Clayton Zane

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Clayton Zane
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Zane in 2012
Personal information
Full name Clayton Zane
Date of birth (1977-07-12) 12 July 1977 (age 46)
Place of birth Newcastle, Australia
Height 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
1985–1993 Cessnock City Hornets
1993–1995 Adamstown Rosebud
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1995–1998 Newcastle Breakers 70 (17)
1995–2000 Northern Spirit 57 (6)
2000 Molde 14 (0)
2001–2002 Lillestrøm 29 (18)
2002–2005 Anderlecht 10 (2)
Total163(43)
International career
1996–1997 Australia U20 3 (3)
1998–2000 Australia U23 15 (9)
2000–2001 Australia 14 (6)
Managerial career
2011–2012 Newcastle Jets (W-League)
2012–2014 Newcastle Jets Youth
2014 Newcastle Jets
2014–15 Newcastle Jets (assistant)
2016–19 Newcastle Jets (assistant)
2020- New Lambton FC (Technical Director)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Clayton Zane (born 12 July 1977) is an Australian association football coach and former player, who played as a striker.

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In the 2001 season, he was the top scorer and awarded the Kniksen award as Striker of the Year in Norway. He earned 14 caps for the Australia national team, scoring six goals. His last club as a player was R.S.C. Anderlecht, where a two-year-long injury prematurely ended his career in late 2005.

Following his retirement from playing Zane worked as a coach at Newcastle Jets, serving as a head coach in 2014.

Club career

Zane was first brought to Europe as a relative unknown by Norwegian team Molde. After scoring no goals in 14 matches he was sold to Lillestrøm. In his first season in Lillestrøm he ended top scorer of the Norwegian Premier League with 17 goals and he was voted Norwegian Player of the Year some weeks later. He was then sold to Belgian club R.S.C. Anderlecht in 2002 where he scored twice in ten games.

International career

Zane represented the Australia national team at the 2001 Confederations Cup and is best remembered for scoring the only goal when Australia defeated subsequent champion France in the group stage. He scored a hat-trick for Australia against Cook Islands in June 2000. Zane was a member of the Australian squad at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. [1] [2]

Coaching career

On 9 August 2011, it was announced that Zane had signed a contract to be the coach of the Newcastle Jets W-League team.

On 8 June 2012, he was announced as the youth team coach of the Newcastle United Jets Youth Squad.

In January 2014 Newcastle Jets head coach Gary van Egmond was sacked due to poor results and Zane was appointed interim head coach until the end of the season. [3] The club chose to appoint Phil Stubbins as head coach of the club for the following season and returned Zane to the position of 1st team assistant coach.

Zane, along with goalkeeping coach Neil Young and strength & conditioning coach Andrew Packer were sacked as part of a club cleanout of players and staff. [4]

On 7 September 2016, Zane became the caretaker coach of the Newcastle Jets after the termination of Scott Miller. [5] Zane is regarded as well liked by the playing group and has a "Calming presence". [6]

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by national team and year [7]
National teamYearAppsGoals
Australia 200095
200151
Total146
Scores and results list Australia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Zane goal.
List of international goals scored by Clayton Zane
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
119 June 2000 Stade Pater, Papeete, TahitiFlag of the Cook Islands.svg  Cook Islands 15–017–0 2000 OFC Nations Cup
216–0
317–0
423 June 2000Stade Pater, Papeete, TahitiFlag of the Solomon Islands.svg  Solomon Islands 2–06–02000 OFC Nations Cup
53–0
61 June 2001 Daegu Stadium, Daegu, South KoreaFlag of France.svg  France 1–01–0 2001 FIFA Confederations Cup

Managerial statistics

As of 1 October 2017
TeamNatFromToRecord
GWDLWin %
Newcastle Jets FC W-League Flag of Australia (converted).svg August 2011June 201210406040.00
Newcastle Jets FC Youth Flag of Australia (converted).svg June 2012January 20144820721041.67
Newcastle Jets Flag of Australia (converted).svg 20 January 20145 May 201412525041.67
Newcastle Jets FC Youth Flag of Australia (converted).svg 11 September 20151 October 20170000!—
Total7029932041.43

Honours

Individual

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References

  1. ↑ "The Australian National Men's Football Team: Caps And Captains" (PDF). Football Federation Australia. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
  2. ↑ "FIFA Player Statistics: Clayton ZANE". FIFA. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
  3. ↑ Carr, Matt (20 January 2014). "UPDATED: Gary van Egmond sacked as Jets coach". Newcastle Herald. Archived from the original on 1 April 2020. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
  4. ↑ "Jets in turmoil as Tinkler wields the axe". FourFourTwo. 28 January 2015. Archived from the original on 10 March 2015. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  5. ↑ "Newcastle Jets sack head coach Scott Miller one month before 2016/17 A-League season". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 7 September 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  6. ↑ JAMES GARDINER (9 September 2016). "Zane steps in as Jets get back to business". Theherald.com.au. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  7. ↑ Clayton Zane at National-Football-Teams.com
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