Jan B. Poulsen

Jan B. Poulsen
Personal information
Full name	Jan Børge Poulsen
Date of birth	23 March 1946 (age 78)
Place of birth	Store Heddinge, Denmark
Youth career
	Store Heddinge BK
	Rønne IK
Senior career*
Years	Team
1969–1976	Boldklubben Frem
1976–1978	Store Heddinge BK
Managerial career
1976–1978	Store Heddinge BK
1979–1980	Boldklubben Frem (reserves)
1981–1982	Boldklubben Frem
1983–1986	Køge Boldklub
1987–1989	Boldklubben Frem
1990–1992	Denmark (assistant)
1992–1999	Denmark u-21
2001–2003	Singapore
2004	FC Bornholm
2005–2006	Lyngby BK (youth)
2006–2007	Jordan U-20
2008–2009	Armenia
2010–2012	Tanzania
2013–2014	Solrød FC
2014–2015	Haslev FC
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jan Børge Poulsen (born 23 March 1946) is a Danish football manager and former player who played as midfielder, spending most of his professional career at Boldklubben Frem.^[1]

Coaching career

During the 1980s Poulsen coached Boldklubben Frem and Køge Boldklub.

In 1990, he was named Richard Møller Nielsen's assistant for the Denmark national team, and he was part of the team that won the Euro 1992. After the win in 1992 he was promoted to head coach of the Denmark U21 national team. He had this job until 1999, when he was named new sporting director of the Singapore national team. When Vincent Subramaniam was sacked in 2001 due to bad results, Poulsen stepped in to replace him. This did not help Singapore and Poulsen himself was sacked in 2002.

He then returned to Denmark to a couple of minor coaching jobs. In 2006, he made an agreement with Greve Fodbold to become new head coach, but at the same time he got the offer to become coach of the Jordan U-20s. In the end he accepted the job from Jordan.

In January 2008, he accepted an offer to become the head coach of the Armenia national team. On 30 March 2009, Poulsen was relieved of his duties from the Football Federation of Armenia.

Poulsen took over as the head coach of Tanzania national team in August 2010 after being appointed by the Tanzanian Football Federation from a short-list of five from 59 applicants.^[2] After four months in charge of the team, he led Tanzania to victory in the 2010 CECAFA Cup - the first win of the country since 1994.^[3] He left Tanzania in May 2012 and was replaced by his fellow Dane and namesake Kim Poulsen.^[4]

In August 2013 he became new manager of the Danish lower league club Solrød FC.^[5] In the summer of 2014 he was named new manager of Haslev FC.^[6]

References and notes

^ Jan B. Poulsen at WorldFootball.net
^ "New Stars Coach Sees Ray of Hope". Daily News. Dar es Salaam. 2 August 2010. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 8 June 2010.
^ "Tanzania crowned Cecafa champions". BBC Sport. 12 December 2010.
^ Muga, Emmanuel (12 May 2012). "Tanzania make coaching switch". BBC Sport. Retrieved 17 January 2022.Tanzania replace Jan Poulsen with namesake Kim Poulsen, bbc.co.uk, 12 May 2012.
^ "Omrejst landstræner til Solrød". Archived from the original on 17 October 2014. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
^ "Jan B. Poulsen overtager hos Haslev FC". lokalbold.dk. Archived from the original on 10 July 2023. Retrieved 19 November 2021.

External links

(in Danish) Boldklubben Frem profile Archived 7 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine
Jan B. Poulsen Interview

[1] Jan B. Poulsen at WorldFootball.net

[2] "New Stars Coach Sees Ray of Hope". Daily News. Dar es Salaam. 2 August 2010. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 8 June 2010.

[3] "Tanzania crowned Cecafa champions". BBC Sport. 12 December 2010.

[4] Muga, Emmanuel (12 May 2012). "Tanzania make coaching switch". BBC Sport. Retrieved 17 January 2022.Tanzania replace Jan Poulsen with namesake Kim Poulsen, bbc.co.uk, 12 May 2012.

[5] "Omrejst landstræner til Solrød". Archived from the original on 17 October 2014. Retrieved 6 August 2013.

[6] "Jan B. Poulsen overtager hos Haslev FC". lokalbold.dk. Archived from the original on 10 July 2023. Retrieved 19 November 2021.

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