Martin Jol

Martin Jol
Personal information
Full name	Maarten Cornelis Jol
Date of birth	January 16, 1956 (1956-01-16) (age 53)
Place of birth	The Hague, Netherlands
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Hamburger SV (manager)
Youth clubs
	Berg I.L.
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1973–1978 1978–1979 1979–1982 1982–1984 1984–1985 1985–1989	ADO Den Haag Bayern Munich FC Twente West Bromwich Albion Coventry City ADO Den Haag Total	132 0(9) 009 0(0) 071 0(9) 063 0(4) 015 0(0) 135 0(6) 425 (28)
National team
1980–81	Netherlands	003 0(0)
Teams managed
1991–95 1995–96 1996–98 1998–2004 2004–2007 2008–	ADO Den Haag (amateurs) Scheveningen (amateurs) Roda JC RKC Waalwijk Tottenham Hotspur Hamburger SV
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Maarten Cornelis "Martin" Jol (born January 16, 1956) is a Dutch football coach, serving since 2008 as the manager of German club Hamburger SV. Prior to joining Hamburg, he managed Tottenham Hotspur of the English Premier League. Jol also played over 400 games as a player in the Netherlands, Germany, and England, and was capped three times.

Contents 1 Playing career 2 Coaching career 3 Managerial stats 4 References 5 External links

Playing career

Jol was born in The Hague. He started his playing career with an amateur team Berg I.L. and then was sold to the local team ADO Den Haag for 1.2 million guilder. He turned professional with Den Haag in 1973.^[1] He won the 1975 Dutch Cup with the team defeating FC Twente. He would play in the Bundesliga for the 1978-79 season with Bayern Munich before returning to the Dutch Eredivisie to play for FC Twente in 1979. While with FC Twente, he won his first cap for the Netherlands national football team in October 1980. Jol moved to England in 1982, joining West Bromwich Albion. He appeared in the semi-finals of both domestic cup competitions in 1981-82. He signed for Coventry City in 1984. Jol returned to Den Haag in 1985, and won the 1985 Dutch Footballer of the Year award in the Eerste Divisie league.

At international level, Jol won 10 schoolboy caps, 20 'B' caps, 12 Under-21 caps and 12 Under-23 caps.^[1] He also made three appearances for the senior team, all of which came in a 'Mini World Cup' tournament held in Uruguay in the summer of 1980.^[1]

Coaching career

Jol's coaching career began in the Netherlands in 1991 when he took over at the amateur side ADO Den Haag and took them from the Third Division to the Eredivisie. Jol then moved to Scheveningen for one season where he won the national non-league championship. Jol then spent two years at Roda JC during which time he won the Dutch cup (Roda's first trophy for 30 years). Between 1998 and 2004 Jol managed the Dutch professional team RKC Waalwijk where he saved them from relegation and was honoured as the Dutch Football Writers Coach of the Year in 2001 and Dutch Players and Coaches Coach of the Year in 2002. Manchester United spoke to Jol about becoming their assistant manager in 2003.^[2]

RKC Waalwijk denied reports in June 2004 that Jol was about to become assistant manager of Tottenham Hotspur.^[3] However, several days later, Jol was given the job under Tottenham's new coach Jacques Santini.^[4] When Santini left the job after just over a dozen games Jol was first made caretaker manager and then later confirmed as head coach.^[5] In his first season in charge Jol improved their league fortunes and scrapped the defensive nature of play that Santini had instilled. He won the FA Manager of the Month award in December 2004 and was strongly linked in the press with the then vacant managerial job at Ajax of Amsterdam, however Jol ruled out moving clubs early. Jol led Tottenham to the verge of European qualification but the season ended with a 9th place finish in the Premier League after a final day draw at home to Blackburn Rovers. This meant Spurs missed out on the UEFA Cup spot by two points. In August 2005 he signed a new three-year contract with Tottenham.^[6]

The 2005–06 season marked an improvement in the league, but there was no Cup success this season with the exception of the pre-season tournament the Peace Cup which featured PSV Eindhoven, Lyon, Boca Juniors and others with Tottenham defeating Lyon in the final. During the season Tottenham never once dropped out of the top 6 places in the league and Jol eventually took Spurs to 5th in the league qualifying them for the UEFA Cup via the league for the first time since the Premier League was formed. However, the season is remembered more for narrowly missing out on a Champions League place on the final day of the season after the team were forced to play despite the majority of the squad suffering from illness.

The 2006–07 season saw Jol end Tottenham's lengthy hoodoo against Chelsea with a win, the first against them since 1990. Although away form was poor in the first half the season, a run of form consisting of just two away losses in the last five months of the season helped Tottenham to a second successive fifth place finish. Tottenham also reached the semi-finals of the League Cup and the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup and the FA Cup.

