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Zwickau finished in fourth place in Ziegner"s first season, but started the following season badly: the Regionalliga was being restructured, and only the top seven teams would avoid relegation.
Zwickau finished in fourth place in Ziegner"s first season, but started the following season badly: the Regionalliga was being restructured, and only the top seven teams would avoid relegation.
He is now manager of FSV Zwickau. Ziegner began his career with Carl Zeiss Jena, joining the club from amateur club BSG Mikroelektronik Neuhaus at aged 13. He was part of a successful Jena youth team alongside Robert Enke and Mario Kanopa and was capped by the Germany youth team
He made his first-team debut in September 1995 in a 2.
Bundesliga match, and made a further twenty appearances over the following three seasons, leaving the club in 1998 after they"d been relegated to the Regionalliga Nordost. Ziegner, along with Jena team-mates Heiko Cramer and Frank Nierlich, joined FSV Zwickau, who had been relegated to the same level
Zwickau"s poor start to the season made this almost impossible, and so there was a mass exodus of players during the season - Ziegner was one of the players to leave, returning to the 2. Bundesliga to sign for Stuttgarter Kickers.
Zwickau finished the season bottom of the table.
Ziegner spent eighteen months at Kickers, the highlight being a DFB-Pokal tie in which they took Bundesliga side Werder Bremen to extra time, before losing 2–1. The following season ended in relegation, though, so in July 2001 Ziegner returned to his native Thuringia, signing for Rot-Weiß Erfurt of the Regionalliga Südaughter After two successful seasons with Erfurt, he signed for second division side FSV Mainz 05, but didn"t make a first-team appearance in his year with the club, mainly playing for the reserve team
At the end of the 2003-2004 season, he left Mainz to return to Carl Zeiss Jena, who were by now in the fourth-tier NOFV-Oberliga Südaughter
Another promotion followed immediately: Ziegner scored eight goals in 31 appearances as Jena finished second, behind Rot-Weiss Essen, returning to the 2. Bundesliga after an eight-year absence.
An injury in an August match against 1. Football Club Köln caused Ziegner to miss much of the 2006-2007 season, and the following year his 24 appearances couldn"t prevent the club being relegated back to the third tier, now in the form of a national 3.
Liga. He played a further three years for the club at this level, but was dropped from the team near the end of the 2010-2011 season, and left the club in June 2011.
He retired at the end of the 2011-2012 season, and was appointed as Zwickau"s manager. Ziegner was given a five-match ban in October 2008 for racially abusing Nigerian player Kingsley Onuegbu during a match against Eintracht Braunschweig.