Petrik Sander (born 17 November 1960) is a German

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manager and former player. He is the manager of FSV Budissa Bautzen.

Player career

Sander played over 150 games in the

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for

FC Energie Cottbus FC Energie Cottbus (Lower Sorbian: ''Energija Chóśebuz'') is a German football club based in Cottbus, Brandenburg. It was founded in 1963 as SC Cottbus in what was East Germany. After the reunification of Germany, Energie played six seasons i ...

and Motor Nordhausen.

Coaching career

In 1997, Sander became assistant manager at

. He was later made head coach, when

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left the club. In 2006, he led the club to promotion into the

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. His first season as a

-coach ended with a 13th place, and the club was secured another year in the league. However, due to bad results in the beginning of the 2007–08 season, Sander was sacked on 23 September 2007. On 21 November 2008, Sander signed a contract as head coach at

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and was fired on 5 May 2009. After seven months without a job, Sander signed as head coach of

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on 27 December 2009. He left Koblenz in 2011 after their relegation from the

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, becoming manager of

FC Carl Zeiss Jena FC Carl Zeiss Jena () is a German football club based in Jena, Thuringia. Founded in 1903, it was initially associated with the optics manufacturer Carl Zeiss. From the 1960s to the 1980s it was one of the top-ranked clubs in East Germany, won ...

in November 2011. He was sacked by Jena shortly after the start of the 2013–14 season. On 1 January 2015, he returned to

. On 28 February 2019, Sander was appointed as manager of FSV Budissa Bautzen.Sander folgt auf Gütschow als Bautzen-Trainer
mdr.de, 28 February 2019

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* 1960 births Living people People from Quedlinburg East German men's footballers German men's footballers FC Energie Cottbus players FC Energie Cottbus II players German football managers FC Energie Cottbus managers FC Carl Zeiss Jena managers Bundesliga managers VfR Aalen managers 2. Bundesliga managers DDR-Oberliga players 3. Liga managers Men's association football forwards TuS Koblenz managers Footballers from Saxony-Anhalt {{Germany-footy-forward-1960s-stub