Hansi Flick

Hansi Flick took charge of FC Barcelona in the summer of 2024, having gained experience in German football, achieved excellence with Bayern and coached his country’s national team. Barça thus became the latest club in a successful career in which Flick has won practically everything.

Born in Heidelberg, Germany in 1965, Flick started his coaching career back in 1996 as player-coach at FC Victoria Bammental. In 2000 he took over at Hoffenheim where he stayed for five seasons before moving to RB Salzburg to become part of the coaching staff under Giovanni Trapattoni and Lothar Matthäus. 

In August 2006 Flick became assistant coach to Jürgen Löw at the German national team following the resignation of Jürgen Klinsmann. Löw and Flick led Germany through a rebuilding phase and then to the final of the European Championships in 2008.

In 2010 the team reached the World Cup semi-final, the same stage of the European Championships in 2012 before being crowned World Champions in 2014 in Brazil.

After the success in the tournament, Flick stepped down as assistant coach to the ‘Mannschaft’ and took a job as sporting director at the German Football Federation (DFB) before returning to Hoffenheim in 2017 as sporting director. In the summer of 2019 Flick arrived at Bayern Munich as assistant to Nico Kovac.

The Bavarian club went on to sack their Croatian coach after just months in the job and Flick was promoted to caretaker first team coach, a decision that was to change the course of Bayern’s history. After a good start, Bayern CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge confirmed Flick in the job until the end of the season. Flick recorded 22 wins in his first 25 games in charge, surpassing Josep Guardiola’s figures of 21 wins in his first 25 matches.

After winning the Bundesliga, the German Cup and the Champions League, Bayern completed the set with victory in the German Super Cup, the UEFA Super Cup and the Club World Cup, repeating the feat achieved by Pep Guardiola’s Barça in 2009.

In the 2020/21 season Bayern retained the league title before the coach informed the club he would be leaving to take on the German national team, a job he retained until September 2023. 

In his first season at FC Barcelona, Flick imposed an ambitious, high pressing style of football that led the team to a domestic treble of Spanish Super Cup, Copa del Rey and league titles. The team were also minutes away from a first appearance in the Champions League final since 2015. 

The following season was also a fruitful one. Once again, the German coach guided Barça to the La Liga and Spanish Super Cup titles, and renewed his contract until 2028 before the end of the campaign.