{"id":17638,"date":"2025-08-27T18:06:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17638"},"modified":"2025-08-27T18:06:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:06:04","slug":"dortmund-extend-coach-kovacs-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17638","title":{"rendered":"Dortmund extend coach Kovac’s contract"},"content":{"rendered":"
Borussia Dortmund have extended\u00a0 coach Niko Kovac’s contract by one season until 2027, the club announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Kovac, a former boss of Bayern Munich, Eintracht Frankfurt and Monaco, joined Dortmund on an 18-month deal with the club in 11th spot in January 2025.<\/p>\n

Despite falling as low as 13th, Kovac helped right the ship, with Dortmund winning 22 of a possible 24 points to close the season and finish in fourth, the final Champions League spot.<\/p>\n

“With honest work, clear decisions, and great enthusiasm, we want to help Borussia Dortmund return to our former strength,” Kovac said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“We still have a lot to do together.”<\/p>\n

Dortmund sporting director Sebastian Kehl said Kovac “approaches every game with conviction, intensity and passion,” adding “we believe together we can continue the successful path of last season’s final spurt.”<\/p>\n

Considered a disciplinarian with a focus on fitness and work-rate, Kovac made his initial mark as a coach by winning the German Cup as Frankfurt manager in 2018.<\/p>\n

Moving to Bayern, Kovac won the double in 2018-19 before he was shown his marching orders the following season.<\/p>\n

As a player, the Berlin-born Kovac represented Croatia 83 times, scoring 14 goals, while playing for Bayern Munich, Bayer Leverkusen and Hamburg.<\/p>\n

Dortmund began the season with a disappointing 3-3 draw at St Pauli, conceding two goals and being reduced to 10 men in the final five minutes.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Borussia Dortmund have extended\u00a0 coach Niko Kovac’s contract by one season until 2027, the club announced on Tuesday. Kovac, a former boss of Bayern Munich, Eintracht Frankfurt and Monaco, joined Dortmund on an 18-month deal with the club in 11th spot in January 2025. Despite falling as low as 13th, Kovac helped right the ship, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}