Paul Put
Belgian football manager (born 1956)
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Paul Put (born 26 May 1956) is a Belgian football coach who manages the Uganda national team.
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| Date of birth | 26 May 1956 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Merksem, Belgium | ||||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Uganda (manager) | ||||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||
| Geel | |||||||||||||||||
| 2001–2003 | Lokeren | ||||||||||||||||
| 2004–2005 | Lierse | ||||||||||||||||
| 2006 | Mouscron | ||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2011 | Gambia | ||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2015 | Burkina Faso | ||||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | Jordan | ||||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | USM Alger | ||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | Kenya | ||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard | ||||||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | Guinea | ||||||||||||||||
| 2020–2021 | Saif SC | ||||||||||||||||
| 2021–2023 | Congo | ||||||||||||||||
| 2023– | Uganda | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
Put was manager of the Gambian national team between 2008[1] and 2011,[2] before being appointed as manager of Burkina Faso in March 2012.[3] He had previously managed Belgian club sides Geel, Lokeren and Lierse, before being banned for three-years by the Royal Belgian Football Association for his alleged involvement in the Ye Zheyun match-fixing scandal.[4]
Put left his role as Burkina Faso manager in February 2015,[5] before becoming manager of Jordan in June 2015.[6] Following a two-week suspension by the Jordan Football Association on 20 December 2015,[7] Put resigned his position as manager of the Jordan national team in January 2016.[8] He was shortlisted for the Guinea national team job in July 2016.[9]
On 30 October 2016, he was announced as manager of Algerian club USM Alger, on a two-year contract.[10] In February 2017 he was one of a number of managers on the shortlist for the vacant Rwanda national team manager role.[11] He became the manager of the Kenyan national team in November 2017,[12] before resigning in February 2018.[13]
He became manager of Chinese club Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard later that month, signing a three-year contract.[14] In March 2018 he was appointed manager of the Guinea national team.[15] He was sacked in July 2019,[16] and received a lifetime ban by the Guinea Football Federation in August 2019.[17]
On 1 October 2019, Put was appointed sporting director of Wydad Casablanca.[18]
In October 2020, he was appointed by Bangladeshi top flight club Saif SC as their new head coach.[19][20][21] He resigned in February 2021.[22]
He became manager of Congo in May 2021.[23] He became manager of Uganda in 2023.[24]