Avram Grant

Avram Grant
Grant as FK Partizan coach in 2012
Personal information
Full name Avraham Grant[1]
Birth name Avraham Granat[2]
Date of birth (1955-05-06) 6 May 1955 (age 69)[1]
Place of birth Petah Tikva, Israel
Managerial career
Years Team
1972–1986 Hapoel Petah Tikva (youth)
1986–1991 Hapoel Petah Tikva
1991–1995 Maccabi Tel Aviv
1995–1996 Hapoel Haifa
1996–2000 Maccabi Tel Aviv
2000–2002 Maccabi Haifa
2002–2006 Israel
2007–2008 Chelsea
2009–2010 Portsmouth
2010–2011 West Ham United
2012 Partizan Belgrade
2014 BEC Tero Sasana (technical director)
2014–2017 Ghana
2018 NorthEast United (interim)
2022– Zambia
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Ghana (as manager)
Africa Cup of Nations
Runner-up 2015

Avraham "Avram" Grant (Hebrew: אברהם "אברם" גרנט; born Avraham Granat; (1955-05-06)6 May 1955) is an Israeli professional football manager who currently manages the Zambia national football team. He has spent the majority of his career coaching and managing in Israel, winning a number of national league and cup victories with different teams, and also managing the Israel national team for four years.

Grant moved to England in 2006 to become technical director of Portsmouth before being appointed director of football at Chelsea in July 2007. Two months later, in September 2007, following the departure of José Mourinho, Grant was appointed as Chelsea's manager. Despite steering the team into the Champions League and League Cup finals, as well as contesting the Premier League title to the last day, his contract was terminated at the end of the season.[3]

Grant returned to Portsmouth as director of football in October 2009, and was made manager the following month.[4] After the club's relegation to the Football League Championship Grant resigned[5] and, in June 2010, was appointed as manager of West Ham United,[6] a role he held up until May 2011, when he was sacked after the club was relegated to the Football League Championship.[7]

After one championship season managing Partizan Belgrade and one season as the technical director for Thai club BEC Tero Sasana, Grant was appointed coach of the Ghana national football team in 2014.[8] He stepped down from the position after a defeat in the semi-finals of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations.[9][10][11][12]

In January 2018, Grant moved to India to join the Indian Super League side NorthEast United as a technical advisor,[13] a day after the team head coach João de Deus was sacked due to a poor start.

  1. ^ a b "Grant: Avraham Grant: Manager". BDFutbol. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Grant sacked as Chelsea manager BBC Sport Retrieved 24 May 2008
  4. ^ "Grant to be boss". Portsmouth football club. Archived from the original on 29 November 2009. Retrieved 26 November 2009.
  5. ^ "Avram Grant resigns as Portsmouth manager". BBC. 21 May 2010. Archived from the original on 3 June 2010. Retrieved 3 June 2010.
  6. ^ "Avram Grant confirmed as West Ham United manager". BBC. 3 June 2010. Archived from the original on 12 January 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2010.
  7. ^ "Relegated West Ham part company with Grant". Mirror Football. 15 May 2011. Archived from the original on 15 October 2012. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
  8. ^ "Ghana: Avram Grant appointed new Black Stars coach". BBC Sport. 27 November 2014. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  9. ^ FIFA.com (7 February 2017). "Grant to step down as Ghana head coach". Archived from the original on 7 February 2017.
  10. ^ "Avram Grant ends reign as Ghana coach to seek new challenge". BBC Sport. 7 February 2017. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  11. ^ "Avram Grant leaves post as Ghana head coach after AFCON semi-final exit".
  12. ^ "Avram Grant to leave role as coach of Ghana after African Nations Cup". 7 February 2017.
  13. ^ "Grants takes up technical advisor job at NorthEast United". NorthEast United FC(twitter).