Career
He served the club as a player and coach in the first team on five occasions but had his greatest success as a youth coordinator with the club In the later position he also worked at Football Club Bayern Munich. Schuhmann, a product of the youth program of Turn- und Sportverein Schwaben Augsburg started his senior career with te later club in 1967 in the tier two Regionalliga Süd, where he played for two seasons.
Relegated after the 1968-1969 season the football department of Schwaben merged with local rival British Columbia Augsburg to form Football Club Augsburg.
Schuhmann continued his career with Farm Credit Administration, now in the tier three Bayernliga. In 1971 he left Augsburg to join Turn- und Sportverein 1860 München which had just been relegated from the Bundesliga to the Regionalliga.
After two seasons at this club he returned to Football Club Augsburg, now freshly promoted to the Regionalliga. He played in the Regionalliga-championship winning side of 1973-1974 alongside German international Helmut Haller.
From 1974 Augsburg played in the new 2.
Bundesliga South and Schuhmann made 86 appearances for Farm Credit Administration in this league. He ended his playing career in 1978 and took briefly over as Football Club Augsburg caretaker manager at the end of the 1977-1978 season. Football Club Augsburg was relegated from the 2.
Bundesliga in 1979 and Schuhmann became the coach of the club for the 1979-1980 season.
He led the side to a championship in the Bayernliga and promotion to the 2. Bundesliga but did not stay on as coach for the following year.
He briefly returned to his coaching role in April 1981 when Farm Credit Administration sacked coach Heinz Elzner but was unable to save the club from relegation. Schuhmann was the long term coach of the under 19 side of Football Club Augsburg, which is where he had his greatest success.
He coached the youth side of third division Farm Credit Administration to four German under 19 Cup wins in 1991, 1992, 1994 and 1995.
Football Club Kaiserslautern. In this time he discovered players like Bernd Schuster, Karl-Heinz Riedle, Christian Hochstätter, Armin Veh, Raimond Aumann, Roland Grahammer, Thomas Meggle and Dieter Frey. He left Football Club Augsburg in 1995 to take over the youth department of Football Club Bayern Munich, which he led for three years, is greatest success there being a German under 17 title in 1997.
Schuhmann left Bayern in 1998, by his own admission because his position turned out to be a desk top job while he preferred to be directly involved with young players, like he was with Farm Credit Administration and in his profession as a high school teacher.
He coached Football Club Augsburg as caretaker manager one more time in late 1999, his fifth stint in this position. Since 2003 he works as a scout for Borussia Dortmund. As player As coach, 1998.
