“I’m a fan”: Bundesliga coach dreams of BVB job | OneFootball

A Bundesliga coach makes no secret of his fondness for BVB. A move to Dortmund is nevertheless hard for him to imagine at the moment.

Vincent Wagner has made quite a splash with SV Elversberg in a short space of time. After their surprise promotion to the Bundesliga, the club has also looked competitive in the top flight. The 40-year-old coach is attracting more and more attention as a result — and has now revealed which Bundesliga club his heart belongs to.

In an interview with BILD, Wagner declared his support for Borussia Dortmund. “Now I have to be careful what I say,” the SVE coach joked at first, before explaining: “I’ve been a Borussia Dortmund fan since the 1995/1996 season.” However, Wagner dismissed any thoughts of a move to BVB in the near future.

When it comes to a coaching job with the Black and Yellows, he said that “at the moment, I still can’t really picture myself standing on the touchline there one day.” Instead, he is focused on his current task: “I’m happy at SV Elversberg and glad that I’m allowed to be a Bundesliga coach — because I love my job.”

Elversberg coach Wagner raves about BVB

Wagner took over at Elversberg in the summer of 2025 after Horst Steffen left the club for Werder Bremen. Before that, he had been in charge of TSG Hoffenheim’s second team for three years. Other stops in his coaching career included Rot-Weiss Essen, MSV Duisburg and VfL Bochum.

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At Elversberg, Wagner continued the club’s remarkable rise and led the Saarland side into the Bundesliga for the first time in its history. The newly promoted team drew attention right at the start of the season with some strong performances. Wagner already has one connection to Dortmund: BVB sporting director Ole Book previously worked in Elversberg. In addition, during his playing career at FC Kray, Wagner played alongside Willy Aubameyang, the brother of former Dortmund goal scorer Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

A spell for Wagner at BVB is not a concrete topic at the moment anyway. Niko Kovac is firmly in the saddle in Dortmund. The club’s decision-makers have already signaled that they want to discuss an extension with the head coach, whose current deal runs until the end of the season. Wagner, meanwhile, is still under contract in Elversberg until 2028.

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