Arne Slot

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Arne Slot
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Slot in 2024
Personal information
Full name Arend Martijn Slot
Date of birth (1978-09-17) 17 September 1978 (age 46)
Place of birth Bergentheim, Netherlands
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) [1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
Liverpool (head coach)
Youth career
VV Bergentheim
FC Zwolle
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1995–2002 FC Zwolle 164 (50)
2002–2007 NAC Breda 142 (21)
2007–2010 Sparta Rotterdam 54 (6)
2009–2010FC Zwolle (loan) 28 (7)
2010–2013 PEC Zwolle 74 (16)
Total462(100)
Managerial career
2016–2017 Cambuur
2019–2020 AZ
2021–2024 Feyenoord
2024– Liverpool
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Arend Martijn "Arne" Slot (born 17 September 1978) is a Dutch professional football manager and former player. He is the head coach of Premier League club Liverpool.

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Slot played as a midfielder for FC Zwolle, where he won the Eerste Divisie in 2002, NAC Breda and Sparta Rotterdam before retiring as a player back at PEC Zwolle, where he won another Eerste Divisie title in 2012. He started his managerial career in the academy of PEC Zwolle and as an assistant at Cambuur before taking over as co-head coach at the latter. In 2017, he became an assistant at AZ, where he was appointed head coach in 2019. Slot became head coach of Feyenoord in 2021. He led the club to the 2022 UEFA Europa Conference League final in his first season and won the club the Eredivisie and the KNVB Cup in subsequent seasons.

Early life and playing career

Arend Martijn Slot [2] was born on 17 September 1978 in Bergentheim, [3] where he was raised. [4] Slot started his football career at amateur side VV Bergentheim. He then moved to FC Zwolle, where he got into the first team as a 17-year-old in 1995. Slot started his professional career struggling with injuries and little playing time under the management of Jan Everse, but eventually became a goal-scoring attacking midfielder in Zwolle. In 2002, FC Zwolle won the Eerste Divisie to return to the Eredivisie after 13 years. Slot moved to NAC Breda in the same year. [4]

Under the management of Henk ten Cate, NAC Breda finished fourth in the Eredivisie in Slot's first season, NAC Breda's best league finish since 1956. Slot played his only games in European football in the first round of the UEFA Cup in 2003 as NAC Breda lost 5–0 and 0–1 to Newcastle United. He joined Sparta Rotterdam in the summer of 2007 before returning to FC Zwolle in the Eerste Divisie in 2009, on a loan deal at first and on a permanent deal in 2010. FC Zwolle won the Eerste Divisie in 2012 to return to the Eredivisie, where Slot played one final season before retiring as a player. According to teammate Edwin de Graaf, he was "not so fast". [5] Everse believes that with a lack of physicality, Slot got the most out of his playing career thanks to his passing and vision. [6]

Coaching career

Early career

According to teammate Bram van Polen, Slot behaved like a coach at PEC Zwolle in his final years as a football player. [6] After retiring from playing in 2013 at PEC Zwolle, Slot moved onto the club's staff, working as a youth coach for a year, before being appointed as an assistant coach of Henk de Jong at Cambuur. After De Jong left the club in 2016, Slot remained an assistant coach at Cambuur under the management of Marcel Keizer and Rob Maas. The club were relegated to the Eerste Divisie after finishing bottom of the Eredivisie in 2016. On 15 October 2016, Slot became interim coach together with Sipke Hulshoff (nl) in Leeuwarden after Maas was fired. [7] On 5 January 2017, Cambuur announced that Slot and Hulshoff would remain head coaches for the remainder of the season after "excellent results" and a "pleasant way of working". [8]

Slot and Hulshoff helped Cambuur climb from 14th to 3rd place in the league, missing out on promotion to the Eredivisie after losing to MVV in the play-offs. In the KNVB Cup, Cambuur reached the semi-finals for the first time in its club history, having knocked out record winners Ajax. The club missed out on the final after losing to AZ on penalties. [9]

AZ

In 2017, Slot left Cambuur to join AZ, working as an assistant to John van den Brom. AZ's technical director Max Huiberts called Slot "experienced, studious, innovative and ambitious". [10] AZ finished third and fourth in the Eredivisie in 2018 and 2019 and lost the 2018 KNVB Cup final to Feyenoord. On 10 December 2018, it was announced that Slot would succeed Van den Brom as head coach for the 2019–20 season. [11]

Slot became the first coach to win 19 points in his first eight Eredivisie games at AZ. [12] In his first season in charge, AZ reached the round of 32 of the UEFA Europa League. The same season, the Eredivisie was cancelled midway due to the COVID-19 pandemic. AZ finished second behind Ajax on goal difference, although no title was awarded for the season. The following season, AZ got knocked out by Dynamo Kyiv in the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round. In the UEFA Europa League group stage, AZ beat Napoli 0–1, which Slot called "a historic win for AZ standards". [13] On 5 December 2020, Slot was sacked as head coach of AZ for not being focused on the team, having recently negotiated a deal with Feyenoord. [14] At the time, AZ was in seventh place in the Eredivisie. In his time at AZ, Slot earned 2.11 points per game in the Eredivisie, the highest of any coach in the club's history. [15]

