Michael Oenning

Michael Oenning
	Oenning with Vasas in 2017
Personal information
Date of birth	27 September 1965 (age 59)
Place of birth	Coesfeld, West Germany
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
	Eintracht Coesfeld
Senior career*
Years	Team
	Eintracht Coesfeld
	SV Wilmsberg
	Preußen Münster
1990–1991	Hammer SpVg
1991–1994	TSG Dülmen
	SC Pfullendorf
Managerial career
2008–2009	1. FC Nürnberg
2011	Hamburger SV
2016–2018	Vasas SC
2018–2019	1. FC Magdeburg
2019–2020	Aris
2020–2021	Újpest
2022	Wacker Innsbruck
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Michael Oenning (born 27 September 1965) is a German football coach and former player. He formerly managed Vasas Budapest, Hamburger SV, 1. FC Nürnberg, 1. FC Magdeburg, and Aris.^[1]^[2]

Playing career

Oenning graduated in German and Sports science. During 80's and 90's he had a playing career, during which he played for Eintracht Coesfeld, SV Wilmsberg, SC Preußen Münster, Hammer SpVg, TSG Dülmen and SC Pfullendorf.

Managerial career

Early career

In 1999, he started coaching career. Oenning worked as coach employed by Württemberg Football Association, from 1999 until 2004. In 2000, he joined the coaching staff of the German U-18 and U-20 selections, where he was an assistant.

In 2004, he was named an assistant manager to Dick Advocaat in Borussia Mönchengladbach.^[3] Oenning worked there until 2005, when he joined Holger Fach and later Klaus Augenthaler in Wolfsburg, also as an assistant.^[3] After two seasons, in 2007, Oenning joined VfL Bochum, as their youth coach.^[3] During one season, he was working with U-19 selection. Few months after he took a position of Bochum's youth coach, he was sacked.

Nürnberg and Hamburg

He wasn't unemployed for long, because he joined Thomas von Heesen in February 2008, as his assistant in 1. FC Nürnberg.^[3]

Von Heesen and Oenning were working together until 28 August 2008, when Von Heesen got sacked and Oenning replaced him.^[4] This was his first experience as head coach. After a slow start in 2. Bundesliga, Oenning was able to guide Nürnberg to a third-place finish and a playoff with 16th place Energie Cottbus. Nürnberg won the playoff 5–0 on aggregate and plays in the Bundesliga since 2009. On 21 December 2009, Oenning was sacked.^[5]

Hamburger SV named him an assistant to Armin Veh prior to the 2010–11 Bundesliga season.^[3] But after Veh got fired, Oenning became the new head coach.^[6] He signed a two-year contract, until June 2013.^[7] After a poor start in 2011–12 season that saw Hamburg in last place with only one point out of six games, Oenning was sacked.^[8]

Vasas

On 2 January 2016 Oenning was appointed as the manager of Nemzeti Bajnokság I club Vasas SC.^[9]

In the 2015–16 Nemzeti Bajnokság I season Vasas finished 10th and preserved their first league membership, therefore Oenning's contract was prolonged.^[10]

In the 2016–17 Nemzeti Bajnokság I season Vasas started with 2 consecutive victories. The team beat MTK Budapest^[11] away and Debreceni VSC at home.^[12]

Magdeburg

He was appointed as the head coach of 1. FC Magdeburg on 14 November 2018.^[13] He left Magdeburg after the season.^[14]

Újpest

On 23 December 2020 he was appointed as the manager of Nemzeti Bajnokság I club Újpest FC.^[15] Oenning won the 2020–21 Magyar Kupa season with Újpest FC by beating Fehérvár FC in the 2021 Magyar Kupa Final at the Puskás Aréna. Although Oenning produced the best results during his career, he was dismissed on 31 December 2021 due to unsatisfactory results.^[16] A couple of weeks later, he was replaced by Serbian Miloš Kruščić.

Managerial statistics

As of match played 30 June 2022

Managerial record by team and tenure
Team	From	To	Record					Ref.
Team	From	To	P	W	D	L	Win %	Ref.
1. FC Nürnberg	28 August 2008^[4]	21 December 2009^[5]	54	21	15	18	038.89	^[17]
Hamburger SV	13 March 2011^[6]	19 September 2011^[8]	15	2	6	7	013.33	^[18]
Vasas SC	2 January 2016	6 June 2018	93	35	20	38	037.63
1. FC Magdeburg	14 November 2018	30 June 2019	21	5	7	9	023.81
Aris	12 October 2019	18 September 2020	38	13	12	13	034.21
Újpest	23 December 2020	31 December 2021	34	15	5	14	044.12
Wacker Innsbruck	28 January 2022	30 June 2022	14	4	4	6	028.57
Total			295	101	75	119	034.24	—