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Bobby Houghton

Bobby Houghton
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Personal information
Full name Robert Douglas Houghton
Date of birth (1947-10-30) 30 October 1947 (age 69)
Place of birth England
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1966–1969 Fulham
1969–1970 Brighton & Hove Albion
1970–1971 Hastings United 65 (14)
1971–1975 Maidstone United
Teams managed
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 Zürich
1996 Colorado Rapids
1997–1999 China
2000 Shanghai Pudong
2001 Sichuan Quanxing
2002–2003 Zhejiang Greentown
2005 Uzbekistan
2005–2006 Changsha Ginde
2006–2011 India
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Robert Douglas Houghton (born 30 October 1947), commonly known as either Bob Houghton or Bobby Houghton, is an English football manager and former player. Houghton was most recently the head coach of India. His career has spanned over 30 years and 10 different countries. He is most famous for taking Swedish club Malmö FF to the 1979 European Cup Final, where they lost to Nottingham Forest.

During his brief playing career, Houghton was a midfielder for Fulham (1966–69) and Brighton & Hove Albion (1969–70). Houghton was one of the youngest coaches ever to manage in English senior football, being appointed player-manager of Hastings United in the Southern League at only 23. During that period, he was a star pupil of coaching guru Allen Wade, who was the technical director of the Football Association between 1963 and 83. In the early 1970s Houghton also managed Maidstone United and worked as an assistant to Bobby Robson at Ipswich Town.

He became the manager of Swedish top flight side Malmö FF in 1974. Houghton guided them to success domestically and internationally, reaching the 1979 European Cup Final, losing 1–0 against Nottingham Forest. The team was all based on local players who came from within 60 km from Malmö. It was the first and so far only time a Swedish team has reached the European Cup final.

He also won the Swedish championship and Svenska Cupen several times and was runner-up in the Intercontinental Cup in 1979 (Nottingham Forest had declined to participate), the Swedish team lost against Olimpia from Paraguay (Libertadores Cup Champion 1979).


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