Ralf Kellermann will depart his function as director of ladies’s soccer at VfL Wolfsburg Frauen on the finish of the season, the membership has confirmed.
Kellermann, 57, requested to not prolong his contract past June 2026, bringing an finish to an 18-year affiliation with the membership in numerous management roles.
He first joined Wolfsburg in 2008 as head coach, later combining teaching and sporting director duties from 2010. Since 2017, he has served as sporting director earlier than taking over the function of director of ladies’s soccer in 2023.
Underneath his management, Wolfsburg’s ladies’s crew turned some of the profitable sides in Germany and Europe, successful 20 titles throughout his tenure and establishing itself as a constant power within the Frauen-Bundesliga and UEFA Ladies’s Champions League.
Explaining his determination, Kellermann mentioned:
“The choice to depart VfL Wolfsburg this summer season was very troublesome for me. The deciding issue was my need to tackle a brand new problem.
“Over all these years, I’ve loved full belief in my work, and collectively we have now developed ladies’s soccer at VfL right into a famend title in European soccer.
“My thanks go in the beginning to quite a few long-time colleagues at Elsterweg, each within the sporting and administrative areas. With out this trusting collaboration, our success wouldn’t have been doable.
“Till then, I’ll work with full vitality and motivation to make sure a profitable conclusion to the present season.”
