Benbennek joined VfL Wolfsburg as a youth coach in 1999, and spent ten years with the club, managing the reserve team from 2005 to 2007.
In 2009, he moved to Wolfsburg's neighbours Eintracht Braunschweig, where he also served as reserve team manager for two years, before being replaced by Henning Bürger.
After a year serving as a scout for Eintracht, he was surprisingly appointed as manager of 3.
Liga side SV Babelsberg 03 at the beginning of the 2012–13 season, replacing Dietmar Demuth.
[3] In May 2016, Benbennek took over as manager of Austrian Football Bundesliga club SV Ried.