# List of Eintracht Frankfurt managers

This is a list of the people to manage Eintracht Frankfurt. Eintracht did not officially appoint a manager until 1919 when the late board member Albert Sohn coached the team. In 1921 the first full-time manager, Dori Kürschner, was appointed.
Paul Oßwald was in charge as manager in three stints, two before World War II and one after. Oßwald is also the longest serving manager in club history with 6 years in a single stint and accumulated 14 years overall.
Major national or and international trophy winning managers include Paul Oßwald (German championship in 1958–59), Elek Schwartz (Intertoto Cup in 1966–67), Dietrich Weise (DFB-Pokal in 1973–74 and 1974–75), Friedel Rausch (UEFA Cup in 1979–80), Lothar Buchmann (DFB-Pokal in 1980–81), Karl-Heinz Feldkamp (DFB-Pokal in 1987–88), Niko Kovač (DFB-Pokal in 2017–18) and Oliver Glasner (Europa League in 2021–22).

## List
### Managers

    As of 25 January 2025

## Managers

This list does not include caretaker managers or those who managed in a temporary capacity
Information correct as of 20 May 2024. Only competitive matches are counted
| Name | Nationality | From | To | Matches | Won | Drawn | Lost | Win% | Honours |
| Albert Sohn | Germany | 1919 | 1919 | | | | | | |
| Izidor Kürschner | Hungary | July 1921 | May 1922 | 14 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 092.86 | Kreisliga Nordmain champions (1921–22) |
| Maurice Parry | Wales | April 1925 | March 1926 | 28 | 10 | 7 | 11 | 035.71 | |
| Walter Dietrich / Friedel Egly | Switzerland / Germany | March 1926 | September 1927 | 35 | 24 | 6 | 5 | 068.57 | Bezirksliga Main runners-up (1926–27) |
| Gustav Wieser | Austria | October 1927 | July 1928 | 28 | 20 | 4 | 4 | 071.43 | Bezirksliga Main-Hessen champions (1927–28) |
| Paul Oßwald | Germany | August 1928 | 30 August 1933 | 166 | 114 | 26 | 26 | 068.67 | Bezirksliga Main-Hessen champions (1928–29) Bezirksliga Main-Hessen champions (1929–30) Southern German champions (1929–30) Bezirksliga Main-Hessen champions (1930–31) Southern German championship runners-up (1930–31) Bezirksliga Main-Hessen champions (1931–32) Southern German champions (1931–32) German championship runners-up (1931–32) Bezirksliga Main-Hessen champions (1932–33) |
| Willi Spreng | Germany | September 1933 | May 1935 | 42 | 16 | 12 | 14 | 038.10 | |
| Paul Oßwald | Germany | August 1935 | June 1938 | 67 | 45 | 9 | 13 | 067.16 | Gauliga Südwest/Mainhessen runners-up (1936–37) Gauliga Südwest/Mainhessen champions (1937–38) |
| Otto Boer | Germany | January 1939 | June 1939 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 050.00 | |
| Péter Szabó | Hungary | August 1939 | 31 May 1941 | 37 | 25 | 4 | 8 | 067.57 | |
| Willi Lindner | Germany | July 1941 | July 1942 | 16 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 075.00 | |
| Péter Szabó | Hungary | 1942 | 1943 | | | | | | |
| Emil Melcher | Germany | January 1946 | June 1947 | 54 | 21 | 18 | 15 | 038.89 | |
| Willi Treml | Germany | June 1947 | January 1948 | 24 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 045.83 | |
| Bernhard Kellerhoff | Germany | February 1948 | December 1948 | 32 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 037.50 | |
| Walter Hollstein | Germany | January 1949 | June 1950 | 62 | 19 | 16 | 27 | 030.65 | |
| Kurt Windmann | Germany | August 1950 | July 1956 | 206 | 97 | 44 | 65 | 047.09 | Oberliga Süd champions (1952–53) Oberliga Süd runners-up (1953–54) |
| Adolf Patek | Austria | July 1956 | 30 April 1958 | 64 | 33 | 14 | 17 | 051.56 | |
| Paul Oßwald | Germany | 1 May 1958 | 16 April 1964 | 231 | 142 | 42 | 47 | 061.47 | Oberliga Süd champions (1958–59) German champions (1958–59) European Cup runners-up (1959–60) Oberliga Süd runners-up (1960–61) Oberliga Süd runners-up (1961–62) |
| Ivica Horvat | Yugoslavia | 17 April 1964 | 30 June 1965 | 43 | 19 | 7 | 17 | 044.19 | DFB-Pokal runners-up (1963–64) |
| Elek Schwartz | Romania | 1 July 1965 | 30 June 1968 | 120 | 54 | 26 | 40 | 045.00 | Intertoto Cup champions (1966–67) |
| Erich Ribbeck | Germany | 1 July 1968 | 30 June 1973 | 203 | 83 | 41 | 79 | 040.89 | |
| Dietrich Weise | Germany | 1 July 1973 | 12 June 1976 | 130 | 69 | 29 | 32 | 053.08 | DFB-Pokal champions (1973–74) DFB-Pokal champions (1974–75) |
| Hans-Dieter Roos | Germany | 1 July 1976 | 8 November 1976 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 035.71 | |
| Gyula Lóránt | Hungary | 9 November 1976 | 1 December 1977 | 51 | 30 | 11 | 10 | 058.82 | |
| Dettmar Cramer | Germany | 9 December 1977 | 30 June 1978 | 19 | 9 | 2 | 8 | 047.37 | |
| Otto Knefler | Germany | 1 July 1978 | 3 November 1978 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 066.67 | |
| Friedel Rausch | Germany | 8 January 1979 | 30 June 1980 | 70 | 33 | 8 | 29 | 047.14 | UEFA Cup champions (1979–80) |
| Lothar Buchmann | Germany | 1 July 1980 | 30 June 1982 | 88 | 43 | 15 | 30 | 048.86 | DFB-Pokal champions (1980–81) |
