Daniel Bauer

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Daniel Bauer (born 17 October 1982) is a German professional football manager and former player. A midfielder during his playing career, he made 26 2. Bundesliga appearances for Eintracht Trier before recurring injuries reduced him to the lower tiers of the German football pyramid for the remainder of his playing career. He retired in 2014 and spent a decade coaching youth sides at VfL Wolfsburg before serving as the club's head coach from November 2025 until March 2026. Bauer grew up in Andernach and began playing football at local club SC Concordia Saffig before progressing to TuS Mayen, where he featured for both the youth and senior sides. In the Verbandsliga Rheinland, then the fifth tier of German football, he won promotion to the Oberliga Südwest in his first senior season; the club finished twelfth the following year before Bauer moved on. In 2002, described at the time as a goal-threatening talent, Bauer joined Eintracht Trier—who were entering their first 2. Bundesliga season under coach Paul Linz—and established himself as a defensive midfielder. He made 26 second-division appearances across three seasons, during which Trier were relegated on the final day of the 2004–05 season on goal difference. Bauer remained at the club for the following Regionalliga Süd campaign, adding ten appearances, but a managerial change midway through the season left him on the margins and eventually playing for the reserve side; he departed in the summer of 2006.