Alen Stajcic

Alen Stajcic
Personal information
Full name Alen Stajcic
Date of birth (1973-11-02) 2 November 1973
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Australia (Manager)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1994 Mount Druitt Town 6 (0)
1994 Bonnyrigg White Eagles 1 (0)
1997 Bonnyrigg White Eagles 12 (1)
1998 Bankstown City Lions 13 (2)
2000 Western Sydney Passion ? (?)
2000–2002 Sutherland Sharks 21 (1)
Teams managed
2002–2004 NSW Sapphires
2008–2014 Sydney FC W-League
2014– Australia (Matildas)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 11 August 2007.

† Appearances (goals)

Alen Stajcic (born 2 November 1973) is a retired semi-professional football player and current coach. While a footballer he was a NSW Premier League player and Australian Youth Representative before a career-ending knee injury. Since he has turned his hand to coaching he has become Head Coach of NSWIS for Women's Soccer and Head Coach of the Australian Under 20 Women's National Team.[1] He was appointed coach for Sydney FC in the first season of the Australian W-League.[2]

Biography

Playing career

A former NSW Premier League player and Captain with Bonnyrigg, Bankstown and Sutherland, Alen represented NSW at the youth level and played for several clubs within the National Youth League and Winter Super League before a knee injury ended his playing career.

Representative Honours: Australian Schoolboy International 1992

Coaching

Alen Stajcic had been the Head Coach of the NSWIS Women's Soccer Program from 2002–2013. Widely considered as the one of the best Football nurseries in Australia, the Program produced over 30 senior Internationals in that 10-year period. He was also the Head Coach of the Women's National Soccer League side, the NSW Sapphires, which he guided to a premiership in the 2003/04 season. He started as Head Coach of HSHS in the foundation year (2003) and has gone on to win many titles and good performances. In 2006, he was the assistant coach for the Young Matilda's while they were competing at the FIFA U/20's Women's Championships in Russia. Unfortunately they bowed out in the group stage, missing the next round by 1 point to Brazil and Russia. As of 05/03/07 Stajcic became the Young Matildas Coach. In 2008, Stajcic became the inaugural Sydney FC Women's Head Coach, until 2014. They qualified for the semi finals in all 6 seasons, winning 2 grand finals and 2 premierships along the way. In 2013, Sydney FC beat Japanese powerhouse NTV Beleza and Sth American Champions Colo Colo to claim 3rd place the IWCC in Japan. As of Sept 2014, Stajcic was appointed full-time Head Coach of the Australian Women's National Football team, the Matildas. In the 2015 Women's World Cup in Canada, they became the 1st Senior Australian Football Team to win a knockout match in a World Cup when they defeated Brazil 1–0 in the Round of 16 before losing 1–0 to Japan in the quarter finals. Earlier in 2014, Stajcic had led the Matildas in an Interim capacity, to a Silver Medal at the Asian Championships.

Currently, Stajcic stands as the only Australian Born native to win a match at a FIFA World Cup as a Head Coach.

Honours

As a player

As a coach

Matildas
Sydney FC Women's Team
Young Matilda's (As Assistant Coach)

NSW Sapphires

Hills Sports High School

References

  1. ↑ Football Australia Profile
  2. ↑ Young Matildas Coach for Sydney – FourFourTwo

External links

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