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Sascha Lewandowski

Sascha Lewandowski
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Lewandowski in 2016
Personal information
Date of birth (1971-10-05)5 October 1971
Place of birth Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
Date of death 8 June 2016(2016-06-08) (aged 44)
Place of death Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Teams managed
Years Team
2006 VfL Bochum II
2007–2012 Bayer Leverkusen U19
2012–2013 Bayer Leverkusen
2014 Bayer Leverkusen
2015–2016 Union Berlin

Sascha Lewandowski (5 October 1971 – 8 June 2016) was a German football manager, who last managed Union Berlin.

Lewandowski was head coach of VfL Bochum II between 1 July 2006 to 31 December 2006.

Lewandowski was appointed as head coach of Bayer Leverkusen in April 2012 alongside Sami Hyypiä. After the 2012–13 season, Lewandowski went back to the youth set–up, leaving Hyypia as the sole head coach of the first team. He finished with a record of 29 wins, 11 draws, and 11 losses. Hyypiä took sole charge of the team on 24 June 2013. Lewandowski became the interim head coach of the first team after Sami Hyypiä was sacked. On 25 April 2014, Roger Schmidt was announced as head coach for the start of the 2014–15 season. He finished with a record of five wins and a draw.

He was appointed as the head coach of Union Berlin on 1 September 2015. He stepped down on 4 March 2016, after six months in charge, on medical advice because of acute fatigue symptoms. He finished with a record of five wins, four draws, and five losses.

He was born on 5 October 1971 in Dortmund, West Germany. On 9 June 2016, Sascha Lewandowski was found dead at his home in Bochum, Germany. He had died the previous day.


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