| Helmut Senekowitsch | Austria | 1 July 1982 | 17 September 1982 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 016.67 | |
| Branko Zebec | Yugoslavia | 19 September 1982 | 17 October 1983 | 39 | 12 | 8 | 19 | 030.77 | |
| Dietrich Weise | Germany | 30 October 1983 | 3 December 1986 | 111 | 30 | 42 | 39 | 027.03 | |
| Timo Zahnleiter | Germany | 3 December 1986 | 30 June 1987 | 19 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 021.05 | |
| Karl-Heinz Feldkamp | Germany | 1 July 1987 | 14 September 1988 | 45 | 16 | 12 | 17 | 035.56 | DFB-Pokal champions (1987–88) |
| Pál Csernai | Hungary | 15 September 1988 | 12 December 1988 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 042.86 | |
| Jörg Berger | Germany | 18 December 1988 | 13 April 1991 | 89 | 34 | 30 | 25 | 038.20 | Relegation/Promotion play-off winners (1988–89) |
| Dragoslav Stepanović | Yugoslavia | 14 April 1991 | 30 March 1993 | 88 | 43 | 28 | 17 | 048.86 | |
| Horst Heese | Germany | 31 March 1993 | 30 June 1993 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 036.36 | |
| Klaus Toppmöller | Germany | 1 July 1993 | 10 April 1994 | 40 | 19 | 7 | 14 | 047.50 | |
| Jupp Heynckes | Germany | 1 July 1994 | 2 April 1995 | 34 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 035.29 | |
| Charly Körbel | Germany | 2 April 1995 | 30 March 1996 | 42 | 15 | 10 | 17 | 035.71 | |
| Dragoslav Stepanović | Yugoslavia | 30 March 1996 | 7 December 1996 | 28 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 025.00 | |
| Horst Ehrmantraut | Germany | 18 December 1996 | 8 December 1998 | 72 | 32 | 22 | 18 | 044.44 | 2. Bundesliga champions (1997–98) |
| Reinhold Fanz | Germany | 22 December 1998 | 18 April 1999 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 011.11 | |
| Jörg Berger | Germany | 19 April 1999 | 19 December 1999 | 26 | 8 | 4 | 14 | 030.77 | |
| Felix Magath | Germany | 27 December 1999 | 29 January 2001 | 37 | 15 | 5 | 17 | 040.54 | |
| Friedel Rausch | Germany | 3 April 2001 | 30 June 2001 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 028.57 | |
| Martin Andermatt | Switzerland | 1 July 2001 | 8 March 2002 | 28 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 042.86 | |
| Willi Reimann | Germany | 1 July 2002 | 27 May 2004 | 67 | 26 | 17 | 24 | 038.81 | 2. Bundesliga promotion (as 3rd) (2002–03) |
| Friedhelm Funkel | Germany | 1 July 2004 | 30 June 2009 | 194 | 70 | 50 | 74 | 036.08 | 2. Bundesliga promotion (as 3rd) (2004–05) DFB-Pokal runners-up (2005–06) |
| Michael Skibbe | Germany | 1 July 2009 | 22 March 2011 | 67 | 25 | 15 | 27 | 037.31 | |
| Christoph Daum | Germany | 23 March 2011 | 30 June 2011 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 000.00 | |
| Armin Veh | Germany | 1 July 2011 | 30 June 2014 | 119 | 54 | 28 | 37 | 045.38 | 2. Bundesliga runners-up (2011–12) |
| Thomas Schaaf | Germany | 1 July 2014 | 26 May 2015 | 36 | 12 | 10 | 14 | 033.33 | |
| Armin Veh | Germany | 1 July 2015 | 6 March 2016 | 27 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 022.22 | |
| Niko Kovač | Croatia | 8 March 2016 | 30 June 2018 | 91 | 38 | 20 | 33 | 041.76 | Relegation/Promotion play-off winners (2015–16) DFB-Pokal runners-up (2016–17) DFB-Pokal champions (2017–18) |
| Adi Hütter | Austria | 1 July 2018 | 30 June 2021 | 139 | 66 | 32 | 41 | 047.48 | |
| Oliver Glasner | Austria | 1 July 2021 | 30 June 2023 | 95 | 37 | 29 | 29 | 038.95 | UEFA Europa League champions (2022–23) |
| Dino Toppmöller | Germany | 1 July 2023 | present | 74 | 34 | 20 | 20 | 045.95 | |

### Caretaker managers

    As of 14 March 2023
| Name | Nationality | From | To | Matches | Won | Drawn | Lost | Win% |
| Wilhelm Pfeiffer | Germany | 1945 | November 1945 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 025.00 |
| Sepp Herberger | Germany | December 1945 | December 1945 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 000.00 |
| Jürgen Grabowski | Germany | 3 December 1977 | 7 December 1977 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 050.00 |
| Udo Klug | Germany | 11 November 1978 | 7 January 1979 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 050.00 |
| Jürgen Grabowski | Germany | October 1983 | October 1983 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | !— |
| Klaus Mank | Germany | October 1983 | October 1983 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 000.00 |
| Charly Körbel | Germany | 10 April 1994 | 30 June 1994 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 050.00 |
| Rudolf Bommer | Germany | 8 December 1996 | 17 December 1996 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | !— |
| Bernhard Lippert | Germany | 8 December 1998 | 19 December 1998 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 000.00 |
| Rolf Dohmen | Germany | January 2001 | April 2001 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 025.00 |
| Armin Kraaz | Germany | 8 March 2002 | 27 May 2002 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 033.33 |