Career
His professional career was mainly associated with and Borussia Dortmund. Nerlinger signed for Football Club at the age of 13, completing his formation at the Bavarian side. He was promoted to the first team in 1992, but made no Bundesliga appearances in his debut season.
After another four solid seasons, Nerlinger moved to hometown club Borussia Dortmund, where he began suffering with injuries.
This situation would be worsened in the following years, as he could hardly get a game at any of his following two clubs, Scotland"s and 1. Football Club Kaiserslautern (he reunited with former Bayern teammate Carsten Jancker in the latter), forcing to his retirement from the game in December 2005.
Nerlinger was capped six times by Germany, his debut coming on 5 September 1998, in a 1–1 friendly with Romania, in which he scored the equalizer five minutes from time. He did not attend, however, any major international tournament.
After his professional career ended, Nerlinger studied International Business at the Munich Business School.
Shortly later he was appointed team manager at. In January 2010, he succeeded Uli Hoeneß as technical manager, upgrading shortly after to general manager of the club On 2 July 2012, Nerlinger was replaced by Matthias Sammer.
Nerlinger became Team Manager on 1 July 2008.
He became Sporting Director of on 1 July 2009. He held the position until June 2012 when he was replaced by Matthias Sammer.
