Jimmy Hogan

Jimmy Hogan

Jimmy Hogan in 1908
Personal information
Full name	James Hogan
Date of birth	(1882-10-16)16 October 1882
Place of birth	Nelson, Lancashire, England
Date of death	30 January 1974(1974-01-30) (aged 91)
Place of death	Burnley, Lancashire, England
Playing position	Inside forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1902–1903	Rochdale Town	?	(?)
1903–1905	Burnley	50	(12)
1905–1907	Nelson	?	(?)
1907	Fulham	4	(0)
1908	Swindon Town	9	(9)
1908–1913	Bolton Wanderers	54	(18)
Teams managed
1910	Netherlands
1911–1912	FK Austria Vienna
1914–1921	MTK
1918–1920	BSC Young Boys
1924	Switzerland
1925	Lausanne Sports
	Dresdner SC
1925–1927	Hungária
1931–1932	FK Austria Vienna
1932–1933	RC Paris
1933–1934	Lausanne Sports
1934–1935	Fulham
1936–1939	Aston Villa
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

James "Jimmy" Hogan (16 October 1882 – 30 January 1974) was an English football player and coach of Irish descent. He is counted amongst the great pioneers of the game on the European continent.

Hogan enjoyed some success as a footballer, reaching an FA Cup Semi-final with Fulham in 1908, but it was as a coach that his abilities shone through.

Upon the outbreak of the First World War Hogan was working in Austria, and was interned as an enemy alien. During this time however he was involved in coaching Hungarian club MTK, actions which were negatively perceived by some in the UK.

Hogan was born in 1882 into an Irish Catholic family in Lancashire, the son of James Hogan, he grew up in Burnley and received his early education at St Mary Magdalene RC School at Gannow, his father hoped he would enter the Priesthood and sent him to study as a Boarder at the Salford Diocesan Junior Seminary St Bede's College, Manchester in September 1896. He graduated at Midsummer 1900 after deciding not to pursue his vocation any further, but was College Head Boy in the 1899/1900 Academic Year. After leaving school he became a football coach working across Europe and was teaching in Austria at the outbreak of World War One, when he was arrested and interned as an enemy alien. After the war he returned to England and moved to Liverpool to be with his family, whom he had not seen for four years, and gained employment at Walker's Tobacco in Everton.

Hogan is considered one of the great pioneers of the game on the continent, especially in Austria, Hungary, Switzerland and Germany. In Switzerland he coached ca. 1924 Young Boys Berne. In that period he was also besides his compatriot Teddy Duckworth, then coach of Servette FC, and the Hungarian Izidor "Dori" Kürschner, then coach of FC Nordstern Basel, responsible for one of three regional coaching groups preparing the Swiss national team for the Olympics 1924 in Paris. Duckworth would take the team there to the final, losing to the giants of that era, Uruguay, 0–3. This is up to now the greatest success in Swiss footballing history. In 1925 and from 1933 to 1934, Hogan coached Lausanne Sports.