FC Augsburg are the survival artists of the Bundesliga. Uninterrupted top-flight members since 2011, the club from the Fugger city went through a managerial carousel between 2020 and 2026 that was remarkable even by Bundesliga standards. Heiko Herrlich took over from Martin Schmidt in spring 2020 — and immediately made himself unforgettable with a quarantine breach, more on that later.
Herrlich was followed in 2021 by Markus Weinzierl, the man who had once taken FCA into the Europa League. But his second spell was far less glorious. After Weinzierl came Enrico Maassen, lured in from Dortmund’s reserve side and promising ambitious attacking football — which the team could not actually deliver.
Maassen went, Jess Thorup arrived, Thorup went, and Sandro Wagner took over in 2025 as one of the league’s youngest coaches. Manuel Baum even had a second stint on the touchline in between. Six coaches in six years — and still no relegation.
That is the real achievement.