Michael Oenning (born 27 September 1965) is a German football coach and former

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. He formerly managed Vasas Budapest,

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, 1. FC Nürnberg,

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, and

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Playing career

Oenning graduated in

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and

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. During 80's and 90's he had a playing career, during which he played for Eintracht Coesfeld, SV Wilmsberg,

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, Hammer SpVg, TSG Dülmen and SC Pfullendorf.

Managerial career

Early career

In 1999, he started coaching career. Oenning worked as coach employed by

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, from 1999 until 2004. In 2000, he joined the coaching staff of the German U-18 and U-20 selections, where he was an assistant. In 2004, he was named an assistant manager to

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Borussia Mönchengladbach Borussia Verein für Leibesübungen 1900 e.V. Mönchengladbach, better known as Borussia Mönchengladbach () and colloquially known as just Gladbach, is a professional Association football, football club based in Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-W ...

. Oenning worked there until 2005, when he joined

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and later

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, also as an assistant. After two seasons, in 2007, Oenning joined

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, as their youth coach. During one season, he was working with U-19 selection. Few months after he took a position of Bochum's youth coach, he was sacked.

Nürnberg and Hamburg

He wasn't unemployed for long, because he joined

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in February 2008, as his assistant in 1. FC Nürnberg. Von Heesen and Oenning were working together until 28 August 2008, when Von Heesen got sacked and Oenning replaced him. This was his first experience as head coach. After a slow start in 2. Bundesliga, Oenning was able to guide Nürnberg to a third-place finish and a playoff with 16th place

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. Nürnberg won the playoff 5–0 on aggregate and plays in the Bundesliga since 2009. On 21 December 2009, Oenning was sacked.

named him an assistant to Armin Veh prior to the

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season. But after Veh got fired, Oenning became the new head coach. He signed a two-year contract, until June 2013. After a poor start in 2011–12 season that saw Hamburg in last place with only one point out of six games, Oenning was sacked.

Vasas

On 2 January 2016 Oenning was appointed as the manager of

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club

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. In the

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season Vasas finished 10th and preserved their first league membership, therefore Oenning's contract was prolonged. In the

2016–17 Nemzeti Bajnokság I The 2016–17 Nemzeti Bajnokság I, also known as NB I, is the 118th season of top-tier football in Hungary. The league is officially named ''OTP Bank Liga'' for sponsorship reasons. Ferencvárosi TC (football), Ferencváros were the defending ch ...

season Vasas started with 2 consecutive victories. The team beat

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away and

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at home.

Magdeburg

He was appointed as the head coach of

on 14 November 2018. He left Magdeburg after the season.

Újpest

On 23 December 2020 he was appointed as the manager of

club

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. Oenning won the 2020–21 Magyar Kupa season with Újpest FC by beating

Fehérvár FC Fehérvár Football Club (commonly known as ''Fehérvár'', ''Vidi'', or ''MOL Fehérvár Football Club'' for sponsorship reasons), is a Hungarian professional football club based in Székesfehérvár, which plays in the Nemzeti Bajnokság II ...

in the 2021 Magyar Kupa Final at the

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. Although Oenning produced the best results during his career, he was dismissed on 31 December 2021 due to unsatisfactory results. A couple of weeks later, he was replaced by Serbian Miloš Kruščić.

Managerial statistics

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