Lights out in the shaft: Aue in deep trouble

In the 2010/2011 season, the club even sniffed promotion to the first division as fall champions. Overall, the club has played in the lower division since 2003 and was promoted again and again after being relegated from the third division in 2008 and 2015. But since relegation in 2022, things have only gone downhill.

Problems are home-made

There can be no question of an industrial accident or a slip-up at the moment. The problems at the Kumpelverein are more than homemade. At the beginning of April, the club sacked head coach Christoph Dabrowski, who had only just been appointed in February, after eleven defeats and two draws.

Sporting director Michael Tarnat, who was only brought in in January, took responsibility for Dabrowski's sporting decline with zero third division wins and took his hat off. In the midst of the relegation battle, the former Bayern star had only brought in Vincent Ocansey, a striker from the fifth division, as supposed reinforcement. Record: zero goals in ten games.

"The measures that have now been introduced are intended to set the course for a turnaround," explained sporting director Jens Haustein. However, in just six months, the club's former coach Jens Härtel and sporting director Matthias Heidrich had changed the sporting management twice. The sacking of coach Pavel Dotchev in November 2024 was also proof of how haphazardly the Erzgebirge had been working.