Education
After high school, he studied German studies and started volunteering in 1973 for the news agency Sport-Informations-Dienst.
After high school, he studied German studies and started volunteering in 1973 for the news agency Sport-Informations-Dienst.
From 2 March 2012 until 9 November 2015 he was (Deutscher Fußball-Bund, DFB) Niersbach played football in youth team of Düsseldorfer South Carolina 99 and went to high school at the Görres-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf. Until 1988, he wrote reports for this news agency and acted as an editor for association football and ice hockey, covering numerous World and European Championships and Olympic Games. At the same time, he was responsible editor for the stadium newspaper for Fortuna Düsseldorf for eleven years, where he designed the Fortuna aktuell, as well as working four years with the stadium newspaper for the Düsseldorfer EG ice hockey club
As press officer of the 1988 European Football Championship in West Germany, Niersbach gained experience in organizing press activities during major sporting events.
Eventually leading to him becoming press secretary and media director at the DFB. His successor as director of communications at the DFB Harald Stenger. On 15 September 2006, he was appointed as successor to Bernd Pfaff as the director at the DFB responsible for the areas of team management, youth, talent and coaching.
He worked closely in this position with Germany national football team manager Oliver Bierhoff and DFB sporting director Matthias Sammer. At the DFB Bundestag in Mainz on 26 October 2007, Niersbach was appointed as successor to Horst R. Schmidt as new Secretary General.
Making him the highest paid staff of the DFB. After a DFB board meeting on 7 December 2011 in Frankfurt, it was announced that Niersbach was ready for election as the new DFB president
The previous president, Theo Zwanziger, ended his tenure in March 2012, and on 2 March 2012, Niersbach was unanimously elected as the new DFB president His successor as secretary general was Helmut Sandrock. In January of 2013 he signed the Declaration of the 53 European Fédération internationale de football association member associations to reform the Fifa Statutes.
The declaration rejected the idea of a time limit of membership in the Fédération internationale de football association Executive Committee and an integrity check of its members by Fédération internationale de football association. Instead, the integrity check would be made by the regional associations.
On 24 May 2013, he was elected into the Union of European Football Associations Executive Committee and on 24 March 2015, into the Fédération internationale de football association Executive Committee. On 9 November 2015, he resigned as DFB president amidst reports about alleged bribery surrounding the 2006.
Niersbach is divorced and has two grown-up daughters. Around the end of 2014 he announced that he is in a relationship with a woman from Munich, who was 23 years younger than him.
In March 1997, he became a member of the bid committee for the 2006 Fédération internationale de football association World Cup.