Terzic is chasing his own series – and a BVB record

Under Edin Terzic, BVB is unstoppable in the league – again. The 40-year-old could set a personal record and a new BVB record in the Revierderby at Schalke.

This time he’s doing it alone: ​​Edin Terzic has already worked with Marco Rose on a club record.

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It was a somewhat bizarre situation in this 2020/21 BVB season. Edin Terzic took over as coach from Lucien Favre in December 2020. After some initial difficulties, he started an impressive winning streak of seven games in the league with Borussia from April 2021 and also won the DFB Cup with BVB. Nevertheless, he then moved back into the second rank. In February 2021, Dortmund had already decided that Marco Rose would take over at the end of the season.

From August 2022, however, Terzic was back in the executive chair and continued where he left off – with victories. Only Werder Bremen ended the Terzic Festival on matchday 3 with a spectacular 3:2, so the 40-year-old had lined up nine Bundesliga successes in a row.

A series that he could now discontinue. Before the Revierderby at Schalke (Saturday, 6.30 p.m., LIVE! on kicker), Terzic has eight league wins in a row, a week later Cologne are guests at Signal-Iduna-Park. He could possibly set a personal best there.

But not only a new Terzic, but also a club record beckons: BVB also achieved eight league wins in a row from December 2011 to March 2012 under Jürgen Klopp and from April to August 2021 (seven under Terzic, one under Rose). There have never been nine wins in a row.

And in terms of winning competitive games? In total, BVB had won ten times in a row (eight times in the Bundesliga, once in the DFB Cup, once in the Champions League), but with the defeat on Tuesday at Chelsea (0:2) this is now a thing of the past. Only once did Dortmund have a longer winning streak – however, the eleven wins in a row at the beginning of the 2015/16 season and the Tuchel era were only five Bundesliga games, four games in the Europa League qualifiers, the first round in the DFB Cup and the first day of the Europa League.

Bundesliga victories? Nobody tops Guardiola

Incidentally, Terzic is already part of an illustrious circle. Only seven other coaches also had a series of at least eight Bundesliga wins in a row: Udo Lattek, Pal Csernai, Ottmar Hitzfeld, Hennes Weisweiler, Felix Magath (two each), Pep Guardiola (three) and Jupp Heynckes (four).

The only one of them who did not coach FC Bayern in any of the series was Hennes Weisweiler. In 1970 he managed eight wins in a row with Gladbach. In the 1974/75 season he also won the last six games of the season with the Foals before moving to FC Barcelona. After returning to the Bundesliga as coach of 1. FC Köln, he added another five wins.

And who has the most Bundesliga wins in a row? Pep Guardiola did that in the 2013/14 season. The Spaniard won an incredible 19 times with FC Bayern between October 2013 and March 2014.

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