Michael Mutzel


Michael Mutzel is a German former football midfielder. He is currently the sporting director of Hamburger SV.
He represented Germany at the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship.

After retirement

After retiring at the end of the 2011–12 season, Mutzel began his coaching career at 1899 Hoffenheim as assistant manager of the U17 team. He was actually appointed in a dual function, where he also was involved in the scouting and squad planning for the U15, U16 and U17. From 1 January 2013, he took over the U16's. In April 2013, he was also appointed as head of the youth department and became responsible for the sporty coordination of the U16 to U19 teams. He left the club on 28 October 2014 to join SpVgg Greuther Fürth as a sporting director. He was at SpVgg Greuther Fürth until the end of 2015.
On 2 February 2016, Mutzel returned to Hoffenheim and became responsible of scouting and game analysis. He was going to be the head of scouting and responsible for the game analysis. He left the club again at the end of March 2019 to join Hamburger SV as sporting director.

Honours

VfB Stuttgart