Overview
- Union Berlin fired Steffen Baumgart and named 34-year-old Marie-Louise Eta interim head coach, a change the club announced Sunday after a 3-1 loss at Heidenheim.
- Eta is the first woman to lead a men’s team in Germany’s top division and the first to coach a club in any of Europe’s five major leagues.
- Her brief mandate covers the final five matches with survival the target, as Union sit on 32 points with a seven-point cushion over the relegation playoff place.
- Her first match in charge is at home against Wolfsburg on Saturday, a game that matters because both teams are fighting to avoid the drop.
- A former Turbine Potsdam midfielder who won the 2010 Women’s Champions League, Eta moved into coaching in 2018, served as Union’s men’s assistant in 2023–24, and won a 2024 league match vs. Darmstadt as stand-in; the club still plans for her to take over the women’s first team this summer.