Peter Neustädter (; born 16 February 1966) is a professional

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manager and former player who played as a defender. He played for the Kazakhstan national team.

Club career

Neustädter played for

Zenit Leningrad Football Club Zenit (, ), also known as Zenit Saint Petersburg or simply Zenit, is a Russian professional football club based in Saint Petersburg. Founded in 1925 (or in 1914, according to some Russian sources), the club plays in the Russian Pr ...

CSKA Moscow CSKA Moscow () is a Russian sports club based in Moscow. It was created in 1911 in the Russian Empire on base of OLLS (Skiing Society, founded 1901). Later, during the Soviet Union, Soviet era, it was the central part of the Armed Forces (sports ...

Iskra Smolensk FC Iskra Smolensk () was a Russian football team from Smolensk. It played professionally in 1937 and 1960 to 1994. In 1995 it merged with FC Kristall Smolensk. They played on the second-highest level in the Soviet First League The Soviet Firs ...

Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Football Club Dnipro (, ) was a Ukrainian football club based in Dnipro. The club played its last season in the 2018–19 Ukrainian Amateur League. The club was owned by Ukrainian businessman Ihor Kolomoyskyi. In 2018, FC Dnipro was forced i ...

Tavriya Simferopol Sports Club Tavriya () was a Ukrainian football club from Simferopol. Tavriya was a member of the Ukrainian Premier League from its founding and won the first Ukrainian Premier League 1992, Ukrainian Premier League making them one of three team ...

, Kairat Almaty, Spartak Vladikavkaz, and

Karlsruher SC Karlsruher Sport-Club Mühlburg-Phönix e. V., better known as Karlsruher SC, is a Football in Germany, German association football club, based in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg that currently plays in the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of Germa ...

in the

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. After a short spell at

Chemnitzer FC Chemnitzer Fußballclub e.V. is a German association football club based in Chemnitz, Saxony. The club competes in Regionalliga Nordost, the fourth tier of German football. The roots of the club go back to its establishment as Chemnitzer BC 193 ...

, he moved to

Mainz 05 1. Fußball- und Sport-Verein Mainz 05 e. V., usually shortened to 1. FSV Mainz 05 or simply Mainz 05 (), is a German professional sports club, founded in 1905 and based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. Mainz 05 play in the Bundesliga, the top tie ...

in 1994, where he finished his career as a player in 2004.

International career

Neustädter played in 1996 twice for the Kazakhstan national team.

Coaching career

After retiring from professional playing, Neustädter played for and coached the German Oberliga team 1. FSV Mainz 05 II. His first match was a 1–0 loss to

FC Nöttingen FC Nöttingen is a Football in Germany, German association football club from the Nöttingen district of Remchingen, Baden-Württemberg. The footballers are part of a sports club of more than 500 members that also has departments for table tenni ...

. Mainz II were eliminated in the first round of the 2005–06 DFB-Pokal against

. Mainz II finished third in the 2005–06 Oberliga Südwest season. Then they finished second in the following season. Mainz II won the Oberliga Südwest during the 2007–08 season. Mainz II were promoted to the

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and finished in fifth place during the 2008–09 season. Neustädter was head coach until 26 April 2010. His final match was a 3–1 loss against 1. FC Köln II. Mainz II were in 16th place when he left the club. On 17 September 2012, he was appointed as manager of

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. He was head coach until 20 August 2013.

Personal life

Neustädter was born in

Kara-Balta Kara-Balta (; Dungan, Russian and ; ) is a city and municipality on the Kara-Balta River, in Chüy Region, in northern Kyrgyzstan, the capital of Jayyl District. Its population was 48,278 in 2021. Kara-Balta is located on the northern slopes ...

in the

Kirghiz SSR The Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic (Kirghiz SSR), also known as the Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic (Kyrgyz SSR), KySSR or Kirgiz Soviet Socialist Republic (Kirgiz SSR), was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1 ...

of the

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(now Kyrgyzstan). He is the son of a

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father and a Ukrainian mother. Since 1992 he has resided in Germany, and is a German citizen. His son Roman Neustädter is also a professional footballer and represented both

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and

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at full international level. His younger brother Andrej Neustädter also had a brief career as a professional football player.

Coaching record

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* * * 1966 births Living people Soviet men's footballers Kazakhstani men's footballers Kazakhstan men's international footballers German men's footballers People from Kara-Balta Kazakhstani emigrants to Germany Volga German people FC Spartak Vladikavkaz players FC Dnipro players Karlsruher SC players 1. FSV Mainz 05 players Chemnitzer FC players SC Tavriya Simferopol players FC Kairat players Soviet Top League players Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players Men's association football defenders TuS Koblenz managers 1. FSV Mainz 05 II managers Kazakhstani people of German descent FC Iskra Smolensk players German football managers PFC CSKA Moscow players FC Zenit Saint Petersburg players 20th-century German sportsmen {{USSR-footy-defender-stub