Feyenoord

2021–22 season

On 15 December 2020, Feyenoord announced that the club had reached a deal with Slot for him to become the club's new coach from the start of the 2021–22 season. [16] The deal would see Slot sign for two years, with Feyenoord having the option to extend his contract for a third year. Slot succeeded the experienced Dick Advocaat, who led the team to fifth place in the Eredivisie and qualification to the UEFA Europa Conference League Qualifiers. Slot was appointed to build a new team with a recognisable playing style. Marino Pušić (first assistant coach) and Robin van Persie (field coach) were added to his staff, while John de Wolf was retained as second assistant coach. During Slot's first season, Feyenoord reached the round of 16 in European football for the first time in twenty years, finishing ahead of Slavia Prague, Union Berlin and Maccabi Haifa in the UEFA Europa Conference League group stage. In February 2022, Feyenoord used the club option to extend Slot's contract until 2024. [17] In the knock-out stage of the Europa Conference League, the club knocked out Partizan, Slavia Prague and Marseille to reach the inaugural Europa Conference League final. [18] Feyenoord lost the final 1–0 to Roma in Tirana and finished in third place in the Eredivisie. Slot was awarded the Rinus Michels Award for the Eredivisie Manager of the Year. [19] [20]

2022–23 season

Slot managing Feyenoord in 2023 Arne Slot.jpg
Slot managing Feyenoord in 2023

Ahead of the 2022–23 season, Slot extended his contract at Feyenoord for a year, until 2025. [21] Feyenoord won a UEFA Europa League group of Midtjylland, Lazio and Sturm Graz to reach the round of 16 of Europe's secondary club football tournament for a first time since 2002. In the round of 16, Feyenoord beat Shakhtar Donetsk 7–1 on 17 March 2023, Feyenoord's biggest win in European football since 1995. [22] With the win, Slot overtook Ernst Happel and Bert van Marwijk to become the first Feyenoord manager to have won 15 matches in European football. [23]

Slot finished his second season at Feyenoord with Feyenoord winning the league, the club's first league title since 2017 and sixteenth in the club's history. [24] Feyenoord were knocked out in the quarter-finals of the UEFA Europa League by Roma and in the semi-finals of the KNVB Cup by Ajax. In May 2023, Slot was heavily linked with the vacant manager's job at Tottenham Hotspur. By the end of the month, Slot announced he would be remaining with Feyenoord and extended his contract with a year, to mid-2026. [25] [26] [27] Slot was awarded the Rinus Michels Award for Eredivisie Manager of the Year in June 2023, becoming the fourth coach to win the award for consecutive editions, after Guus Hiddink, Frank de Boer and Erik ten Hag. [28]

2023–24 season

In the 2023–24 season, Feyenoord was knocked out of the UEFA Champions League group stage, finishing third in a group with Atlético Madrid, Lazio, and Celtic, and then was knocked out by Roma for a third consecutive season, losing on penalties in the UEFA Europa League knock-out round play-offs. By managing the second leg against Roma, Slot equalled a club record of Van Marwijk of managing 36 European games. [29] On 21 April 2024, Feyenoord beat NEC in the final to win its 14th KNVB Cup. Many pundits have described Arne Slot as one of the best coaches in the history of Feyenoord, as he combined results with developing players and playing attacking, attractive football. [30] His final game on 19 May was a 4–0 home win over city rivals Excelsior Rotterdam, to finish as runners-up to PSV. [31]

Liverpool

In April 2024, it was reported that Premier League side Liverpool had reached an agreement with Feyenoord for Slot to manage the club at the end of the season, replacing the departing Jürgen Klopp. [32] Slot confirmed this news in May 2024. [33] On 20 May 2024, Liverpool announced that Slot would become head coach on 1 June 2024, subject to a work permit. [34] On 17 August 2024, he won his first Premier League match with the club after a 2–0 win away at Ipswich Town. [35] He was the first Liverpool manager since Gérard Houllier in 1998 to win his first game in charge. [36] He beat club rivals Manchester United 3–0 on his first visit to Old Trafford in his third game as manager on 1 September 2024, becoming only the second Liverpool manager to win in his first match at Old Trafford, after George Kay in 1936. [37]

Personal life

Slot and his wife Mirjam have two children. [38]

Managerial statistics

As of match played 21 September 2024
Managerial record by team and tenure
TeamNatFromToRecordRef.
GWDLGFGAGDWin %
SC Cambuur Flag of the Netherlands.svg 15 October 201630 June 20173421677531+44061.76 [39]
AZ Alkmaar Flag of the Netherlands.svg 1 July 20195 December 20205832161011852+66055.17 [40]
Feyenoord Flag of the Netherlands.svg 1 July 202131 May 2024150982923344150+194065.33 [41]
Liverpool Flag of England.svg 1 June 2024Present6501132+11083.33 [42]
Total2481565141550235+315062.90

Honours

Player

Zwolle

Manager

Feyenoord

Individual

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