Jan Wouters

Personal information
Jan Wouters

Date of birth	17 July 1960 (1960-07-17) (age 48)
Place of birth	Utrecht, Netherlands
Playing position	Manager (former Midfielder)
Senior career¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1980–1986 1986–1992 1992–1994 1994–1996	FC Utrecht Ajax Amsterdam Bayern Munich PSV Eindhoven	1680(21) 1500(21) 06600(6) 05200(5)
National team
1982–1994	Netherlands	07000(4)
Teams managed
1996–1997 1997 1997–1998 1998–2000 2001–2006 2006–2007 2007 2008-2009 2009–	FC Utrecht (assistant) FC Utrecht (temporary head coach) Ajax Amsterdam (youth) Ajax Amsterdam Rangers (assistant) PSV Eindhoven (assistant) PSV Eindhoven (temporary head coach) PSV Eindhoven (assistant) FC Utrecht (assistant)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Jan Wouters (born 17 July 1960 in Utrecht, Netherlands) is a former professional football midfielder. He used to play defensive midfielder and was Dutch Footballer of the Year in 1990.

Wouters played for several clubs including PSV, FC Utrecht, Bayern Munich and Ajax Amsterdam. He was also a Dutch international (70 caps, 4 goals) and was hugely influential in 1988 when the Netherlands won the European Football Championship.

He was coach of Scottish Premier League club Rangers under Dick Advocaat and then Alex McLeish. He left Rangers at the end of the 2005–06 season along with McLeish and Andy Watson.

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Jan Wouters international tournaments

v • d • e Netherlands squad – UEFA Euro 1988 Winners (1st Title)

1 Van Breukelen • 2 Van Tiggelen • 3 Troost • 4 R. Koeman • 5 Winter • 6 Van Aerle • 7 Vanenburg • 8 Mühren • 9 Bosman • 10 Gullit • 11 Van 't Schip • 12 Van Basten • 13 E. Koeman • 14 Kieft • 15 Koevermans • 16 Hiele • 17 Rijkaard • 18 Suvrijn • 19 Krüzen • 20 Wouters • Coach: Michels

v • d • e Netherlands squad – 1990 FIFA World Cup

1 Van Breukelen • 2 Van Aerle • 3 Rijkaard • 4 R. Koeman • 5 Van Tiggelen • 6 Wouters • 7 E. Koeman • 8 Vanenburg • 9 Van Basten • 10 Gullit • 11 Richard Witschge • 12 Kieft • 13 Rutjes • 14 Van 't Schip • 15 Roy • 16 Hiele • 17 Gillhaus • 18 Fräser • 19 Van Loen • 20 Winter • 21 Blind • 22 Menzo • Coach: Beenhakker

v • d • e Netherlands squad – UEFA Euro 1992 semi-finalists

1 Van Breukelen • 2 Van Aerle • 3 Van Tiggelen • 4 Koeman • 5 Blind • 6 Wouters • 7 Bergkamp • 8 Rijkaard • 9 Van Basten • 10 Gullit • 11 Van 't Schip • 12 Kieft • 13 Menzo • 14 Rob Witschge • 15 Winter • 16 Bosz • 17 F. De Boer • 18 Jonk • 19 Viscaal • 20 Roy • Coach: Michels

v • d • e Netherlands squad – 1994 FIFA World Cup

1 De Goey • 2 F. de Boer • 3 Rijkaard • 4 Koeman • 5 Rob Witschge • 6 Wouters • 7 Overmars • 8 Jonk • 9 R. de Boer • 10 Bergkamp • 11 Roy • 12 Bosman • 13 Van der Sar • 14 Van Gobbel • 15 Blind • 16 Numan • 17 Taument • 18 Valckx • 19 Van Vossen • 20 Winter • 21 De Wolf • 22 Snelders • Coach: Advocaat

Jan Wouters managerial positions

FC Utrecht – Managers

Jacobs (1970–74) · Rab (1974–76) · Berger (1976–83) · Hughes (1983–84) · de Ruiter (1984–87) · Berger (1987–89) · Loffeld (1989–90) · Fafié (1990–93) · Vonk (1993) · van Veen (1993–95) · Vonk & du Chatinier (1995) · Kistenmaker (1995) · de Ruiter (1995–96) · Spelbos (1996–97) · Wouters (1997) · de Ruiter (1997) · Wotte (1998–2000) · Adelaar (2000–02) · Booy (2002–07) · van Hanegem (2002–07) · du Chatinier (2008–)

AFC Ajax – Managers

Kirwan (1910–15) · Reynolds (1915–25) · Rose (1925–26) · Castle (1926–28) · Reynolds (1928–40) · Halpern (1940–41) · Volkers (1941–42) · van Kol (1942–45) · Reynolds (1945–47) · Smith (1947–48) · Crook (1948–50) · Thomson (1950–53) · Crook (1953–54) · Humenberger (1954–59) · Buckingham (1959–61) · Spurgeon (1961–62) · Gruber (1962–63) · Rowley (1963–64) · Buckingham (1964–65) · Michels (1965–71) · Kovács (1971–73) · Knobel (1973–74) · Haarms (1974) · Kraay (1974–75) · Michels (1975–76) · Ivić (1976–78) · Brom (1978–79) · Beenhakker (1979–81) · Linder (1981–82) · De Mos (1982–85) · Cruijff (1985–88) · Kohn (1988) · Linder (1988) · Kohn (1988–89) · Beenhakker (1989–91) · Van Gaal (1991–97) · Olsen (1997–98) · Wouters (1998–00) · Westerhof (2000) · Adriaanse (2000–01) · Koeman (2001–05) · Blind (2005–06) · Ten Cate (2006–07) · Koster (2007–08) · Van Basten (2008–09) · Van 't Schip (2009) · Jol (2009–)

PSV Eindhoven – Managers

Meijnders (1914–16) · Buitenweg (1916–21) · Vos (1921–22) · Leavy (1922–26) · Hoogstede (1926–27) · Klein (1928–28) · Klein Wentink (1928–29) · Hall (1929–35) · Wadsworth (1935–38) · van den Broek (1938–42) · Delsen (1942–45) · Wadsworth (1945–51) · Topping (1951–52) · de Leeuw (1952–56) · Broćić (1956–57) · Hardwick (1957–58) · van Dijke (1958–59) · Broćić (1959–60) · Binder (1960–62) · Appel (1962–67) · Nikolic (1967–68) · Blokland (1968) · Linder (1968–72) · Rijvers (1972–80) · Reker (1980) · Libregts (1980–83) · Reker (1983–86) · Kraaij sr. (1986–87) · Hiddink (1987–90) · Robson (1990–92) · Westerhof (1992–93) · de Mos (1993–94) · Rijvers (1994) · Advocaat (1994–1998) · Robson (1998–99) · Gerets (1999–2002) · Hiddink (2002–06) · Koeman (2006–07) · Wouters (2007) · Vergoossen (2008) · Stevens (2008–09) · Lodeweges (2009) · Rutten (2009–)^{on 01 July 2009}