Erwin Koeman (born 20 September 1961) is a Dutch retired professional football player and retired football manager.
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Full name | Erwin Koeman[1] | |||||||||||||||
Date of birth | (1961-09-20) 20 September 1961 (age 61) | |||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Zaandam, Netherlands | |||||||||||||||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[2] | |||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Midfielder | |||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||
1978–1979 | Groningen | 6 | (0) | |||||||||||||
1979–1982 | PSV | 43 | (8) | |||||||||||||
1982–1985 | Groningen | 89 | (39) | |||||||||||||
1985–1990 | Mechelen | 116 | (22) | |||||||||||||
1990–1994 | PSV | 104 | (14) | |||||||||||||
1994–1998 | Groningen | 115 | (10) | |||||||||||||
Total | 472 | (92) | ||||||||||||||
National team | ||||||||||||||||
1983–1994 | Netherlands | 31 | (2) | |||||||||||||
Teams managed | ||||||||||||||||
2004–2005 | RKC Waalwijk | |||||||||||||||
2005–2007 | Feyenoord | |||||||||||||||
2008–2010 | Hungary | |||||||||||||||
2011 | Utrecht | |||||||||||||||
2012 | Eindhoven | |||||||||||||||
2012–2014 | RKC Waalwijk | |||||||||||||||
2018 | Fenerbahçe (caretaker) | |||||||||||||||
2019 | Oman | |||||||||||||||
2021 | Beitar Jerusalem | |||||||||||||||
Honours
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
He is the son of Dutch international footballer Martin Koeman, and, alongside his younger brother Ronald, has also represented the Netherlands.[3] All three Koemans played for Groningen at some time during their careers. Erwin Koeman's son, Len, is also a footballer and currently plays for the Helmond Sport youth team.[4]
Ronald Koeman, his younger brother, is a manager who was most recently the coach of FC Barcelona.[5]
Koeman played with Groningen, Mechelen, where he won the Belgian League in 1989 and 1988 Cup Winners' Cup during the team's heyday and PSV, where they became league champions in 1990–91 and 1991–92.[6]
Koeman was a midfielder for the Netherlands team that won the UEFA Euro 1988 competition, and also featured in the 1990 FIFA World Cup. In total, he was capped 31 times, scoring twice between 1983 and 1994.[7][8]
Koeman finished his playing career with Groningen in 1998 and became youth coach at PSV.[9] In October 2001, he was promoted to assistant manager under Eric Gerets,[10] and for the 2004–05 season became manager in RKC Waalwijk. He managed RKC for one season before moving to Feyenoord.[11] In March 2006, he extended his contract to the summer 2009. However, on 3 May 2007, Koeman announced his immediate resignation due to motivational problems, after a troublesome season, where Feyenoord eventually finished seventh.[12]
Starting on 1 May 2008, Koeman became the coach of the Hungary national football team.[13] He was removed from his post on 23 July 2010.[14]
Before the 2011–12 season, he was appointed as the new manager of FC Utrecht. However, on 18 October 2011 he quit the job citing bad working conditions and frustration after several key players had been sold.[15]
On 16 June 2014, he was appointed as the assistant head coach of Southampton, where he worked alongside his brother, Ronald, for the first time.[16]
On 17 June 2016, Ronald Koeman, his brother, named him as his assistant manager at Everton.[17]
On 3 August, Erwin Koeman became the assistant of Phillip Cocu at Fenerbahçe.[18] After the sacking of Philip Cocu, Erwin Koeman became the head coach of Fenerbahçe.
In February 2019, he was appointed as the new head coach of Oman, succeeding fellow Dutch national Pim Verbeek.[19] Under his tenure, the Omani team participated in the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC Second Round where they managed an impressive performance with only one lone defeat to Qatar away by one goal margin, winning the other games. This impressive performance of Oman, however, was not followed in the 24th Arabian Gulf Cup, where Oman as champions, were eliminated from the group stage. He was subsequently fired as coach of Oman.[20]
On 2 June 2021, Koeman was appointed as the head coach of Beitar Jerusalem.
On 1 December 2021, Koeman officially retired from head coaching.
Team | From | To | Record | ||||
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P | W | D | L | Win % | |||
RKC Waalwijk | July 2004 | June 2005 | 38 | 15 | 10 | 13 | 039.47 |
Feyenoord | July 2005 | May 2007 | 81 | 38 | 21 | 22 | 046.91 |
Hungary | April 2008 | July 2010 | 20 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 035.00 |
Utrecht | July 2011 | October 2011 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 030.00 |
Eindhoven | March 2012 | June 2012 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 033.33 |
RKC Waalwijk | July 2012 | June 2014 | 75 | 18 | 23 | 34 | 024.00 |
Fenerbahçe | November 2018 | December 2018 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 033.33 |
Oman | February 2019 | December 2019 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 066.67 |
Beitar Jerusalem | July 2021 | November 2021 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 027.27 |
Total | 265 | 98 | 72 | 95 | 036.98 |
KV Mechelen[21]
PSV[26]
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