| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1962-09-06)6 September 1962 (age 63) | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Wuppertal, West Germany | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||
| Position | Midfielder | |||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||
| SV Bayer Wuppertal | ||||||||||||||
| ASV Wuppertal | ||||||||||||||
| Wuppertaler SV | ||||||||||||||
| 1976–1981 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 1981–1987 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 164 | (24) | |||||||||||
| 1988–1991 | Bayer Uerdingen | 101 | (27) | |||||||||||
| 1991–1995 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 102 | (15) | |||||||||||
| 1995–1996 | Bayer Leverkusen | 32 | (3) | |||||||||||
| 1996–1997 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 24 | (1) | |||||||||||
| 1997 | 1860 Munich | 10 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 1998–1999 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 10 | (1) | |||||||||||
| Total | 443 | (71) | ||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||
| 1988–1989 | West Germany | 5 | (0) | |||||||||||
| Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
| 1999–2000 | SV Bayer Wuppertal | |||||||||||||
| 2001–2003 | Borussia M'gladbach II | |||||||||||||
| 2003 | Rot-Weiss Essen | |||||||||||||
| 2003–2004 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | |||||||||||||
| 2005 | VfL Wolfsburg | |||||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | SC Paderborn | |||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | FC Augsburg | |||||||||||||
| 2010–2011 | Lokomotiv Astana | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
Holger Fach (born 6 September 1962) is a Germanfootball manager and former professional player. Mainly adefensive midfielder, he could also pitch in atcentre back.
Between 1981 and 1998, Fach played 416Bundesliga games forFortuna Düsseldorf,Borussia Mönchengladbach,Bayer Uerdingen,Bayer 04 Leverkusen andTSV 1860 Munich.[1] He scored 67 goals during this period, and won theDFB-Pokal with Borussia in1995. In only half-a-season with Uerdingen in1987–88, Fach scored a career-best nine league goals, greatly contributing to the side maintaining its top flight status. He retired with Fortuna Düsseldorf in thesecond division in 1997–98.
During a one-year span, Fach also gained fivecaps for thenational team, his debut coming on 31 August 1988, in a1990 World Cup qualifier againstFinland, inHelsinki (he played the entire match in a 4–0 win).[2] He also represented West Germany at the1988 Summer Olympics inSeoul, where he played a role in the side winning a Bronze medal scoring 2 goals in the process.
After retiring as a player, Fach was appointed to coach the amateur team at Borussia Mönchengladbach (he worked with the club as a scout the previous year) and after a shortintermezzo atRot-Weiss Essen, on 21 September 2003 he became head coach for the former, leaving his post on October of the following year.[3]
On 5 June 2005, he became the new manager forVfL Wolfsburg,[4] but after a weak first half ofthe season was fired on 19 December, together withgeneral managerThomas Strunz.[5]
In January 2007, Fach took the reins of second division outfitSC Paderborn 07 (being fired midway through his second season). On 18 April 2008, he took over as manager of another second-tier side,FC Augsburg. After a disappointing beginning to 2009, FC Augsburg club management passed a vote of confidence in Fach for the remainder of the season, however both sides also agreed to end their cooperation at season's end.[6] On 13 April 2009, he was fired fromFC Augsburg along with his assistant coachDariusz Pasieka.[7] After nine months without a job Fach was named on 25 January 2010 as the new head coach of the Kazakhstani vice-championLokomotiv Astana.[8]
