[1][2] Schuhmann, a product of the youth program of TSV Schwaben Augsburg started his senior career with te later club in 1967 in the tier two Regionalliga Süd, where he played for two seasons.
He returned however for a fourth spell in charge of FCA in October 1986, now with the club firmly established in third division football, and left again in March 1988, achieving two sixth-place finishes.
Schuhmann was the long term coach of the under 19 side of FC Augsburg, which is where he had his greatest success.
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.
[4][5] 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 FCA and in his profession as a high school teacher.