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Jacob Fischer Friis (born 11 December 1976) is a Danish professional football manager and former player. He is currently the head coach of Viborg FF in the Danish Superliga.

Jacob Friis

Personal information
Full name	Jacob Fischer Friis[1]
Date of birth	(1976-12-11) 11 December 1976 (age 45)
Place of birth	Denmark
Club information
Current team	Viborg (Manager)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1999–2001	Aalborg Chang
2001–2003	AaB
Teams managed
2003–2006	AaB II (assistant)
2006–2008	Tigres UANL (assistant)
2008–2015	AaB U19
2016–2018	AaB (assistant)
2018–2020	AaB
2021	Hobro (assistant)
2021–2022	Denmark Women U19
2022–	Viborg
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Playing career

Friis was team captain of the AaB reserve team playing in the fourth tier Denmark Series before retiring due to injury in 2002–03.[2] Beside AaB, he also played for two years for Aalborg Chang (1999–01).[3]

Managerial career

Beginnings

Friis started his career as a coach in connection with a job as an assistant coach for AaB's seventh-tier Series 3 team.[4] He then continued as an assistant coach for AaB's reserves, playing in the fourth-tier Denmark Series, where he remained until the summer of 2006.[2]

In the summer of 2006, Friis travelled to Mexico, where he was to teach English at Instituto CEFI and coach their football team.[2] However, the job as a football coach was not satisfactory for Friis,[2] and instead an opportunity arose for Friis to be part of the coaching staff around Monterrey's university team, Tigres UANL.[2]

AaB first-team

When Allan Kuhn resigned as a result of a finding a new coaching job at Malmö FF, Friis became the new assistant coach at AaB in January 2016 under head coach Lars Søndergaard. He had already been promised a promotion to the assistant coaching position from the summer of 2016, but these plans were advanced with the premature change of head coach.[5]

Søndergaard was dismissed in December 2016.[6] Morten Wieghorst signed with AaB as their new head coach in early-January 2017,[7] and Friis was appointed his main assistant with Thomas Augustinussen as second assistant.[8] He signed an ongoing contract extension at the end of March 2018.[8]

In the fall of 2018, AaB won just one match out of 12 possible,[9] and Wieghorst was subsequently fired on 26 November 2018.[9][10][11] As his interim, Friis was appointed head coach for the three remaining matches in the Danish Superliga during the fall.[12] Friis' first match in charge resulted in a 1–4 win over Esbjerg fB on 1 December 2018.[13] Despite AaB losing the next match 2–4 at home to AC Horsens on 9 December,[14] Friis was still signed on a permanent deal for the remained of the 2018–19 season.[14]

Friis stepped back from the position as head coach of AaB on 29 October 2020, due to personal reasons related to his daughter fighting leukaemia.[15] Assistant Peter Feher took over as caretaker manager with Rasmus Würtz continuing as assistant.[15]

Education

In August 2015, Friis acquired the UEFA Pro Licence, also known as the 'P licence'; the highest coaching education. His final assignment was entitled Afslutningspil fra mellemrum - Mod etableret forsvar (Finishing from the red zone - against established defense).[1]

Career statistics

Managerial

As of match played 26 October 2020

Managerial record by club and tenure

Team	From	To	Record
			M	W	D	L	Win %
AaB	10 December 2018	29 October 2020	64	27	13	24	042.19
Total			64	27	13	24	042.19

References

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