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The 2-1 victory of BVB at VfL Wolfsburg may not have been glamorous. But it brings three points—and several statistical peculiarities for the club and some of the players. What this specifically means for BVB and Julian Brandt can be found out here. But coach Niko Kovac also reached a remarkable milestone as a coach.

This victory was Kovac’s 100th as a coach of a Bundesliga team. As is well known, the Berlin native had previously coached Eintracht Frankfurt and FC Bayern Munich in the top tier of German football—and after a stint at AS Monaco, he took over the very VfL Wolfsburg, whom he has now defeated as a guest.

In total, Niko Kovac needed 216 matches to achieve this. He recorded 29 wins each as coach of Eintracht Frankfurt and FC Bayern Munich. He achieved 19 Bundesliga victories during his time at VfL Wolfsburg. And with Borussia Dortmund, the 2-1 win was already his 23rd victory in the league. That adds up to 100 wins in just 216 matches. Only nine coaches in the long history of the Bundesliga have reached 100 wins faster than the current BVB coach.

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BVB coaches like Hitzfeld and Lattek faster than Kovac

Kicker lists these nine, some of whom are obvious candidates, while other members of this ranking may come as a surprise.

Here is the complete list, including the number of Bundesliga matches each coach needed to reach 100 wins:

With the now 91-year-old Karl-Heinz Feldkamp, as well as Ottmar Hitzfeld, Marco Rose, and Udo Lattek, there are four more former Borussia Dortmund coaches in the top 10 for fastest to reach 100 wins.

Udo Lattek even leads the list by a considerable margin, as he coached Germany’s two top teams in the 1970s: first, from 1970 to 1975, FC Bayern Munich. Afterwards, he moved to their great rivals of the time and was coach of Borussia Mönchengladbach from 1975 to 1979. Therefore, it is assumed that Lattek reached his 100 wins before he joined Borussia Dortmund in 1979—and took a brief seat on the BVB bench again in 2000.

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