Fred Rutten

Fred Rutten
Rutten in 2014
Personal information
Full name Fredericus Jacobus Rutten
Date of birth (1962-12-05) 5 December 1962 (age 61)
Place of birth Wijchen, Netherlands
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1979–1992 Twente 317 (11)
International career
1988 Netherlands 1 (0)
Managerial career
1999–2001 Twente
2002–2006 PSV (assistant)
2006–2008 Twente
2008–2009 Schalke 04
2009–2012 PSV
2012–2013 Vitesse
2014–2015 Feyenoord
2016–2017 Al Shabab
2018 Maccabi Haifa
2019 Anderlecht
2022–2023 PSV (assistant)
2023 PSV (caretaker)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Fredericus Jacobus Rutten (Dutch pronunciation: [freˈdərikʏs ˈfrɛt jɑˈkoubʏs ˈrʏtə(n)]; born 5 December 1962) is a Dutch football coach and former player. As a player, he spent his entire career with Twente during the years 1979 to 1992. Following his playing career, Rutten also managed Twente, before moving on to clubs like Schalke 04, PSV Eindhoven, SBV Vitesse, Feyenoord, Al Shabab, Maccabi Haifa and more recently Anderlecht.

Coaching career

Rutten has managed Twente (assistant manager, manager and technical director) and PSV Eindhoven (youth coach and assistant manager). In the summer of 2008, he took over as head coach of Bundesliga club Schalke 04. On 26 March 2009, Rutten was sacked as Schalke manager.[1]

On 17 April 2009, Rutten signed a contract as the new manager of PSV Eindhoven, for the season 2009–10. During the 2009–10 competition Rutten's side remained undefeated for 39 consecutive games. On 12 March 2012, Rutten was sacked as PSV manager following losses to Twente (2–6) and NAC (3–1) in the Eredivisie and to Valencia (4–2) in the Europa League.

The following season Rutten served as head coach of Vitesse where John van den Brom had been head coach before moving to Belgian side Anderlecht. Rutten left Vitesse after the 2012-13 Eredivisie season, finishing in fourth place. On 3 March 2014, Feyenoord released a statement confirming they had hired Rutten as their new head coach for the 2014-15 Eredivisie season. On 2 March 2015, Feyenoord announced that Rutten had decided not to extend his one-year contract, meaning he would leave the club at the end of the season.

Feyenoord reached the knockout stage of the Europa League for the first time since 2004 with Rutten as head coach. On 17 May 2015, Feyenoord fired Rutten as head coach effective immediately after a 3-0 loss against PEC Zwolle, causing Feyenoord to finish 4th in the Eredivisie and missing out on directly qualifying for the Europa League.[2]

Rutten then had brief spells in the Middle East at Al Shabab and Maccabi Haifa. On 6 January 2019, he became head coach of Anderlecht. However, on 16 April, he was already fired after only 13 matches.[3]

On May 20, 2022, PSV confirmed that Rutten would return for the 2022-23 season as an assistant under head coach Ruud van Nistelrooy.[4]

Honours

Manager

Club

Individual

Managerial statistics

As of 12 April 2019
Club Games Win Draw Lose Win %
Twente 75 39 22 14 52.00%
Schalke 04 37 16 9 12 43.24%
PSV 142 91 33 18 64.08%
Vitesse 41 23 8 10 56.09%
Feyenoord 45 22 10 13 48.89%
Al Shabab 15 5 6 4 33.33%
Maccabi Haifa 25 8 8 9 32.00%
Anderlecht 13 5 2 6 38.46%
Total 393 209 98 87 53.18%

References

  1. ^ "Rutten relieved of duties with immediate effect". schalke04.de. 26 March 2009. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
  2. ^ "Feyenoord fires coach Fred Rutten after team finishes 4th, misses automatic spot in Europe". 17 May 2015. Archived from the original on 7 July 2015. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  3. ^ "Soccer-Belgium's Anderlecht part company with Dutch coach Rutten". Reuters. 16 April 2019. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  4. ^ "RUUD VAN NISTELROOIJ CONFIRMS BACKROOM STAFF AT PSV". psv.nl. 20 May 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2022.

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