Overview
- DEG named Harry Lange, 42, as head coach on a contract through season’s end with an option to extend based on positive progress.
- Lange begins work Saturday and will lead the team Sunday against Wölfe Freiburg, while Rich Chernomaz coaches Friday at Lausitzer Füchse before shifting fully to sport director.
- The club says the move of Chernomaz to sport director was planned for the midterm and was accelerated due to the current sporting slump.
- DEG has lost five straight and eight of the last ten, including a 3:6 home defeat to Krefeld before more than 13,000 fans and a 0:5 loss at Blue Devils Weiden, leaving the team 11th in DEL2.
- Management reiterates that financing is secured beyond 2027 following April’s insolvency as the club seeks stability and a sporting reset.