Chris O'Loughlin (football manager)

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Chris O'Loughlin
Personal information
Date of birth (1978-08-06) 6 August 1978 (age 44)
Place of birth Limerick, Ireland
Team information
Current team
Royal Union SG (Sporting Director)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
Cliftonville
Larne
Managerial career
2007 Orlando Pirates (assistant)
2008 Supersport United (academy)
2009 AS Vita
2011 AS Vita
2012 Melbourne Victory (assistant)
2013–2015 Sint-Truiden (assistant)
2015–2016 Sint-Truiden
2016–2017 Charlton Athletic (assistant)
2017–2018 Sint-Truiden (assistant)
2017Sint-Truiden (caretaker)
2018–2019 Kortrijk (assistant)
2019–present Union Saint-Gilloise (Sporting Director)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Chris O'Loughlin (born 6 August 1978) is a professional football coach born in Limerick, Ireland. [1]

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Career

O'Loughlin played for Cliftonville reserves and Larne in Northern Ireland. [2]

O'Loughlin, who had lived for much of his childhood in South Africa, started his coaching career as an assistant coach with the Orlando Pirates in 2007. In 2008, he became an academy coach for Supersport United. In 2009, he was named head coach of the Democratic Republic of Congo club AS Vita [2] and brought them to the quarter-final of the CAF Cup. He came back to AS Vita for the 2011 season and qualified them for the CAF Champions League. In 2012, he was named assistant coach of the Melbourne Victory by Jim Magilton. For the 2013–14 season he was appointed as assistant coach of K. Sint-Truidense V.V. to head coach Yannick Ferrera in Belgium. In June 2014 his contract was extended by the club for another season up to June 2015. [3]

O'Loughlin was appointed manager of Sint-Truiden in September 2015, after Ferrera moved to manage Standard Liège. He was replaced by Ivan Leko at the end of the 2015–16 season. He joined the coaching staff at Charlton Athletic F.C. in December 2016 and was named as first team coach until the end of the 2016–17 season. [4]

On 24 May 2019, Royale Union Saint-Gilloise confirmed that O'Loughlin had joined the club as the new sporting director. [5]

As Sporting Director, O’Loughlin guided RUSG to promotion to the top tier of Belgian football in the 2020/2021 season.

The 2021/2022 season would see RUSG finish top of the league, dominating the division, and the first team in the history of the championship to top the league after being promoted the previous year.

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References

  1. Raghallaigh, Ciarán Ó. "Daydream believer: Chris O'Loughlin's remarkable rise up the football ladder". The Irish Times. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
  2. 1 2 Watson, Denise (26 November 2011). "From Cliftonville to Congo". BBC Sport. BBC. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
  3. "Chris O'Loughlin re-signs with STVV in Belgium". Legion Sports. Legion Sports. 11 June 2014. Archived from the original on 11 February 2015. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  4. "Richie Barker joins Karl Robinson's backroom staff". 21 December 2016. Archived from the original on 22 December 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
  5. WELCOME CHRIS O'LOUGHLIN !, rusg.brussels, 24 May 2019