Peter Zeidler (born 8 August 1962) is a German football

manager Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body. It is the art and science of managing resources of the business. Management includes the activities ...

who manages Swiss club

St. Gallen , neighboring_municipalities = Eggersriet, Gaiserwald, Gossau, Herisau (AR), Mörschwil, Speicher (AR), Stein (AR), Teufen (AR), Untereggen, Wittenbach , twintowns = Liberec (Czech Republic) , website ...

Coaching career

Zeidler started his coaching career with

VfR Aalen Verein für Rasenspiele 1921 Aalen e.V., known simply as VfR Aalen, is a German football club based in Aalen, Baden-Württemberg. The football team is part of a larger sports club which also offers its members gymnastics, table tennis, and chee ...

in 2002 and was appointed manager of 1. FC Nürnberg II three years later. Following a one-year spell as manager of

Stuttgarter Kickers Stuttgarter Kickers is a German association football club that plays in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, founded on 21 September 1899 as FC Stuttgarter Cickers. History In its early years the club had a decent local squad that played in the Sü ...

, he spent three years as Ralf Rangnick's assistant at

TSG 1899 Hoffenheim Turn- und Sportgemeinschaft 1899 Hoffenheim e.V., or simply TSG 1899 Hoffenheim or just Hoffenheim () is a German professional football club based in Hoffenheim, a village of Sinsheim municipality, Baden-Württemberg. Originally founded in 1 ...

before joining French

Ligue 2 Ligue 2 (, League 2), also known as Ligue 2 BKT due to sponsorship by Balkrishna Industries, is a French professional football league. The league serves as the second division of French football and is one of two divisions making up the Ligu ...

side

Tours Tours ( , ) is one of the largest cities in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the prefecture of the department of Indre-et-Loire. The commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabitants as of 2018 while the population of the whole metr ...

as the head coach in 2011. In 2012, he went on to

FC Liefering FC Liefering GmbH is an Austrian association football club, originally from Liefering, a section of Salzburg. It currently plays in the Second League, the second tier of Austrian football. Since 2012, Liefering has been a reserve team for ...

, the second team of Red Bull Salzburg. On 22 June 2015, he became head coach of the first team. On 3 December 2015, he was replaced by Thomas Letsch, who like Zeidler, also comes from FC Liefering. On 1 June 2017, Zeidler was named manager of FC Sochaux-Montbéliard.

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* 1962 births Living people People from Schwäbisch Gmünd Sportspeople from Stuttgart (region) German football managers VfR Aalen managers Stuttgarter Kickers managers Tours FC managers FC Red Bull Salzburg managers FC Liefering managers FC Sion managers FC Sochaux-Montbéliard managers FC St. Gallen managers German expatriate football managers German expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Expatriate football managers in Switzerland {{Germany-footy-bio-stub