Bob Houghton
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Robert Douglas Houghton | |
| birthday | October 13, 1947 | |
| place of birth | England | |
| position | Midfielder , striker | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1966-1969 | Fulham FC | |
| 1969-1970 | Brighton & Hove Albion | |
| 1970-1971 | Hastings United | |
| 1971-1975 | Maidstone United | |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1970-1971 | Hastings United | |
| 1971-1975 | Maidstone United | |
| 1974-1980 | Malmö FF | |
| 1980 | Ethnikos Piraeus | |
| 1980-1982 | Bristol City | |
| 1982-1984 | Toronto Blizzard | |
| 1984-1986 | Al-Ittihad | |
| 1987-1989 | Örgryte IS | |
| 1990-1992 | Malmö FF | |
| 1993 | Al-Ittihad | |
| 1994-1995 | FC Zurich | |
| 1996 | Colorado Rapids | |
| 1997-1999 | China | |
| 2000 | Shaanxi Chanba | |
| 2001 | Sichuan Guancheng | |
| 2002-2003 | Hangzhou Navel Greentown | |
| 2005 | Uzbekistan | |
| 2005-2006 | Changsha Ginde | |
| 2006-2011 | India | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Robert Douglas Houghton (born October 13, 1947 ; known as Bob Houghton or Bobby Houghton ) is an English football player and coach.
Career
His career lasted over 30 years and took him to ten different countries. Houghton was three years midfielder for Fulham FC (1966-69) and Brighton & Hove Albion (1969-70). In the South League, he was one of the youngest coaches in English professional football as a player- coach for Hastings United at the age of 23. He also coached Maidstone United in the early 1970s and worked as an assistant to Bobby Robson in Ipswich Town .
Malmö FF
In 1974 he became the coach of the Swedish first division team Malmö FF . He led the then provincial and amateur club to national and international successes, including reaching the UEFA Champions League final against Nottingham Forest in 1979, which was only just lost (0-1). The team originally consisted entirely of local players who lived within 60 km of Malmö . It was the first and so far only time that a Swedish team reached the final of the European Cup .
He also won the Swedish championship and the Svenska Cup several times and was runner-up in the Intercontinental Cup in 1979, as Nottingham Forest waived to participate. Together with his close friend Roy Hodgson , he was largely responsible for transforming Swedish football into a modern style of play.
Success as a trainer
- Malmö FF
- Allsvenskan (3): 1974, 1975, 1977
- Svenska Cupen (4): 1974, 1975, 1978, 1980
- India
- AFC Challenge Cup (1): 2008
- Nehru Cup (2): 2007, 2009
Web links
- Bobby Houghton in the database of weltfussball.de
- Statistics FC Zurich
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Houghton, Bob |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Houghton, Robert Douglas; Houghton, Bobby (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English soccer player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1947 |