Scott Cooper (football manager)

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Scott Cooper
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Cooper with Police Tero in 2018
Personal information
Full name Scott Joseph Cooper
Date of birth (1970-06-16) 16 June 1970 (age 51)
Place of birth Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Club information
Current team
 ADT (Manager)
Teams managed
Years Team
1999 Chester City (assistant)
2001 Anguilla
2005 Montserrat
2009 Anguilla
2010 England U-15 (ISFA)
2011 Leicester City (youth)
2013 Buriram United (youth)
2013 Buriram United
2014 Muangthong United
2014–2015 Mitra Kukar
2015–2017 Ubon UMT United
2018 Police Tero
2018 Philippines (caretaker)
2019–2020 Philippines
2020– Azkals Development Team

Scott Cooper (born 16 June 1970) is an English football manager who serves as the head coach of the Philippines national football team and the Azkals Development Team which guests in the Philippines Football League. Cooper has coaching experiences with the Huntsville Fire, Chester City, Anguilla national football team, Montserrat national football team, Leicester City, the Independent Schools Football Association (ISFA) England Under-15 National Football Team.

Managerial career[]

Early career[]

Cooper has coached the Anguilla and Montserrat national teams.[1]

Buriram United[]

Cooper was picked by Buriram United to replace Attaphol Buspakom after 2013 AFC Champions League against FC Seoul along with his assistant Darren Read.

On his arrival at Buriram United Cooper found the club in third place of the Thai Premier League, five points adrift of the league leaders. Under Cooper's managerial reign, Buriram were unbeaten in the Thai Premier League, AFC Champions League, Thai FA Cup and Thai League Cup.

Buriram United won 23 out of 29 matches, drawing five and losing only once under Cooper. The club won all their away games at the top four Thai clubs during the season. Named "Manager of the Month" in June 2013, Cooper has led Buriram United to the top 10 club rankings in Asia, creating history for the Thai club in the process. Under Cooper's tutelage, Buriram on an average scored 3.1 goals per game whilst conceding 0.75 goals per game.

Cooper also had a major influence on developing Thai players in his squad, as nine Thai players were called up to the national team.

Muangthong United[]

On 2 January 2014, Muanthong United officially appointed Cooper as the head coach.[citation needed]

Mitra Kukar[]

On 11 December 2014, Mitra Kukar officially appointed Cooper as the head coach.[2]

Ubon UMT United[]

On April 2015, Ubon UMT United officially appointed Cooper as the head coach.[citation needed]

Philippines[]

In June 2018, Cooper was appointed as Senior team adviser of the Philippines (Interim).[3][4] Scott Cooper was later tasked to oversee the national team's training camp in Bahrain in September 2018 in lieu of the newly appointed head coach Terry Butcher who resigned from his post in August 2018.[5] Cooper's interim tenure ended in late August 2018 when he was officially named as the regular head coach of the Philippine national team.[6]

On 27 October 2018, Sven-Göran Eriksson took over as manager of the Philippines[7] and Cooper assisted Eriksson in the Philippines' stint at the 2018 AFF Championship and 2019 Asian Cup.[8]

Cooper returned as manager in January 2019 after the conclusion of the Philippines' campaign in the continental tournament and Eriksson's short-term contract.[9] Cooper assisted the Philippine national team in their preparations for the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers[8] but was relegated to assistant team manager after Serbian Goran Milojević who holds a UEFA Pro License unlike Cooper was named head coach of the Philippines for the qualifiers. Unofficially Cooper will remain fulfilling head coaching duties.[10]

Managerial statistics[]

As of 9 November 2020
Nat. Team From To Record
G W D L GF GA GD Win %
Thailand Buriram United 3 May 2013 2 September 2013 26 18 6 2 52 17 +35 069.23
Thailand Muangthong United 2 January 2014 30 March 2014 9 5 2 2 17 8 +9 055.56
Indonesia Mitra Kukar 11 December 2014 20 April 2015 2 0 0 2 2 4 −2 000.00
Thailand Ubon UMT United 23 April 2015 30 November 2017 97 56 21 20 199 102 +97 057.73
Thailand Police Tero 1 January 2018 24 April 2018 7 1 1 5 8 12 −4 014.29
Philippines Philippines (Caretaker) 4 August 2018 26 October 2018 2 0 2 0 2 2 +0 000.00
Philippines Philippines 25 January 2019 30 August 2019 1 0 0 1 0 2 −2 000.00
Philippines ADT 1 January 2020 ""Present"" 5 3 0 2 9 2 +7 060.00
Career totals 149 84 31 34 289 150 +139 056.38

1 A win or loss by the penalty shoot-out is regarded as the draw in time.

Honours[]

Ubon United

  • Regional League Division 2: 2015

References[]

  1. ^ Scott Cooper's long and winding road to the Azkals rappler.com
  2. ^ "Scott Cooper, Pelatih Baru Mitra Kukar" (in Indonesian). Retrieved 11 December 2014.
  3. ^ "Irish coach joins Azkals coaching staff as senior football adviser". Rappler. 14 June 2018. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  4. ^ "Scott Cooper takes role as Azkals senior adviser, set to work hand in hand with Butcher". Spin PH. 14 June 2018. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  5. ^ "Terry Butcher steps down as Azkals coach". GMA News. Reuters. 3 August 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  6. ^ "Cooper named Azkals coach". Tempo. 31 August 2018. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
  7. ^ Averilla, Earl. "A significant step: Sven-Goran Eriksson's appointment as new Azkals head coach". Fox Sports Asia. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b Leyba, Olmin (25 January 2019). "Scott Cooper new Azkals coach". Philippine Star. Associated Press. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
  9. ^ Leyba, Olmin (20 January 2019). "Azkals move on, set sights on Asian qualifiers for 2022". Philippine Star. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
  10. ^ "The curious case of Philippines national team head coach for 2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers". Fox Sports. 3 September 2019. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
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