Zsolt Lőw (born 29 April 1979) is a Hungarian professional football coach and former player who played as a defender. He was most recently an assistant coach at Premier League club Chelsea to Thomas Tuchel, whom he previously assisted at Paris Saint Germain.[2] In his playing career, he played for Újpest, Energie Cottbus, Hansa Rostock, Hoffenheim, and Mainz 05.

Zsolt Lőw

Lőw with Paris Saint-Germain in 2019
Personal information
Full name	Zsolt Lőw[1]
Date of birth	(1979-04-29) 29 April 1979 (age 43)
Place of birth	Budapest, Hungary
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Left Back
Youth career
	Újpest
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1998–2002	Újpest	97	(6)
2002–2005	Energie Cottbus	79	(5)
2005–2006	Hansa Rostock	11	(0)
2006–2008	Hoffenheim	39	(0)
2009–2011	Mainz 05	29	(0)
2010–2011	→ Mainz 05 II	4	(0)
Total		259	(11)
National team
1999–2000	Hungary U-21	3	(0)
2002–2008	Hungary	25	(1)
Teams managed
2012–2014	Red Bull Salzburg FC (youth)
2014–2015	Red Bull Salzburg FC (assistant)
2015–2018	RB Leipzig (assistant)
2018–2020	Paris Saint-Germain (assistant)
2021–2022	Chelsea (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Playing career

From 2009 until 2011, Lőw played for Mainz 05 under coach Thomas Tuchel.^{[citation needed]}

Coaching career

Lőw started his coaching career a year later, in 2012, as assistant coach of Peter Zeidler at FC Red Bull Salzburg's farm team FC Liefering. When Adi Hütter joined Salzburg as coach in 2014, Lőw became his assistant until Hütter left for Bern. Salzburg won the Austrian double with the 2014–15 Austrian Football Bundesliga, and 2014–15 Austrian Cup. Lőw, at the same time, joined RB Leipzig, as one of the assistants to Ralf Rangnick. When Leipzig was promoted to the Bundesliga, Rangnick stopped being coach and hired Ralph Hasenhüttl as coach who continued to work with Lőw as his assistant. Leipzig finished as runner up in 2016–17 Bundesliga. The following season Leipzig dropped out of the Champions League and continued in the Europa League. After beating heavyweights Napoli and Zenit Saint Petersburg, they lost against Marseille in the quarter-finals.[3]

In July 2018, when Hasenhüttl decided to leave Leipzig, Lőw left to join Thomas Tuchel as an assistant at Paris Saint Germain.[4][5]

In December 2020, PSG sporting director Leonardo terminated Tuchel's contract.[6] Tuchel's staff, including Lőw, were let go as well.[6] Lőw went with Tuchel when the German was hired by Premier League club Chelsea the following month.[7] He was in charge of Chelsea's Club World Cup semi-final as Tuchel was isolating after a positive COVID-19 test.

Career statistics

Reference:[2]

Honours

Player

Újpest

• Hungarian Cup: 2001–02
• Hungarian Super Cup: 2002

1899 Hoffenheim

• 2. Bundesliga runner-up: 2007–08
• Regionalliga runner-up: 2006–07

Mainz 05

• 2. Bundesliga runner-up: 2008–09

References

External links

• Zsolt Lőw at fussballdaten.de (in German)
• Zsolt Lőw at magyarfutball.hu (in Hungarian)

На других языках

[de] Zsolt Lőw

[fr] Zsolt Lőw

[it] Zsolt Lőw

[ru] Лёв, Жольт