Daniel Steuernagel (born 16 November 1979) is a German

football manager ''Football Manager'', also known as ''Worldwide Soccer Manager'' in North America from 2004 to 2008, is a series of football management simulation video games developed by British developer Sports Interactive and published by Sega. The game beg ...

, who is currently managing

FSV Fernwald FSV Fernwald is a German football club from the town of Fernwald, Hesse. __TOC__ History The club was established as ''FSV Steinbach'' on 30 March 1926. In 1935 the club disappeared when it was folded into the ''Turn- und Sport-Gemeinde Stein ...

Managerial career

Steuernagel, who worked as a teacher for many years after studying elementary school education, began his coaching career in 2008 with local clubs Viktoria Nidda and SSV Lindheim. He then spent two seasons with SC Teutonia Watzenborn-Steinberg, which later became

FC Gießen FC Gießen 1927 Teutonia/1900 VfB e.V., commonly known as FC Gießen, is a Football in Germany, German association football club from the city of Giessen and the Watzenborn-Steinberg Quarter (urban subdivision), quarter of the town of Pohlheim, ...

, in the Hessen Mitte regional league. In the 2014/15 and 2015/16 seasons, Steuernagel won two consecutive promotions with Teutonia, from the Verbandsliga via the

Hessenliga The Hessenliga (until 2008 ''Oberliga Hessen'') is the highest football league in the States of Germany, state of Hesse and the Hessian football league system. It is one of fourteen Oberliga (football), Oberligas in German football, the fifth tier ...

to the

Regionalliga Südwest The Regionalliga Südwest ('Regional League Southwest') is the fourth tier of the German football league system in the states of Hesse, Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland. It is one of five leagues at this level, together with t ...

. From October 2016 to August 2017, Steuernagel was employed as a sports director by the

Regionalliga West The Regionalliga West is a German professional football division administered by the German Football Association#Western Germany, Western German Football Association based in Duisburg. It is one of the five German regional football associations. ...

team

Sportfreunde Siegen Sportfreunde Siegen is a German association football club based in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia. After going through insolvency in 2008, the first team was forcibly relegated to the fifth-tier NRW-Liga. Promotion to fourth division Regionallig ...

. From June 2017 Steuernagel devoted himself full-time to training as a football coach, which is why the collaboration ended. As a graduate of the 2017/18 training year, the Hessian finally completed his training as a football coach at the Hennes-Weisweiler Academy in

Cologne Cologne ( ; ; ) is the largest city of the States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city pr ...

. In addition to him, former professional players such as

Antonio Di Salvo Antonio Di Salvo (born 5 June 1979) is a German football manager and former forward. He is the manager of the Germany U21 national team. Playing career Di Salvo began his senior career with played with his local club SC Paderborn from 1996 to ...

, Markus Daun, Dimitrios Grammozis and Francisco Copado also successfully took part in the course. In September 2019, Steuernagel was released by

Kickers Offenbach Offenbacher Fussball-Club Kickers, commonly known as Kickers Offenbach, is a German association football club in Offenbach am Main, Hesse. The club was founded on 27 May 1901 in the Rheinischer Hof restaurant by footballers who had left establis ...

. On 16 October 2019, he was announced as the new manager of

KFC Uerdingen KFC Uerdingen 05 was a German football club in the Uerdingen district of the city of Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia. The former Bundesliga side, which had its greatest successes in the 1980s, plays in the fourth-level Regionalliga. In 2025, t ...

. He was replaced by

Stefan Krämer Stefan Jürgen Krämer (born 23 March 1967) is a German professional football manager, who last managed SV Meppen. Career Krämer was a rather unknown coach in German regional football, when, at the age of 44, he became the assistant manager of ...

on 10 March 2020. His contract was valid until the end of the season. In March 2020, Steuernagel was replaced by

, although the club offered him the opportunity to remain part of the coaching staff. In 2024 he returned to management, when he became new manager of

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1979 births Living people People from Laubach Footballers from Giessen (region) German men's footballers FC Gießen players German football managers 3. Liga managers Kickers Offenbach managers KFC Uerdingen 05 managers Men's association football defenders {{Germany-footy-defender-1970s-stub