Diego Simeone Hansi Flick head-to-head record, Digi Mart USA News: Diego Simeone is the only coach who has beaten Hansi Flick three times in his professional career. If Atletico Madrid defeat Barcelona this Sunday, Simeone would become the first coach to beat the German four times since Flick’s coaching career began in 1996 with Viktoria Bammental in the German fourth division.
According to the Spanish newspaper Marca, the Argentine coach has already become the most troublesome obstacle in Flick’s professional career, even before the highly anticipated match at the Metropolitano Stadium kicks off. Simeone could also enter next week’s international break leading the table and become the LaLiga coach with the most wins in history, having matched Luis Aragones’ record of 344 victories despite having managed 192 fewer matches.
The two coaches have met 12 times, including two matches when Flick was Bayern Munich’s coach and ten since he took charge of Barcelona. Flick holds the edge with seven wins and two draws, but he has faced no coach who has troubled him as much as Simeone.
Since Flick’s arrival at Barcelona, Simeone has inflicted painful defeats. In their first meeting during the 2024-2025 season at Montjuic, Atletico staged a agonizing comeback to win 2-1, securing the winter title, and Simeone recorded his first LaLiga victory at Barcelona’s ground.
The two most painful defeats for Flick came last season. The first was a convincing 4-0 loss in just 45 minutes, which paved the way for Atletico to reach the Copa del Rey final.
The second was a 2-0 loss in the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals, a result Barcelona could not overturn in the return match.
To find coaches who beat Flick three times before Simeone, one must go back to his early years in the German lower divisions, before he made his name at Bayern Munich. Twenty-one years ago, Robin Dutt, who coached Stuttgarter Kickers in the 2005-2006 season, recorded three wins over Hoffenheim, the club with which Flick was promoted to the Regionalliga Sud, Germany’s third division.
Hermann Gerland also inflicted three defeats on Flick while he coached Bayern Munich’s reserve team, before becoming his assistant roughly 15 years later with the German national team and Bayern’s first team. Two seasons earlier, Hans-Jurgen Boysen had beaten Flick for a third time during his spell with Schweinfurt 05 and Kickers Offenbach.
Before that, Gerd Schwickert defeated him in the 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 seasons while coaching Wehen, the club where Pellegrino Matarazzo, now Real Sociedad’s coach, played, and then with SV 07 Elversberg in the 2003-2004 season, according to Marca.
