Clayton Zane

Clayton Zane

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Personal information
Full name	Clayton Zane
Date of birth	(1977-07-12) 12 July 1977
Place of birth	Newcastle, Australia
Height
Position(s)	Striker
Youth career
1985–1993	Cessnock City Hornets FC
1993–1995	Adamstown Rosebud
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1995–1998	Newcastle Breakers	70	(17)
1995–2000	Northern Spirit	57	(6)
2000	Molde	14	(0)
2001–2002	Lillestrøm	29	(18)
2002–2005	Anderlecht	10	(2)
Total		163	(40)
International career‡
1996–1997	Australia U-20	3	(3)
1998–2000	Australia U-23	15	(9)
2000–2001	Australia	14	(6)
Managerial career
2011–2012	Newcastle Jets (W-League)
2012–2014	Newcastle Jets Youth
2014	Newcastle Jets
2015–	Newcastle Jets Youth
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16:47, 20 February 2011 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 17:30, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Clayton Zane (born 12 July 1977) is a retired Australian international football (soccer) player who served as the head coach of the Newcastle Jets. His last club as a player was R.S.C. Anderlecht, where a two-year-long injury prematurely ended his career in late 2005.

In the 2001 season, he was the top scorer and awarded the Kniksen award as Striker of the Year in Norway. He earned 14 caps for Australia, scoring 6 goals.

Playing career

Club career

Zane was first brought to Europe as a relative unknown by Norwegian team Molde. After scoring no goals in 14 matches he was deemed a failure and sold to Lillestrøm. In his first season in Lillestrøm he ended top scorer of the Norwegian Premier League with 17 goals and he was voted Norwegian Player of the Year some weeks later. He was then sold to Belgian club R.S.C. Anderlecht in 2002 where he scored twice in ten games.

International career

Zane represented Australia at the 2001 Confederations Cup and is best remembered for scoring the only goal when Australia defeated subsequent champion France in the group stage. He scored a hat-trick for Australia against Cook Islands in June 2000. Zane was a member of the Australian squad at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

Coaching career

On 9 August 2011 it was announced that he had signed a contract to be the coach of the Newcastle Jets W-League team. On 8 June 2012, Zane was announced as the youth team coach of the Newcastle United Jets Youth Squad.

In January 2014 Newcastle Jets head coach Gary van Egmond was sacked due to poor results and Zane was appointed interim head coach until the end of the season. The club chose to appoint Phil Stubbins as head coach of the club for the following season and returned Zane to the position of 1st team assistant coach.

Zane, along with goalkeeping coach Neil Young and Strength & Conditioning coach Andrew packer were sacked as part of a club cleanout of players and staff.

Managerial statistics

As of 1 October 2015

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	D	L	Win %
Newcastle Jets FC W-League		August 2011	June 2012	10	4	0	6	40.00
Newcastle Jets FC Youth		June 2012	January 2014	48	20	7	21	41.67
Newcastle Jets		20 January 2014	5 May 2014	12	5	2	5	41.67
Newcastle Jets FC Youth		11 September 2015		0	0	0	0	!—
Total				70	29	9	32	41.43

National team statistics

Australia national team
Year	Apps	Goals
2000	9	5
2001	5	1
Total	14	6

Honours

Individual

• Norwegian Premier League top scorer: 2001
• Kniksen award: Striker of the Year 2001

External links

• Clayton Zane at National-Football-Teams.com
• Oz Football profile

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