Eckhoff's coaching career began at Holstein Kiel, where she played in the 2. Bundesliga. The Quickborn native gained her first coaching experience with various junior teams, finally taking over at the second division team in the 2014/15 season. It was there she coached Marie Becker, who later joined Union, in the youth team.

In the summer of 2015, she moved to the Württemberg Football Association, where Eckhoff worked as an association sports instructor and was responsible for promoting female talent. In her last year as an association sports instructor, the 40-year-old also worked as assistant coach for the German U19 and U20 national teams. During this time, she also completed her football coaching course and received her UEFA Pro licence in May 2021, the highest qualification in professional football.

Shortly afterwards, she moved to VfL Wolfsburg. She was assistant coach there until April 2025 and played a key role in a very successful period, as the women's team won the championship once (2022) and the cup three times (2022, 2023, 2024). They also reached the final of the UEFA Women's Champions League in 2023. Following the resignation of Wolfsburg head coach Tommy Stroot in April, she was appointed interim coach until the end of the season. With VfL, she picked up ten points from the remaining four games and secured direct qualification for the Champions League with second place in the table.

At 1. FC Union Berlin, she will now work closely with head coach Ailien Poese as assistant coach.

Union's new assistant coach and match analyst is Simon Falke. The 36-year-old gained his first coaching experience in Berlin's junior ranks. From 2015, he enjoyed an extremely successful spell as player-coach at Berlin amateur club Polar Pinguin. With a two-year break, he led the team from the Kreisliga C to the Berlin-Liga.

From 2018 to 2021, the Ebersberg native worked as a match analyst for Hertha BSC's youth and professional teams. He then moved to FC St. Gallen 1879 in Switzerland, where he worked as an assistant coach and analyst. Falke returned to Berlin in the summer of 2023 and, until recently, coached Polar Pinguin as a player-coach. For the past two years, he has also been responsible for promoting female talent at the Berlin Football Association.

Like many goalkeeper coaches, Vetterlein once stood between the posts herself. Born in Baden, she played for SC Freiburg, VfL Sindelfingen, 1. FFC Frankfurt, VfL Wolfsburg and TSG Hoffenheim during her career. She enjoyed her most successful spell in Wolfsburg, where she was the first-choice goalkeeper in 2013 when the club won the treble of the German championship, the DFB Pokal and the Champions League. Two years later, she ended her active career at the age of 27. 

Two years after that, she took up her first coaching position at the Mittelrhein Football Association, where she was responsible for goalkeeper training for the U12 to U18 girls' teams. Shortly afterwards, she moved to FC Viktoria Köln 1904, where she coached the U10 to U16 boys' teams. In the summer of 2019, she returned to her most successful club. At VfL Wolfsburg, the now 36-year-old spent six years as head goalkeeper coach in the youth department. From 2021, she also supported the coaching team of the professional women's team.

At Union, she will train the goalkeeping quartet of Cara Bösl, Melanie Wagner, Sarah Hornschuch and Nadine Böhi. Vetterlein already knows Wagner from her time in the youth team at VfL Wolfsburg.

For their first season in the Google Pixel Women's Bundesliga, Union’s coaching and support team is being expanded by one position. In order to be able to work more specifically with injured players and to better manage the workload preventively, the position of rehabilitation and athletic trainer has been created. This new position will be filled by Bao Nguyen, who has been working in the same role at SV Werder Bremen for a year and a half.

The 28-year-old previously trained as a physiotherapist in Leipzig and successfully completed a degree in Sports and Performance at the German Sport University Cologne. During his studies, he worked as a physiotherapist for the German Fencing Federation and the German Basketball Federation.

The two physiotherapists for Union's women's team, Nico Haase and Giuliana Di Bartolo, are getting some support. Lea Schneider is joining Union as a third physiotherapist, bringing her expertise to the team. The 26-year-old completed her training in Dresden in 2022. A year later, the Görlitz native moved to the capital and worked in a practice. Since last year, she has been working part-time with the canoeists at the Olympic training centre in Berlin. Now she is making the move to football.

Jennifer Zietz, managing director of professional football, will now be supported by the new team manager Viktoria Tänzer in all organisational areas relating to the professional team. The 33-year-old comes from Bonn and most recently worked for six and a half years for a sports agency that organises pre-season preparations, training camps and test matches. As a trained sports psychology expert, she also worked in her specialist field, including for the University Hospital in Cologne.

A familiar face at 1. FC Union Berlin is taking on a new role. Jan Walle played for Union for a year and a half and made 24 appearances in the Regionalliga Nord/Ost. After several stops in the east of Germany, the defender gained experience in youth football as a sporting director and coach during his career.

After ending his playing career in 2013, the Berlin native remained loyal to football and became a coach at RSV Eintracht, where he had previously played. After various positions in youth football, including at the Berlin Football Association, the German Football Association and Berlin clubs, Walle returned to Berlin-Köpenick in 2019. He spent three years as assistant coach of the U19 juniors. He then moved from the sidelines to the organisational side of the club and became team manager of the oldest youth team. He has been active in this role for the last three years.

Now he is making the move from the youth academy to the women's professional team, where he will serve as the new equipment manager.