Hamburg coach Armin Veh has confirmed he will be leaving his position at the club at the end of the season.
Coach decides to step down at the end of the season
Hamburg coach Armin Veh has confirmed he will be leaving his position at the Bundesliga club at the end of the season.
Veh has been in charge at Hamburg since last summer and had another season to run on his contract.
However, following recent off-field problems at the club, Veh has revealed he will be stepping down in the summer.
"Given the situation at the club right now, I am not going to be here any more next year," said Veh.
Turbulent time
The club are experiencing a turbulent time with president Bernd Hoffmann receiving a vote of no confidence at the weekend.
Hamburg advisory board chairman Otto Rieckhoff has condemned the media for their coverage of the vote of no confidence.
Hoffmann failed to gain the two thirds' approval he required from the board at a meeting on Sunday to stand for re-election beyond the end of 2011, meaning he will have to step down at the end of the year.
The German media has been speculating about who voted against Hoffmann and why divisions have emerged in the advisory board, and Rieckhoff says this has "overstepped the mark".
"I condemn the public lies, accusations and insults against individual advisory board members which have been raised partly by the media," he said in a press release.
"What is happening here is not an attempt to damage the personal integrity of certain individuals with half truths and, at times, total lies, but it is an attempt to put individuals under threat with personal threats.
"That is absolutely unacceptable and that is not HSV's style. This has no place at our club and it has overstepped the mark."
Rieckhoff added that he and the advisory board have "always had a duty to act for the good of HSV and its Bundesliga team".
"That remains the case to this day," he added.
"It is absolutely unacceptable for me that individual advisory board members are being accused of having hidden agendas or even personal interests."
On the field, a 4-2 defeat at home to Mainz on Sunday left Hamburg lying seventh in the Bundesliga, five points adrift of a place in Europe next season.
