Career
Football Club Magdeburg in the Deutsche Demokratische Republik-Oberliga. In 2006 he was elected Best 1. Football Club Magdeburg Player of All Times in a telephone vote.
Playing career Steinbach started his top flight career at 1.
Football Club Magdeburg when he played in a single match in the 1971-1972 season. He had his breakthrough in the 1974-1975 season when he played in 17 matches, scoring 2 goals.
He stayed with 1. Football Club Magdeburg until 1987, when he left for his home town club of Motor Schönebeck where he spent the next one and a half years in the second-tier Deutsche Demokratische Republik-Liga.
In the winterbreak of the 1988-1989 season he returned to the Deutsche Demokratische Republik-Oberliga with 1. Football Club Magdeburg. After German reunification, Steinbach was signed by West German 2nd Bundesliga side VfB Oldenburg.
He spent the rest of his playing career with them, managing the team for a time in the 1993-1994 season. Overall, Steinbach played in 337 Deutsche Demokratische Republik-Oberliga matches, scoring 75 goals.
In the 2nd Bundesliga he played another 104 matches with 10 goals scored.
From 1978 to 1985 he earned 28 caps to the East Germany national football team, scoring one goal. He played in all matches in the tournament, scoring one goal. He was sent off in the final against Czechoslovakia.
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Coaching career Following his playing career, Steinbach took up managing, starting at VfB Oldenburg in 1993-1994. He returned to Oldenburg in 1999, staying at the helm until the 2001-2002 season. Following a lengthy spell of unsuccessful matches, he was sacked on 3 April 2007.
From July 2007 to May 2008, he was manager of Verbandsliga Sachsen-Anhalt side Preußen Magdeburg.
Since October 2008 he has the role of director of sports at SV Wilhelmshaven, but took over as manager again in the spring of 2009.
