Denis Tahirović

Tahirović played for SG Wattenscheid 09 as a youth player[1] where he at a very young age began as a youth coach at the club. He then moved to FC Schalke 04, where he played for the reserve team and also was a youth coach for the club's U12 team. Tahirović was also the person who took German international player, Leroy Sané, to Schalke and was his coach at the club.[2]

For the 2007/08 season he moved to NK Primorje, where he made 10 appearances in the Slovenian PrvaLiga and scored one goal. In the second half of the 2007/08 season, he played for the Croatian club NK Virovitica, which he left after half a year to join Barcsi SC. He left this club in summer 2009 to play for the Bosnian club FK Sloboda Tuzla and later NK Gradina Srebrenik in the 2009/10 season.

He later returned to Germany to work as a coach in the amateur sector again. He was the U19 head coach of SG Wattenscheid 09 from 2011 to 2013.[3] In November 2013, he became the assistant coach of FC Kray.[4] On 18 May 2014, he was appointed interim head coach for the rest of the season, where Michael Lorenz was appointed new head coach.[5] He left the club alongside Lorenz on 27 July 2015 due to professional and personal reasons.[6]

On 9 April 2016, Tahirović became Michael Lorenz' - who he also worked under at FC Kray - assistant coach at SSVg Velbert.[7] However, already one month later, the duo was released.[8]

Tahirović was then appointed head coach of FSV Duisburg on 19 September 2016.[9] On 4 August 2017, he decided to step back from the position.[10] However, he returned to the club on 1 January 2017, however, as a sporting director.[11] After René Lewejohann was fired in mid-January 2018, Tahirović took charge of the team until the end of the season and secured promotion to the Oberliga. He then continued his duties as a sporting director at the end of the season.[12]