Michael Krüger is a German football coach and former football player.

Coaching career

Krüger began his coaching career as assistant-coach from Peter Neururer

Peter Neururer

Peter Neururer is a German football manager.-Career:Neururer had a minor playing career in the lower leagues before moving into coaching at TuS Haltern and SG Weitmar...

 with FC Schalke 04

FC Schalke 04

Fußball-Club Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04, commonly known as simply FC Schalke 04 or Schalke , is a German, association-football club originally from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia. Schalke has long been one of the most popular football teams in Germany, even though major...

, in September 1989 was named as the new head coach of the 2 Football League club Hannover 96

Hannover 96

Hannoverscher Sportverein von 1896, commonly referred to as Hannover 96, Hannover or simply 96, is a German association football club based in the city of Hanover, Lower Saxony.-Foundation to WWII:...

, after one year was suspended. He works than 1999 one year for the lower league team VfV Hildesheim, before signed an contact as assistant coach from Erich Rutemöller

Erich Rutemöller

Erich Rutemöller is a German football coach and retired footballer.-Coaching career:...

 by F.C. Hansa Rostock. In the 1994/95 season Krüger took the coaching job at Holstein Kiel

Holstein Kiel

Holstein Kiel is a German association football and sports club based in the city of Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein. Through the 1910s and 1920s the club was a dominant side in northern Germany winning six regional titles and finishing as runners-up another six times...

. He then worked in Egypt, he coached the club Arab Contractors and won the African Cup, one year later he led Al-Masry

Al-Masry

Al-Masry Sporting Club , is an Egyptian sporting club based in Port Said. Founded in 1920 by a group of Egyptians in Port Said to be the first club for the Egyptians in the city which was full of many other clubs for the foreign communities which inhabited Port Said...

 to win the Egyptian Cup against his former team Arab Contractors in 1998. In the year 1998 he returned to Germany and was named as the head coach of Kickers Emden

Kickers Emden

BSV Kickers Emden is a German association football club, located in Emden, Lower Saxony.-History:The club first began playing in 1928 as a section of the gymnastics club Emder Turnverein, which was founded in 1861...

 and later took the same job at the second team of VfL Wolfsburg

VfL Wolfsburg

VfL Wolfsburg is a professional German association football club based in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, who play in the Bundesliga football competition. Wolfsburg have won the Bundesliga once in their history, in the 2008–09 season, and were DFB-Pokal runners-up in 1995. The current head coach is Felix...

.

From 15 March 2004 was Krueger head coach of Eintracht Braunschweig

Eintracht Braunschweig

Eintracht Braunschweig is a German association football club based in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony. The club was one of the founding members of the Bundesliga in 1963 and won the national title in 1967.-History:...

 and led the club back in the second Bundesliga in 2006. On 4 October 2006, Kruger was fired with assistant Wolfgang Loos by the Lower Saxony club. On 13 June 2007 Krueger was named as the new Head coach of the regional league relegated team 1. FC Saarbrücken

1. FC Saarbrücken

1. FC Saarbrücken is a German association football club based in the city of Saarbrücken, Saarland. The club began its existence as the football department of Turnverein Malstatt formed in 1903...

, he follows the fired Wolfgang Loos who was released in April 2007.

In January 2008 Krueger went back to Africa to coach Sudanese club Al-Merreikh, he led Al-Merreikh to win the Sudanese Premier League cup in November 2008. The last cup win from the team was in 2002, he introduced the team to win the Sudan Cup in December 2008. In 2008 he won the double with his club Al-Merreikh. Krüger signed on 21 September 2009 an contract as Head Coach by Alemannia Aachen

Alemannia Aachen

Alemannia Aachen is a German football club from the western city of Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia. A long term fixture of the country's second division, Alemannia enjoyed a three-year turn in the top flight in the late 1960s and, after a successful 2005–06 campaign, returned to first division play...

 and was just a half year later dismissed.

In the summer of 2010 he returned to the Sudanese club Al-Merreikh. In November 2010 he guided the club to victory in the Sudanese Cup. After that he left the club