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Pep Clotet

Clotet with Torpedo Moscow in 2023
Personal information
Full name	Josep Clotet Ruiz
Date of birth	(1977-04-28) 28 April 1977 (age 47)
Place of birth	Barcelona, Spain
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
0000–1998	Igualada
Managerial career
1998–2001	Igualada (youth)
2001–2003	Cornellà
2004–2006	Espanyol (youth)
2006	Figueres
2008–2009	Espanyol (youth)
2009	Espanyol B
2010	Malmö (assistant)
2011	Halmstad
2011–2012	Viking (assistant)
2012–2013	Atlético Malagueño
2014–2015	Swansea City (assistant)
2016–2017	Leeds United (assistant)
2017–2018	Oxford United
2018–2019	Birmingham City (assistant)
2019–2020	Birmingham City
2021	Brescia
2021–2022	SPAL
2022	Brescia
2023	Brescia
2023	Torpedo Moscow
2024	Triestina
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Josep "Pep" Clotet Ruiz (born 28 April 1977) is a Spanish football coach.

As well as working as assistant at several clubs, he managed Cornellà, Figueres, Espanyol B, Halmstad, Atlético Malagueño, Oxford United, Birmingham City, SPAL and Brescia.

Career

Early years

Born in Barcelona, Catalonia Clotet only appeared for local amateurs Igualada as a player. He became a coach while still in his 20s, starting with Cornellà then moving to Espanyol's youth teams.

Clotet began the 2006–07 season with another side in his native region, Figueres, being fired after only nine matches as they eventually suffered relegation from Segunda División B. He subsequently returned to his previous club, still in charge of the youths.

Clotet returned to senior football in the 2009–10 Segunda División B campaign with Espanyol's reserves. He met the same fate as in his previous experience: he was sacked following the seventh round, and the team were relegated.

Sweden and Norway

Clotet worked in Sweden for two years, starting as an assistant to Roland Nilsson at Malmö, who won the 2010 Allsvenskan title. He then joined fellow league club Halmstad as head coach, finishing 16th and last in the 2011 Allsvenskan.

On 20 September 2011, Clotet joined Viking as coach in new manager Åge Hareide's backroom staff for the 2012 Norwegian Premier League season. After Hareide was sacked and Kjell Jonevret was appointed as his replacement, he left to look for a new challenge.

Atlético Malagueño

On 11 July 2012, Clotet was appointed as manager of Tercera División club Atlético Malagueño – Málaga's reserves – where he helped develop several players who would reach the first team shortly after; their progress was aided by Málaga's unstable economic situation. He left the club after only one season, not being able to attain promotion.

Swansea City

On 19 November 2013, Clotet was appointed academy consultant at Swansea City as part of Michael Laudrup's coaching staff. In May of the following year, he was promoted to assistant manager under Garry Monk.

In November 2015, Clotet was offered the manager's job at Championship club Brentford, but rejected the offer out of loyalty to Monk. He left his post at the Welsh club on 9 December of that year alongside first-team coaches James Beattie and Kristian O'Leary, following the sacking of Monk.

Leeds United

On 13 June 2016, Clotet joined Monk's staff at Leeds United as assistant head coach. On 25 May 2017, after the pair led the team to seventh place in the 2016–17 Championship, Monk resigned. A month later, after the appointment as manager of Thomas Christiansen, who was intending to bring in his own backroom staff, director of football Victor Orta confirmed that Clotet wanted to leave to seek a new challenge.

Oxford United

Clotet was appointed manager of League One club Oxford United on 1 July 2017. He was sacked on 22 January 2018, with a record of 12 wins from 36 matches in charge.

Birmingham City

When Monk took over as manager of Championship club Birmingham City on 4 March 2018, Clotet was appointed as his assistant. He became caretaker head coach in June 2019 after Monk was sacked; ahead of the November meeting between Birmingham and Monk's new club, Sheffield Wednesday, Monk claimed he had made an "error of judgment" in working with Clotet, suggested he was untrustworthy, and refused to shake his hand. After six months, during which Clotet made a start on implementing the board's footballing philosophy as well as demonstrating "coaching expertise, man-management and leadership skills, allied to exemplary professional conduct", and integrated the 16-year-old Jude Bellingham into a regular role in the first team, he was appointed as head coach on a permanent basis. Two months with only one league win at the end of the year was followed by the arrival of striker Scott Hogan, whose return to form sparked a ten-match unbeaten run in early 2020 which left the team 16th in the table when football was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 8 June, Clotet confirmed that he would leave the club at the end of the season to "explore other coaching opportunities", but after a series of poor results, he left by mutual consent on 8 July with four matches of the season remaining.

