Wil Boessen
Dutch footballer and manager
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Wil Boessen (born 3 May 1964) is a Dutch football manager and a former player who is an assistant manager of Fortuna Sittard.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 3 May 1964 | ||
| Place of birth | Sittard, Netherlands | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Fortuna Sittard (assistant manager) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1983–1990 | Fortuna Sittard | 184 | (10) |
| 1990–1992 | FC Dordrecht | 71 | (1) |
| 1992–1993 | De Graafschap | 9 | (0) |
| 1993–1996 | Fortuna Sittard | 86 | (2) |
| 1997–1999 | Helmond Sport | 47 | (2) |
| Total | 397 | (15) | |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2010–2012 | VVV-Venlo (assistant) | ||
| 2011 | VVV-Venlo (caretaker) | ||
| 2011–2012 | VVV-Venlo (caretaker) | ||
| 2012–2014 | Fortuna Sittard | ||
| 2014–2015 | FC Oss | ||
| 2015 | Chiangmai | ||
| 2016 | Lampang | ||
| 2017–2019 | FC Den Bosch | ||
| 2019–2022 | Helmond Sport | ||
| 2022–2023 | Jong PSV (assistant) | ||
| 2023–2024 | Jong PSV | ||
| 2024– | Fortuna Sittard (assistant) | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Club career
Born in Sittard, Boessen played a large part of his career for local side Fortuna Sittard. He also had spells at FC Dordrecht, De Graafschap and Helmond Sport.
Managerial career
After retiring as a player, Boessen became assistant at VVV-Venlo and took temporarily charge twice during 10 seasons at the club just to be appointed by Fortuna in 2012.[1] He moved to FC Oss in 2014.[2]
He was manager of Lampang in the Thai Division 1 League[3] and became manager of FC Den Bosch in summer 2017.[4]
On 4 June 2019, he was appointed manager of Helmond Sport.[5] Boessen was dismissed by Helmond Sport on 14 February 2022.[6]
Before the 2022–23 season, Boessen was hired by Jong PSV as an assistant coach to Adil Ramzi.[7]
After Ramzi left PSV, Boessen was appointed head coach of Jong PSV on 4 August 2023.[8]