In the summer of 2007, Tottenham signed a number of expensive players spending around £40 million. It has been reported that some of these players were signed on the request of director of football Damien Comolli and that Jol was not allowed to select players he wanted to buy, such as Martin Petrov. Expectations were that Tottenham would compete for a top four finish. After a poor start to the 2007–08 season, it was speculated that Jol would be replaced by Sevilla manager Juande Ramos, though this was denied by Tottenham's chairman Daniel Levy.^[7] Nevertheless, Jol was sacked by the Tottenham board on 25 October 2007 after their 2–1 loss to Getafe in the UEFA Cup.^[8] Jol confessed that he first became aware of the decision when his nephew told him of an SMS message he received saying Jol was to leave the job. Jol left with the respect and admiration of Tottenham's fans, and is the club's most successful manager in the Premier League era. Since Jol's departure from Spurs, he has been linked again with Dutch team Ajax.^[9]

Jol rejected an approach from Birmingham City to discuss their managerial vacancy in November 2007^[10], but was reported at the time as interested in returning to Premiership football to manage one of the clubs outside the 'top four'.^[11]

From the 2008–09 season he began coaching Bundesliga club Hamburger SV and started well winning three of the first four games placing Hamburg at the top of the league standings for the first time since the 1999–2000 season.

Managerial stats

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	D	L	Win %
Hamburger SV		May 2008	Present	11	8	2	1	72.73
Tottenham Hotspur		November 5 2004	October 25 2007	148	67	38	43	45.27
RKC Waalwijk		1998	2004	-	-	-	-	-
Roda JC		1996	1998	-	-	-	-	-

^{* stats correct as of last update (5 October, 2008).}

References

External links

• Martin Jol management career stats at Soccerbase
• (Dutch) Dutch national team profile
• (Dutch) Cv Martin Jol
• (German) FussballDaten statistics

Roda JC – Managers Thomas (1962–63) • Pfeiffer (1963–65) • Coerver (1965–66) • Fischer (1966–68) • Weyzen (1969–1971) • Koole (1971–1972) • Hollink (1972–1974) • Pliska (1974) • Jacobs (1974–1980) • de Visser (1980–83) • Eijkenbroek (1984) • Gerards (1984) • Körver (1984–86) • Baan (1986–87) • Jacobs (1987–88) • Reker (1988–91) • Koster (1991–93) • Stevens (1993–96) • Achterberg (1996) • Jol (1996–98) • Vonk (1998) • Vergoossen (1998–01) • van Dijk (2001) • Leekens (2001) • Vloet (2002–05) • Stevens (2005–07) • Atteveld (2007–08)

Tottenham Hotspur F.C. – Managers Brettell (1898–1899) • Cameron (1899–1907) • Kirkham (1907–1908) • Turner (1908–1912s) • McWilliam (1913–1927) • Minter (1927–1930) • Smith (1930–1935) • Hardinge (1935c) • Tresadern (1935–1938) • McWilliam (1938–1942) • Turner (1942–1946) • Hulme (1946–1949) • Rowe (1949–1955) • Anderson (1955–1958) • Nicholson (1958–1974) • Neill (1974–1976) • Burkinshaw (1976–1984) • Shreeves (1984–1986) • Pleat (1986–1987) • Hartley & Livermore (1987c) • Venables (1987–1991) • Shreeves (1991–1992) • Livermore & Clemence (1992–1993) • Ardiles (1993–1994) • Perryman (1994c) • Francis (1994–1997) • Hughton (1997c) • Gross (1997–1998) • Pleat (1998c) • Graham (1998–2001) • Pleat (2001c) • Hoddle (2001–2003) • Pleat (2003c) • Santini (2004) • Jol (2004–2007) • Allen (2007c) • Ramos (2007–08) • Redknapp (2008–) (c) caretaker (s) secretary-manager

Hamburger SV – Managers Tauchert (1945–1949) • Knöpfle (1946–1954) • Wilke & Mahlmann (1954–1967) • Mahlmann (1956–1962) • Wilke (1962–1964) • Gawliczek (1964–1966) • Schneider (1966–1967) • Koch (1967–1969) • Knöpfle (1969–1970) • Ochs (1970–1973) • Klötzer (1973–1977) • Gutendorf (1977) • Özcan (1977–1978) • Zebec (1978–1980) • Ristić (1981) • Happel (1981–1987) • Skoblar (1987) • Reimann (1987–1990) • Schock (1990–1992) • Coordes (1992) • Möhlmann (1992–1995) • Magath (1995–1997) • Schehr (1997) • Pagelsdorf (1997–2001) • Hieronymus (2001) • Jara (2001–2003) • Toppmöller (2003–2004) • Doll (2004–2007) • Stevens (2007–2008) • Jol (2008–)

Hamburger SV – current squad 1 Rost • 2 Alex Silva • 3 Atouba • 4 Reinhardt • 5 Mathijsen • 6 Odjidja-Ofoe • 7 Jansen • 8 De Jong • 9 Guerrero • 10 Petrić • 11 Olić • 12 Hesl • 14 Jarolím • 15 Trochowski • 16 Putsilo • 17 Chrisantus • 18 Castelen • 19 Boateng • 20 Demel • 21 Pitroipa • 22 Choupo-Moting • 26 Schmidt • 27 Thiago Neves • 29 Wolf • 30 Benjamin • 31 Kunert • 32 Ben-Hatira • 35 Torun • 40 Aogo • Manager: Jol