# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-schaaf
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:11:24.855Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-schaaf"
name: "Thomas Schaaf"
slug: "thomas-schaaf"
description: "Thomas Schaaf is a German professional football manager and former player who played as a defender. A \"one-club man\", Schaaf spent his entire playing career (1978–1995) and most of his managerial career with Bundesliga club Werder Bremen. He started coaching the team in 1999 and stepped down in 2013, being one of the longest-serving coaches in the Bundesliga. As a player, he won the Bundesliga and the DFB-Pokal twice and the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (1992) once; as a manager, he won the Bundesliga once (2004) and the DFB-Pokal three times."
tagline: "German footballer/manager"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas_schaaf_frankfurter_buchmesse_2025.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1961-04-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.66391066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1899793/"
    handle:    "nm1899793"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump