| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Tom Julianus Saintfiet[1] | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 29 March 1973 | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Mol, Belgium | |||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | |||||||||||||
| Team information | ||||||||||||||
Current team | Mali (head coach) | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 1991–1992 | Stade Leuven | |||||||||||||
| 1992–1993 | Zwarte Duivels | |||||||||||||
| 1993–1996 | Oude God Sport | |||||||||||||
| 1996–1997 | FC Boom | |||||||||||||
| Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
| 1997–1998 | FC Zammel | |||||||||||||
| 1998–2000 | Dessel Sport (youth) | |||||||||||||
| 2000 | Satelitte Abidjan | |||||||||||||
| 2002–2003 | B71 Sandur | |||||||||||||
| 2002–2003 | Stormvogels Telstar | |||||||||||||
| 2003–2004 | Al-Gharafa | |||||||||||||
| 2004 | Qatar U17 | |||||||||||||
| 2005–2006 | BV Cloppenburg | |||||||||||||
| 2006–2007 | FC Emmen (Technical Director) | |||||||||||||
| 2008 | RoPS | |||||||||||||
| 2008–2010 | Namibia | |||||||||||||
| 2010 | Zimbabwe | |||||||||||||
| 2010–2011 | Shabab Al-Ordon | |||||||||||||
| 2011 | Ethiopia | |||||||||||||
| 2012 | Young Africans | |||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | Yemen | |||||||||||||
| 2013 | Malawi | |||||||||||||
| 2014 | Free State Stars | |||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | Togo | |||||||||||||
| 2016 | Bangladesh | |||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | Trinidad and Tobago | |||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | Malta | |||||||||||||
| 2018–2024 | Gambia | |||||||||||||
| 2024 | Philippines | |||||||||||||
| 2024– | Mali | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
Tom Saintfiet (born 29 March 1973) is a Belgian football coach and former player. He is the current head coach of the Mali national team.
He managed the Gambian national team from 2018 to 2024, earning a place in the top five list of best coaches of the year in the African continent in 2022 and 2023, voted by Confédération Africaine de Football. In 2022, he was second runner-up for the Royal Belgian Football Association's "Coach of the Year" award. By January 2024, Saintfiet has already achieved 100 FIFA official matches as coach of national teams.
- ^ "Member Associations - Philippines". FIFA. Retrieved 27 February 2024.