Volker Finke
Personal information
Full name	Volker Finke
Date of birth	March 24, 1948 (1948-03-24) (age 61)
Place of birth	Nienburg, Germany
Playing position	Head Coach
Club information
Current club	Urawa Red Diamonds
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
19??-1969 1969-1975	TSV Havelse Hannoverschen SC
Teams managed
1975-19?? 1986-1990 1990-1991 1991-2007 2009-	TSV Stelingen TSV Havelse SC Norderstedt SC Freiburg Urawa Red Diamonds
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of January 25, 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Volker Finke (born March 24, 1948 in Nienburg, Lower Saxony) is a German football manager and former player. He managed SC Freiburg from July 1991 to May 2007. This made him the longest-serving manager in the history of professional football in Germany. Until 1990, Finke worked as a sports and social studies teacher at the Albert Schweitzer school in his hometown of Nienburg.

Contents 1 Career as player 2 Career as coach 3 Honours 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Career as player

Volker Finke's first club was TSV Havelse until 1969. After that he moved to Hannoverschen SC, where he stayed until 1975.

[edit] Career as coach

In 1975, Finke started his career as a coach at TSV Stelingen. He led the club to five promotions, after which he returned to TSV Havelse, where he stayed until 1990. He led the club up the German second division, which was the best position in the club's history. After one season in SC Norderstedt, near Hamburg, he finally changed to SC Freiburg in 1991. There he made them rise from the second German league to the first German league in 1993, 1998 and 2003, as well as the qualification for the UEFA Cup in 1995 and 2001.

He resigned as coach of SC Freiburg on May 20, 2007, after the club's second successive season of missing out on promotion back to the Bundesliga by one place^[1].

On 6 December 2008, the Japanese club Urawa Red Diamonds announced they signed a contract with Finke as head coach until 2010.^[2]

[edit] Honours

SC Freiburg

• 2. Bundesliga champions: 1992-93, 2002-03
• 2. Bundesliga runners-up (promotion): 1997-98

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Profile at Urawa Red Diamonds official site

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