Returning to the Switzerland, she joined FC Rot-Schwarz Thun in addition to subsequently starting her coaching career with the U14-U15 Boys teams.
[3] In July 2015, she was hired by Peter Knäbel, the Technical Director of the Swiss Football Association, as coach of the U19 women's national team.
[7] The following year, at the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, she led team to the semi-finals of the 2016 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, unearthing players including future Swiss internationals; Camille Surdez, Géraldine Reuteler, Naomi Mégroz and Cinzia Zehnder.
Through the competition she helped on unearthing future top players; Alisha Lehmann, Nadine Riesen and Elvira Herzog, among others.
[7][10][11] Four games before the end of the 2020–21 season, Nora Häuptle was released from SC Sand in April 2021 and was succeeded by Alexander Fischinger.
[17] In the summer of 2022, she served as technical advisor to the Ghana U-20 national team during the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Costa Rica.
In June 2015, Häuptle joined SRF zwei as a pundit ahead of the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.