Dirk Bremser (born 1 October 1965) is a German football coach and a former player, He is the currently assistant head coach of Bundesliga club Holstein Kiel.
Playing career Bremser spent two seasons in the Bundesliga with MSV Duisburg and Bayer 05 Uerdingen.
Coaching career In the 2000–01 season, Bremser became assistant coach to Uwe Erkenbrecher at VfB Lübeck.DIRK BREMSER WIRD CO-TRAINER DER KSV, holstein-kiel.de, 22 April 2021 After Erkenbrecher's dismissal in November 2000, Bremser was promoted to head coach on interim basis, until March 2001, before returning to his role as assistant coach following the appointment of Dieter Hecking. Under Hecking and Bremser, VfB were promoted to the 2. Bundesliga in 2002. After the 2003–04 season, in which they only lost in the semi-finals of the DFB-Pokal to eventual double winners Werder Bremen, Lübeck were relegated back to the Regionalliga Nord.
He and Hecking moved to 2. Bundesliga club Alemannia Aachen for the 2004–05 season.2004/2005, alemannia-aachen.de They were promoted to the Bundesliga in the 2005–06 season. Following Dieter Hecking's move to Hannover 96 in September 2006, he initially continued to work as interim manager and coached the team in the DFB-Pokal match against Chemnitzer FC. After Alemannia Aachen announced the appointment of Michael Frontzeck as Hecking's successor on 13 November 2006, Bremser left the club.ERIK MEIJER KOMPLETTIERT DAS TRAINERTEA, alemannia-aachen.de, 13 September 2006 From September 2006 to August 2009, Bremser worked with Hecking as assistant coach at Hannover 96, then assisted Hecking's successor Andreas Bergmann and then had to make way for the new coaching team led by Mirko Slomka on 20 January 2010.
On 7 February 2010 Bremer was announced as assistant coach of 1. FC Nürnberg, where he again assisted Hecking. On 1 January 2013 he moved to VfL Wolfsburg as assistant coach. He thus followed "his boss" Dieter Hecking once again to what was now their fifth stint together. They won the DFB-Pokal together in 2015. In October 2016, he was released from VfL Wolfsburg together with Dieter Hecking.WOLFSBURG TRENNT SICH VON TRAINER HECKING, dfb.de, 17 October 2016 On 4 January 2017 Bremser was introduced as the new assistant coach of Borussia Mönchengladbach, again assisting Dieter Hecking.
For the 2019–20 season, Hecking and Bremser moved to second-division club Hamburger SV in their usual constellation.OFFICIAL | HAMBURG ANNOUNCE DIETER HECKING AS HEAD COACH, getfootballnewsgermany.com, 29 May 2019 They finished in 4th place and missed out on promotion back to the Bundesliga. Hecking and Bremser's contract would only have been automatically extended by one year if they had been promoted. Sports director Jonas Boldt was unable to reach an agreement with Hecking on further cooperation, so Bremser also left HSV with him.HANNES DREWS WECHSELT IN DEN ZWEITLIGA-TRAINERSTAB, hsv.de, 23 July 2020 While Hecking became sports director of second division club 1. FC Nürnberg for the 2020–21 season, Bremser took a one-year break.
For the 2021–22 season, Bremser became assistant coach to Ole Werner at Holstein Kiel. After a bad start with five points from the first seven games, Werner resigned as head coach, whereupon Bremser took over the team on an interim basis.OLE WERNER NICHT MEHR HOLSTEIN-TRAINER, holstein-kiel.de, 20 September 2021 He coached the team in a 2–1 win over SC Paderborn and a 2–0 defeat to Hansa Rostock and then moved back to the assistant coach position under new head coach Marcel Rapp.MARCEL RAPP WIRD NEUER HOLSTEIN-TRAINER, holstein-kiel.de, 1 October 2021
Career statistics + Appearances and goals by club, season and competitionClubSeasonLeagueDFB-PokalOtherTotalDivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsVfL Bochum II1983–84Oberliga Westfalen10——101984–8527220—2921985–86317——3171986–87——1987–88163——163Total2000VfL Bochum1986–87Bundesliga0000—001987–880000—00Total00000000Preußen Münster1987–88Oberliga Westfalen007Appearances in the 1987–88 Oberliga promotion play-offs.11988–89242—8Appearances in the 1988–89 Oberliga promotion play-offs.03221989–902. Bundesliga354——354Total00151MSV Duisburg1990–912. Bundesliga36560—4251991–92Bundesliga27110—281Total6367000706Bayer 05 Uerdingen1992–93Bundesliga28431—315Hertha BSC1993–942. Bundesliga26020—2801994–9530310—3131995–9617200—1721996–979120—111Total8265000876VfB Lübeck1997–98Regionalliga Nord31520—3351998–9923310—243Total5483000578Holstein Kiel1999–00Regionalliga Nord348——348Career total201151
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