowspan="2"|{{Tooltip|Ref.|Reference}} |- !{{Tooltip|M|Matches coached}}!!{{Tooltip|W|Matches won}}!!{{Tooltip|D|Matches drawn}}!!{{Tooltip|L|Matches lost}}!!{{Tooltip|GF|Goals for}}!!{{Tooltip|GA|Goals against}}!!{{Tooltip|GD|Goal difference}}!!{{Tooltip|Win %|Winning percentage}} |- |Mainz 05||28 September 2020||28 December 2020 {{WDL|12|1|4|7|for=12|against=21|diff=yes}} |<ref name="2020–21 season"/><ref name="Mainz Trainer"/> |- ! colspan="3"| Total {{WDLtot|12|1|4|7|for=12|against=21|diff=yes}} !— |}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{Sports links}} *[http://www.ksvbaunatalfussballarchiv.de/index.php?site=detail&id=129 Jan-Moritz Lichte] at the archive of KSV Baunatal
{{1. FSV Mainz 05 managers}}
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