Bobby Houghton
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| Personal information | |||||||||
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| Full name | Robert Douglas Houghton | ||||||||
| Date of birth | 30 October 1947 | ||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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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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