RB Leipzig have parted ways with manager Marco Rose on Sunday with the team in danger of missing out on Champions League qualification.
The Red Bull-owned club also dismissed Rose’s coaching team of Alexander Zickler, Marco Kurth and Frank Geideck, and the head of first team soccer Frank Aehlig, in a shakeup it hopes will prompt a reaction from the team before Wednesday’s German Cup semifinal at Stuttgart.
“We believed in Marco and his team for a very long time and tried everything until the very end to turn things around together,” sporting director Marcel Schaefer said in a statement.
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“However, given the current situation and the lack of results, we are firmly convinced that we need a new impetus for the remaining games to achieve our goals this season.”
Rose, who is a friend of Klopp, Red Bull’s head of global soccer since January, took over at Leipzig in September 2022 and twice led the team to Champions League qualification. He also oversaw its German Cup win in 2023.
Leipzig slipped to sixth in the table after Saturday’s 1-0 loss at Borussia Moenchengladbach, their sixth successive away match without a win.
