Wolfsburg appoint Tobias Strobl as new head coach
Relegated Wolfsburg have appointed Tobias Strobl as their new head coach ahead of the club's first season in Bundesliga 2 for 30 years.
Strobl makes the step up from Germany's third tier after overseeing a sixth-placed league finish and winning the 2025/26 Westphalia Cup with Verl.
The 38-year-old picks up the baton from Dieter Hecking, who recently vacated his role as interim coach to become Wolfsburg's new managing director for sport.
Strobl has signed a two-year contract with the Lower Saxony outfit until 30 June 2028.
"Tobias is a coach with great energy and a clear footballing philosophy who, despite his young age, already brings a wealth of experience to Wolfsburg," sad Hecking. "Most recently at Verl, he demonstrated impressively not only how to shape a team, but also how to develop players and take them to a new level."
For his part, Strobl says he jumped at the chance to join the 2008/09 Bundesliga and 2014/15 DFB Cup winners.
"The opportunity to be part of it and help build something new here is hugely appealing to me. I'll embrace this challenge with plenty of positivity – that's simply my nature," the former Augsburg U23s coach enthused. "I'm looking forward to working together and to the journey ahead."
Wolfsburg were relegated from the Bundesliga after losing the 2025/26 play-off to Paderborn. The Wolves will find out who they will face in their opening Bundesliga 2 game of the new season, when the fixture list is released on 2 July.
