Hansi Flick

During his playing career, he was a midfielder who played 104 matches for Bayern Munich and scored five goals between 1985 and 1990. At Bayern, he won four Bundesliga titles as well as one DFB-Pokal title, and played in the 1987 European Cup Final. He later played 44 matches for Köln before retiring from professional football in 1993 due to injuries. His last spell as a footballer was with Victoria Bammental from 1994 until 2000. Flick never played for the Germany national football team, but he made two appearances for the Germany under-18 team, in the group stage of the 1983 UEFA European Under-18 Championship on 15 and 17 May 1983, in a 1–0 win over Sweden and in a 3–1 win over Bulgaria, respectively.

Flick's managerial career began in 1996 as a player-manager of Victoria Bammental, which was playing in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg at that time. At the end of the 1997–98 season, the club was relegated to the Verbandsliga Baden, but he remained their coach for two more seasons.

TSG Hoffenheim

In July 2000, Flick became a manager of the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg side TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, winning the league and gaining promotion to the Regionalliga Süd in his first season at the club. He also won North Baden Cup four times in a row, between 2002 and 2005. After four unsuccessful attempts to reach the 2. Bundesliga, he was released from duties on 19 November 2005. During his tenure at Hoffenheim, Flick graduated first in his class, alongside Thomas Doll, from the German Sport University Cologne, gaining his top coaching credentials in 2003.

Red Bull Salzburg (assistant)

Flick later worked briefly as an assistant of Giovanni Trapattoni and Lothar Matthäus and sporting coordinator at Red Bull Salzburg. He stated that his work under Trapattoni, one of the world's most renowned managers, taught him many things, especially on tactics and in developing relations with players, but also said that he disagreed with Trapattoni's defence-first approach.

Germany (assistant)

Flick was named the assistant coach for Germany on 23 August 2006. Although not listed as an officially recognized manager by the DFB, due to the sending off of Joachim Löw in the…

Flick has been married to Silke Flick since 1987, having originally met as teenagers. They have two daughters and two grandchildren. Flick is a Roman Catholic. In 2022, At the proposal of the CDU parliamentary group in the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg, Flick was a member of the 17th Federal Convention, at which Frank-Walter Steinmeier was re-elected as President of Germany. Flick's father died on 10 May 2026, a few hours before Barcelona won 2–0 against Real Madrid in El Clásico, and clinched the 2025–26 La Liga title.

Player

SV Sandhausen

North Baden Cup: 1982–83, 1984–85 Bayern Munich

Bundesliga: 1985–86, 1986–87, 1988–89, 1989–90 DFB-Pokal: 1985–86 DFB-Supercup: 1987

Assistant Manager

Germany

FIFA World Cup: 2014; third place: 2010 UEFA European Championship: runner-up: 2008; third place: 2012

Manager

TSG Hoffenheim

Oberliga Baden-Württemberg: 2000–01 North Baden Cup: 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05 Bayern Munich

Bundesliga: 2019–20, 2020–21 DFB-Pokal: 2019–20 DFL-Supercup: 2020 UEFA Champions League: 2019–20 UEFA Super Cup: 2020 FIFA Club World Cup: 2020 Barcelona

La Liga: 2024–25, 2025–26 Copa del Rey: 2024–25 Supercopa de España: 2025, 2026 Individual

UEFA Men's Coach of the Year: 2019–20 IFFHS World's Best Club Coach: 2020 World Soccer Men's Manager of the Year 2020 Globe Soccer Best Coach of the Year: 2020 German Football Man of the Year: 2020 German Football Manager of the Year: 2020 VDV Bundesliga Coach of the Season: 2019–20 La Liga Manager of the Season: 2024–25, 2025–26 La Liga Manager of the Month: August 2024, October 2024, February 2025, March 2026 Orders

Silbernes Lorbeerblatt: 2010, 2014 Bavarian Order of Merit: 2022