Brescia

On 5 February 2021, Clotet was hired as new head coach of Italian Serie B club Brescia, a club owned by Massimo Cellino, his former chairman at Leeds United. He guided Brescia to qualification to the promotion playoffs, where they were eliminated in the first round by Cittadella. Clotet and Brescia subsequently parted ways by the end of the season.

SPAL

On 2 July 2021, Clotet was officially unveiled as the new head coach of Italian Serie B club SPAL.

He was removed from his managerial duties on 5 January 2022, leaving SPAL three points above the relegation zone.

Second stint at Brescia

On 18 June 2022, Clotet agreed to return to Cellino's Brescia, signing a two-year deal with the Rondinelle. After a good start of the season, Clotet experienced a negative string of results by December, leaving Brescia out of the relegation zone and leading to him being sacked on 21 December 2022. On 16 January 2023, however, Clotet was reinstated as head coach with immediate effect, only to be dismissed once again less than a month later, on 6 February, after he failed to improve the team results.

Torpedo Moscow

Clotet was appointed head coach of Russian Premier League club Torpedo Moscow on 28 March 2023. On 16 April 2023, in his third game in charge, against Spartak Moscow, Clotet was sent off after gesturing at the referee following Spartak's third penalty kick in the first half. However, he did not leave for the dressing room as he was supposed to, but instead climbed into the stands and continued to instruct his team from there.

On 13 May 2023, Torpedo lost their fifth league game in a row and lost their chances of avoiding direct relegation. The start of the second-tier 2023–24 Russian First League campaign was below expectations as well, with five wins and five losses in the first 12 games, and in October 2023, Torpedo announced the dismissal of Josep Clotet.

Triestina

On 21 October 2024, Clotet returned to Italy, accepting the head coaching job at bottom-placed Serie C club Triestina. On 8 November, after Spezia loanee Raimonds Krollis was sent off with a red card in the 34th minute in a match against Giana Erminio, Clotet physically confronted Krollis as he returned to the sidelines by grabbing him by the collar and shoving him. Triestina would go on to lose the match 0–1 and in a press conference after the loss Clotet said that his reaction was justified due to the nature of Krollis' red card and that he had told Krollis that he was done playing for the club as long as he was the coach. Clotet was dismissed on 27 November 2024, after failing to turn the club's fortunes.

Media

Clotet worked as a pundit on Sky Sports' La Liga review, and also wrote a column for daily newspaper Marca.

Managerial statistics

As of match Triestina–Renate played 22 November 2024

References

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External links

• Pep Clotet manager profile at BDFutbol

• 1977 births
• Sportspeople from Barcelona
• Living people
• Spanish men's footballers
• Spanish football managers
• UE Cornellà managers
• RCD Espanyol non-playing staff
• UE Figueres managers
• RCD Espanyol B managers
• Halmstads BK managers
• Viking FK non-playing staff
• Atlético Malagueño managers
• Swansea City A.F.C. non-playing staff
• Leeds United F.C. non-playing staff
• Oxford United F.C. managers
• Birmingham City F.C. non-playing staff
• Birmingham City F.C. managers
• Brescia Calcio managers
• SPAL managers
• FC Torpedo Moscow managers
• US Triestina Calcio 1918 managers
• Segunda División B managers
• Allsvenskan managers
• English Football League managers
• Serie B managers
• Serie C managers
• Russian Premier League managers
• Russian First League managers
• Spanish expatriate football managers
• Expatriate football managers in Sweden
• Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Sweden
• Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Norway
• Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Wales
• Expatriate football managers in England
• Spanish expatriate sportspeople in England
• Expatriate football managers in Italy
• Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Italy
• Expatriate football managers in Russia
• Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Russia