TuS Haltern has dismissed its coach. This was announced by the poorly started Westfalenliga club.

After more than two years, Timo Ostdorf’s time at TuS Haltern has come to an end. On Tuesday, the Westfalenliga club announced that the previous head coach had been released. It is not yet known who will succeed him. The club would like to inform about this as soon as possible.

Ostdorf had taken over the TuS first team in the summer of 2020 – after voluntarily withdrawing from the regional league. Before that, he successfully coached the second team and the youth team for many years. The 36-year-old also wore the Halten jersey as an active player.

After two years in the Oberliga, the club, which relies on players from the immediate vicinity, was relegated in the summer. And TuS has obviously not really arrived in the Westfalenliga yet. They have only won one match in the first nine days, and with four points Haltern are in the first relegation spot. Now a new coach is to ensure that the Revierklub stays in the league.

“Timo and the TuS was an incredible success story for many years,” football department head Daniel Haxter is quoted as saying. He wished Ostdorf “only the best” and explained: “From a sporting point of view, we have now had to decide, in consultation with Timo, that we will end his involvement as coach at TuS Haltern am See prematurely.”

For Ostdorf himself, TuS had been “an essential part of my playing and coaching life” over the past eight years. “I have been given the opportunities here to develop as a coach in many different ways and at the same time to gain experience from the Landesliga to the Oberliga. My stint with the U19s also helped me develop significantly as a coach and shaped me into the coach I am today. I am very grateful to the club for that. “