Sebastian Schuppan (born 18 July 1986) is a German former professional

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who played as a

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. He serves as the

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Playing career

Schuppan grew up in Hohenbocka,

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. He started his football career at the age of six with

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and at the age of 15 moved to the youth academy of the local professional club,

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

. There, he progressed through the youth system before making his first-team debut in the 2. Bundesliga in the 2004–05 season. Playing as a

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, Schuppan was part of the team that reached promotion to the

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the following year. Schuppan, who had a contract with Energie Cottbus until 2008, failed to gain fitness at the start of the Bundesliga season after suffering an injury and thus only played for the second team in the

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in the 2007–08 season. He then left the club and joined newly relegated

SC Paderborn Sport-Club Paderborn 07 e.V., commonly known as simply SC Paderborn 07 () or SC Paderborn, is a German association football club based in Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club has enjoyed its greatest success since the turn of the millenni ...

in the

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, with whom he achieved promotion back into the 2. Bundesliga in his first season. After the end of the 2009–10 season, his contract in Paderborn was not extended. Schuppan then signed for

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of the 3. Liga ahead of the 2010–11 season, and also achieved promotion to the 2. Bundesliga with them. After relegation from the second division in 2014, Schuppan moved to

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in the third division. With the

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team, he won promotion to the 2. Bundesliga in his first season, the third time this happened in his career. His contract, which ended in 2017, was not renewed. Schuppan then joined

, with whom he signed a contract until 2019. For the 2018–19 season, Schuppan also became

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of the

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team and he extended his contract in January 2019 to 30 June 2020 – with the option of an additional season. With the Kickers, he achieved his fourth promotion to the 2. Bundesliga with a fourth club in the 2019–20 season. By scoring a goal on a

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in stoppage time to equalise 2–2 against

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on the last day of the season, he ultimately won promotion for his club. After leading Würzburger Kickers to the 2. Bundesliga, Schuppan announced his decision to retire from football.

Executive career

On 17 November 2020, Schuppan took over the newly created position of

at the

, reporting directly to chairman of the board, Daniel Sauer. He was announced as the new head coach of Würzburg on 2 April 2021 for the remainder of the season.

Honours

Energie Cottbus * 2. Bundesliga promotion: 2005–06 SC Paderborn * 3. Liga play-offs:

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

Dynamo Dresden * 3. Liga play-offs:

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Arminia Bielefeld *

: 2014–15 Würzburger Kickers *

runners-up: 2019–20 *

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: 2018–19

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Schuppan, Sebastian 1986 births Living people People from Lauchhammer Sportspeople from Bezirk Cottbus German men's footballers Footballers from Brandenburg Men's association football midfielders SC Paderborn 07 players FC Energie Cottbus players FC Energie Cottbus II players Dynamo Dresden players Arminia Bielefeld players FC Würzburger Kickers players 2. Bundesliga players 3. Liga players 2. Bundesliga managers Regionalliga players German football managers FC Würzburger Kickers managers 21st-century German sportsmen