Brighton and Hove Albion have confirmed three new additions to Fabian Hürzeler’s coaching staff, subject to successful work permit applications.
Jonas Scheuermann is joining Albion as assistant head coach, Marco Knoop as goalkeeping coach and Max Lesser as tactical analyst.
Scheuermann joins Brighton from German club Augsburg. He became assistant manager there in 2017 and the 38-year-old has since worked under seven different head coaches.
He previously spent 10 years on the coaching staff of SV Waldeck-Obermenzing.
Knoop had a 13-year career as a player at regional level in his native Germany before he embarked on his coaching career at Bochum in 2006, working with various age group teams until 2011.
The 45-year-old then joined RB Leipzig, coaching their U19s until 2016 when he took up a similar role with Borussia Dortmund.
He took his first senior coaching role in Turkey with Fenerbahce in 2020 and then spent a year with Danish club Nordsjaelland.
Knoop joined St Pauli in 2022 and worked with Hürzeler when he took over as first-team coach in 2022.
Lesser, who is 29, was most recently with Ajax as chief analyst. Previously he held a similar role with VfB Stuttgart.
Scheuermann, Knoop and Lesser will work alongside men’s first team coach Andrew Crofts and men’s first team goalkeeping coach Jack Stern.
The club will now proceed with the relevant visa processes, with the trio expected to start work in the coming days.
