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MANAGER

VALERIEN ISMAEL

Hannover 96
On 10 October 2009, Ismaël became the assistant general manager of Hannover 96. From 24 June 2010, he was also board member of the club.[16] On 28 November 2011, he took over the job of manager of the second team, Hannover 96 II.[17] In the 2011–12 season, Hannover II finished in sixth place with a record of 14 wins, eight draws, and 12 losses.[18] During the 2012–13 season, Hannover II finished in fourth place with a record of 16 wins, six draws, and eight losses.[19] Ismaël left on 30 June 2013.[17]

VfL Wolfsburg II
Ismaël was manager of VfL Wolfsburg II between 1 July 2013 and 5 June 2014.[20] Wolfsburg II won the Regionalliga Nord in the 2013–14 season[21] and lost to Sonnenhof Großaspach in the promotion play-off.[22]

1. FC Nürnberg

Ismaël as 1. FC Nürnberg manager in 2014
Ismaël became the new head coach of 1. FC Nürnberg on 5 June 2014[23] and won his first match in charge against Erzgebirge Aue 1–0 on 3 August 2014.[24] He went on to lose eight of his next 13 matches[25] and was sacked on 10 November 2014;[26] three days after a 2–1 loss to SV Sandhausen.[27] He finished with a record of four wins, two draws, and eight losses.[28]

Return to VfL Wolfsburg II
Ismaël returned to VfL Wolfsburg II on 1 June 2015.[29] Repeating the success of his first tenure with the team, Wolfsburg II won the 2015–16 Regionalliga Nord.[30] Once again though, Wolfsburg II lost in the promotion play-off, this time to Jahn Regensburg.[31]

VfL Wolfsburg
First-team head coach Dieter Hecking was sacked on 17 October 2016 and was replaced by Ismaël on an interim basis.[32] In his first four games in charge, Wolfsburg managed to win twice.[33] Ismaël was promoted from interim coach to permanent head coach on 7 November 2016.[34] Ismaël was sacked on 26 February 2017.[35]

Apollon Smyrnis
On 29 May 2018, it was announced that Ismaël had signed a two-year deal with Super League Greece club Apollon Smyrnis.[36] However, after only managing them for one league game against Larissa on 25 August 2018, in which Apollon lost 0–1 at home, he was dismissed from his managerial post six days later due to disagreements with the club's president.[37]

LASK
For the 2019–20 Austrian Football Bundesliga Ismaël was succeeding Oliver Glasner as the new head coach and sporting director of Austrian team LASK.[38] In the first few months of his tenure, he led the team to the best start in the club's history (17 points from 8 games). He also led LASK to a first ever appearance in the UEFA Champions League play-offs. After beating favourites FC Basel the team fell short against Club Brugge. In LASK's first ever appearance in the UEFA Europa League the team won the group with Sporting Lisbon, PSV Eindhoven, and Rosenborg Trondheim. After beating AZ Alkmaar in the round of 32, LASK lost against Manchester United. After the Covid-19 induced pause of football, LASK trained a couple of days too early with full body contact. It was heavily criticised by other clubs, and the media. The team did not play well any more, and 4 points were deducted for breaching the Corona rules, which let them end on fourth position in the league. LASK parted ways with Ismaël on 11 July 2020, as Dominik Thalhammer became available who succeeded him.[39]

Barnsley
When Gerhard Struber decided to join New York Red Bulls in autumn 2020, Barnsley hired Ismaël as his successor. He led them to a play-off position, which was a remarkable achievement, considering that in the previous season Barnsley only narrowly avoided relegation.

West Bromwich Albion
On 24 June 2021, Ismaël joined recently relegated Championship side West Bromwich Albion, signing a four-year contract and becoming the club's first French manager.[40]

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